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Does your kitchen look a mess, in the cabinets and in the drawers, do you spend a lot of wasted time looking for a certain item that really has no place of its own, well let's reorganize. I do hope my helpful hints will help and make your life a lot easier.
I will take you through my kitchen cabinets and drawers and maybe you can get some ideas. To the left of my double sink there are two cabinets, on the top shelf I keep all of my glasses and also all of my coffee cups. On the bottom shelf I keep the dinner plates, salad places, saucers for cofee cups and cereal bowls. When I have used these and washed and dried them I put them back in their original place.
To the left of this cabinet, I have two shelves with six doors opening into these cabinets. On the top shelf I keep my pie keeper and my microwave dishes, the dish rags, cloth napkins, and dish towels, also the accessories to my mixer which consists of the grinder, etc. and the instruction manuals for each appliance attachment. On the bottom shelf I keep a container that has round lids and another container which has square or oblong lids, then next to them are the plastic containers for these lids. Then I keep my cheese grater and also my food processor.
On the bottom set of cabinets with six doors I have two shelves also. On the top shelf I keep my canned soups, canned vegetables and cans of various foods and I keep this is individual groups, for example all cans of soup are together. All cans of peas are together, etc. Then I keep my cans of juices such as tomato juice in another section as these are large cans. On the bottom shelf are more cans and these are all in sections also as I stock up on cans whenever they are on sale on items I know that I will use within a few months. I can look at the cans, for instance, of peas and know that I am low or that I have lots and don't need to buy at this time. These cans are separated so that a glance I can tell what is in stock.
I have cabinet under my countertop stove and in these cabinets on the top shelf are my pots and pans, and on the bottom shelf I have some of my small appliances, such as the rice cooker, electric knife, etc. and I always put them back in the same position after use so I can relocate them when needed.
Above the stove I have two sets of cabinet with only one shelf. On this shelf I have the cans of coffee, regular and decaf, coffee filters and thermos equipment for coffee also.
Above my refrigerator I have two cabinets, in these cabinets I have first aid items and light bulbs and miscellaneous items.
I have three cabinets near my wall oven, in these cabinets I have all of my baking items, such as flour, sugar, dates, raisins, coconut, anything associated with baking and also I have my stock of dried beans and pasta products such as spaghetti.
I also have an island with cabinets around each of four sides. In these I have my baking pans, salad spinner, tortilla warmers and various other items. There are also four drawers in this island, one is for flatware or silverware, one is for large ladles, spoons, can opener, measuring cups and spoons. The third drawer has lots of various items, lids for jars, other utensils for cooking and the fourth drawer is for tin foil, baggies, sandwich bags, etc.
I do hope this will help you to organize your kitchen where you have immediate axcess to all of the items you need for cooking or serving.
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