Why plates are round

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Food Looks Better on Round Plates While there is a lot of disagreement over this, some people believe that the shape of our plates influences how good our food looks. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Published by The BI Wizard. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

Email required Address never made public. Name required. There are also round plates that are being used for serving for a long time and they are the most common that you can get. Moving forward, you also get to enjoy the best table management as these round plates are easier to handle for most people and that will help you out in managing the food.

Of course, there is lesser surface area and the sauce management is pretty easy on the round plates as well so that is certainly a plus including all the other things you are getting. So, you can get the round plates of your choice and that will be helping you perfectly if you are planning to serve some sauces that needed to be separated from each other and stay in the place that you put them. Nevertheless, the choice is yours and you will have to count in a lot of other factors like the dishes you are preparing, the shape of your table, sitting arrangements and more to make it work for you with the right choice of plates.

Share via. Facebook Messenger. Copy Link. The round plate is the most mathematically efficient shape for containing spillable food, because surface tension ensures that the roundness tucks away any sharp edges that threaten to break the surface tension and cause a spill. Since any curvature also maximizes area, it is also the shape that can contain the most bits of tiny objects or liquids, and makes sense for a plate and, definitely also a bowl. More proof, the Japanese have commonly used wooden flat rectangular "plates" made out of wood.

It's used to serve sushi, which are served set in pieces on the plate. Sushi is a self-contained serving of food, and does not contain liquids or objects which may spill over when picked up. Why are plates round? The short answer is, "So that we can heap more food on it. Did our forefathers somehow know this before Eular, Lagrange, Young, Laplace, physics and hydrodynamics? Were we somehow born with an inner sense that allows us to live and learn about our environment outside of the 5 senses?

It always struck me how nobody really needs to consciously learn that Gravity exists. All we actually really learn in school is which scientist named it, and by what name it's known. But a baby that rolls over and falls out of bed knows gravity exists, surely and definitely. By deep thought, accident or conscious design, the longest lasting structures that we have built and designed have its roots in scientific efficiency.

It makes me wonder whether aesthetics, at its core, is Man's way of validating scientific soundness without extensive calculations.

I wonder if we have evolved with a skill to assess the success of science that was essential to our survival as a species, because it is the most efficient way to exploit the intrinsic mathematics of the world around us.

After all, there is no resisting the laws of nature. Call it taste, call it aesthetics, call it that preference that babies have for symmetrical faces. I wonder if we are each born with that intrinsic ability to validate this scientific soundness without being a scientist. It would certainly explain why the greatest of mathematicians sense a beauty in their discoveries, and why we can link certain numbers to art.

Somehow, there is a strange sense of comfort that we're all born knowing what we need to know, whether we study it or not. There's a strange sense of faith in the idea that we do have everything we need, whether we know it or not.