Food Storage Container with Carry Handle and Lid, 31 x 13 cm

Whatever lives on the top shelf tends to stay on the top shelf. Getting it down means both arms above your head, a blind grip on a smooth side, and a guess at where the bottom of the box actually is. A handle turns all of that into one hand.

What Are the Key Features of This 31 x 13 cm Container with a Carry Handle?

• A carry handle on the lid - one hand from above rather than both arms wrapped round a smooth box, which is what makes the top cupboard worth opening again.
• 31 x 13 cm, long and narrow - it runs along the front edge of a fridge shelf instead of taking the middle of it, and it takes bread, fish or corn at full length without cutting anything down.
• A lid that locks at the edges - a box hanging from a handle swings, and a lid that only rests is one that works loose on the way; this one is held down.
• Built to leave the kitchen - food cooked at home and carried out to a family lunch, a picnic or a neighbour, in the same box it was stored in rather than transferred into foil.
• Free of BPA, and light before the food goes in - it takes hot cooking, tomato and a lemon dressing without adding a weight of its own, which is exactly what a box you lift by its handle needs.

Where Can You Use This Carry-Handle Food Container?

• The top cupboard shelf, brought down one-handed instead of with both arms above your head
• Along the front edge of a fridge shelf, where the long narrow footprint does not block what is behind it
• Beside taller things in a cupboard instead of taking a shelf of its own
• Carried down to the car for a family lunch or a picnic, with cooked food still in it
• Across the landing to a neighbour, and back again

Why Does a Locking Lid Matter More on a Container You Carry by Hand?

• Free of BPA, which earns its place once it travels - a carried box holds hot food, tomato-heavy cooking and a dressing with lemon or vinegar in it, all sitting against the wall for hours.

Details

Material & Build

• Carry handle on the lid - one-handed lifting, which is the whole argument for a container this long.
• Locking lid - held down at the edges, which is what a box swinging from a handle needs.
• Plastic, called free of BPA on the shop listing - light is the point of it: a handle is wasted on a box that is already a weight before the food goes in, and 31 cm of ceramic or glass would be a two-handed lift while still empty.

Dimensions

• Stated size: 31 x 13 cm - length by width, from the shop listing rather than a factory sheet.

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