For six years I worked in retail management and when it came to the holidays, I was rarely around at the same time my family gathered to have dinner. They would try to save me a plate, but it by the time I got to it, the plastic wrap-smushed food had lost a lot of its original appeal. This new Kickstarter project (which goes into production in just a few hours!) would have been a help. Want to see how this new lid and plastic wrap alternative works? Check out the video right this way:
The idea is simple. Plastic wrap and foil are kind of sucky. Likewise, reusable containers don't always hold an entire meal and they involve the transferring of product from a plate to the container itself. This new creation is a BPA-free lid that suctions to your original dinner plate.
You can check out the video above to see it in action. You literally press and it's sealed up. We're thinking it would be extra awesome on items that are sensitive to taking on other smells in your refrigerator or giving off said smells. It would also be great for snacks left out on the counter (because if you're like me you've been baking cookies for the last two weeks and a batch never lasts for more than a day).
• Get one: A donation of $20 will get you one in your color choice shipped free (with a few exclusions) and we're sure they'll be hitting stores near you in the next year.
We love products where there truly is a demand, but I'm curious, would it work as well in your kitchen? Would you have need to send a plate of food home with a friend? Save a plate for later? Let us know below!
• Read More: Plate Topper Universal Suction Lid Kickstarter
Related: Good Product: Glass Refrigerator Containers
(Images: PlateTopper via Kickstarter)
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looks quite clever. I hate saran wrap more and more all the time, and an alternative like this is pretty appealing.
I often use an upside down bowl to cover my leftovers on the plate I just used rather than putting them in a separate tupperware and dirtying another dish. This seems like it would be less likely to slide around and would be a bit more air tight (though I've never had a particular problem with just using bowls).
Awesome! Just pledged. I would use this quite a bit. Maybe not to send neighbors home with leftovers, but certainly for baked goods - those last few biscuits or cookies.
Clever but I don't know that I'd ever buy something like that.
There are so many other options that work just fine without buying another item, a bowl like foodefafa says or a domed lid from a pan or if you already own one of those microwave plate covers or any dish that already has a cover (glass-lock, pyrex, etc.) or a cloche (I snap up cheese board cloches at the thrift store and use them for covering baked goods).
I like the idea, but like Slow Lorus I'm pretty sure I wouldn't use it. You don't have to move a meal off of a plate if you never moved it onto the plate in the first place (which seems like what should happen if you know someone will be late).
I could see myself using it for cookies, quick breads, and other things that sit out on the counter, but I don't want to have to keep it around the kitchen just for that.
That is a nifty idea, but I wonder how well the seal works when the edge of the plate is messy.
Would not work for me - there are other bisphenols and endocrine-disruptors in plastics, and some of them are worse than BPA! For example Environmental Health Perspectives Journal tested 450 plastic bottles bought from retailers and 95% of of them leached BPA-like substances. I bring my Tiffins and Pyrex with me, they are easy to wash and they last a long time!
I work very close to home, and I like to actually fix a plate after dinner to take with me the next day. This would be so much nicer, for storage and travel, than the press-and-seal I'm using now. Pledging!