Looking for a better way to store your pots, pans, and casserole dishes? If you have a deep drawer, set up a vertical "filing" system with the help of a few dividers. Each dish and lid gets its own space, and you don't have to worry about messy, piled-up dishes taking over your cupboards.
Do you have a system like this set up in your kitchen?
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I use one of these in a drawer instead of the "standard" dividers to hold my frying pans. Works perfectly.
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That is...inspired. Seriously.
Exept that my crappy, cheap rental kitchen has drawers about half that depth. Boo.
I love this idea! Unfortunately my cabinets are deep but don't pull out, making you get on your hands and knees to drag pot and pans out sometimes. Any ideas to conquer that in a similar fashion?
This is great, and it's also requires a lot of space. All our stuff is stacked on itself...
@ beththeangelic: I use inexpensive tension rods installed vertically in my deep cabinets for a similar effect. Doesn't necessarily eliminate the deep knee bends but there's no shuffling/lifting of heavy stacks to get to the pot I need (which always seems to be on the bottom) and things don't get lost in the back. And once I memorized the order of things I can usually just bend over & grab what I need, avoiding the deep knee bend altogether. For perspective, looks like pic #2 if you pulled the drawer out & sat it on it's front.
I also use a tension rod installed horizontally in the cab under the kitchen sink to organize cleaners - just hang em on the rod by the spray trigger. One note on that one - I ended up installing a scrap of leftover molding below the ends of the rods because the weight of the bottles was a bit much. Works spendidly. I do find the shorter tension rods are not plentiful so when I see some, I grab em. Hope this helps.
This is why when we redo our kitchen I want to replace most of the cabinets with actual drawers or at the very least, install some pull outs. What person ever thought that a base cabinet was the best way to store anything. They are inconvenient and just plain troublesome to deal with!
They make pull-out drawers to be retro-fitted into cabinets.. Container Store among others... just do a search online
I do something like this in my teeny-tiny kitchen. I picked up some of epoxy-coated wire filing stands from Goodwill for a buck each and wedged them into a narrow two-shelved cabinet next to the stove: pie pans, cake tins, and muffin pans standing up on the top shelf; heavy stoneware casseroles and dishes filed in the front part of the deep bottom shelf, finicky specialty pans behind them (individual tart tins, springform pans, and infrequently-used pans) tucked away on another rack behind them. It works like a dream, and I no longer have to take out a heavy cumbersome stack of dishes to get the one I want.
You look very organized, I try to be. haha