wanted to buy me a mixing bowl with lid, since I do not much like and bake the dough and the cake rather eat than to wipe it from the tiles ^^ measuring scale in the bowl is quite handy, can not "disappear" because it is poured into a depression. the scraper is a nice little extra, which indeed would not really needed, but still usable. All thing ... The lid must always be kept, since it always stands up front with me. So when I have always stir the handle on the lid and woe I take them away ... cover slip to the side and the dough may go back on his way ... in the end a great bowl with one hand always on the cover