Product: Rubbermaid Brilliance 8-Piece Food Storage Set
Model: 2108387
Condition: New
Made with 100% BPA-free, crystal-clear Tritan material, these containers offer an elegant look while allowing you to see contents at a glance
Features airtight, leak-proof lids with secure latches, ensuring your food stays fresh and preventing spills
The durable Tritan plastic resists stains and odors, keeping your containers looking and smelling like new
The built-in vents under the latches allow for splatter-resistant microwaving without removing the lid
Stackable and modular design helps you save space in your pantry, refrigerator, and freezer
Dishwasher-safe materials make cleaning a breeze, ensuring convenience and hygiene
Ideal for storing a variety of foods, from leftovers and meal preps to dry ingredients and snacks
Durable Construction: Built to last, these containers can withstand everyday use and maintain their clarity and functionality over time
Includes two 0.5-cup, two 1.3-cup, one 3.2-cup, and one 9.6-cup food storage containers with lids, plus one 12-cup sugar container and one 16-cup flour container with lids, totaling 16 pieces for all your storage needs
Impressed that the set of 8 is actually 8 containers (plus their lids which go with them). So sick of seeing sets using a piece-count including the lids, so basically half of what it sounds like you will get.
@AaronLeeJohnson Pyrex did make ramekins so she might be right. If it was Corning or Corelle that would be close enough since they were all the same company at one point.
We have had two sets of these and they are very good. They will eventually fail if you use them in the microwave; fine cracks generate and eventually leak or reach an edge. But we had a set for several years before that happened and we used them all the time.
@duodec brilliance is very nice but I believe they have warnings about microwave temps which are very hard to gauge. That will cause it.
Regardless of what I’m heating in I tend to go 400-500 watts for longer just to let the heat spread. But I also have an inverter microwave so it’s not just pulsing on an off.
@duodec@Kyeh that is an option. I don’t worry about it really. Most of what I microwave in plastic is a piece of a leftover thing. Potato. Meat. so all the energy goes into the water in that thing. And thick plastic containers not light duty gladwell.
I don’t usually have soup/pasta etc in plastic where the whole mess would heat the whole container. And obviously the type of plastic matters there.
But yes it you overheat this in the microwave just hitting high constantly it will start to crack.
As far as safety of plastics… We are mostly already loaded with micro plastics. They find them in people’s blood. So far not much is known about the impact. But less is good.
I will readily agree it’s probably not good but most of what is in the environment is all the shit we throw away not the things we keep. Keeping is good.
@unksol Our microwave is also a Panasonic inverter and we almost always warm up food at 50% power or less. The containers looked brand new for several years but when they started to craze a little they failed pretty quickly.
We have glass and Corning containers and use those much more often for heating. But I’ll look at not using the plastics in the microwave any more
@duodec well I’ve not tried them, I just heard if you over heated them it was an issue. But even at 50% power if you slap them in for 10 minutes. You could be going over. Really hard to estimate the temp of something you’re microwaveing based on contents and that’s not how people use microwaves anyway.
IDK. I think they are nicer but I have previous stuff still in boxes from sales when I bought the house 11 years ago so. I need to avoid the urge anyway.
Side note those Panasonic inverter microwaves are nice. I think I got one off Slickdeals in… 2015-2016. I went a few years without one at least. I mean I don’t use the cool defrosting or cooking but. It’s held up well. Just had to replace the incandescent bulb with led when it burned. Has to be pushing 10 years. Not that there is much to break.
@duodec@unksol Well, I stopped before the alarms were sounded about plastic being dangerous - I just found that some Tupperware would get melty at certain points if I heated leftovers in it. Then they started to say that chemicals leach out into your food, and then they started talking about micro plastics. Of course, some say microwaves themselves are hazardous.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@duodec@Kyeh I think your plastic melting into your food would be an absolutely good place to stop.
My mom used to do Tupperware parties and I don’t recall that. With them. But I don’t think we were allowed to microwave our own leftovers in the 90s so… Eh?
The supper thin gladware stuff even if it claims it is. Nah.
This is very hard/solid/clear plastic that doesn’t leach to anyone’s knowledge. but if you already have glass. Use that.
@unksol you bought it off of schemes in that time period and you didn’t even care that it didn’t have HDMI? A true renegade. Also who is microwaving this stuff? It’s for storage man. these look nice but not as nice as oxo, which are more expensive. The locking mechanism here is a weak point. Think Costco and sams sell store brand versions of these for about this price.
@qazxto@unksol Yes agree I use these for storage. They are excellent for sealing grains, rice, even things like snack foods and chocolate. Why? Because they are also mouse-proof. I had a mouse invasion a few years ago since I had some food items they could get to while I was away for a Winter. Also my cat died so even when I was there, I’d lost my chief (and only) mouser. Note that the food the mice found included some PastaDrop items. I’m still finding pieces of Penne Pasta in strange places. Anyway after making sure to seal up anything they might want to eat, the mice seemed to retreat.
@duodec@unksol Lets hear it for inverters. I can pull a stick of butter from the fridge and soften it in 60 seconds (at 10% power) with zero interior melting. Cue the awesome.
@duodec@rpstrong for some reason it has never occured to me to do that. It’s probably even in the manual. I know it has a lot of cool stuff it can do but I don’t bother.
@qazxto the larger ones obviously, the smaller ones if you are putting leftovers in. Also the brilliance line includes containers specifically for that.
@mediocrebot Wow - that’s an ancient and old pickle. 342 - 223 would make it 119 when it died in the days of the Roman Republic. Must have been a very postmortem grave stone.
In addition to the “Volume: 5 Cups” entry seeming a bitentirely inaccurate (it’s closer to 3 gallons), I find it odd that the largest one is advertised as “16 cups” when “1 gallon” would’ve been simpler. (I could go either way on the 12 cups, though I’d probably say “3 quarts”.)
Do most people feel like “16 cups” sounds bigger than 1 gallon? Personally, once it’s gotten into the double digits, I just figure “kinda big (but less than a gallon)” and move on.
I know I’m weird. Maybe 16 cups is subconsciously bigger than a gallon for most people?
Or were they trying to help people by sticking with the same units throughout?
@xobzoo
A gallon sounds bigger to me.
But for stuff like flour I would be thinking of dry cups.
What I really hate though is those large storage boxes (Rubbermaid, Sterlite) that they sell for clothes and closet stuff that all have their sizes listed in quarts and gallons!
I don’t need to know that, I want the dimensions in inches! W x H x L! Grrr!
@xobzoo My guess is that they were trying to keep the units of measurement consistent. As for the larger containers, quarts and gallons are used almost exclusively for measuring liquids, so it would be strange to use those units for containers meant for sugar and flour. I’m having trouble picturing how much any of these containers hold, since I tend to use the more relatable unit of measurement known as the football field.
@blaineg@Kyeh@xobzoo this product misses the whole point of the banana for scale. The banana is the unit of measurement. Putting markings for other units on the side is redundant and insulting. You already have a banana, why do you need inches? Ridiculous!
@blaineg@warpedrotors@xobzoo
I guess I have to admit it’s not that different from “a foot,” based on an arbitrary long-ago measurement of some king’s actual stompers.
@blaineg@Kyeh@xobzoo a king you say? Is that why a footlong measuring stick is called a ruler? I heard they almost used a baker’s foot, but then a foot would’ve been 13 inches.
@xobzoo Maybe it’s volume of the containers, not the volume they contain.
As in they are made from 5 cups of plastic, they displace 5 cups, or you could crush or melt them and have 5 cups.
Speaking of lids for containers like these, I have a selection of glass pyrex containers and bowls with plastic lids. Recently, after years of damage-free use, all the lids decided to become very brittle and break into little pieces when trying to remove them from the bowl or container. These were previously very flexible and durable lids, that now could not be removed without shattering, and all around the same time. I suspect this is all somehow related to the dishwasher tablet thingies we use, since we just opened a full box that was stored for probably 2 years or more. I suspect some chemical in those tablets changed over time, and now reacts with the plastic lids to make them brittle. There may be one left unaffected, so I could possibly test my theory. Are you still reading this? I tossed the cracked lids and got an assortment of silicone lids that magically suction themselves onto the bowls, so it really doesn’t matter, except for science!
@warpedrotors
Don’t think it’s from your tablets either.
I’ve also noticed this on almost all pyrex lids. It just happens by default over time. They get brittle & just start to crumble after a few years.
@warpedrotors I always hand wash my plastic lids, that must be why I wasn’t understanding why your lids were getting brittle. Many of my lids are over 10yo and going strong. This is good info to know
@RogerWilco good to know. I’ll cancel my experiment. It was just weird how they all chose the same time to break. I figured there was some outside influence.
If my math is correct, which it probably isn’t, the actual total volume is 44.6 cups. That can be rounded up to 45 cups, if you’re into rounding up the size of storage containers for some reason. So maybe they were going for 45 cups and missed the 4. Maybe they were referring to larger “cups” that aren’t the 8oz cups we’re thinking of, like those Stanley cups everyone is obsessed with. If 44.6 cups is 5 “cups,” then each “cup” is 8.92 cups. If you round that to 9 cups, you get 72oz, which is the size of a Tang container. Therefore, I believe the “cups” they’re referring to are repurposed Tang containers.
Currently $67 on A-zon, not $49.95 (above.) Makes me wonder why these are so much cheaper? Just overstocked, or some defect that’s not apparent?!
Oh, it says $67 on the “front page.”
I didn’t want to incite a stampede to buy by commenting before buying, but I thought this was a great deal.
My experience is that the medium-ish ones can be found for barely under $15 each, so $30 for 8 containers is a score. I just bought 4 sets and my spouse is anticipatorily happy about them, including being able use the really small ones (which I thought might be close to useless) to give a better home to various spices.
It’s your/our lucky day, meh, because I just moved and the whole pantry/kitchen storage situation needs to be reorganized.
/showme formidable-gratifying-class
I’m actually way too happy to have discovered this site for a normal person. Thank you Wirecutter. Thank you Meh. But, yes, I am slightly concerned about my mental health.
@user02675076 Ahem. You do not have to be crazy to shop or participate in the forums here, but certain levels of non-neurotypicality can make it more fun.
Specs
Product: Rubbermaid Brilliance 8-Piece Food Storage Set
Model: 2108387
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$66.99 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Dec 19 - Monday, Dec 22
Rubbermaid always sounds like some weird fetish service to me.
@yakkoTDI You thinking “inflatables”?
@phendrick @yakkoTDI I think he is thinking of a French Maid costume made out of black latex.
or maybe it was just me thinking that.
@ekw @phendrick
That would be @PooltoyWolf
@ekw @phendrick @yakkoTDI Lmao! We inflatables are usually made of PVC vinyl
Impressed that the set of 8 is actually 8 containers (plus their lids which go with them). So sick of seeing sets using a piece-count including the lids, so basically half of what it sounds like you will get.
Both writeups miss the point on lunch. A sandwich in a bag can get mashed, but a sandwich in a rigid container won’t.
Rubbermaid is the good stuff; at least that’s what my grandma tells me. Then again, she called a porcelain ramekin bowl a Pyrex dish.
@AaronLeeJohnson Pyrex did make ramekins so she might be right. If it was Corning or Corelle that would be close enough since they were all the same company at one point.
I use to own a set of these and they are great!!!
@tinamarie1974 Used to? Lose them in the divorce?
@soxnabox lol
Re-organized my kitchen and they took up too much valuable space. They were donated to a charity locally.
Switched to Joseph Joseph storage containers. They (and the lids) neatly stack inside each other and take up very little space!
Baffled-clumsy-vessel
Yes… yes you are, @Realdinoelesha.
We have had two sets of these and they are very good. They will eventually fail if you use them in the microwave; fine cracks generate and eventually leak or reach an edge. But we had a set for several years before that happened and we used them all the time.
@duodec brilliance is very nice but I believe they have warnings about microwave temps which are very hard to gauge. That will cause it.
Regardless of what I’m heating in I tend to go 400-500 watts for longer just to let the heat spread. But I also have an inverter microwave so it’s not just pulsing on an off.
@duodec @unksol I just don’t microwave anything in plastic containers.
@duodec @Kyeh that is an option. I don’t worry about it really. Most of what I microwave in plastic is a piece of a leftover thing. Potato. Meat. so all the energy goes into the water in that thing. And thick plastic containers not light duty gladwell.
I don’t usually have soup/pasta etc in plastic where the whole mess would heat the whole container. And obviously the type of plastic matters there.
But yes it you overheat this in the microwave just hitting high constantly it will start to crack.
As far as safety of plastics… We are mostly already loaded with micro plastics. They find them in people’s blood. So far not much is known about the impact. But less is good.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/
I will readily agree it’s probably not good but most of what is in the environment is all the shit we throw away not the things we keep. Keeping is good.
@unksol Our microwave is also a Panasonic inverter and we almost always warm up food at 50% power or less. The containers looked brand new for several years but when they started to craze a little they failed pretty quickly.
We have glass and Corning containers and use those much more often for heating. But I’ll look at not using the plastics in the microwave any more
@duodec well I’ve not tried them, I just heard if you over heated them it was an issue. But even at 50% power if you slap them in for 10 minutes. You could be going over. Really hard to estimate the temp of something you’re microwaveing based on contents and that’s not how people use microwaves anyway.
IDK. I think they are nicer but I have previous stuff still in boxes from sales when I bought the house 11 years ago so. I need to avoid the urge anyway.
Side note those Panasonic inverter microwaves are nice. I think I got one off Slickdeals in… 2015-2016. I went a few years without one at least. I mean I don’t use the cool defrosting or cooking but. It’s held up well. Just had to replace the incandescent bulb with led when it burned. Has to be pushing 10 years. Not that there is much to break.
@duodec @unksol Well, I stopped before the alarms were sounded about plastic being dangerous - I just found that some Tupperware would get melty at certain points if I heated leftovers in it. Then they started to say that chemicals leach out into your food, and then they started talking about micro plastics. Of course, some say microwaves themselves are hazardous.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@duodec @Kyeh I think your plastic melting into your food would be an absolutely good place to stop.
My mom used to do Tupperware parties and I don’t recall that. With them. But I don’t think we were allowed to microwave our own leftovers in the 90s so… Eh?
The supper thin gladware stuff even if it claims it is. Nah.
This is very hard/solid/clear plastic that doesn’t leach to anyone’s knowledge. but if you already have glass. Use that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritan_copolyester
@unksol you bought it off of schemes in that time period and you didn’t even care that it didn’t have HDMI? A true renegade. Also who is microwaving this stuff? It’s for storage man. these look nice but not as nice as oxo, which are more expensive. The locking mechanism here is a weak point. Think Costco and sams sell store brand versions of these for about this price.
@qazxto @unksol Yes agree I use these for storage. They are excellent for sealing grains, rice, even things like snack foods and chocolate. Why? Because they are also mouse-proof. I had a mouse invasion a few years ago since I had some food items they could get to while I was away for a Winter. Also my cat died so even when I was there, I’d lost my chief (and only) mouser. Note that the food the mice found included some PastaDrop items. I’m still finding pieces of Penne Pasta in strange places. Anyway after making sure to seal up anything they might want to eat, the mice seemed to retreat.
@duodec @unksol Lets hear it for inverters. I can pull a stick of butter from the fridge and soften it in 60 seconds (at 10% power) with zero interior melting. Cue the awesome.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
@duodec @rpstrong for some reason it has never occured to me to do that. It’s probably even in the manual. I know it has a lot of cool stuff it can do but I don’t bother.
@qazxto the larger ones obviously, the smaller ones if you are putting leftovers in. Also the brilliance line includes containers specifically for that.
Are these the ones with the libs that tend to spring off?
@hchavers
Thanks, Obama
@hchavers They’re always springing off.
/showme popular grave pickle
@mediocrebot Wow - that’s an ancient and old pickle. 342 - 223 would make it 119 when it died in the days of the Roman Republic. Must have been a very postmortem grave stone.
/giphy rambunctious-sneaky-part
We could have used these during pasta drop!
Maths
Complete Set: (2) 0.5-cup, (2) 1.3-cup, (1) 3.2-cup, (1) 9.6-cup food storage containers, (1) 12-cup sugar container, (1) 16-cup flour container with lids
Volume: 5 Cups
@unksol
Maths is hard?
Maths are hard.
@unksol Yeah, that was a bad spec
In addition to the “Volume: 5 Cups” entry seeming
a bitentirely inaccurate (it’s closer to 3 gallons), I find it odd that the largest one is advertised as “16 cups” when “1 gallon” would’ve been simpler. (I could go either way on the 12 cups, though I’d probably say “3 quarts”.)Do most people feel like “16 cups” sounds bigger than 1 gallon? Personally, once it’s gotten into the double digits, I just figure “kinda big (but less than a gallon)” and move on.
I know I’m weird. Maybe 16 cups is subconsciously bigger than a gallon for most people?
Or were they trying to help people by sticking with the same units throughout?
@xobzoo
A gallon sounds bigger to me.
But for stuff like flour I would be thinking of dry cups.
What I really hate though is those large storage boxes (Rubbermaid, Sterlite) that they sell for clothes and closet stuff that all have their sizes listed in quarts and gallons!
I don’t need to know that, I want the dimensions in inches! W x H x L! Grrr!
@xobzoo My guess is that they were trying to keep the units of measurement consistent. As for the larger containers, quarts and gallons are used almost exclusively for measuring liquids, so it would be strange to use those units for containers meant for sugar and flour. I’m having trouble picturing how much any of these containers hold, since I tend to use the more relatable unit of measurement known as the football field.
@Kyeh @xobzoo sweaters are easier to store if you melt them.
@warpedrotors @xobzoo Someone’s gonna want a banana for scale.
@xobzoo I mean they are for dry goods. We do those in cups. But a
whole disconnect from a 16 cup container to volume of 5 cups.
I mean it’s fine we know what they are selling. I think. A legit brand. That probably didn’t fall off a truck. So just a copy paste error
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Kyeh @warpedrotors @xobzoo yes. I do love some powderef carbon…
@Kyeh @warpedrotors @xobzoo We need to just standardize all of this on a specific banana size for measurements
@Kyeh @warpedrotors @werehatrack @xobzoo
/image sometimes a banana is just a banana meme
@Kyeh @warpedrotors @xobzoo
At your service.
https://www.fingertechrobotics.com/proddetail.php?prod=ft-banana-for-scale
@blaineg @Kyeh @xobzoo this product misses the whole point of the banana for scale. The banana is the unit of measurement. Putting markings for other units on the side is redundant and insulting. You already have a banana, why do you need inches? Ridiculous!
@blaineg @warpedrotors @xobzoo
I guess I have to admit it’s not that different from “a foot,” based on an arbitrary long-ago measurement of some king’s actual stompers.
@blaineg @Kyeh @xobzoo a king you say? Is that why a footlong measuring stick is called a ruler? I heard they almost used a baker’s foot, but then a foot would’ve been 13 inches.
@xobzoo Maybe it’s volume of the containers, not the volume they contain.
As in they are made from 5 cups of plastic, they displace 5 cups, or you could crush or melt them and have 5 cups.
Speaking of lids for containers like these, I have a selection of glass pyrex containers and bowls with plastic lids. Recently, after years of damage-free use, all the lids decided to become very brittle and break into little pieces when trying to remove them from the bowl or container. These were previously very flexible and durable lids, that now could not be removed without shattering, and all around the same time. I suspect this is all somehow related to the dishwasher tablet thingies we use, since we just opened a full box that was stored for probably 2 years or more. I suspect some chemical in those tablets changed over time, and now reacts with the plastic lids to make them brittle. There may be one left unaffected, so I could possibly test my theory. Are you still reading this? I tossed the cracked lids and got an assortment of silicone lids that magically suction themselves onto the bowls, so it really doesn’t matter, except for science!
@warpedrotors silicon lids? Where?
@warpedrotors Those amazing synchonized self-destruct lids may have been polyurethane. That crap is infamous for sudden decomposition.
@warpedrotors
Don’t think it’s from your tablets either.
I’ve also noticed this on almost all pyrex lids. It just happens by default over time. They get brittle & just start to crumble after a few years.
@warpedrotors I always hand wash my plastic lids, that must be why I wasn’t understanding why your lids were getting brittle. Many of my lids are over 10yo and going strong. This is good info to know
@qazxto I bought these ones: https://a.co/d/dDC4Nxt
@RogerWilco good to know. I’ll cancel my experiment. It was just weird how they all chose the same time to break. I figured there was some outside influence.
If my math is correct, which it probably isn’t, the actual total volume is 44.6 cups. That can be rounded up to 45 cups, if you’re into rounding up the size of storage containers for some reason. So maybe they were going for 45 cups and missed the 4. Maybe they were referring to larger “cups” that aren’t the 8oz cups we’re thinking of, like those Stanley cups everyone is obsessed with. If 44.6 cups is 5 “cups,” then each “cup” is 8.92 cups. If you round that to 9 cups, you get 72oz, which is the size of a Tang container. Therefore, I believe the “cups” they’re referring to are repurposed Tang containers.
Nice timing, meh. We’ve got one of these that we use for sugar, and I was just at Wally World a few days ago looking for another one.
“Features airtight, leak-proof lids with secure latches”
“The built-in vents under the latches allow for splatter-resistant microwaving without removing the lid”
One of these might be true, but not both…
@cole103 Think pressure relief vents which will open to release steam but will otherwise seal shut.
In for 2 sets. I almost pulled the trigger recently on these at full price because we love the ones we have so much.
In for 2.
/buy
@Vee19 It worked! Your order number is: flustered-thematic-quarter
/showme flustered thematic quarter
@mediocrebot in the year 12018, T and E will have merged into some strange hybrid letter that scares the shit out of George Washington.
Currently $67 on A-zon, not $49.95 (above.) Makes me wonder why these are so much cheaper? Just overstocked, or some defect that’s not apparent?!
Oh, it says $67 on the “front page.”
Well, decided to go for it - @llangley will like my order number.
/showme elegant-blonde-bourbon
@Kyeh nice…indeed I do!!
@llangley I just saw that today (6/14) is National Bourbon Day! Cheers!
I didn’t want to incite a stampede to buy by commenting before buying, but I thought this was a great deal.
My experience is that the medium-ish ones can be found for barely under $15 each, so $30 for 8 containers is a score. I just bought 4 sets and my spouse is anticipatorily happy about them, including being able use the really small ones (which I thought might be close to useless) to give a better home to various spices.
Thanks, Meh!
/giphy generic-bronze-peacock
@TK4TWO1 That dude looks angry.
@TK4TWO1 @yakkoTDI It’s doing one of the things peacocks do best; being deafeningly loud.
@TK4TWO1 @werehatrack
FTFY.
It’s your/our lucky day, meh, because I just moved and the whole pantry/kitchen storage situation needs to be reorganized.
/showme formidable-gratifying-class
is that the cast of Free To Be You And Me?
Love these! I have a set but not with these sizes. Also much cheaper than I paid previously.
The write up reminds me of my box of paperclips at the office. Big slogan on the side I always like to read as an affirmation.
KEEP IT TOGETHER! CLIP IT!
@pakopako CLIP IT GOOD!
I’m actually way too happy to have discovered this site for a normal person. Thank you Wirecutter. Thank you Meh. But, yes, I am slightly concerned about my mental health.
@user02675076 Ahem. You do not have to be crazy to shop or participate in the forums here, but certain levels of non-neurotypicality can make it more fun.
Is this legit?
@user01000250 yes
These keep my lunch fresh all week in the fridge at work when I get busy to eat.