Organizing: Pots, Pans & Cooking Utensils

There is nothing more stressful than a un-organized kitchen for busy Moms and Dads.

 Coming straight from work or the kids activity taxi service then rushing to prepare meals for a now hungry family. 

Having successful organizing systems in place can greatly lessen that stress. I like to keep commonly used cookware and cooking utensils in prime real estate spaces nearest my stove. 

Some common cookware items for us include frying, sauce, sauté and stock pans. If you happen to open pots & pans with lids,  see if there a gap at the handle of the lid that could slip over the handles of your cookware for simplified storage.

The less common items like larger pans (woks...) can be stored outside of the prime real estate area.  A different cabinet or shelf  space not in immediate proximity of your stove are just a couple options.

Kind of like the pots & pans,  cooking utensils can be organized by frequency of use. There are 3 items I use nearly every day when cooking, my large plastic spoon, slotted spoon and spatula. I like to keep them in that small drawer right under my stove.  All my other utensils are kept handy but not in my immediate grab space.  

Drawer dividers really support keeping my cooking utensils organized and separated within the small space.  

If you recently updated cookware or got new cooking utensils, consider decluttering the old ones by gifting forward, dropping them into the kids moving out box or donating to a local facility.

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