Rubbermaid Easy Find Lid 24-Piece Food Storage Container Set
by Rubbermaid Food Products
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Rubbermaid Easy Find Lid 24-Piece Food Storage Container Set
Customer Review: Clean out your cabinets!
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I have always been unintentional collectors of food storage containers. They find their way to our house without us purchasing them (leftovers, parties, etc.), and we are re-users so we would continually add them to our collection. After years of this practice, our cabinets were overrun with containers of all different bands and sizes, stacked haphazardly, many missing lids. It would take a long time to find the right size and then track down a lid, and if any guests asked for their container back, we had no hope of distinguishing ours from theirs.
Enter the Rubbermaid Easy Find Lid Food Storage Container Set. We recycled all of our old containers, and consolidated from two whole cabinets down to a single shelf in a single cabinet. Now we can immediately find the appropriate size container with matching lid, and if a guest leaves behind a foreign container we either recycle it or know who to return it to. The 24-piece set has a great variety of sizes, and there's never been an instance of us needing an additional container. My only complaint is that the lids can be difficult to click into each other when stacking, but all of the pros far outweigh this one con. I can't believe we went for so long without these!
Customer Review: Good containers
Summary: 4 Stars
These are really good containers. They are a lot nicer than the "Durables" line and are BPA-free (which is important to me because I have small children*). Mine get sent to preschool and are run through microwave and dishwasher almost daily and show very little sign of wear. The lid stacking is nice but unless your space is really limited I wouldn't call it a big selling point. The only bad thing I can say is that they can stain when you put tomato sauce in them (like most plastic food storage products).
*For those who missed it - BPA plastics have been linked to a number of health problems (among other things BPA mimics estrogen in the body) and are facing bans in several countries and may be banned in the U.S. Pregnant women and children would probably be best off avoiding it. For others the evidence of a health risk is more debatable (the traditional measurements of toxicity don't work well for hormone disruptors and for adults the results are not clear and may not be for some time). At least one major BPA vendor is refusing to sell it for use in food storage based on risks reports coming out of the National Toxicology Program and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Customer Review: Great idea, great price, one small issue.
Summary: 4 Stars
I got these to replace the old spinner tupperware container. For the most part I've been pretty happy with these, for the price that they charge on Amazon for the set it's a great deal and will likely last a long time since they're pretty durable food storage containers. The easy find lid system is great and I've enjoyed always being able to find a lid for what I'm looking for,
I only have one small issue with the set. There are multiple sizes that utilize the same size lid. With conventional tupperware this would be great since you could have fewer stacks of lids for the same amount of containers, but with the easy find system the multiple sizes with the same size lid somewhat complicates things. Since the lid could potentially fit on many different sizes there is the potential to attach too many lids to a given container and too few to another without realizing it. For example if the 2 and 3 cup containers use the same size lid and you had 4 of each container you could get to a point where you have 5 lids on the 3 cup and 3 on the 2 cup. Not a big deal, but it would have made more sense if all containers had different size lids to differentiate.
Customer Review: Good containers
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the Easy Find products. Somehow my family still manages to lose the lids though. I like that they are see-through - I have other containers that are opaque and whatever food is stored in them ends up getting thrown away because no one ever bothers to open them up to see what's in there. I have found a small container that I like better for lunchboxes: Sure Lid Lock-Seals. They have an ATTACHED lid and really are leak-proof. They only come in 2 small sizes, but I use them everyday for lunches (they are BPA free too). Rubbermaid Easy Finds are my favorite for larger storage needs, but my lunchbox, small container choice is for Sure Lids.Sure Lid Lock-Seal Plastic Storage Containers * BPA Free, Leakproof, Waterproof Attached Hinged Flip-Top Lid with Lock Tab * 4 Ounce/Half Cup/118mL - 2 Per PackSure Lid Lock-Seal Plastic Storage Containers * BPA Free, Leakproof, Waterproof Attached Hinged Flip-Top Lid with Lock Tab * TSA Airplane Friendly 1.5 ounce - 2 per packCustomer Review: Stack nicely, good quality (BPA Free!)
Summary: 4 Stars
One of the main reasons I decided to buy this plastic container set is because (voila) it is BPA Free. Definitely important to me, as I already have plenty of plastic containers at home I intend to eventually toss and thought a matching set would be nicer.
I deducted a star because I was slightly dissapointed at the fact that there are so many SMALLER containers in this set that really couldn't fit much expect spices, etc...this could possibly be good for people with smaller babies, or elderly or pets who need pureed food in small amounts. Nice and convenient.
Overall I like this set and would recommend it for purchase to others, as long as you read (didn't do this myself) beforehand, the sizes of containers that are included in this box.
The containers stack nicely as well as the lids. We are a family of 5, and yet I don't know if someone actually needs this much tupperware out at once? (particularly with the smaller containers).
Bottom line, if you need new tupperware, this is a nice price to get BPA Free tupperware at (got free shipping and paid $10.47)