Cutlery Drawer - How Do You Organise Yours?

Currently debating this in the office (busy day and all that

) after I mentioned that I was helping a friend move house recently and when I went to pack up their cutlery I opened the top drawer to be greeted with something along the lines of this monstrosity:

How does anyone function by just chucking the cutlery and other random crap into a loose drawer?! People like this are essentially monsters and need to be named and shamed!

We've had various views expressed in the office around how to organised the cutlery drawer: in which order should the individual tools be layed out? how many sections is the correct number? is it ever acceptable to mix two different items within a similar section? etc. So I thought given the history of "interesting" opinions that people have expressed on here it would be an enlightening experience to throw it open to the forum!

For me the optimum configuration is based around four core sections - 3 vertical and 1 horizontal. From left to right you would have: Knives, Forks, Tablespoons, and then in the fourth section running below these three would be Teaspoons. No mixing of cutlery within these sections is ever appropriate! Something like this:

You can then have a few extra slots around the outside or top for storing more unique items: vegetable peeler, bottle opener, scissors and the like.

So how do you keep your cutlery tidy GRcade? Are you a stickler for silverware segregation or do you let your knives and forks mingle as they see fit? Bonus points for anyone who keeps their cutlery in the fridge with their loo roll.

Mine is like your second picture:

I can't comprehend why anybody would have the messy option :dread:

Forks, knives and tablespoons in that order in the big sections. Teaspoons in the little section, with corn cob holders and such in the even littler section above that.

Every few days I come the drawer to find that someone has quite literally dumped the contents of the dishwasher cutlery holder in, and I have a little cry.

Reported-no NSFL tag on the first picture :dread:

How small is that rolling pin?!

That's not a growth wrote:How small is that rolling pin?!

Maybe it's normal size but everything else is huge

/nocontext

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

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!

I dont. Ours falls apart because the runners are strawberry floated and so old they cant just be replaced. The landlord wont sort it without increasing the rent. So everything goes in jugs and mugs on the surface.

strawberry floating landlords.

I believed you took a photo of the cutlery drawer tbh

I don't currently use a cutlery drawer. But when I have in the past, I'd favour the four sections - forks, knives, dessert spoons (maybe soup spoons as well), teaspoons. Tablespoons are different and should be in the utensil drawer/pot :capnscotty:

My cutlery is on a stand-type thing in the cupboard. All other kitchen-type utensils are loose in a drawer, but I don't have many so it's not too much of a state.

I'm looking forward to the sequel thread which will surely revolve around the organisation of food in cupboards and the fridge. I do have stronger views on this aspect.

Until about 3 months ago we had all our cutlery smashed vertically in to a wooden pot. My wife finally snapped and got one of those organiser things pictured in the OP. It's a gamechanger. House hold injuries have halved.

That being said, there is still a "ceramic jug of shame" that holds turkey basters, a whisk, wooden spoons, ladels etc. Basically any utensil that would double as a good toilet unblocker.

Proabably

:dread:

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:That being said, there is still a "ceramic jug of shame" that holds turkey basters, a whisk, wooden spoons, ladels etc. Basically any utensil that would double as a good toilet unblocker.

Proabably

I'd argue that makes sense, though. The big utensils are just waiting to jam up a drawer, this removes the problem at the source.

My cutlery drawer is like the second picture, but with a fourth vertical section for steak knives.

Personally, I like a utensil holder for your big ticket item-your tongs, your wooden spoons, your spatulas, your whisks etc

Obviously organised. But surely everyone has at least one drawer in their kitchen that is just an ungodly mess.

Growing up it was always organised, I moved out on my own and in the first place I moved to I didn't have enough room to fit everything with an organiser so it was a total mess and I hated it.

I moved again and I've got a big drawer all nearly organised and it's great. Feels so much better.

Tomous wrote:Personally, I like a utensil holder for your big ticket item-your tongs, your wooden spoons, your spatulas, your whisks etc

Yep - the emergency plumbing tools holder.

Lotus wrote:forks, knives, dessert spoons (maybe soup spoons as well), teaspoons. Tablespoons are different and should be in the utensil drawer/pot

This.

Cutlery Drawer - How Do You Organise Yours?

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