Tuesday Tips & Tricks 3/1

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Topic: In the Kitchen

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Do you have oil bottles with the pour top (or any narrow-neck bottle really, but oil seems to be the worst for cleaning)? If so, how do you get them clean? A toothbrush doesn't even fit in them, so there is no way to scrub them that I have found so far.

[penguin129]

We are going from 10 cabinets, 2 corner cabinets with lazy susans, and 6 drawers in our kitchen to 6 cabinets, 2 smaller ones above the stove, and 1 drawer. I need help for setting up a kitchen this small. Some thoughts are to get a pantry, store appliances and baking things I don't use often on a rack in the garage, and hang pots and pans from the wall or a metal storage rack type thing. Any ideas are welcome

[brachysira]

Yeah, we have one of those pan racks that hangs from the wall. People complement it and it's pretty easy to get what you need and put items away, but we overload it... I'm kind of nervous about being underneath it too. We have a magnet knife holder too. In our old apartment, we had these wire racks that you hang from the door that were from Amazon and we had one hanging down from the first which made for 6 shelves that we used as our pantry. In our current house, we have a couple large plastic shelves that reach to the ceiling in our basement. We keep extra snacks and other extra pantry items, paper towels and TP, cake decorating and other baking items, some appliances, and some formal and party dishes there. On the counter, I have a big ceramic thing that holds our spatulas and similar. Our shelves are really short, so I have a cart in the kitchen that I can use to store tall containers of vinegar, olive oil, etc.

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penguin129, my kitchen is small but not as small as yours. I would go through and do a really good purge first. Then set up for functionality like a coffee/ tea area a packing lunch area, a glasses and plates area.

We used to have a hanging pot rack from the ceiling in our very small kitchen we had in a rental. We had the magnetic knife thing although I prefer just the block on the counter for looks and kids.

Our basement is our overflow pantry. We have toilet paper and trash bags and paper towels down there.