I have Portmeirion canisters.
You are all wrong! The best material is stainless steel!
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So do we, but wouldnât use they for bug prone products. Not exactly air tight.
Re-used large instant coffee jars make for cheap containers.
Ahh, today I learned about them. thanks 
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But what do you do with the instant coffee? Surely you donât drink it!
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Yup. Proud Nescafe drinker. I switched from moka pots after arrival of kids when coffee consumption increased and time to make coffee decreased.
Wouldnât that necessitate buying instant coffee in the first place?
They become a quite expensive option if one doesnât actually use the stuff.
Iâm going to politely point out that you probably meant glazed earthenware and not porcelain.
You can buy with a plastic lid insert which keeps the content relatively air-tight.
They are quite heavy though, and as you point out, have the same safety concerns as glass.
I suppose I should have used âceramicâ instead of porcelain.
Iâve got a complete porcelain set of plates, soup tureen, coffee cups, all that fancy stuff that we would have never bought for ourselves but it was a wedding presentâŚI think I have used them only a few times, and in one of these rare occasions someone broke a plate⌠
Itâs not recommended to put in the dishwasher so for me it is a deal breaker. Theyâre resting in a box.
Anyway, back to ceramic canisters, I have seen stuff of different prices/quality. It wouldnât work in our kitchen but it doesnât mean I canât like the idea. (theyâre not airtight though)
Edit: sorry, didnât see your post; yes.
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No-one else uses duralex?
Best of both worlds - itâs glass, and if you drop it, it doesnât shatterâŚ
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Better get it quick - Duralex went into receivership recently.
I remember the drinking glasses from school.
The old ones, apparently the new ones aren´t that solid anymore.
WTH?
I had to look in the wiki for this haha
Porcelain is a type of ceramic. And there are porcelain dining sets which are not that delicate.(I donât mean decorations/craftsmanship)
Anyway, I donât intend to create another discussion here, my observation was that there are also ceramic containers for flour, rice, sugar and stuff which look very nice.
Itâs funny, I thought porcelain got its reputation (aside from aesthetics) for being more durable than other ceramics.
On the contrary, porcelain has a reputation of being very fragile and delicate, but I think thatâs not really the case. But of courseâŚif you drop itâŚit breaks.
Question:
You split this thread as you decided that discussing glass storage jars was off-topic but here you are discussing the merits of porcelain with no reference to pantry moths at all.
Why bother with the split at all or do you just split stuff you donât agree with?
Instead of assuming everybody is out to get you, maybe consider the rather simpler explanation of: I replied to the last post and didnât notice it was on the wrong thread as I thought everything had already been moved.
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