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Product recommendation
Apr. 20th, 2009 08:46 pmI thought I'd recommend a product I have found useful, Le Parfait preserving jars. No, I haven't become so domestic that I've started bottling stuff, Le Parfait preserving jars are great because they are relatively cheap very nice kitchen storage. You buy a pack of six 0.5 litre jars from Lakeland for £13.99. They have nice old fashioned flippy clicky fastenings and seem pretty air tight when shut (I think they have to be for preserving). They also have groves on the bases and lids which make them stack really well. I've got six 0.5 litre ones which I keep different types of sugar in. I'm considering getting some bigger ones to keep flour in, as Alec is getting a little peeved by bags of flour falling out and going everywhere if one opens the baking cupboard. I'm not sure which size is likely to be the right one. Ideally it should be able to hold most of a 1.5 kg bag of flour. Just holding a 0.5 litre jar against a bag of flour makes me think "Hmm, probably about three of these in there" but then I tried to be more scientific and I used a website which gave the weight of cup measurements of different substances to convert recipes into metric buy. This claimed that a cup of flour was 120g and as a cup is 240ml this would suggest that a i.5kg bag of flour has a volume of 3 litres.
This may require further investigation.
Update: I've put flour in one of my 0.5 litre jars and then weighed how much flour I could get into it when it was full. The jar fitted 400g of flour, so to fit a 1.5kg bag of flour I'd need a 2 litre jar, although a 1.5 litre jar would fit 1.2kg, so would work OK if I used the first 300g of flour when I opened the bag.
Further update: I bought a 2 litre jar from Lakeland (£2.93) and it seems to be the right size for a 1.5kg bag of flour. I need three more if I want one for each of the flours I use most frequently (strong brown flour, strong white flour, plain white flour and self-raising white flour). They take up a bit more room in the cupboard but I think it's worth rearranging to make everything nice and tidy and convenient. (Also, storing flour in jars will stop it getting weevils. I've never gotten weevils in flour, but I remember it happening to flour in my mums kitchen when I was little.)
This may require further investigation.
Update: I've put flour in one of my 0.5 litre jars and then weighed how much flour I could get into it when it was full. The jar fitted 400g of flour, so to fit a 1.5kg bag of flour I'd need a 2 litre jar, although a 1.5 litre jar would fit 1.2kg, so would work OK if I used the first 300g of flour when I opened the bag.
Further update: I bought a 2 litre jar from Lakeland (£2.93) and it seems to be the right size for a 1.5kg bag of flour. I need three more if I want one for each of the flours I use most frequently (strong brown flour, strong white flour, plain white flour and self-raising white flour). They take up a bit more room in the cupboard but I think it's worth rearranging to make everything nice and tidy and convenient. (Also, storing flour in jars will stop it getting weevils. I've never gotten weevils in flour, but I remember it happening to flour in my mums kitchen when I was little.)