Pyrex Simply Store 11-Cup Glass Food Storage Container

The Big-Batch Glass Container for Family-Size Storage

The Pyrex Simply Store 11-cup is the large-format member of the Simply Store line, a roomy rectangular dish sized for the jobs the small containers cannot handle: a whole family's worth of leftovers, a big salad, a casserole stored for tomorrow, a batch of meal prep, or even a layer of full-size muffins without squishing them.

At roughly 9 by 7 inches it holds around two and a half quarts, and the rectangular shape stacks and lines up in the fridge more efficiently than a round bowl. Like the rest of the line, the dish itself is pure Pyrex glass made in the USA, non-porous and tempered, so it resists stains and odors, survives the dishwasher and microwave, and keeps your food against inert glass rather than plastic.

As with every glass storage piece, honesty about the lid matters: it is a snug-fit, BPA-free plastic lid. So the food-contact surface is glass and the plastic stays above it, which is exactly why glass storage is worth switching to, but this is glass-with-a-plastic-lid rather than a fully plastic-free product. It is a real improvement over an all-plastic container, with the lid being the one part that is plastic and the one part most likely to need replacing down the line.

True Shift Score: 7.5 / 10

This is our own assessment, not a lab result or a certification.

The glass carries the score: pure, inert, made-in-USA Pyrex that keeps food off plastic, handles big-batch duty, and moves easily from fridge to microwave to dishwasher. The honest limit is the lid, BPA-free but still plastic, sitting in a collection built around moving away from plastic, and the part most likely to wear before the glass does. As a large glass-bodied container it is trusted and practical, with the plastic lid as the one compromise you are accepting, and a glass or bamboo lid as the more thorough alternative if that matters most to you.

The Honest Tradeoffs

1. Treat the glass as permanent and the lid as the consumable. 

2. Let food cool before sealing rather than trapping steam against warm plastic, and vent or lift the lid for the microwave rather than sealing it tight. 

3. The glass alone is oven safe, though the lid is not, so remove it for baking. 

4. Two practical notes specific to this size: filled to its 11-cup capacity it is genuinely heavy, so lift it with two hands, and it takes up a real shelf in the fridge, which is the trade for its big-batch capacity. 

5. If keeping plastic out entirely is the goal, a glass or bamboo-lidded jar does that more thoroughly, though neither suits large, wet, fridge-bound batches the way this does.

How We Evaluate Food Storage

We look at four things, and none is a lab score:

1. Whether the food-contact surface is inert and won't leach

2. Stain, or hold odors, what the lid is actually made of, since that is where plastic hides in most "glass" storage

3. How well it seals and holds up across the fridge, freezer, microwave, and dishwasher, 

4. And how durable it is over years of use. 

The real shift in food storage is getting your food off plastic and onto glass.