The Convenience Of Mugs For Soup
Soups that are thick and substantial like minestrone, beef and barley with rice or chowders need a sturdy mug to make the food presentation perfect. There’s one other often unnoticed feature of these mugs. They keep the soup hot, unlike soup bowls or plates that cool soup too quickly. Most are manufactured from ceramic materials with thermo glazing to insure that contents remain hot. Though they may be a bit bulkier in weight, the beauty of this feature is that it is less prone to tipping as with a soup bowl or soup plate. Some mugs also have a curved handle on the side for better balance and for handling purposes.

A Kitchen Without A Soup Mug?
Soup mugs can be hung from free-standing racks or from large cup holders that attach to a metal bar. This makes them always within reach when soup is served. A kitchen without a few of these mugs is only half as functional. It’s fun to sit down to a hot mug of chicken noodle soup or a tomato bisque with rice or crabmeat on a cold winter day. For that matter, it’s also nice to enjoy a refreshing mug of cold cucumber, potato leek or one of those melon or berry fruit soups that can cool off a hot and hungry family. In a mug, the soup remains cool thanks to the thermal kiln baking of the mug materials.

Soup’s On
One convenient thing about soup mugs is that when they are part of the luncheon or dinner meal, it’s a simple step to go from the soup pot with a soup ladle to the mug. No muss or fuss at all. Some mugs come in sets that are sold with a small platter. The mug fits into a side section and there’s room left for salad or a sandwich to accompany the soup.

Other Uses For Soup Mugs
Check the manufacturer’s manual before using mugs like these for baking purposes. This is especially important for French Onion soup that is usually baked with a cheese and crouton topping for up to 5 minutes. Chili and baked macaroni are two items that do well when served in these mugs. They can also be used to serve puddings. If they are heat-proof, try making baked French toast in them or a melty Brie cheese souffle in the soup mug.

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The spirit of adventure is alive and apparent in each piece of an American Expedition Soup Mug and Plate Set. The pheasant on the Birds of the Field Collage soup mug and plate set looks set to fly away and you can almost feel the movement of the trout on the American Expedition Fish Collage Soup Mug and Plate Set. The avid waterfowl hunter or enthusiast will enjoy the reminder of the quiet peacefulness of an early morning by a lake or stream depicted in the Waterfowl Collage set. The wildlife is done with such complete detail that you will often notice new aspects of the artwork.

Although these sets are extremely decorative, don’t be tempted to tuck them away somewhere, just for show. They are extremely well made, durable, functional and designed for everyday use. The fine craftsmanship as well as fine detail will give years of use and pleasure.

The American Expedition Soup Mug Plate Set comes boxed, ready for gift-giving and includes information about the wildlife shown on the set.

You can also buy traditional soup mugs for at home, such as stoneware or metal soup mugs for dinner. These are often restaurant quality, and will give you a healthy serving size to go with your sandwich or main course. If you go to a typical American diner and or clam chowder or any other kind of soup, it is generally served in a quality stoneware soup mug. These are good to have. Of course, you can get ceramic soup mugs, stainless steel, or plastic, ranging in price from twenty dollars to over one hundred dollars. Nordic Ware makes an affordable soup mug for just six dollars and ninety-nine cents.

For restaurant grade soup mugs, try www.wasserstrom.com. They sell durable mugs for coffee or soup for around sixty dollars. Most diners that bring you a pitcher of coffee will also serve the same large mugs that are used to serve soup, which is nice for serving breakfast. If you own a restaurant or are planning on going into the food service business, you will need to buy a set or several sets of these kinds of soup mugs. They are great for serving lunch, when many menus offer a cup of soup instead of a bowl to go with the sandwich or other lunch menu items. The best soup mug that I found for restaurant grade was the Diversified Ceramics mug, for around one hundred and forty-six dollars. If you have a big enough budget to invest in some fine furnishings for your restaurant or diner, I would recommend these for your line of lunch wares.

When I received the item, I was impressed at the quality item I had received. As expected with Tupperware, it was a nice thick plastic and the lid fit perfectly. The product claims to form a hermetic seal when closed, and so far that has held true for me. I’ve never once seen anything leak from mine. The product also has a fill to line clearly labeled inside, so everyone, including the smallest children or the elderly can easily and clearly see how high to fill the bowl without having to worry about it overflowing. It has a vented seal that allows hot air to escape while being microwaved, but since it’s vented, only steam can escape; nothing else can boil or bubble or pop out and create a mess of splatters in the microwave. It has a handle that stays cool and won’t heat up so when your food is heated as hot as you want it, the bowl handle won’t burn any fingers while trying to get it out of the microwave. Again, this is great especially for children. And best of all, it’s dishwasher safe, so when I’m done, I can throw it in the dishwasher.

This item has really made my life so helpful. I can now throw my leftovers from dinner in one of these mugs, and then when I’m ready to eat it, I just pop it in the microwave. I can put food in the cup and then when my child is ready to eat, he can easily heat it up himself without fear of him making a mess or burning himself on a hot bowl. We can put lunch in a bowl, and since the bowl won’t leak or break, I have no concerns having it roll around in a lunch bag, box or purse. And we can also make hot chocolate in the microwave without worrying about burning our fingers on hot ceramic mugs . This product truly is wonderful, unique and has so many uses.

Also, as with all Tupperware products, it comes with Tupperwares lifetime warranty against chipping, cracking, breaking, and peeling. If any of these things should happen to your soup mug, just contact Tupperware Customer Care toll-free at 1(800) 366-3800 for free replacement or if the item is unavailable, credit towards a future purchase.

Convenience and thoughtfulness for one’s guests was a Victorian tradition that in some ways broke with traditional etiquette of the two handled soup bowl set on its own dish. The need for a sit down place setting and each place setting being removed before a new course could be served made the traditional two handled soup bowls clumsy when trying to feed people from a serving table where they could help themselves. The one handled soup mug with its own indented plate was an ingenious idea and might have led to other serving chinaware inventions like the Lazy Susan.

Soup mug and dish sets are easily found in antique stores and there are modern counterparts being sold in most places that offer products for parties and casual or even formal dining. These soup mugs and dish sets can be found in china or decorative glass or even in heavy, heat resistant plastic. The high end of soup mugs and dish sets can be as expensive as fine bone china or turn of the century decorative glass made in place like West Virginia. The fact that specially made soup mugs and plate sets come in different materials merely adds to their properly being used in either formal or casual dining.

For formal buffets, fine china or expensive decorative glass soup mugs and dish sets makes serving soup and accompaniments simple. For casual dining, inexpensive heat resistant plastics made into soup mugs and dish sets makes serving guests or letting guests serve themselves an easy chore especially when eating out of doors. The soup mug and plate set idea was not only ingenious in assisting guests to enjoy the food being proffered but also ingenious when it came to cleaning up and needing only to clean one plate instead of two per guest served soup and solid food items.

Novelty items like Campbell’s soup mugs and dishes add color and a motiff to place settings for parties and for casual use. These specialty soup mugs and dish sets can sometimes be collected and saved as antiques. Of course, for the most part, shopping for soup mugs and dish sets can be interesting if one goes to specific sites of manufacturers who make soups, Campbell being only one of them.