Bamboo Cereal Container with Sliding Lid and Clear Sides, 2L Capacity

Most kitchens store dry goods in whatever the dry goods arrived in. A cereal box with the inner bag folded over twice, a bag of rice held shut with a clip that came off a bread wrapper, and a shelf of cardboard in nine different sizes, none of it telling you how much is left. This is a bamboo box built to take over from all of that, and it holds two liters.

No box flap. No clip. No unscrewing anything one-handed.

The lid slides, and that is the whole idea

The top is a bamboo frame with a rectangular mouth cut through it, and a flat bamboo panel that slides along the top to cover that mouth. Push the panel back with your thumb, tip the box over a bowl, and the rice comes out in a stream you stop by standing it upright again. Slide the panel forward and the top is shut.

Nothing has to be unscrewed, levered off or set down on the counter while you pour. That sounds like a small thing until seven in the morning, when the other hand is already holding the bowl.

You can see what is left without opening anything

Both wide faces are clear panels, so the level reads from either side and from across the room. Running out stops being something you find out about with a pan already on the heat.

It changes how you shop, too. A cardboard box tells you nothing until you tip it, and half the reason people end up with four bags of pasta and no rice is that the packaging keeps its own secrets.

It stands like a book, not like a barrel

The box is 6.8 inches across and only 3.2 inches deep, so it stands on its narrow edge the way a hardback does. On a shelf that means a straight flat front and no wasted crescents of air on either side, which is the thing round jars can never do. It is 8.8 inches tall, which is short enough to live under a wall cabinet rather than beside one.

The bamboo is the other half of that argument. A container in a cabinet only has to work; a container left out on the counter has to be worth looking at, and pale bamboo with a clear panel sits next to a wooden board and a chopping block rather than fighting them.

Why not the cheap plastic tub

The plastic version costs a few dollars and cuts its corners in the same three places every time. The lid clips down all the way round, so opening it is a two-handed job with a thumbnail under one edge. The walls scuff and cloud after a year in and out of a cabinet, so the window you bought it for stops working. And it looks like storage, which means it goes behind a door, and anything behind a door gets forgotten.

Bamboo and a sliding panel solve all three, and they solve the fourth one nobody mentions: you will actually leave this one out where you can reach it, which is the difference between a container you use and a container you fill once.

Specifications

Capacity: 2 liters (68 fl oz)

Dimensions: 6.8 x 3.2 x 8.8 in (17.3 x 8.1 x 22.4 cm)

Material: Bamboo, with a clear plastic panel filling each of the two wide faces

Lid: A flat bamboo panel that slides along the top in a shallow channel

Opening: A rectangular mouth cut through the bamboo top, at one end, uncovered by sliding the lid back

Sides: Both wide faces are clear, so the level reads from either side

Color: Beige

Shape: Upright rectangular, standing on its narrow edge

Finish: Natural pale bamboo, matte, with no printing or marking of any kind

Suits: Cereal, oats, rice, pasta, grains, nuts, beans, dried fruit, coffee beans, sugar, flour and pet food

Rooms: Kitchen counter, pantry shelf, cabinet, open shelving

Package Includes

1x Bamboo Cereal Container with Sliding Lid