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An Honest Review of Silicone stretch Lids

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When we have some food left, we choose disposable products such as plastic wrap to preserve food. But this inevitably leads to waste. We are all for reducing waste. we try really hard to reduce our environmental footprint by using reusable materials whenever possible. That means we opt for microfiber cloths over paper towels, glass storage containers over zip-top baggies, and real forks and knives instead of plastic ones whenever we have takeout. Now we will introduce Silicone stretch Lids for you.

So I was pumped when those universal silicone lids started to hit the market. The premise: The seemingly simple lids sit on top of all sorts of bowls, pots, and pans, or baking dishes to create an airtight seal for cooking and storage. Because they’re made of silicone, they can go in the freezer, oven, microwave, and more. Plus, you can throw them in the dishwasher when they’re dirty. Cool! But I had some questions: Would they work with my existing kitchen stuff, would I actually use them, and are they worth buying? See? So many questions!

Using Silicone Lids in the Fridge

Theoretically, you can put one of these lids straight onto a serving bowl and then stick it in there without having to pull out a storage container. But that doesn’t make a ton of sense for us — we tend to serve our family dinners straight from the pot, and we are not going to cover those leftovers up and put them in the fridge because they’d take up way too much space. So we’d be transferring to a different container for the fridge anyway — and we may as well use one that comes with a lid.

My other complaint is that the flexible lids mean you can’t stack foods, so your leftovers couldn’t be stored super efficiently — although the same could be said about putting plastic wrap over a bowl, too. (Note: There are some versions of these that are more rigid and can be stacked, but they’re not as pretty.)

Using Silicone Lids for Cooking

For us, when it comes to stovetop cooking, we have very few pots that don’t have matching lids, and only rarely do we use a sauté pan or something where we want to trap a little extra heat but don’t have a lid. In that case, we usually find that the lid of the next size up pot will do just fine. So we don’t really need these lids for this task.

As for the oven, the ones pictured above are safe to use up to 550°F (some other brands only work up to 220°F, so be sure to check!), which means they could come in handy when baking chicken or a casserole that needs to be covered.

The spot where these things are the most useful for my family is in the microwave. Microwave cooking is where I tend to grab a paper towel to cover food, versus use a reusable item. We use the microwave at least once a day (so many dinner leftovers!), which means these could pay for themselves in paper towels alone.

Using Silicone Lids for Potlucks

If you’re someone who joins in on a lot of potlucks, these are specially useful. Because they form a seal with any material, you can use them to cover serving dishes on your way to and from a party, or to keep bugs off of food while it’s out to serve. That seems pretty handy, and they do have cute designs!

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How the 5gallon plastic bucket came to the aid of grassroots environmentalists

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How the 5gallon plastic bucket came to the aid of grassroots environmentalists ?The plastic five-gallon bucket is the most humdrum of containers, yet it’s proved to be almost as versatile as duct tape. Creative sorts have turned buckets into toolboxes and ottomans, planters and panniers. And in recent years, some environmental activists have begun using the humble bucket for an even higher purpose: These days, five-gallon buckets may literally be saving lives.

Back in 1994, several years before Erin Brockovich and her boss Edward Masry saw their life stories reenacted on the big screen, Masry was representing a group of citizens from Rodeo, Calif., on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay. His clients lived near a Unocal oil refinery, and they were worried: They’d recently endured a major release of a refinery catalyst called catacarb, which had coated their neighborhoods with sticky goo. Hundreds of them had already gotten sick, and they’d been noticing odd smells around the Unocal site. “We realized there was no way for the people to monitor what was coming out of the refinery,” says Masry.

So Masry inaugurated his own monitoring program. He called up an environmental engineering firm and asked them to redesign the standard air-sampling device — known as a Summa canister, a stainless-steel unit that costs about $2,000 — into a cheap and accurate tool that private citizens could use. The engineers’ solution? The good old five-gallon bucket.

The engineers brought the cost of the sampling unit down to about $250 by housing its guts in an airtight plastic bucket. Once a “grab sample” of air is taken with the bucket, the heavy-duty Tedlar bag inside can be sealed and sent to a lab for analysis. Masry gave 30 buckets to Rodeo citizens, encouraging them to keep tabs on future releases from the Unocal refinery. “The amount of releases dropped dramatically,” he remembers. Two years later, thanks in part to the data collected by refinery neighbors, Unocal settled the citizens’ lawsuit, paying a total of $80 million to the 6,000 residents injured by the catacarb release.

Denny Larson, then part of a local group called Communities for a Better Environment, saw huge political potential in the engineers’ invention. Larson wanted an even cheaper, simpler version of the bucket, so he and his coworkers started searching for substitute parts at camping stores, boat shops, and vacuum-cleaner dealers. They eventually shaved the cost down to about $75 per unit, and designed a guerrilla environmental monitoring program that included protocols for data collection. Larson started hawking the program to grassroots activists in the Bay Area, and in 1995 his group got a private grant to take their buckets on the road. And thus the Bucket Brigade was born.


Today, there are about 25 Bucket Brigades active in the United States, ranging from California to Philadelphia and Texas to North Carolina. They keep an eye on oil refineries, chemical plants, and even large-scale hog farms. Most are based in “fenceline” neighborhoods — communities located next to industrial sites — and most use the protocols developed by Larson and his coworkers. Each has a team of “sniffers” to detect unusual odors, and a team of samplers to confirm the sniffers’ suspicions via the buckets.

Larson says he’s seen this power embraced around the world. “People get so excited when they build the bucket, get the test results, and find out what they’re breathing for the first time,” he says. “Man, when they go after companies and regulators, you’d better not be in their way.”