Introducing Items for a Trash-Free 'Zero Waste' Seollal Celebration

Carefully Prepared Seol Food: Smart Storage and Utilization Tips for Practicing 'Zero Waste'

Comex's 'High Keeps', a handle-type airtight container convenient for storing leftover holiday food.
[Photo by Comex Industrial]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] The traditional Korean holiday Seollal is approaching. Although it is still a "social distancing holiday," the problem of a sharp increase in food waste during holidays due to the culture of preparing abundant food remains. According to a survey by the Ministry of Environment, food waste nationwide increases by more than 20% during the week before and after holiday periods such as Seollal and Chuseok compared to usual.

From this holiday, let's practice "Food Zero Waste" by using items that reduce food waste, such as airtight containers with handles that make food storage and transportation convenient, and microwave-safe containers that allow leftover holiday food to be reused.

Containers with handles are useful for neatly storing and transporting large quantities and bulky holiday foods. 'HighKeeps' by Comex Industrial, a kitchenware company with 51 years of tradition, is a steady-selling product made of Tritan material, a healthy airtight container that the whole family can use with confidence.

The handle-type lids come in sizes of 3.5ℓ and 5.3ℓ. The taller 3.5ℓ size is suitable for storing dongchimi (radish water kimchi) or foods with broth, while the spacious 5.3ℓ size is convenient for large ingredients or large amounts of food. The handles fold both ways for easy storage, and the transparent lid allows easy checking of contents. HighKeeps has a heat resistance temperature above 100℃, making it useful during holidays as it can be used in the microwave and allows you to take out refrigerated or frozen holiday food and heat it immediately by just opening the lid.

New stainless steel airtight container product 'Stenkeeps Window' by Comex Industrial.
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To hygienically store holiday food without odors or color transfer, Comex's stainless steel 'StenKeeps' series is useful. Comex's stainless steel airtight containers are 100% domestically produced using 'SUS 304' stainless steel material manufactured by POSCO, ensuring excellent quality, and no bisphenol-A (BPA), a suspected endocrine disruptor, is detected.

The StenKeeps series offers 10 sizes of handle-type products ranging from a compact 2.66ℓ to a generous 10.8ℓ. There are various lineups such as 'StenKeeps Window' with a transparent front window, 'Color StenKeeps' featuring emotional pastel colors, and 'Block-type Sten Storage Container (Handle)' that stacks neatly like blocks, allowing selection according to preference and usage purpose.

Microwave-only cooking container that allows you to cook the food you brought right away, Comex 'Now is Range Time'.
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The easiest way to handle leftover holiday food is to heat it in the microwave. Comex's 'Now is Range Time' is a microwave-only cooking container that allows simple cooking by opening only the steam hole without removing the lid. It is made of heat-resistant plastic material usable up to 140℃ and does not contain bisphenol-A, a suspected endocrine disruptor, so you can safely prepare everything from frozen food to a nice meal.

It comes in various capacities including 'Egg (340㎖)', 'Rice (380㎖)', 'Soup (800㎖)', 'Noodle (1.2ℓ)', 'Family (2.6ℓ)', and a generously sized 24cm diameter 'Now is Range Time (Multi-Cooker)'.

Tefal 'Cook4Me' that diversely utilizes holiday foods as soups, stews, and stir-fries.
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Tefal's 'Cook4Me' allows you to enjoy delicious holiday dishes effortlessly, from using leftover food to making tender galbijjim (braised short ribs), flavorful japchae (stir-fried glass noodles), and sweet sikhye (sweet rice drink). It is useful not only during holidays but also for meal preparation with automatic mode containing 100 recipes and manual modes such as pressure cooking, stir-frying, and warming.

Especially, using the automatic mode, you can enjoy a wide range of dishes from everyday soups like seaweed soup and spicy braised chicken stew to Korean fine dining and foreign cuisine.

Enjoying holiday fruits received as gifts simply by making juice, Hurom Extractor 'H300E'.
[Photo by Hurom]

After the holidays, there are often leftover fruits that were not eaten or received as gifts. Hurom has released a new juice extractor model 'H300E' equipped with a 'Multi-Screw,' which integrates the screw and filter, the core parts of slow juicing technology.

When ingredients are put whole into the H300E, they are automatically cut by the cutting blade, and the newly applied smart motor senses the internal state of the drum to automatically adjust juicing and stopping. With just one button, the entire process from ingredient preparation to juicing and stopping operates automatically, providing a one-stop juicing motion. The entire juice-making process is completed within 5 minutes after pressing the button following ingredient input.

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