The shelf
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What is here
632 rows: 287 containers and 345 closures. 5 mL to 7,571 mL with a median of 237.
By material
153 PET, 65 HDPE, 45 glass and 24 PP. Which split across two different food-contact sections: the 89 polyolefin containers under one, the 153 PET under another.
By format
210 jars, 59 bottles, 9 jugs, 8 tubs and pails and 1 tube. Overwhelmingly a jar shelf, which suits three of the five leaves.
By capacity, which is the finding
43 containers over a litre, 21 over a gallon, and none over three gallons. The bucket format this craft is built on is absent entirely.
Against an archetype that runs to eight litres
store-bulk-home is 950 to 8,000 mL and the median container here is 237 mL. Most of this shelf is below even the kitchen-canister window.
The PET single wall jar is the workhorse
123 of them. Clear, light, stackable and cheap enough to buy a set, which is what a seed collection or a spice-scale salt store needs.
The glass end is small and good
45 containers, including 18 straight sided jars and 8 mason and paragon jars. Non-absorbing, inert, and the right answer where taint matters more than breakage.
And the F style bottles are the water format
9 of them. Square, stackable, carryable, and the shape that does not waste a cupboard.
What is absent, listed
Buckets, mylar liners, oxygen absorbers, gamma lids and gasketed lids. Five things, and together they are the standard long-term assembly.
The PP containers are the overlooked ones
24 of them, and polypropylene tolerates heat better than PET and takes a gasketed closure better than most. For a pantry jar that might see a dishwasher it is the better polyolefin.
Clear dominates, which suits three leaves and not the fourth
93 clear against 66 white, 39 amber and 28 black. Seed and salt want to be seen; stored water in daylight grows algae and wants the opaque end.
How to shop it
Decide the timescale first. Days and weeks, this shelf serves you. Years in a basement, it does not, and a supplier who specialises in it will.