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Matt Grimmitt throwing a mixing bowl at Winchcombe Pottery

One of our bestselling items at Winchcombe are mixing bowls. They come in various sizes an are excellent for use in the kitchen.

I am not sure exactly when they came into the range but perhaps the 1970's. Matt Grimmitt now makes them. He spent a long time considering the shapes of mixing bowls of the past, in particular those made by Eddie Hopkins. Unfortunately Eddie died in the floods of 2007 and was not around to demonstrate his method. Trial and error plus lots of practice helped Matt get to the point of being able to churn boards of them out.

The large lip is particularly nice I think-good and fat to enable easy pouring. Here's the video: