LunchBots Stainless Steel Containers
18/8 stainless steel food containers with no plastic liners. Eliminates daily microplastic exposure from plastic lunch containers and takeout boxes.
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Why it's safe for your family
- The container body and lid are 18/8 stainless steel, so the surfaces holding your food are bare food-grade metal with no plastic liner and no coating.
- Steel does not stain, hold odors or absorb oils the way plastic containers do, so it does not degrade with repeated use, washing and reheating.
- There is no coating to scratch off — the failure mode that turns a scratched plastic or non-stick container into a particle source simply does not exist here.
- Stainless steel containers are dishwasher safe at any temperature without warping or clouding, so cleaning never degrades the food surface.
Is this really plastic-free? Yes — and here's why
A plastic food container fails by abrasion: every wash, every fork scrape and every reheat roughens the surface, and a roughened plastic surface sheds. Stainless steel has no coating and no polymer surface — it is solid metal all the way through, so wear marks it without releasing anything into the food.
What touches your food: bare 18/8 stainless steel. No liner, no coating, no plastic layer.
Quick specs
What to avoid instead
This replaces plastic food containers and takeout boxes. Those are the highest-frequency plastic food contact in most homes — reheated, scratched by cutlery and washed hot, which is exactly the combination that degrades a plastic surface.
How we verify — and what we don't
Straight answer: we're a research team, not a testing lab. Here's exactly what our rating is based on — and what it isn't — so you can weigh it honestly.
What we check
- What the product is made of, from the maker's own specs and product listing.
- Whether any part that touches you or your food uses PTFE, PFAS, plastic, or a coating that can degrade.
- Peer-reviewed research on how that material behaves when heated, scratched, washed, or worn.
- Known failure modes — how the product actually breaks down in a real home.
What we don't do
- We have not chemically tested this specific unit in a lab.
- We don't take payment to rate a product higher — there is no sponsored placement.
- We don't show star ratings or "trusted by thousands" counts we can't stand behind.
Anything that adds a known microplastic, PFAS, or off-gassing source — a non-stick coating, a plastic surface against food or skin, vinyl/PVC — is downgraded or cut. We only list what clears that bar.