Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools featured the Mr. Bento Lunch Jar last week and the concept was exactly what I was looking for. Eating out for lunch every day costs way too much and the kitchen in my office is just plain gross. The only happy medium seemed impossible: bring in hot food that’ll somehow stay hot until I was ready to eat lunch.

The Mr. Bento Lunch Jar is a large thermos with two vacuum sealed containers (one for soup or any kind of liquid, the other for solids) and two regular tupperware containers. The two vacuum sealed containers keep either hot or cold while the two tupperware containers are kept at room temperature. It even comes with a metal spork and a carrying case to make the thing as useful as possible.

Today was my first day using the Mr. Bento Lunch Jar and food that I heated up at 7:30 in the morning was piping hot at 12:30 in the afternoon. Screw eating out, now I can just reheat some leftovers, half a can of soup, throw together a tiny salad and some trail mix in the room temperature containers and I’ve got a four course meal that’s better for me than wherever I got takeout from and easier on the wallet as well.

The box advertises it as being able to keep food at temperature (hot and cold) for 6 hours and there will be days where I can test this claim more fully. I look forward to loving it as much as the people who make Mr. Bento porn.