Borosilicate Dessert Bowl and Spoon

Coloured glass has come back into dining rooms for a simple reason: it does something to food that white porcelain cannot. A scoop of vanilla ice cream in an amber bowl looks like a dessert from a much better restaurant, and a fruit salad in blue or green picks up the colour through the glass wall. This bowl is made from borosilicate rather than ordinary soda-lime glass, which is why the wall can be kept thin and the colour can stay clear rather than muddy.

It measures 10.7cm across and 6cm deep, which is a true dessert size rather than a cereal bowl pretending. That is the right volume for ice cream, panna cotta, tiramisu, yoghurt and granola, or a single serving of trifle. Each bowl comes with a matching spoon, so you are not hunting for teaspoons at the point of serving. Five colours are offered and they are designed to sit together on a table, so a mixed set of four or five reads as deliberate rather than accidental.

Borosilicate handles temperature change far better than standard glassware, so a bowl straight from a cold fridge will not object to a warm sauce poured over the top. It is dishwasher safe, though hand washing preserves the clarity of the colour over years rather than months. Glass is glass, so handle with care and check the rim for chips before each use.

• Material: borosilicate glass
• Size: 10.7cm diameter x 6cm high
• Matching teaspoon included with each bowl
• Colours: pink, yellow, amber, green and blue
• Dishwasher safe; hand washing preserves colour clarity
• Sold as a single bowl and spoon