Smart Lidz are plastic lids made out of space-age polymers that fit over your food containers. They are meant to keep your food fresh. They say you can transfer your food from the freezer or fridge to the microwave. All you have to do is press down in the center of the plastic lid to quickly seal your food air tight. It claims to seal anything in cans, cups, bowls of any size and shape. It seals plastic, glass, metal or ceramic containers air tight.  It looks pretty impressive at first…as you see in this video. If you’re like me, I personally hate using rolls and rolls of saran wrap. What a waste and of course bad for the environment. I love the idea of quickly sealing a container and then rewashing it to use over again.

The vendor says that the product is dishwasher safe if you put it on the top rack. But make sure you keep it away from the lower heating element.The box contains 4 different sized Smart Lidz one small, two medium and one large.

Smart Lidz – The Good and Bad

Pros

• It actually does give an air tight seal and keeps your food fresh.
• Here is what you need to do…”After you press down once,” directions say, “to lock out any additional air, lift tab for a second while pressing down.”
• Lives up to the claim of being able to lift 7 lbs of weight
• Saves on aluminum foil and saran wrap

Cons

• You can’t fill a bowl right up to the top. When you go to press down on the plastic the food is in the way.

• The right sized lid for a square container does not seal properly.

• When you use a lid one size bigger there is a problem. Now you have a super big lid on a smaller sized container. You may not want to use all your fridge space up with this big lid taking up so much space.

• The instructions aren’t clear as to how to get the lid to seal the container, or to remove the lid properly.

• The lids don’t hold up over the long term and tend to loose their shape.

• The lids don’t work in the microwave as claimed. They tell you to put the lid loosely on the container. What happens is that the plastic balloons out when being microwaved and shrinks when the microwave stops. The plastic is now warped and ruined.

• There are many complaints from people who have ordered this product on the phone or online. The complaints are mostly from up sell or high pressure tactics to get you to buy more. There is also excessive shipping charges. I cannot speak for all as seen on TV products though. I am speaking about this particular item.

• The vendor claims that if the lids gets stretched or that you can run it under water to restore the lid. Even after several tries you can not get the lids to restore to their previous state.

• You can’t really stack your containers in the fridge. Once the lids are on, the stack of containers are wobbly.

• Most users found that they wanted more large lids in the set. There’s only one per set.

Package of Smart Lids or I should say Un-Smart Lids!

Handy Tips

• Seals better on plastic containers.
• Storage container edge must be completely clean.
• When you want to release the lid, you squeeze the notch to let the air out. Then you can remove the lid easily.
• Don’t even bother trying to use it in the microwave as the plastic will get all stretched out and ruined.
• If you are covering a plate of food, the rim has to be higher than the food itself in order for you to get a seal.
• Pitchers with pour spouts- if the lip of the spout is in line with the rim of the pitcher, the product works fine. Although, if the spout dips down below the line of the upper rim significantly, then the product can’t reach the entire spout and form a seal.

Important Point I Noticed

Many users put the lids on and put the item in the fridge. They came back later to see the lid had unsealed itself. Some say the seal lasted several days while others mentioned it only lasted 10 minutes. In all fairness, I want to be unbiased here so I’m looking at what other video reviews have said.

1. This may be because you will have better luck with the plastic container sealing better than any other material.
2. It also may be because they didn’t lift the tab after they pressed in with the plastic. They should have shown that on the infomercial but they didn’t. This misleads people into thinking all they need to do is press down with the plastic to make a firm seal.

Final Thoughts
With Smart Lidz, the majority of video reviews never lifted that darn tab to seal the lid properly. So I’m pretty sure that they seal. Besides that though, there are far too many issues with them. Look at my list of cons verse pros. Yikes! For this reason alone I wouldn’t bother buying them. Would you like to check out other infomercial product reviews? I just recently did a review on green bags.

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