What is the best GLASS storage to use for food?

Not really. Glass, except when you drop it, is great. No odors cling to it. Nothing stains it.

Any major brand is fine.

I like Pyrex a whole lot, but that could be because my mom had a ton of it when I was a kid, and it makes me nostalgic.

Canning jars are really good as you can wash and replace the seals easily. Whatever you do….DO NOT reheat food in the plastic containers you may still have. That is where the big potential for release of chemicals is when the plastic is heated.

I use pyrex and now they have sets of bowls with covers so you no longer need plastic. They come in all sorts of sizes, I even have these wonderful mugs for putting soup or reheating different food in and they come with a cover that is made to let the steam out while you have it heating in the microwave, great for bringing letovers to work.

I love Pyrex, because it is microwave and oven safe. It will shatter, though, when extreme heat is applied to it while containing frozen material.

Pyrex has always been the choice of my wife. Its funny how fads come and go and especially when its now discovered that some items are not good for humans, like plastic containers.

Luckily, my wife saved all of her older Pyrex bowls and lids.

Pyrex products are rather expensive. You can find just about any Pyrex bowl, etc., in a Goodwill or junk store and the price is right.

I was in IKEA recently and they have really cheap glass jars with rubber seals and lids that fasten with a metal ..um.. fastener. They looked a lot like my classic Kilner jars but were amazingly cheap. Once I’ve moved house I’m going to snap up some of those babies.

Do you have an IKEA near you?

I re-use wide-mouthed glass jam, spaghetti sauce, and salsa jars. I have also bought 12 medium-sized and 12 large-sized wide-mouthed canning jars. Everything can go in the dishwasher (no more rubber seals but double metal lids)..

Here’s the 32 oz. one

They are available at any decent hardware store…no need to schlep to IKEA.

I find a Snapple jar perfect for carrying water in the car.

sorry, I just googled canning jar – that’s what my Kilner jar is, and the IKEA ones too

@gailcalled I don’t much care for IKEA either but we needed matching plinth. Those jars just caught my eye as I’m sure i paid a lot for my genuine Kilners

@stnley: What’s a plinth have to do with canning jars?

Anything food comes in from the store, pickle jars, jam jars, mayonnaise jars. That’s what I use. Why on earth would someone go out and buy food storage jars when they are free?

@YARNLADY Asthetics or size maybe? My husband makes jam and old jam jars are put to good use but I don’t buy anything that comes in a 2 litre jar like the one I store my pasta in. I also like look of the fastener clip and rubber seal

@gailcalled just meant that I had to get something from IKEA so I had to go there, otherwise I don’t normally bother as it is, as you say, a schlep! I just saw the jars as I walked through