{"id":1078,"date":"2023-08-29T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2023-08-29T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:53:35","slug":"bento-refinishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/bento-refinishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bento Refinishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eleven years ago, I made this <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/arimotobento.html\">hexagonal bento box<\/a> in a class taught by Pittsburgh&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadaoarimoto.com\/\">Tadao Arimoto<\/a>. At the time, I did not know much about making bento lunches, so the box mostly sat on a shelf as a display piece. It waited patiently for me to expand my studies of Japanese culture to include food, and for me to start shopping at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyostorepgh.com\/en.html\">Tokyo Japanese grocery<\/a> enough to develop a menu for lunch. Back in 2019, I started making bento lunches to eat at work, and I discovered that the box was not sealed! I got salad dressing all over the tablecloth, and had to use plastic bento boxes for my lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year or two ago, I sanded the inside and outside of the box to smooth out the uneven epoxy surface. The box sat in this state for a couple of years, still waiting for me to make time for it. This summer, I finally cleared off the workbench for a couple of days so that I could mix up some epoxy and refinish the box.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/arimotobento-refinish-pieces.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/arimotobento-refinish-pieces.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"height:200px\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">These are the pieces of the box. One lid, one base, and two rhomboid containers that fit inside the base.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/arimotobento-refinish-ready.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/arimotobento-refinish-ready.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"height:200px\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Here are the smaller containers inside the base, ready for filling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/arimotobento-refinish-closed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/arimotobento-refinish-closed.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"height:200px\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Add the lid to close the box. It falls slowly because the tolerances are tight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s completely sealed now. I could probably take soup in it. The lid edges are almost the full height of the box, so it might not even spill very much if tipped. Even though I don&#8217;t go into the office at all these days, I made lunch at home and served it to myself in this box because I believe you should always let things fulfill their purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/arimotobento-refinish-lunch.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:400px;height:300px\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hana Goshoku onigiri; pickles and salad; togarashi tofu, roasted mushrooms, and kamaboko; lotus root and roasted eggplant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years ago, I made this hexagonal bento box in a class taught by Pittsburgh&#8217;s Tadao Arimoto. At the time, I did not know much about making bento lunches, so the box mostly sat on a shelf as a display piece. It waited patiently for me to expand my studies of Japanese culture to include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,578,6,3,20,31],"tags":[128,612,268,200],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-food","category-japanese","category-projects","category-woodworking-japanese","category-woodworking-projects","tag-arimoto","tag-bento","tag-boxes","tag-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}