500 ml Airtight Bamboo-Lid Storage Jar for Coffee and Spices

You buy the half-kilo packet of ground coffee, tip it into the big jar you own, and it sits in the bottom third looking like something you forgot to finish.

What Are the Key Features of This 500 ml Bamboo-Lid Jar?

• 500 ml matches the half-kilo packet - ground coffee, loose tea or a cone of cumin goes in whole and the packet goes in the bin, instead of being split between a jar and a bag that stays open.
• A rubber ring under a bamboo lid - the seal is a press onto rubber rather than a friction fit, which is what actually keeps air off ground coffee and damp out of salt.
• 200 g empty, so it is a one-handed jar - it lifts down and goes back up while your other hand is still holding the packet you are pouring from.
• Small enough to earn a front-row place - a 500 ml jar sits in the row you reach into every day, where a big one gets pushed to the back of the cupboard and forgotten.
• Wipe the lid, do not soak it - the body cleans out with warm soapy water; the bamboo takes a damp cloth and a dry, because wood left standing in water swells away from the ring.

Where Can You Use This 500 ml Storage Jar?

• On the worktop beside the kettle, holding the half-kilo packet of ground coffee
• In the front row of the spice shelf, the row you reach into daily
• In the pantry for loose tea or a paper cone of cumin from the attar
• Anywhere one hand has to lift it down while the other is still holding the packet you are pouring from

Why Choose a Jar Sized to the Packet Instead of a Bigger One?

• 500 ml is a packet, not a volume - the half-kilo coffee bag goes in whole, where a bigger jar sits two-thirds empty and the habit dies by the third week.
• The ring matters more than the wall - coffee goes flat, cumin loses its edge and salt takes on damp, and no thickness of wall stops any of it.

Details

Material & Build

• Lid: bamboo, sealed with a rubber ring - the ring is what keeps food from taking on moisture or odour.
• Rustproof - no metal part is named anywhere on this jar.

Dimensions

• Capacity: 500 ml - the one figure everything agrees on for this jar.
• Weight: 200 g empty - a real recorded field, and roughly what the coffee going into it weighs.
• Height, width and depth - take the proportions from the photographs.
• Colour: transparent.

Care

• Warm soapy water for the body.
• A damp cloth and a dry for the bamboo, never a soak - wood left standing in water swells away from the ring.

Specifications