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Plastic food storage
I'm pretty leary of all plastic food storage containers. Are there any that are safe and BPA free?
Re: Plastic food storage
I love our Rubermaid containers, especially the ones where the lids click to the bottoms for storage.
Here is the link to their products that do not contain BPA.
This exactly. Only we use it for our food. We only reheat in real dishes. Gladware for fridge & freezer.
We don't buy plastic stuff specifically for food storage, but we do repurpose empty yogurt containers, etc.
However I never heat them up in the microwave. I just use them for fruit and such.
If I need to freeze something, I use a canning jar.
Whether something is BPA free or not is pretty meaningless to me. I am a polymer scientist and there are thousands of different plasticizers used in plastic. BPA got a lot of bad press (deservedly) but all they did is replace it with another one that (so far) has not come under scrutiny. We could find out in 10 years that the replacements are actually worse. BPA was indentifies mostly bc it was widely used bc it was super cheap. Now plasticizer use is more scattered so it will actually be harder to ID bad ones.
Ditto all of this. We use Pyrex for storage in the cupboard and the fridge, and we use canning jars or Foodsaver bags (which are BPA free) for freezing. I totally agree about the BPA suzymarie. It's in the news now and everyone's avoiding it, but whatever polymer they replace it with could be just as bad. The key is to put your food in non-reactive containers, like glass. I only microwave in glass containers.