On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:20:33 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>On 3/14/2021 12:07 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:08:54 -0400, songbird >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Trew wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> I can't seem to cook soup small to save my soul. Grandma taught me to
>>>> make vegetable soup in a 16 qt stockpot, starting with a couple of beef
>>>> soup bones. I could sum up my cooking style as "feeding a great
>>>> depression era family of 8"... lol. Hey, the soup lasts me a week and a
>>>> half, even when I give some away.
>>>
>>> we freeze it in portions so we can have it later when
>>> we want. since i hate plastic we use quart canning jars.
>>>
>>> don't fill quart jars over 3/4 full as water expands
>>> when freezing and then you can break the jars.
>>> songbird
>>
>> Very risky freezing anything in glass.
>> Quality plastic containers are very safe and are reusable many
>> times... I use square and rectangular containers, stacked like bricks
>> wastes little freezer space.
>>
>I agree but keep in mind, Songbird can taste plastic for some reason.
>Many of my frozen foods are saved in plastic containers with lids. They
>last and last.

I buy food storage containers from Amazon, usually 4-6 in a pack. I
buy an extra pack because invaribly some will eventually crack. I've
never tasted the plastic... billions of soft drink bottles are plastic
and they impart no taste... even metal cans are lined with plastic and
I've never detected any plastic taste. There are all sorts of foods
that are sold in plastic containers that I wash, reuse, never noticed
a plastic taste. Most every fast food joint sells their mystery crap
in plastic containers... styrofoam is plastic.
As an aside I can remember when there were no plastic containers,
people brought their own glass jars to shop. Today most foods that
were once sold in glass are now sold in plastic. I notice no plastic
taste but I don't like the shapes they choose, designed with a very
narrow neck so it's not possible to get the last dregs... I slice
those in half with a sharp paring knife.
The one that irks me the most is the Guldens mustard container, used
to be an iconic shaped wide mouthed glass jar that was recogized
worldwide... now it's in a very narrow necked plastic squeeeze bottle
that could contain any shampoo... and obviously to use that as a
squeeze bottle the mustard needed to be watered down... the product is
no longer the same, slides right off a hotdog. The Gulden's imbeciles
responsible for approving that pinhead design need to be fired
immediately.