Kitchen Barbarian
Senior Cook
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2012
- Messages
- 187
I have lock 'n locks but they are so hard to find in the US since they changed distributors awhile back. I have been trying to teach my son not to use plastic in the MW any more, having limited success. Also having limited success weaning him off the use of kitchen sponges, little microbe factories that they are *sigh*.
He has the same philosophy as another poster - buy the cheap ones, throw them away when they get pitted or crack - stains don't bother him.
Depending on who made them, putting them in the dishwasher can be a sort of crap shoot - they get flipped over and fill with water and have to be washed by hand anyway, or sometimes they just don't get clean. Our current dishwasher is pretty sucky and the only way a plastic box even gives a vague appearance of having been cleaned is if you lay it flat in the top rack and weight the edges down somehow so it won't flip. The dishwasher where we lived before did a much better job.
To store food I also recycle sour cream containers and what not. Glass jars get used for dry bean storage, spices, and other miscellaneous and sundry food storage tasks. Why waste free stuff?
He has the same philosophy as another poster - buy the cheap ones, throw them away when they get pitted or crack - stains don't bother him.
Depending on who made them, putting them in the dishwasher can be a sort of crap shoot - they get flipped over and fill with water and have to be washed by hand anyway, or sometimes they just don't get clean. Our current dishwasher is pretty sucky and the only way a plastic box even gives a vague appearance of having been cleaned is if you lay it flat in the top rack and weight the edges down somehow so it won't flip. The dishwasher where we lived before did a much better job.
To store food I also recycle sour cream containers and what not. Glass jars get used for dry bean storage, spices, and other miscellaneous and sundry food storage tasks. Why waste free stuff?