I should just slip in under the wire for the 28th - got my big box-o-plastic, containerized all my kitchen stuff, saw I needed still more…
Interestingly, I’d bought a couple of Rubbermaid containers that seemed to be their answer to Modular Mates - though they didn’t have nearly the selection of sizes etc. However, when I was shuffling things around, I found two of them, and found that for my purpose (storing tubes of Ritz crackers), they worked better than the Tupperware.
Soapy - I would go for Vent and Serve. The hard clear plastic is much more resistant to tomato staining than the regular plastic. I’ve also never used the CrystalWave so I don’t know if they stay cool during cooking but the Vent and Serve definitely does. You can take it right out of the microwave right after cooking with no problem at all.
Alice - I just sent an email to my director to see if there’s a solution (I’m wondering if it’s the money and shipping they don’t like or just the shipping. If it’s just the shipping, we can work around it.)
Can you PM me your confirmation number? Looks like I might have to contact support again. I had thought the problem was my fault but my issue is cleared up. I hope they can tell me why its doing this.
Any guidance on how much spaghetti the Modular Mates spaghetti dispenser holds? It just lists a volume figure, which is annoying. We tend to buy our spaghetti in 3-pound boxes and I don’t think this would do the job.
That’s actually a major failing of the website: for their storage stuff, they don’t give hints of how much food something would hold. A liter/cup measurement is better than nothing, but for example I have no idea how many cups of flour are in a regular 5 pound bag, I just know it fits - just barely - in my Square 3. It would be nice if they listed the volume, and “holds 2 pounds of dried beans” or “holds a 10 pound bag of rice” or whatever. So if you have the opportunity to make a suggestion to the folks “upstairs”, pass that on.
Soapy - I think it just took a while to show up because it’s there now. Thank you!!
Mama Zappa - a square 3 holds 17 cups so there should be more than enough room for a 5 pound bag of flour (there are two cups in a pound so 10 cups in a 5 pound bag). I suspect that it’s a poof thing when you transplant the flour from the tightly packed bag to the container. Try putting the lid on and banging it on the counter to release trapped air. You should be able to fit more flour that way.
I did some searching online and found a review of the spaghetti dispenser which says that it holds up to 2 pounds of spaghetti. This sounds about right since a box is typically one pound so two pounds would be 4 cups and the capacity of the dispenser is 4-3/4 cups. So just make sure you use up a pound of spaghetti every time you open a 3 pound box.
Order placed last night - I can’t wait to get my egg cooker!
And re Crystalwave v. Vent n Serve: Never used the Vent n Serve, but we love the Crystalwave line at our house, especially the soup mugs. I have half a dozen of them now. My husband has a disability which makes it hard to hold things, and he loves that they are lightweight and have a handle. He doesn’t really heat foods up in them, but he uses them to eat cereal and other things as well as soup. Plus they won’t break when he drops them! I also use them as prep bowls when making stuff like veggie stir fry.
LOL! We can’t guarantee we’d do that, unfortunately. Oh well. We actually have an older spaghetti keeper - the kind with the pushbutton lid (that matches those pitchers - do they still sell those? we had 2, and the pushbuttons somehow BOTH fell into the garbage disposal and got slightly chewed). If the newer one did a better job of holding a full box of pasta, I might go for it. As it is, we want to be able to transfer our spaghetti to the holder as soon as it comes into the house (due to the pantry moth problem that is prompting this whole Modular Mates binge).
A cute story from when I bought that spaghetti keeper: it was in 1983 or so. A co-worker had a tupperware party and I ordered some stuff, which she brought into the office. While handing it over, she commented “huh. We never have spaghetti around that long”. Another person chimed in, without missing a beat, “that’s funny - ours COMES that long”.
Our pantry, right now, looks so EMPTY. Part of that is putting all the stuff we’re keeping into the containers, which do get rid of a lot of wasted space. And part is that we’ve done a lot of throwing out of old and/or potentially infested stuff. If the box was dusty, we figured it needed to go!!
I know the square 3 will fit a whole bag of flour, as I’ve been using them for that for 20+ years :). I do have to tap the container down a little bit to make things settle, especially if there’s still flour left when I add more. I think I’m going to get a couple rectangle 2s (18 vs 17 cup capacity), both for the added “wiggle room” and the fact that I can stack two of those on my shelves (or put one on top of the rectangle 3 where I keep rice - my shelves are fixed and I’ve found they just handle 5-tall Modular Mates.
But anyway, my point there was that when we’re trying to figure out container sizes, it’d be nice if the web page had hints of common food items that would fit - like the bag of flour, or my 10 pound bag of rice that fits into the rectangle 3.
Paula - Thanks for the order! Alice - According to my director, the system wont take payment from or ship to Canada (which is dumb). The only other option I can think of is for you to tell me what you want and I can enter it under my name and have it ship to me. You can Paypal, or send a check to me. When the stuff arrives, I can forward it to you. If you want to do that, send me a PM or an email and we can work out the details. Mama - Are you talking about the Counterparts set? See here If you are, I found the part number for the spaghetti canister in the obsolete parts but it says it’s unavailable. Besides, it’s the whole thing, not just the lid. But, I bet you could find replacement lids online. As far as I can tell, it’s the Counterparts V container that holds the spaghetti.
Have you considered using one of the long oval Modular Mates for the spaghetti? It wouldn’t dispense it in specific measurements but you could fit way more than 3 pounds in one of the taller ovals or rectangles. Then you can just pop the lid off and grab a handful when you need it.
I can’t wait until I can get a lot of Modular Mates. My pantry is so cluttered and I hate it.
Yep - mine is the Counterparts. It’s fine, actually, aside from a chip on the top rim which is purely cosmetic. The lid works the same as the the lids on the Classic Pitchers (the push button); it’s the push-button inserts for my 2 pitchers that got “et” by the garbage disposal. The pitchers are still usable, it’s just a pain to get the lid assembly to fit together as a result.
I was thinking about trying one of the long ovals for spaghetti - I’ll check one of the ones I already got, against the spaghetti I stuck in the freezer the other day, to make sure it’ll fit lengthwise. The PDF that I linked to suggests the super oval 1 will hold a half pound, and the super oval 4 would hold 5 pounds.
