Rubbermaid Brilliance 14-Piece Food Storage Container Set with Scoops Airtight BPA-Free for Kitchen and Pantry Organization

Why it's worth it

Rubbermaid's Brilliance set uses crystal-clear Tritan plastic with latched, airtight lids, and both the bases and the lids go in the dishwasher. It's the sturdier, stain-resistant choice if your containers get handled hard, refilled often, and washed constantly.

Rubbermaid builds these from the same crystal-clear Tritan plastic used across the Brilliance line, and it shows in how the set holds up. The plastic is shatter-resistant, and Rubbermaid says it resists odors and stains, so last month's chili powder doesn't haunt this month's oats. The latched lids seal airtight, and the containers stack, so a shelf of them stays square instead of drifting into a leaning pile.

If you hate hand-washing, buy this set instead. Base and lid both go in the dishwasher, which is the single biggest day-to-day difference between these and most of the cheaper canister sets. Wirecutter's food storage methodology puts containers through freezer-to-microwave cycling and counter-height drop tests, and Tritan-style plastics are the ones that tend to survive that kind of abuse. Kids' snack duty, in other words.

From our review of 7 pantry organization bin sets

What we like

• +Rubbermaid builds these from the same crystal-clear Tritan plastic used across the Brilliance line, and it shows in how the set…
• +If you hate hand-washing, buy this set instead
• +The set ships with scoops, which sounds like a throwaway detail until you're elbow-deep in a bin of flour hunting for a…
• +Compared with the OXO set, the trade-off is the lid

What to know

• –Latches are fiddly with wet or full hands, and they're the part that can crack after enough cycles
• –Piece counts in this category include lids and bases separately, so a 14-piece set isn't 14 containers