Explain why plastic containers are favoured to storing food?

Answer 1

While it is possible to store ice cream equally well in a metal or plastic container, plastic is better from the user's point of view. Metal transfers cold far better than plastic. Thus, it can become quite uncomfortable trying to hold onto a cold metal container. A cold plastic container is a poor conductor of cold. It does not make your hands hurt to carry it. A metal container has little give at the edges making it hard to scoop out the ice cream at the edges. A plastic container has more give at the edges. It is easier to get the ice cream at the edge of the container. It is easier to reattach a plastic lid on a container than a metal lid.

Answer 2

Plastic containers and metal containers, as well as glass containers, are all used to store food and all have their own particular advantages and disadvantages. Plastic can be used to give relatively light weight, inexpensive, reusable, and sometimes transparent containers, but they are also weaker and less durable than metal or glass. It is useful to package food in steel cans, but those cans are not reusable. Once opened, they become garbage. Food is also sold in glass jars or bottles, which are reusable, but which are also much heavier than plastic, and are also more breakable, and more expensive.

Answer 3

in tin containers you cant store any acidic foods because they will quickly wear away the tin.

Answer 4

Plastic do not react with air and water. They are not corroded easily. That is why they are used to store food.

Answer 5

because metal is heavy!!

Answer 6

pee cream