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.