Food storage containers

Food Storage Containers

Whether it’s for storing leftovers in the fridge, bringing your own lunch to work, or making meal prep more convenient, food storage containers are one of those kitchen essentials to keep on hand.

Why Use Food Storage Containers with Lids for Your Everyday Needs?

Food storage containers have many uses, making them handy home essentials. Compact and easy to tidy away, these boxes allow you to preserve and carry food around effortlessly, without it coming into contact with the air or potential bacteria. Glass food storage containers with lids are environmentally friendly as they can be reused time and again instead of reaching for cling film or tin foil.

How to Pick the Right Food Storage Container?

If you’ve ever browsed the shelves of your supermarket or specialist kitchen stores, you may have noticed that food storage containers come in many shapes and sizes. How do you decide which ones to go for? Let’s take a look at the different options!

Food Storage Containers to Keep Food From Spoiling

Whether you like to prepare your lunches in advance or need an easy way to store leftovers after each meal, food storage containers are designed to do just that. Pyrex® offers a wide range of fridge and freezer storage containers that allow you to store food without taking up too much space. Their tight-fitting lids seal in all the flavour and freshness of your dishes.

Food Storage Containers to Use as Lunch Boxes

Perfect for taking a lovely home-cooked meal to work or school, our lunch boxes are medium-sized storage containers designed to hold the ideal portion for a single meal. At Pyrex®, we aim to offer versatility. Our products are all microwave-safe. We even have watertight boxes to carry soups and sauces without ever letting you down.

Food Containers to Take Your Culinary Delights with You

Do you like to show up with something delicious to eat when people invite you over or often carry your lunch with you for later? Our takeaway storage containers are the perfect fit for you. Our range includes rectangular, round, square and even oval food storage containers designed to keep their contents hermetically sealed. These boxes can withstand extreme temperatures, going safely from the freezer straight into the oven*.

*Warning: Pyrex® food storage containers have plastic lids, which are not oven-safe.

Food Storage Containers for Reheating Leftovers

Rather than using plastic boxes that stain easily or transferring food onto plates to reheat it, you can count on our durable glass containers. These microwave-safe containers can also go into the oven, the freezer, and the dishwasher and come out as good as new, thanks to Pyrex® borosilicate glass. The steam valves on their lids are perfectly suited for microwave cooking as well.

Glass Food Storage Containers

Glass food storage containers are ideal for storing food and snacks to be eaten as is, cooked, or reheated later, straight in their box. These containers can withstand extreme temperatures and even resist thermal shocks up to 240 °C, thanks to Pyrex® borosilicate glass. This material is the secret behind our containers’ unique properties, making Pyrex® perfect for everyday use.

The small detail that makes a big difference? Pyrex® food storage containers are incredibly versatile: they can be used for cooking, storing, reheating, and serving food, all in the same vessel! Few kitchen essentials can save you this much time each and every day.

How to Choose the Right Size for Your Containers?

Pyrex® food containers are often available in 3 or 4 different sizes, so everyone can find the right model to suit their needs. You may like to keep several boxes of each size on hand. This ensures you always have the perfect option at your disposal to store and reheat all your dishes, whether it’s an individual portion or a meal fit for the whole family.

How to Choose the Right Shape for Your Containers?

Our food storage containers with lids come in round, rectangular, or square shapes, depending on the model you opt for. While this won’t impact the taste of your food and makes no difference quality-wise, your best bet might be to go for boxes that will fit more easily in your fridge or freezer. If you’re short on space, square or rectangular containers are probably the ideal option.

What Is the Best Material for Food Storage Containers?

At Pyrex®, we only offer borosilicate glass food storage containers because of the material’s many advantages. 

Glass Food Storage Containers

We choose to focus on Pyrex® borosilicate glass containers because of the many advantages this material offers. Highly robust, it can withstand physical shocks as well as extreme temperature variations and be run through the dishwasher indefinitely. Easy to clean, it doesn’t stain and never retains odours.

Plastic Food Storage Containers

Plastic food storage boxes are popular because they are inexpensive. However, they are also less durable than their glass or metal counterparts. After a few uses, the plastic warps, stains, and retains unpleasant odours that alter the flavour of the food. Plastic containers can’t withstand the oven either and are not always microwave-safe.

Metal Food Storage Containers

Food storage tins and metal containers are less common because they are not microwave-safe and often unsuitable for use in the freezer or the dishwasher. The material also tends to scratch easily, can oxidise, and tends to lend an unpleasant metallic taste to the food stored in it.

How do you know if a container is airtight?

A box is airtight when it is fitted with a lid that prevents air from getting in or out. Most sealable containers feature a plastic lid or a flexible band that allows you to close it securely. To find out whether one of our glass containers is airtight, simply take a look at our product descriptions: they contain all the information you may need.

To discover more and enjoy all the benefits of Pyrex® glass containers, browse our online shop and place your order now!

*Warning: Pyrex® food storage containers have plastic lids, which are not oven-safe.