Zujirushi Lunch Box

My daughter, a student who agrees to have lunch with friends at school "suck" is sold in this regard. She wanted to lose a few pounds, which contributed to the work, despite the fact that there are now eating larger quantities of food during lunch.



How? She, like all his friends used skip lunch and leave school hungry, scarfing the first things you could get its hands - usually high in fat, junk food, high calorie. Lunch box has been eliminated after school munchies, keeping your appetite in check all day. For the first time, it can pack hot (or cold) nutritious lunches at 6:30 am, and they are still very hot cold ice (a) when the draw out his locker at 11:30. His friends, good humor mocked her space capsule "lunch at first, now crowd around her during lunch with his tongue hanging, online games for your scrapbook. One said:" The lunch box of the same size as my water bottle, but you have to, as , 4-gourmet meal in there. "

Lost 10 kilograms in 2 months since she began taking her to dinner in a jar Zojirushi has gained notoriety among their peers as the best dinner "never" have become more friendly and less tart (better nutrition) and dancing in a period of 4 waiting for the bell to signal a period of dinner, where they can spread their containers before they are jealous friends to admire and hold court over a surprise gourmet meal, trying to decide what to eat first. In his own admission, has more energy and better concentration in the classroom and during the study (his grades are up, by the way). He admits that the pain is to have one more to carry, in addition to your bag (no, that does not fit, but the bag is already packed tight with books), but swears that this award makes it worth less. As a parent, it pleases me to see myself described "lazy people on earth" hunkered over the sink at night, with love and careful cleaning of each container and the cover (no doubt thinking of the delicious and healthy treats that contain tomorrow).

Such a good buy, I bought a different model Zojirushi more suitable for my 11-year old daughter. My children say that they never come back for lunch in the cafeteria of the school, and become more aware of nutrition and involved in preparing a meal. While his friends spend half a lunch break opportunities in line for entries in bad taste and overprocessed loaded with salt, sugar and refined carbohydrates, my children for lunch in the vegetarian hot chili Cornbread / butter, a delicious main dish salad with homemade dressing and Pita hummus sandwiches and teriyaki stir fried vegetables, rice or whole grains. And this is only the bottom 2 boxes! Top 2 boxes are perfect for fruit, chips, nuts and / or healthy desserts, all items in the middle and high school love to eat. I am pleased with the product, which is solidly built and works just like advertisied, even better results if you have heat or pre-cooling tank for 5-10 minutes. We shall stick to a set of plastic cutlery that fits well in a vertical position to support the fabric, with lines extending to the middle.

NOTE: The other reviewer was a bit annoyed user documentation in Japanese only, but the name of the company at its headquarters in California (800-733-6270) and they promptly sent fax to English instruction. Do not let me in this way to save money by eliminating expensive meals and packaged food. Zł, perfect, who has already paid ten times.

Bento

Bento (弁当 or べんとう?)[1] is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables, usually in a box-shaped container. Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquerware. Although bento is readily available in many places throughout Japan, including convenience stores, bento shops (弁当屋, bentō-ya?), train stations, and department stores, it is still common for Japanese homemakers to spend time and energy for their spouse, child, or themselves producing a carefully prepared lunch box.

Bento can be very elaborately arranged in a style called kyaraben. Contests are often held where bento arrangers compete for the most aesthetically pleasing arrangements. Kyaraben is typically decorated to look like people, animals, or characters and items such as flowers and plants.

There are similar forms of boxed lunches in the Philippines (Baon), Korea (Dosirak), Taiwan (Biandang), and India (Tiffin).


HISTORY
The origin of bento can be traced back to the late Kamakura Period (1185 to 1333), when cooked and dried rice called hoshi-ii (糒 or 干し飯, literally "dried meal") was developed. Hoshi-ii can be eaten as is or boiled with water to make cooked rice, and is stored in a small bag. In the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568 to 1600), wooden lacquered boxes like today's were produced and bento would be eaten during a hanami or a tea party.

In the Edo Period (1603 to 1867), bento culture spread and became more refined. Travelers and sightseers would carry a simple koshibentō (腰弁当, "waist bento"), consisting of several onigiri wrapped with bamboo leaves or in a woven bamboo box. One of the most popular styles of bento, called makuno-uchi bentō ("between-act bento"), was first made during this period. People who came to see Noh and Kabuki ate specially prepared bento between maku (acts). Numerous cookbooks were published detailing how to cook, how to pack, and what to prepare for occasions like Hanami and Hinamatsuri.

In the Meiji Period (1868 to 1912), the first ekibentō or ekiben (駅弁当 or 駅弁, "train station bento") was sold. There are several records that claim where ekiben was first sold, but it is believed that it was sold on 16 July, 1885, at the Utsunomiya train station, and contained two onigiri and a serving of takuan wrapped in bamboo leaves. As early schools did not provide lunch, students and teachers carried bento, as did many employees. A "European" style bento with sandwiches also went on sale during this period.

In the Taishō period (1912 to 1926), the aluminum bento box became a luxury item because of its ease of cleaning and its silver-like appearance. Also, a move to abolish the practice of bento in school became a social issue. Disparities in wealth spread during this period, following an export boom during World War I and subsequent crop failures in the Tohoku region. A bento too often reflected a student's wealth, and many wondered if this had an unfavorable influence on children both physically, from lack of adequate diet, and psychologically, from a clumsily made bento or the richness of food. After World War II, the practice of bringing bento to school gradually declined and was replaced by uniform food provided for all students and teachers.

Bento regained its popularity in the 1980s, with the help of the microwave oven and the proliferation of convenience stores. In addition, the expensive wood and metal boxes have been replaced at most bento shops with inexpensive, disposable polystyrene boxes. However, even handmade bento have made a comeback, and they are once again a common, although not universal, sight at Japanese schools. Bento are still used by workers as a packed lunch, by families on day trips, for school picnics and sports days etc. The bento, made at home, is wrapped in a furoshiki cloth, which acts as both bag and table mat.

Bento is also popular in Taiwan. Bendong (Taiwanese: piān-tong) or Biendang (便當, "convenience pack") made its way to Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century from Japan, where it remains very popular to the present day. The term is a loan word from the Japanese word in Taiwanese Hokkien and Taiwanese Mandarin.

Airports also offer an analogous version of the ekiben: bento filled with local cuisine, to be eaten while waiting for an airplane or during the flight.

TYPE OF BENTO
Shōkadō bentō (松花堂弁当) is a traditional black-lacquered Japanese bento box. It inspired IBM's (later sold to Lenovo) ThinkPad design.[2]
Chūka bentō (中華弁当) are filled with Chinese food. While Chinese do have cold plates, it is more for appetizers or midnight "snack". The food that is associated with chuka bento was invented in Japan.
Kamameshi bentō (釜飯弁当) are sold at train stations in the Nagano prefecture. It is cooked and served in a clay pot. The pot is a souvenir item.
Makunouchi bentō (幕の内弁当) is a classic style of bento with rice, a pickled ume fruit (umeboshi), a slice of broiled salmon, a rolled egg, etc.
Noriben (海苔弁) is the simplest bento, with nori dipped in soy sauce covering cooked rice.
Sake bentō (鮭弁当) is a simple bento with a slice of broiled salmon (鮭, sake) as the main dish.
Shidashi bentō (仕出し弁当) is made in a restaurant and delivered during lunch. This bento is often eaten at a gathering like a funeral or a party. It is usually packed with traditional Japanese foods like tempura, rice and pickled vegetables. A shidashi bento packed with European-style food is also available.
Sushizume (鮨詰め) literally means "packed sushi", and is a bento filled with sushi.
Tori bento (鳥弁当) consists of pieces of chicken cooked in sauce served over rice. It is a popular bento in Gunma prefecture.
Hinomaru bento (日の丸弁当) is the name for a bento consisting of plain white rice with an umeboshi in the centre. The name was taken from the Hinomaru, the Japanese flag, which has a white background with a red circle in the centre. Pure Hinomaru bento only consists of rice and umeboshi to flavor rice without any other side dishes. The metal bento boxes, once popular in Japan, were often corroded by the acid of umeboshi, eventually making a hole in the middle of the lid.

FROM WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Packed lunch

A packed lunch is a lunch prepared at home and carried to be eaten somewhere else, such as school, a workplace or at an outing. The food can be carried in a lunchbox or wrapped in paper, plastic or foil. While packed lunches are usually taken from home by the people who are going to eat them, in Mumbai, India, tiffin boxes are most often picked up from the home and brought to workplaces later in the day by so-called dabbawallas. It is today also possible to buy packed lunches from stores in several countries.

In the United States, an informal meeting at work, over lunch, where everyone brings a packed lunch, is a brown-bag lunch or colloquially a "brown bag", and the practice known as brownbagging. There are also white and other color bags for seasonal use.

One such brown bag lunch was used as a deliberate rebuff, of the Chinese hosts, by the United States delegation at peace negotiations in Kaesong during the Korean War. The Chinese hosts offered lunch and watermelon to the U.S. guests, which the U.S. delegates, who considered lunching with one's opposition to be fraternizing with the enemy, rejected in favour of their own packed lunches.[1]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lunch Box

The lunch box, also referred to as a lunch pail or lunch kit, is a container meant to store a meal for consumption, usually at work or school. The essential idea of a food container has been around for a very long time, but it wasn't until people began using tobacco tins to haul meals in the early 20th century, followed by the use of lithographed images on metal, that the containers became a staple of youth, and in turn, a marketable product in the eyes of manufacturers.

The lunch box has historically most often been used by schoolchildren to take packed lunches, or a snack, from home to school. The most common modern form is a small case with a clasp and handle, often printed with a colorful image that can either be generic or based on children's television shows or films. Use of lithographed metal to produce lunch boxes in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s gave way in the 1990s to use of injection-molded plastic.

A lunch kit comprises the actual "box" and a matching vacuum bottle. However, pop culture has more often embraced the singular term lunch box, which is now most commonly used.


HISTORY
David Shayt, curator of the National Museum of American History, pins the evolution of the lunch box as beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. “Some of our earliest examples, from the 19th century, were woven baskets with handles. A meal would be wrapped in a handkerchief. Depending on your station, a fancy wooden box would be used by the wealthy,” he says. It wasn't possible to go home to lunch everyday when more and more Americans were now working in factories and not on the farm, thus it was necessary to have something to protect and transport a meal in.[1]

Lunch boxes have been manufactured using various materials. Typically, children's school lunch boxes are made of plastic or vinyl, while adult workers' lunch boxes are commonly made of metals, such as tin or aluminium, due to the greater need for durability. The aluminium variant was invented in 1954 by Leo May, a miner in Sudbury, Ontario, after he accidentally crushed his tin lunch box.[2]

In 1935, Geuder, Paeschke and Frey produced the first licensed character lunch box, Mickey Mouse. It was a lithographed oval tin, with a pull-out tray inside. It had no vacuum bottle, but did have a handle.

In 1950, Aladdin Industries created the first children's lunch box based on a television show, Hopalong Cassidy. The Hopalong Cassidy lunch kit, or "Hoppy," quickly became Aladdin’s cash cow. Debuting in time for back-to-school 1950, it would go on to sell 600,000 units in its first year alone, each at a modest $2.39 USD. Aladdin Industries moved to Nashville, Tennessee from its home in Chicago.

While television was experiencing amazing growth during the 1950s, manufacturers saw a potential for sales. Manufacturers grew to include ADCO Liberty, American Thermos (later King Seeley Thermos, or KST), Kruger Manufacturing Company, Landers, Frary and Clark (Universal), Okay Industries, and a large number of other producers through the 1980s.

The first use of plastics accounted for the lunch box handle, but later spread to the entire box, with the first molded plastic boxes produced during the 1960s. Vinyl lunch boxes debuted in 1959.

During the 1960s, the lunch box had few changes. The vacuum bottle included in them, however, steadily evolved during the course of the decade and into the 1970s. What was originally a steel vacuum bottle with glass liner, cork or rubber stopper, and bakelite cup became an all-plastic bottle, with insulated foam rather than vacuum. Aladdin produced glass liners into the 1970s, but they were soon replaced with a basic plastic.

In 1971-72, a concerned group of parents decided that metal lunch boxes could actually be used as weapons in school-yard brawls. With petitions signed, they marched all the way to the Florida State Legislature, and demanded safety legislation be passed. It eventually was passed, and other counties in Florida adopted this legislation, which eventually was also accepted in other states

TODAY
Today, lunch boxes are generally made of vinyl, with foam insulation, and an aluminum/vinyl interior. As a result, they’re usually much better at retaining their temperature but are less rigid/protective.

Lunch box collecting is a popular hobby. Many lunch boxes, including those from the 1950s and 1960s sell for hundreds of dollars, some even into the thousands of dollars. In December 2003, a mint Isolina lunch box was auctioned for $11,500 at Chickens Go Moo, Inc. auctions. With the 15% buyer's premium, the total price of this lunch box was $13,225

from wikipedia.org

Zojirushi Bento Lunch Jar

Zojirushi Mr. Bento Stainless-Steel lined Lunch Jar, Silver

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This is a great "lunchbox", where you can change the menu.

Firstly, a description of
Lunchbox is a non-insulated thermos Jar and plastic top. There are four containers that fit the tube in a specific order.
Bottom-tank has been isolated in a bowl. It is a package sealed screw on top, insulated side walls and a small market pressures. Most of insulation for a range of cooking or other liquids
-Next is the main reservoir. It has a slide and lock insulated top.
-The third tank is much smaller than Tupperware and top pop.
-The fourth container is even smaller, and thus the top.
Make a glass container and cut into small pieces of the page. Everything goes when it is convenient nylon carrying case is also the number of sticks is a small plastic box. There are small pockets on the side of extra sauce or seasoning packets (or I-pod to see the movie and dinner).

This device is optimally designed for a Japanese dinner. Soup, rice, cucumber and snap / salted vegetables. Normally, you want to put on the bottom plate meets the Middle East, and bowl of rice. Your entrée would go in the third and fourth vegetables. As the soup and rice container both have insulated tops They keep me warm. Other containers are not insulated and it is not the best. This gives some heat from the bottom of two containers to escape, so that vegetables are at room temperature. Understanding this is very important. It is not intended to eat at the same temperature. This should be kept warm, and the other at room temperature.

I noticed that the actual use, smoking hot bowl of soup. Things to pack rice is warm (not hot), so that the main problems in the two containers to room temperature, maybe a little more.

Of course you do not need to use it properly (the soup / rice / entrée / vegetarian), but withdrew require some adaptation and creativity. You have to balance both the amount and what you want the hottest vs. coolest. Also, if you can microwave it at lunch does not work quite useful because you can only hot food (as opposed to heat this morning before you go). You can use it all the cooler (all have a cold / hot and cold for you, whatever you want). It may be a better way, if you use it at the office.

The room temperature dishes are not large American sandwiches and pastries the size of SAI, so if you want to use the traditional lunch box stuff is not the best equipment.

If you wish to use this device, you can check out some cookbooks Bento Box. Give receipies and the menu includes several that have to do. In particular I liked the book Naomi Kijima Bento Boxes

Bento Boxes: Japanese to the table, he

I have come up with something out and threw a box of instant miso soup is a Japanese dinner.

Benefits --
Compact and efficient use of space, everything goes in the tube, no bag of various containers
Allows for two temperatures in the same container - allows for flexible combinations of
Lots of interesting comments from colleagues

Cons --
Cleanup is a bit of pain - not machine washable. Cooking up a bit difficult.
Soft plastics at the end of a strong odor / stain
Thurs temperature in the same container - needs a bit of creativity, not all are hot or cold.

Conclusion --
Until we understand how it works and adapt it to have a good product. May encourage some healthy foods and eating more vegetables
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Product Details
Product Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 6 inches ; 3 pounds
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
ASIN: B000246GSE
Item model number: SL-JAE14

Product Features
Round jar with 4 food bowls for hot or cold lunch storage
Vacuum-insulated stainless-steel construction keeps food warm
Microwaveable bowls measure 15.2, 10.1, 9.5, and 6.8 ounces
Easy-to-clean container washes quickly
Includes convenient carrying bag for transport