I bought a cheap bamboo cutting board from IKEA and the instructions tell me to oil it with some vegetable oil before I use it. almost every website recommends using a mineral oil though. what's the difference (when applying one vs. the other)?
16 or so total in just about every size from the smallest to one of the large 8"x8"x15" or so... we use it for measuring water for our beer brewing... though we used to keep cat food in it.
I see. I'm just thinking about getting a few and getting more as I need them, but I feel like I'll need more of them really fast and spend way too much :(
It really depends on what all you want them for. We don't like having open boxes, so we have them for flour, sugar, corn starch, powdered sugar, brown sugar... even sugar packets of stevia etc... I like having them match, so I bought more than I really needed... it's easy to use less expensive containers for stuff that doesn't need to be sealed.
I'm also crazy and use two different types of all purpose flour... so ... yeah.
I think it can depend on where you're storing them. I have almost all of my containers in the same cabinet, so it's nice that they stack up so perfectly... they're designed to fit well together.
Yeah... but then you can rearrange... or reassess... The ones I really find need the containers are flour and sugar. The rest doesn't matter. Those two are pretty bug-prone and humidity-sensitive.
I keep my cornmeal in the freezer, so it stays in the bags it comes in rather than going in a container...
@Huy I used to have it in Korken (and probably will again), but currently rice and semolina are in Tupperware. I have them on a very high shelf and I din't want to shatter them.
Calw had a few major floods I remember (including being partially cut off) and once even the vault in the bank flooded. They just managed to get the cars out. Since then, major restructuring has prevented serious floods.
also @Stephie finger weg von der IKEA Seite, sonst gehst du morgen da "eine Kleinigkeit holen" und kommst zur[ck mit einem Wagen voll Zeug plus zwei neue Schränke
That's the nice bit about glass jars (besides not having to worry about chemicals): you get all stickers off easily and in a pinch I use permanent marker.
We use painter's tape and write on that. :D I even have the weight of the empty jar stuck on the bottom so that I can weigh how much I have left so I know if I need more before I start a recipe.
@Huy he had a good excuse - he felt queasy and sick, so he distracted himself. And he told us right in the morning. Golden rule here: "Those who fess up get leniency." He was punished enough by feeling super-tired the next day yet did his chores without complaining.
(Which doesn't usually hapoen on a "normal" day! ^_^)