Airtight Stainless Steel

For outdoor eating or food that’s going to be in transit, you need a container that’s lightweight and durable. When we’re packing for a picnic, taking food outside, or simply bringing lunch to work, we reach for the Airtight Stainless Steel Containers.

Kaela Porter of the gorgeous food blog Local Kitchen and her husband Tai needed portable, leakproof containers, so off went a set of nesting containers to her door. Cooking in a small-space kitchen in New York’s Hudson Valley means space is at a premium. Let’s just say there’s a very high bar for every piece that comes in—it better earn its keep or out it goes!

The Verdict

Kaela put the containers through their paces with stews, salads, taco fixin’s, even a white bean & garlic soup over an open fire. According to Kaela “the performance has been excellent: cold food stays cold, hot food stays warm, fresh food stays fresh, and nary a whisper of a leak. The inevitable blackening from cooking over open fire cleaned up easily with a Brillo pad, and even the burnt-on-white-bean soup came off in a jiffy.” And since you can always count on her for life’s important tips, she added “Soup left unstirred over an open flame will burn to the bottom of any pot. Just so you know.”

Nesting and Non-toxic

But perhaps the best part for Kaela is the fact they nest when it's time to put them away. Plus Tai who takes his lunch to work everyday quickly saw how great they’d be as a “commuter lunch pail.”

In addition to being durable, lightweight with a bowl shape that’s satisfying to eat from, stainless steel (like glass) is phthalate and BPA-free, reusable, and more environmentally-friendly than plastic. These containers are made from high-grade 18/10 stainless steel so they’re safe for use in the oven, stovetop, even over a campfire! The kicker? They’re 100% plastic-free AND leakproof.