EVO Sustainable Goods 8" Plate, Set of Four, Red

I bought two EVO Sustainable Goods 35 oz and 10 oz Dinnerware Bowl Sets sets since august 2020, they are still in perfect conditions. In November 2023, I bought the EVO Sustainable Goods 8" Plate, they are great. I don't understand why they don't make the 10" plates. Great products.

So far so good. I haven't owned these long but excited about the sustainability of these. I am washing these by hand since they are being used in my camper and I noticed in a review the talk about bending and breaking after continuous use in a dishwasher. Shouldn't be surprising since if you wash your wooden anything in a dishwasher with high heat it's going to warm the wood. I haven't had an issue and don't think I will hand washing them. One issue is the larger 10" plates come with stickers right in the middle of every plate. These are bothersome to remove and I had to put some WD40 on the sticky parts to rub them off and then wash them. Why not put the stickers on the bottom of the plate?

These plates hold up fairly well, but not perfectly to the microwave. They are lighweight and mostly unbreakable. They do, however, scratch easily and over time and too much microwave become brittle. This is my second time to buy them so I must like them!

Good size, good for microwave and dishwasher!

Update to previous review below - shortly after posting my very positive review, I used one of the plates to warm up a frozen precooked chicken breast in the microwave. When I took it out the plate had 3 elongated bubbles on both top and bottom of plate near the plate edge. The food was not even touching that part of the plate. Plate is unsightly but still usable - very disappointing development! Love these plates - the perfect size. They were a little pricey so had held them in Wish List for awhile before "pulling the trigger". Really glad I purchased. Have used them in microwave and dishwasher and the are holding up very well. Hard to find plastic plates that don't develop white spots or other blemishes.

This product is actually very clever. The description and packaging says "microwave safe" so people will buy it, then they can't return them after their microwave burns a giant hole into the plate. Brilliant. Observed Flaws: -The plates smell like wood because they have wood fibers mixed in with the plastic. This smell turns bad when heated up, like hot soggy used cardboard. -The wood/cardboard mixed in with the plastic is extremely uneven and looks terrible up close. -The edge of the plates are not smoothed during production, leaving a sharp jagged plastic edge for the customer to remove themselves. -When empty and placed into the microwave, they will melt after about 60 seconds. Mine was actually smoking when I removed it. -These may not even be foodsafe due to the wood/cardboard within them.

I'm using this 8" plate as an easy-to-remove flat cover for a stainless steel canister in my sink for the compost. Doesn't show too much. And I won't be washing in DW or microwaving it. Seems perfect for this. The front finish is splotchy, unlike the polished photo, but I only need the back side, and food would cover the splotch anyway, if using for that.

I originally bought just the small plates to see if we liked them. It took some getting used to, but we decided that we really liked them. So we eventually bought the bigger plates, two different sizes of bowls, and the large serving bowls. I love that they are lightweight and easy to stack. Only problem is you can't use a sharp knife on them. The knife will score the surface if pressed too hard.