Plastic Rice and Flour Storage Box with Slide Lid, 5 to 10 L

A sack of rice never closes again once you cut it open. It lives in the corner of the cupboard with a peg on it, losing a handful every time the mug goes in, and the flour sack next to it has already started smelling of everything else in there.

What Are the Key Features of This One-Handed Sliding Lid Rice and Flour Box?

• A sliding panel opened with one hand - push it back with the heel of your palm while the measuring mug is in the other hand, and push it closed on the way out. There is no lid to find somewhere to put down.
• Plastic, because ten kilos has to come off a shelf - a bin this size in glass or ceramic would weigh more empty than the grain weighs full, and one drop would put fragments through the whole sack.
• Sized by the sack, 5 L, 7.5 L and 10 L - holding 5 kg, 7.5 kg and 10 kg of rice, so you choose against what you carry home from the grocer rather than guessing at volumes.
• Closed against weevils and against damp - an airtight, leakproof seal is what insects cannot walk through, and what stops a humid summer turning flour to lumps and sugar to a brick.
• A clear top over solid walls - read the level at a glance without opening it, while the walls keep daylight off flour, pulses and nuts, where the oil turns long before anything looks wrong.

Where Can You Use This Rice and Flour Storage Box?

• Standing in a row along the back of a dry cupboard, where the sacks currently lean
• Refilled straight from a sack poured in through the wide top opening, no funnel
• Opened one-handed at the worktop while the measuring mug is in the other hand
• For flour, sugar, nuts, beans, pasta, snacks and cereal bought loose from the grocer
• For dry pet food kept closed rather than clipped shut in its bag

Why Choose Plastic Over Glass or Ceramic for a 10 L Rice Box?

• It retires the sack with a peg on it - an open bag loses a handful with every scoop and takes on the smell of whatever is leaning against it in the cupboard.
• One dry food container for the whole cupboard - flour, sugar, nuts, beans, pasta, snacks, cereal and dry pet food all keep the same way, in a row that matches.

Details

Material & Build

• Body: plastic - light enough to lift full off a shelf, and it is what allows a moulded sliding panel on top in the first place.
• Lid: clear push-back sliding panel over a wide top opening - opens with one hand, and the opening is cut wide so a sack goes in from the top without the first kilo ending up on the floor.
• Solid walls, clear panel - the level is readable from above while light is kept off what is inside.

Dimensions

• Weight, empty: 1 kg - the wall is thick enough to be refilled for years rather than thrown out with the packaging.
• The supplier describes the design as slim, meant to stand in a row rather than sprawl.

Colours

• Beige and black - the same box in both.

Specifications