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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I think there's actual logic here. If you're storing a liquid, you're probably going to be getting it out with a big spoon, so the round sides make that easier than flat sides and corners. If you're storing something like lasagna, you're probably cutting servings into squares/rectangles, so the flat sides make more sense.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 months ago (3 children)

As someone who cooks large batches of food to freeze, the problem with round is that it wastes tons of space in the freezer. I just use scores of rectangular cubes and my freezer is completely full.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why not just fix it with a round freezer

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But now my round freezer is wasting space in my square room...

Welp, time for a new house I guess.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

She's a circle girl living in a square world 😞

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh no there's still tons of wasted space on my circular house filled with circle freezers!

What if we made hexagon house and freezers!?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Hexagons are the bestagons!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you're storing a lot of liquid you'll probably want to pour it out later. In that case square is better as the corners will provide a bit of spout action.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm neither pro or against boscis

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I suppose it depends on how liquid your soup is. Mine usually has enough matter in it to make pouring difficult.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Use square spoons smh my head

[–] brbposting 15 points 5 months ago

(Spoonposting & I’m on a roll)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This ladle is reinforced silicone in the back half of the scoop, and soft, flexible silicone on the front half, so you can scoop into corners easily. It's very nice, even for cylindrical containers because there is still a corner where the wall meets the bottom.

https://gir.co/products/ladle

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[–] brbposting 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yay! Hooray!

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't soup just leak all over the place if you put it on a square? A cube would be better.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (5 children)

As a liquid, soup conforms to any dimensional space it's put in.

(Suck on this knowledge, Google AI)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Wow, that is a very correct and helpful answer!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have thus unlocked infinite soup storage by simply storing it in a one-dimensional point. Campbell's will pay me millions, assuming that we can figure out how to store a point with infinite mass.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about the black hole you just created out of infinitely dense soup?

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[–] Jax 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, which is why they used the word in.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Square bowl makes it easier to drink straight from the bowl without spilling.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

*efficient heathen

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Correct. Soup has a shape. It can't just morph into the shape whatever container it finds itself in. It's not a cat.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why is there not more triangular tupperware?

You get the ultimate free spout unlike the abject compromise that is the corner of square tupperware and you get far more options for tessellation when storing items in the fridge or freezer.

[–] brbposting 14 points 5 months ago

Big Container only wants you to buy it triangular for pie

Essentially no glass options

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Considering freezer storage tessellation as a deciding factor in your storage container shapes feels like putting theory way ahead of practice. But I still want them.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm in love with the shape of soup

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Directed by Guillermo del Toro?

[–] zalgotext 5 points 5 months ago

Performed by Ed Sheeran

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

But my Buldak ramen brick fits perfectly into my square glass Tupperware.

Explain that, science.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I freeze my soup in ice cube trays then pop em out and wrap in Saran wrap

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Oh shit, what was casting like for Silence of the Lambs??

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck the shapes system! Use zip-locs.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Food grade forever chemicals! 😂

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Stasher silicone storage bags (which these appear to be, or at least their non-NA counterpart brand) are PFAS and PFC free.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. Square container is better because the edges of the container perfectly fit as a lid, letting me easily drop a frozen serving of soup in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have read this over and over again and I cannot figure out what it means but I really want to know now

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And if you put it in a thermos?

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