How do you organize the kitchen gadgets, cabinets, utensils , crockery , snacks etc in the kitchen.
Tips and trick would be appreciated.
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I have a drawer thats just for knives, and a separate drawer for like large spoons, spatulas.
I have a drawer for like candies/chocolates
I put all the pots into one cabinet.
I use old glass coffee contaners, (wash them out) and halthi, red chili powder, … in them.
Another thing I do is that I use alot of Shan/National boxes. Anything that is opened up, I put in one section of the cabnet. This way I know what to try to use up first.
My fridge is a mess though, so if anyone has a tip for that it would be great.
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**use **
-pantry shelf for snacks…
-bottom cupboards for utensils
-upper cupboards for dishes, serving pots, cups, bowls
-drawers for spoons, forks, knives, big spoons, spatulas
-counter for knife jacket, sugar, tea, coffee jars, toaster, toaster oven
-microwave bolted to the bottom of the top shelves.
-dishwasher under the counter
need more help? 
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I use a lot of organizing shelves, drawer inserts, space savers and hangers you can buy online (Amazon) fairly inexpensively.
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Firstly, how much space to you have available in the kitchen?
How many pantry pantry, cupboard space do you have?
How much counter space do you have?
I personally hate having kitchen gadgets and canisters on my kitchen counters. It drives me crazy. we have a decent kitchen with tons of cupboards etc.
On one counter I have a microwave and a toaster.
Counter closest to stove has the knife block. Remainder of counter space is used for food prep etc. If other children in the house, I put the block higher out of the reach of little hands. Drawer next to stove contains all utensils needed for cooking. Cupboard beneath that contains various cutting boards. Next to that we have two huge cupboards with two shelves inside. This contains all pots, pans, frying pans, lids, with still plenty of space. I keep pots , pans on one shelf and all lids on the other.
Another counter area where the sink is located is bare. Extra dirty dishes etc are always piled there, and underneath that counter is the dishwasher (which we seldom use).
Our dishware used to be in the upper cupboards, but it was harder for the children and older people to reach. Since we have spacious bottom cupboards, we added another shelf to it, making it two levels. All dishes are located there, with kiddoe non breakable plates etc within easy reach. Above these cupboards we have drawers where the everyday cutlery is kept. No one has to run from one place to another on a daily basis looking for items to use. Everything is within reach, and it has a nice easy flow in the kitchen.
Everyday cups, tea mugs, glasses are located in top cupboard , which is close to the kitchen sink and the fridge.
I have another top smaller cupboard to the right of the stove. Everyday masalas, spices, salt, pepper is located there. No dashing across the kitchen for those things.
I have one pantry that is the size of a linen closet. It is shelved from top to bottom. This pantry contains all my kitchen appliances, gadgets: from hand mixers, choppers, Kitchen Aid, blender. My Crockpots easily fit there too. Since we have a ton of baking items, we picked up space savers, and DH made extra shelves. We also have a couple of bins located in there where all baking gadgets, spatulas , measuring cups, are located. Nothing else goes in there.
Have another pantry (shelves on three sides, like the letter U) which is for food only . One side has all my Desi foods, the other side contains my non Desi items.
The third side has a shelf for cereal, another has shelf for bread, rolls etc items. Another large shelf has snack items. Everything is easy to find for myself, my family or anyone else who comes into the kitchen. Underneath this is a rolling cart where I keep onions/potatoes etc.
MY inlaws, Mum, others who come, never have to ask ‘where is this’ where is that’. Alhamdulillah all is easy to find.
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Do you have a big kitchen ? Can you share a few pics of the arrangement specially the pots , pans and the gadget arrangements.
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jis gaon jana na ho, uska rasta nahin poochte :nono:
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For the refrigerator, keep containers of all sizes and put things in them. Clean it out once a week.
The deep freezer is a prob for me.
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bandar kya janay adrak ka sawad
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Oh no, I love organising the kitchen. I want mine to be as organised as ninjamummy’s kitchen 
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Cooking skills and organizing skills are 2 different things 
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I need to do the opened shan/national box tip too.
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I never tried them, but the seem like a good idea. What do you with the cooking pots and the kitchen gadgets ?
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How do you arrange the serving pots, bowls, cups etc. They are of different sizes
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wow Ninjamummy. pics would really help. I find that my closets and fridge don’t stay organized for long. That’s very frustrating. the key is consistency. It takes forever to organize but minutes to mess everything up.
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Bring a good wife and she will do the things…
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Lol I can’t bring a ‘good wife’.