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Ask SuperForest: Christine’s Question!

jackson published on November 10, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Good Morning SuperForest!

We’ve just received a question from SuperForester Christine:

“Dear SuperForest,

Hello! How are you? I love your blog!

So, I’ve got a bit of a dilemma and hope you can help. I’m a busy working single mom who is in need of streamlining my dining. I’m a dutiful recycler and re-user, but am finding that I’d like to eliminate the need for that by simply using smarter products. So, I’m in search of something that can allow me to store food in batches that can be easily reheated. Here’s wherein my challenge lies because I’d like in this food container:

1) no plastic, I’m tired of so much of it around

2) lightweight, for on the go

3) varied sizes, for different yummy things

4) freezer-capable, to use later

5) oven-capable, I don’t own a microwave

I reuse my plastic take-out containers, but then have to scoop that food into oven-ready dishes, then serve onto our dish ware, and that’s just a lot of dishes and wasted energy! My poor hands! Anyway, my desire is to be able to cook and prepare nice healthy foods for myself and my daughter, which I can then store (be it a couple days or weeks), pop in the oven, serve or sometimes eat from, then wash and repeat!

Hope you can help!

Your biggest fan,

Christine Norrie
New York, New York

PS. Is it also too much to ask that it be designed nicely as well?”

Christine!

Thank you for your question. I’m sure that by now a lot of folks have heard about the potential for plastic packaging to introduce some interesting chemicals into ones body, and are wondering about the safety of their food storage containers.

We think we have an elegant, long lasting, and beautifully designed solution:



Sanctus Mundo is a Korean company that makes a wide variety of glass and stainless steel food containers. Yes, they are manufactured and shipped from Korea, but once here, they will last a long time and mitigate the use of many plastic containers.

Here’s the pdf of the entire line.

Sanctus Mundo’s products are imported by lifewithoutplastic.com and are available through their website.

U haz questionz? We haz anserz! Ask SuperForest

Cool Tools: Halligan Bar

jackson published on August 6, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Check out this little stainless steel beauty!

This here is the Halligan Bar. Good for prying, lifting, wedging, smashing, hooking, basically any verb ending in “ing.” Beautiful to gaze upon, and as useful as they come, a Halligan Bar is a true necessity for any empowered doer and maker. Hang one on your wall, impress your friends.

Here’s the def, from wikipedia:

“A Halligan bar (also called a Halligan tool) is a special tool commonly used in the fire and rescue service. It was designed by and named after Hugh Halligan, a First Deputy Fire Chief in the New York City Fire Department, in 1948, based upon the well known Kelly tool.[1] The Halligan is a multipurpose tool for prying, twisting, punching, or striking. It consists of a claw (or fork), a blade (wedge or adze), and a tapered pick, which is especially useful in quickly forcing open many types of locked doors. Either the adze end or fork end of the tool can be used to break through the latch of a swinging door by forcing the tool between the door and doorjamb and prying the two apart, striking it with another Halligan, a Denver tool or a flat-head axe. Using a K-tool and the adz end, a lock cylinder can easily be pulled. There are many other uses of the Halligan tool, including vehicle rescue and opening of walls.

A particularly useful variant of the Halligan has a heavy sliding collar on the shaft. Once the prying end of the tool is wedged into position, the sliding ‘hammer’ is used to force the wedge, allowing for proper seating, prior to prying. The adz end is also assisted by using the sliding hammer to generate forced traction on a hooked cylinder.”

The tools the good guys use!
Fun.