Get a glass bento box with a silicone lid

The best desk lunch box is a glass bento box with a silicone lid — easy to open, quiet, and way less annoying than cracking open a plastic clamshell.

Loud plastic clasps and crinkly wrappers are the enemy of a quiet office. Silicone lids just peel back with a soft suck of air. No snap, no pop, no embarrassment when the whole room hears you open your tupperware. Glass also means you can microwave it without worrying about weird chemicals or leftover pasta smells.

You don’t need anything fancy. Look for a glass container with a divider or two, like the OXO glass container with a silicone-seal lid, or one of the Monbento-style bento boxes if you like keeping things separate. Avoid anything with hard plastic tabs that click. If you want to go lighter, a stainless steel tiffin with a rubber band is quiet too, but glass is the easiest to clean.

Just make sure the lid actually seals and you can open it with one hand. That’s the whole desk lunch test.

Your coworkers might not say thank you, but they’ll notice.