Cutlery Drawer - How Do You Organise Yours?

It's very small, too small to organize everything into its own area with a standard cutlery drawer organizer.

As a result, I have forks, spoons and sporks in the left tray, and knives and other ancillary things in the right hand tray.

Our cutlery drawer is a game of two halves. One side is nicely organised as in the second image in the OP, the other side has all the larger utensils bundled in.

Forks (plus chopsticks), knives, big spoons. Teaspoons below, horizontally.

Larger things like wooden spoons at either side, but feel free to freestyle that.

Who puts the big spoons between the knives and forks, man :lol:

I'm going left to right here, obviously.

From left to right in the tray: Big spoons, little spoons, cardboard boxes

Abacus wrote:I'm going left to right here, obviously.

People tend to do that as they get older. :cry:

OrangeRKN wrote:From left to right in the tray: Big spoons, little spoons, cardboard boxes

Cutlery draw is well organised into knives, forks, different spoon sizes and so on. The utensil holders are nice and organised into types/usage (ie how often they get used rather than what they’re designed for). There is one draw however in which there is lots of stuff you think looks good but doesn’t seem to work as intended, that draw is a mess :lol:

Jenuall wrote:
Hypes wrote:Right, but that first picture is all the other various kitchen tools, not the actual cutlery though is it

That was just the first picture I could find from a quick google, I didn't actually take a picture of my friends cutlery drawer!

This probably represents it better, although it was worse in reality!

Fraudulent photo, ban request

We literally have no drawers for some reason but I suppose this gives us more cupboard space, we have units and matched overhead cupboard/extractor (doesn't work). So we have one of those organisers for cutlerly in an overhead cupboard you can just about reach into at eye level. Utensils are in ceramic jar things, two of them, one by the hob for common use (spatula, wooden spoon etc), other less common stuff further away.

On the one hand I'd quite like to live the "no drawers" lifestyle as you can't end up with the "drawer full of random gooseberry fool" problem if you have no drawers. But then I realise that rather than resulting in me actually keeping things tidy the more likely outcome is that the same gooseberry fool would just end up all over the place instead!

Yeah, at my mother's we have the "top drawer full of random gooseberry fool". Except that moved to some other peice of furniture with a glass cupboard overhead, and there are four drawers in that original unit (it's all been cut up and rearranged over the years as it's always been hardwood, my granddad built it originally). So 5 drawers. Previous to that here were also two very shallow drawers beneath a cupboard for foodstuffs and some shelves for plates etc. They were so shallow you literally couldn't fit anything else but cutlerly in them, so naturally, they would jam constantly instead of being filled appropriately. I've never thought of it but perhaps unsurprisingly, then, she didn't keep those when recycling those cupboard and shelf units, just planted them right on top of some wooden work surfaces butted against a wall.

It's actually a pretty amazing kitchen for a relatively small space, it's just a shame she fills it with so much more food and appliances than she needs. :lol:

It's also almost impossible to keep clean.

Now my mum has hooks and magnet rails all over the place so there's stuff just literally hanging from the ceiling/walls everywhere, around the full range stove. To be fair, I think that's how a lot of professional kitchens do it and the bonus is you don't need a huge drying rack for the amount of pots and pans she gets through (really good cook), as you just hang them back up and they're dry by the time you need them.

Cutlery Drawer - How Do You Organise Yours?

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