Welcome to our weekend marathon of readers' favorite things from their kitchens. Sara Kate asked you to
share your favorite things last week in her email, and we received some really wonderful responses. We're going to show you a last few over today and tomorrow, starting with this one from Suzanne.
Suzanne sent us just one favorite thing, and we have to admit that it looks pretty interesting!
ETA: Suzanne asked us to add a few details that clarify her relationship to this product and her enthusiasm for it.
Suzanne asked us to edit her note below in response to reader comments about the photos. Her added text is in bold.
Suzanne says:
Here are some pictures of a new gadget which really made my life less cluttered. It's a knife holder which fits inside a cupboard door. I have a large house but surprisingly little counter space and with 3 teenagers it seems my counter is always full. This handy dandy device replaced my knife block while keeping it easy to grab a knife and store it away again. It's space-effective, very inexpensive and quite ingenious. It is called a 'KNIFAWAY' (talk about an appropriate name) and I got it at our office gift exchange a year ago.
I searched and FINALLY found the company who makes them and decided to import them and make them more readily available on the web because everyone in my family wanted one.
The pictures on the KNIFAWAY website are truly from my own kitchen and I built the website myself. My parents even put one in their motorhome!
Thank you Suzanne! This looks like a good storage solution for kitchen knives -- at least in homes without small kids (or pets, perhaps). Here's more about the Knifaway:
• The KNIFAWAY, $19.99
(Images: Suzanne)
I love the idea, but the website didn't offer much info. I'd like to know if it will dull the tips of your blades, or if the knives will rattle around if it's a little loose in there...
view KidMoe's profile
Fine for an adult-only household.
view sierracreek's profile
Uhm, anyone else notice that Suzanne's cabinet and lazy-susan setup is suspiciously similar to the kitchen pictured on the product's website?
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with pushing your product if you think people here will appreciate it, but a full disclosure would be nice.
view mh330's profile
mh330, you are right. It does seem to be the same cabinet. I think it looks like a nice product, but I don't like being lied to (i.e. "I got it at our office exchange."). If you want to push your own products, just tell us that is what you are doing.
view askh's profile
haha. it's even the same laminate flooring on their site (seen on the "installation" page: http://www.knifaway.com/index_files/Page708.htm )
view jumpyfroggy's profile
Geez...mh330's spot on. I didn't even notice it at first. No wonder the website looked so fishy. Shenanigans!
view KidMoe's profile
haha nice try tho! i mean you have to give credit where it's due.. she made it on the sight.. AND it does actually seem like a good product.
view ellehudson's profile
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view ellehudson's profile
Hi all,
I am the Suzanne in question and this IS my favourite thing because it is so simple, space-efficient and practical. This was introduced to me by a friend through a gift exchange and I thought it was so brilliant I ended up deciding to bring them in. I thought it was about time there was an affordable and effective alternative on the market. This design has been in use in Japan for quite a while so it is a proven concept. My kids were never really much into my kitchen cupboards but for those of you with little ones around, I recommend latching that cabinet door just like you do for the cabinet under the sink where most of us store dangerous cleaning products. Please do not hesitate to write me if you want more info but basically what you see is what you get. It doesn't get any simpler than this. This product has been thoroughly tested by my 3 teenagers and it is still as solid as the day we first installed it!
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