Maine Man's Fine Porcelain Oyster Plate is a versatile baking dish that's specially designed for baking, broiling, roasting, and serving oysters. A delicacy enjoyed worldwide for more than ten thousand years, oysters are served as gourmet appetizers. An ideal seafood and hors d'oeuvres serving plate, individual wells around the plate hold 6 oysters to prevent them from sliding around, or falling from, the plate. A center well serves up buttery garlic sauce, cocktail sauce, horseradish, drawn butter, or lemon wedges. Whether a simple garlic and butter sauce or more elaborate preparations, this plate makes a spectacular presentation at any table with oysters served raw on the half shell, smoked, broiled, baked, fried, roasted, stewed, pickled, steamed, and more. It works equally well for shrimp scampi, lobster bites, baby scallops, stuffed mushrooms, petite desserts, and more. Porcelain's natural heat retaining quality helps keep drawn butter warm and melty.