Types of Blister Packaging: Face Seal, Slide, Clamshell and More
Ever tried to open a pack of batteries with your bare hands and given up? Yeah. That was a blister, and so was the thing your kid’s toy car came in, and the strip your allergy pills pop out of. We all call them blister packs. They’re not really built the same though, there’s maybe […]
Vial Box Sizes: How to Size a Box for 2ml to 50ml Vials
Vials are small, and that’s sort of the problem. A 10ml vial is maybe two inches tall, so people assume any little carton will do, then the order shows up and the vial rattles around like a marble in a shoebox, or the cap is pressed right up against the lid and the flip-off top […]
Macaron Box Sizes: What Fits 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 Macarons
Macarons. Gorgeous, and a total pain to ship, because you bake a perfect pastel row in the morning, somebody drives it across town after lunch and by the time the lid comes off there are two cracked shells and a smear of ganache on the paper. Nine times out of ten? The box was just […]
Chocolate Box Sizes: How Many Chocolates Fit in a Box?
Chocolate boxes look simple from the outside. Then you’re trying to fit nine hand-rolled truffles into a box that was really meant for nine molded pralines and suddenly nothing sits right, the lid won’t close flat, and one truffle has a dent in it. We see it a lot. So let’s go through it: how […]
Wine Box Dimensions: Sizes for 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 Bottles
A standard wine bottle looks like a standard thing until you try to box one. Bordeaux bottles have shoulders, Burgundy bottles slope, sparkling bottles are fatter and heavier, and that one craft winery down the road uses a bottle nobody else does. So “what size is a wine box” has a slightly annoying answer: it […]
Cake Box Sizes: What Box Fits a 6, 8, 10 or 12 Inch Cake
Ask around any bakery and someone will tell you about the cake that didn’t make it, and nine times out of ten the recipe was fine, it was the box, half an inch too short, so the lid sat on the buttercream the whole drive home and lifted the piping clean off. Painful. Below are […]
Gift Box Sizes: Standard Sizes for Every Kind of Gift
Picking a gift box sounds like the easy part, right up until you’re holding a chunky sweater that just won’t fold down small enough, or you’ve put a candle in a box twice its size and it’s sliding around every time you pick it up. Then it’s not so easy. Good news, though. Most gifts […]
Cookie Box Sizes: How Many Cookies Fit in a Box?
Cookies are easy to bake and weirdly hard to box. They’re flat, they break at the edges, and a dozen can sit in a box three totally different ways. You can stack them in a column, or lay them flat in rows, or (our favorite for shipping) stand them up on their edges kind of […]
Cupcake Box Sizes: How Many Cupcakes Fit in a Box?
Ask a baker what goes wrong most with cupcakes and it’s almost never the recipe, it’s the box, because a box that’s too short squashes the frosting flat against the lid and one that’s too loose lets the cupcakes slide into each other on the drive home. Every time. So here’s a plain answer to […]
Beer Box Dimensions: 6, 12 & 24 Pack Sizes Explained
Here’s something most people don’t expect. There’s no official size for a beer box. A 12-pack from one brewery can be a different shape from the 12-pack sitting next to it on the shelf, and both are “correct.” What is fixed is the size of the can or bottle inside. So if you know your […]