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when we were doing the cure i went on a hunt for good canisters. our apartment building has moths, so they had to be airtight. i fell in love with nigella's canisters, but they also were expensive. i was going to get one of two of them to display and then hide some cheap ones in cabinets. well, i ended up getting the standard old school canisters, you know that clamp closed like a grolsch bottle? i got them at ikea. they were inexpensive. i dressed them up by putting cute labels on them so i could distinguish the self rising flour from the all purpose flour. they look so good that none of them are hiding in a cabinet. i like how they look and how organized i now feel.

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Those are beautiful, but you are right, a bit impractical for cupboard/pantry storage. I could see a row of them on a shelf somewhere, with pretty pasta shapes in them or something.

I use regular mason jars for the cupboard stuff, with a few of the flip-top rubber ring larger jars for long pasta, and a few square-ish, large, glass canisters with metal lids for flour and sugar--those sit on my counter for easy access.

Those are gorgeous but I wonder about the narrow neck -- big enough to get a measuring cup into? I gave up and went for the standard acrylic-and-stainless-steel canisters, which are functional but not so imaginative.

Lovely, but I prefer my Bodum glass canisters. Wide mouth so that I can scoop a dry goods measuring cup into it, snug lids that I can open with one hand (assuming there's enough stuff in the jar to weigh it down), and dishwasher safe. You can see an example at:

http://www.amazon.com/Bodum-Glass-Canister-Stainless-Steel/dp/B000FPJ3SU

but I bought mine for cheap years ago at some discount store. There are a bunch of different styles for the lid (e.g. stainless, black plastic, cork), so you can pick a style to match your kitchen.