Very sturdy! I love these plates! This is the second time I”ve ordered them. We use them when our kids’ families come to visit. With 11 people visiting at one time, for a week, disposable plates and cutlery are a must. They are sturdy enough that we can cut steak on them. They do not have a plastic coating on them, so I can put them in my compost pile. All around, it’s a win-win.

The ;lazy person’s dinnerware I live by myself and really don’t like doing dishes, so these are my everyday dinnerware. I often nuke dinner, pop it on one of these, use plastic utensils, and have no cleanup other than tossing the dirty plate and plastic forks, etc into the garbage. Works out fine for me. These are sturdy enough to use for just about anything. With something pretty heavy, I stack two, usually save the clean one for later use. I’m over 70 years old, and completely happy with these.