The Best Way to Get Stains Out of Plastic Containers — Storage Smarts

More and more, I try to bring my lunch to work. Not only is it economical, but it also cuts down on food waste — because, for some reason, my husband and kids are not super interested in eating the same thing for dinner five nights in a row.

I've also tried to convert to glass containers. And while I have a few, I find them to be fairly heavy, which matters when I've already got a shoulder bag crammed with other totally important stuff to carry. So I hold on to my old plastic ones and use them just fine. But, unlike glass, they can stain after a while with foods like tomato sauce or curry, and once they're discolored I get a little grossed out by them. The solution is not to throw them away (as I feel like doing), but to clean them.

So I set out to figure out the best way to get those pesky stains out of my tried-and-true plastic containers.

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