these are amazing food takeout container
inventions from japan
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so i recently made a video on how
plastic food trades are recycled here in
japan and i want to do a follow-up video
and share with you the coolest
inventions and innovations in japanese
plastic food trade technology but like
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for sending me the trays that said let
me show you the first one
so this one was one of those things that
i've kind of seen around in japan for
you know quite some time but it just
really surprised me because i don't
think i ever saw it when i was in the us
this looks like you're just regular
circular plastic food tray but what
separates this apart pun intended is you
have actually two different layers in
this so
it's so tight these things are amazingly
tight your food will never spill
there you go it's opened once you take
the initial lid off then here you have
another tray in the middle basically
it's meant for like noodles you can also
use it for rice the soup and everything
goes in the bottom and the noodles go
here as well as the other ingredients
that you don't want to get soggy you
also find this type of technology in
convenience stores in japan but
sometimes they don't have fully
functioned center lid but you'll find
like kind of like a plastic sheet so
that it's like separates the soup and
the noodles or whatever here you have
this little hole if you're like carrying
it around it doesn't like pop up you
know like if you're like carrying it and
like the air come up a little bit and
then there's a little hole here at the
top too
the hole also allows the steam from the
soup to keep the noodles from getting
dry pretty cool technology nonetheless
what do you think i feel like this has
been around for such a long time it's
like a everyday normal
yeah that's true but it's still cool it
is cool um again i don't know if some of
this technology has gone to other
countries or that you know other
countries are using it so you guys can
let me know in the comments bet they
have in korea because they have a bigger
like delivery culture there yeah that's
true like japan wasn't such a big
delivery country delivery started taking
off after a covey now like we see this
all the time when we order our takeout
so this one is for sashimi it has kind
of these like slanted bottoms to the
tray if you've ever had sashimi what
you'll usually find they'll use shredded
daikon radish to present the sashimi and
make sure that it like looks good so
that people want to buy it but what ends
up happening is no one really eats that
a lot of people don't need it i guess it
is it is a filler this saves on that
food so you don't have to cut up all of
that daikon shredded radish basically
just slants all of the sashimi so it's
like presentable apparently supermarkets
use about 20 to 27 grams of shredded
taco for one plate if you don't use that
for each trace yeah which are basically
thrown away that's a lot of like saving
food raw food raw food loss food loss
at the end of the day you save on food
as you would like to put food walks
i guess it's cost effective because you
save on the daikon i think it's the
manpower as well to like shut it all up
save time i like the color blue as well
kind of like a marble luxurious looking
tray expensive marble rock like marvel
studios yeah i meant it's a superhero
rock it's a mobile marvel rock confused
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this next one i don't know i think it's
pretty unique to japan if you've ever
had a sushi or sushi takeout so here is
the tray itself you can see right here
it has little dividers and has little
like divots like slots right here also
you have like these kind of like barrier
walls basically if you've ever bought
sushi take it home put it in your echo
bag and ride your bike which i've done a
lot of times and like put it in the
basket that thing gets shaken up and
then you have like all of your sushi on
one side when it comes home you buy
sushi for me and like every time i get
it from you it's always on the one side
yeah so as you can see those places that
we're shopping at don't use this
technology
you can shake it around like pretty hard
it'll keep all the sushi in place
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yeah i don't know how expensive these
trays are but it's pretty freaking
amazing i know like a lot of people are
saying oh you shouldn't use plastic
trays and whatnot which is fair
statement but the japan does have an
interesting culture if you guys saw my
last video on how japan will actually
take a lot of these trays wash them and
they'll take them to the supermarket to
be recycled watch the video and you can
see that entire process definitely japan
the rest of the world could be doing
more but you know it is a start before i
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domain or website this next one is have
you ever tried to like heat anything up
in the microwave and it's just
completely melted like the plastic tray
has melted
are you doing me or everybody
i thought you're talking to everybody
you know like the youtuber question yes
i was talking to you sorry yes i've
melted millions you melted a million
containers wow that's a lot of melting
this one is um pretty interesting
because it's good to up to 110 degrees
the fact that it doesn't melt is pretty
amazing it can be 110 degrees and it can
be super super hot inside of the bowl
but you can hold it and you won't burn
yourself
so you can hold it like this and you can
pray to the gods please give me the
hottest bowl of soup my hands could hold
yeah there's like a lot of microwaves
that make the tray hot and your food
cold
so this one is my favorite because you
guys know that i love fried food and
these trays solve all of your problems
take a look at this you can see that it
has these like special ridges if you
ever had like menchikatsu or kaki fry
any like fried food like when you put it
at the bottom of the tray sometimes the
oil pulls up you get like a sagginess at
the bottom what a lot of places will do
they'll put like a tissue paper to soak
up all of that oil not tissue paper wax
paper but it still doesn't like suck up
all of the oil but this one levitates
all of your fried food in the air you
can see how just high and kind of stays
up raised and all of the fried food
drips into this spot here onto the sides
i wouldn't say oil free but like drips
it all away it makes your food just
crispier not only when you get it but
when you microwave and all that oil
starts to drip this is perfect they took
regular real life problems that people
have and they're just like oh why don't
we just make a tray like this and boom
there you have it man these food trays
are makes me want to like eat some food
this little white plastic wonder looks
like you know just your regular average
plastic tray that you would probably put
salad or lasagna
what's awesome about this tray is that
you
can actually take one of these trays and
you can stack it on another tray like
this
stackable trace are you not in disbelief
michael do you not want this tray call
1-800 plastics or us i will take your
credit card information and i can send
you a dozen it's kind of like an
infomercial let's not stop there watch
this
okay watch this
bam you can flip it upside down
you don't only just get two for the
price of one michael we have some
accessories we have the smaller tray
virgins as well all for a free 99. look
at that
that's amazing you can also get the
circular trays as well but check that
out this is perfect for delivery people
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we're stacking trays that we're stacking
money so there you have it some of the
coolest plastic train vengeance here in
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