What Size Storage Container Do I Need ...

[Shel_B]

... to store 5-lb bags of flour, in the bag?

 

I am looking at some Cambro containers, but I'm open to other suggestions.  Thanks!

[Smithy]

Rubbermaid makes containers designed for those bag sizes. I like them because they're rectangular and store well in cabinets, and are easier to find in stores than Cambro.  One disadvantage to the long and narrow footprint is that scooping out of it without making a mess takes practice. 

 

I think the 16-cup Modular Storage Container is the size you need. The store label says, but this image doesn't.   

 

Edit: Sorry, I just reread your question. I transfer the contents from the bag into the container.  I don't think these are bag-shaped enough.  My bad.

Edited August 12, 2016 by Smithy (log)

[FauxPas]

Measure the bag and find a container that size or larger. Or, for a standard-size bag of flour, King Arthur has done the work for you. 

 

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/lock-top-container-flour

[blue_dolphin]

18 minutes ago, FauxPas said:

Measure the bag and find a container that size or larger. Or, for a standard-size bag of flour, King Arthur has done the work for you. 

 

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/lock-top-container-flour

 

Also available from Amazon:link

[pastrygirl]

• In the bag, I'd say a 6 quart with the red lid.  I don't recall whether my flour is in a 6 or 8 quart square, whichever it is holds about 10# of flour out of the bag.   The 8 qt holds 12-1/2 pound of sugar (I get 25# bags and divide it into two cambros).

[thock]

Don't know if this will help, or not, as I usually dump from bag to container, too, but a gallon pickle jar holds 5 pounds of flour. (Source: my mother did this, so I do, too.)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I use Cambro purchased from KAF.  I have six in the bedroom for different types of flour.  (Actually, in truth, one is currently repurposed for trehalose.)  The smallest size KAF offers would easily hold 5 pounds of flour in the bag, though I dump my bags out into the container.  Why make extra work?

 

Yes I know Cambro might be less expensive from other suppliers but Cambro makes so many products that I am afraid of ordering the wrong thing.  The KAF Cambro flour buckets have lasted me twenty years, give or take, and they are still going strong.  And they've never suffered an infestation.

 

 

Edit:  from memory I think they are sized for 5, 10, or twenty pounds.  Or something like that.

 

Edited August 13, 2016 by JoNorvelleWalker (log)