Best Kitchen Canisters

Food Dispensers Enhance Kitchen Life

Not only do canisters provide air-tight storage, keeping dry foods fresh, but they can be handily placed at your fingertips for ease of adding ingredients to dishes you’re preparing. How much simpler to handily measure out a cup of flour than to retrieve the original package, often cumbersome or bulky, just to get that 

single cup you need. With often-used ingredients nearby, in your work area, you’ll save time, whether cooking, baking, or serving. 

Not only are they functional, but canisters exist in numerous sizes and designs. Made of various materials, including ceramic or glass, at one end of the design spectrum, to rubber or acrylic at the other, there’s a product for every taste. Furthermore, the canister’s material will impact its style, another key component in selecting a kitchen canister that serves a purpose and simultaneously adds some flair. 

For modern styling, there are clear food dispensers, where the contents contribute to the design. Undoubtedly, a clear acrylic kitchen canister, filled with Spiral Rotini Pasta, will send a different vibe than one with dried beans or flour. Also, arranging three or four canisters, of graduated sizes, together lends eye appeal to an otherwise ordinary space.

Plastic kitchen canisters with dry foods

For those preferring a boost of contrasting color or wanting to accent hues used in table linens or curtains, dispensers provide not only color, but theme. A set of Southwestern styled canisters, for instance, might be adorned with cactus and mountain scenery while another, entirely different, comes in various fruit or vegetable shapes. 

With convenient Internet shopping, there’s no shortage of styles for food dispensers. Kitchen canisters provide a practical storage solution for often used dry foods, help the cook, and “ramp up” kitchen style. They also make a great engagement, bridal, or housewarming gift, sure to enhance any “well dressed” kitchen!

Artsy Kitchen Canister Project #3: Ocean Scene

Finding creative ways to use those empty kitchen canisters and containers just got a little easier. We have been discussing creative projects that can turn those ugly empty bottles in to pieces of artwork. In this last article we will cover the most elaborate project yet; creating an ocean scene from one of your old containers.

This one was actually an inspiration from a lotion dispenser I saw at Wal-mart. The idea is to have an ocean scene in a container with little turtles or frogs in it. Since this one has figures in it you want to use a clear container that has a medium opening so you can easily put them in.

Parents, since this is the hardest project you will need to help the kids with this one.

What you will need:

1: Clear container with a secure lid
2: Blue food coloring
3: Small plastic turtles or frogs, you can find these items at a hobby stores
4: Cooking oil
5: Assorted tempera paints and paintbrushes, these can also be found at some hobby stores

Here is the Inspiration

How to Create Your Scene

Fill the container about 1/4 with cooking oil and then put in a few drops of the blue food coloring until the water turns blue. Then place the small plastic turtles or frogs in the container on top of the oil and fill the rest of the container about 3/4 with water. Secure the lid and like the above project you can glue the lid shut if you want.

The final piece is to take the tempera paint and create a seascape on the lower 1/4 of the container so that it looks like the painting is in the ocean. You can use greens, whites, reds, pinks, oranges, blues or purples to create a seascape. Some things that can be found in the ocean are seaweed, starfish, corals, clams or anything else your imagination can come up with. Remember to let the paint dry before you handle the container. Once dry, you can gently rock the container to see the turtles or frogs ride the waves

How nice is it to have something you can show-off and say “I made that.” Art and decorating is all about expressing your unique vision and hopefully these projects stretched that creative muscle just a bit. Feel free to take these suggestions and make them your own and modify them or even combine them. Remember to have fun with it and just go nuts.