What to do with deep kitchen drawers?

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We have recently moved into a new house and the kitchen mainly has deep kitchen drawers (and some very deep cupboards). I need some help in what to do with these! I have some non-slip drawer liner but no other organisers or inserts. Inspiration / guidance please!

We've got a few deep drawers - used for saucepans, casserole dishes and the like. But we don't have, or need, dividers for them.

I have two deep drawers that are the length of a double cupboard. The top one has all plates and bowls in stacks. The lower one is saucepan and frying pans. I put the non stick liner in too. The only other organisational tool I use is a little rack to hold saucepan lids. I think it was a fiver from Ikea.

Thanks both. Do plates and bowls not rattle around?

Deep drawers are great - you can do anything with them. I only have 2 so use one of all my tupperware and one for baking trays and chopping boards. I've also seen them used for saucepans etc, or as a larder for canned/dry goods.

You don't need liners/dividers.

Pans and stuff in the deep drawers.
You can buy pull out baskets to go in the deep cupboards. We bought them for our deep cupboards, that I couldn’t properly get to the back of. Oils, cans, packets, baking stuff are now stored in them and there’s room underneath for a box with herbs and spices.

This is really sad I know. When I got my new kitchen I bought sizeable off-cuts of vinyl floorcovering from a local carpet shop. I gradually lined all cupboards & drawers with a light wood effect vinyl. It's taken all the punishment. Easy to clean, and I thump and bang heavy items around with gay abandon. Insides still look good.

You can get racks from Ikea kitchen dept that mean you can store pan lids and baking trays vertically.

Ikea also sell 'hidden' drawers that fit inside the deep drawer at the top. have these for spices and lids for tupperware, with the tupperware in the main drawer bit, but if it's not an ikea kitchen, they probably won't fit.

I've just refitted a second drawer inside the deepest drawer of my Ikea kitchen (20cm drawer is deep enough for my deepest saucepan so 40cm drawer was a bit redundant). It was surprisingly easy, although took a while, and cost £70.

Our deep drawers have the pet food in :)

it depends if the sides of the drawers are tall or not.

I had deep drawers, but with shallow sides. Useless!!!

I got Blum (I think that's the brand) inner drawer to install inside, which made a second ordinary sized drawer out of it, and left the other tall drawer alone, and put a large plastic box/crate in it, so fill up with various baking spoons ,cups, icing stuff etc. It's not ideal, as it gets hard to find things in the box, but I didn't really need that space for pans. There are other cupboards for pans, and only one other drawer (for cutlery), so I needed all the drawer space I could get for the other sorts of stuff you keep in drawers (utensils, implements, baking gadgets, all of that!).

Deep drawers are great, much better than cupboards.
For plates I bought a rack thing from Ikea, each division takes two plates. Then I also have stacks of bowls and smaller plates in the same draw. The one beneath has saucepans. Another has baking trays (some in another rack, others stacked). Then one with odd bits - pancake maker, hair dryer, salad spinner etc. Then one with cast iron pots and roasting trays. The final one has laundry stuff and plastic bags, foil, baking parchment etc.

We have 4, and all the pans and baking stuff live in them. Because they're IKEA, they don't need lining.

Deep drawers have saucepans in them, and another two have cereal packets and all the "tall" stuff - spaghetti jars, squash bottles, olive oil bottles etc. We have some "hidden" drawers in ours too (thanks IKEA!) so pull out the main drawer in one and you get all the plates and bowls, then pull out the inner drawer to get to the cups and mugs that live above.

Love my deep ikea drawers! I spend so much less time squatting or sitting on the floor to get into the back of cupboards. Biggest one for pots, one for pans, one for baking things, one for Tupperware and one for miscellaneous and roasting tins. Crockery is in a cupboard as is all food.

I use a divider running across the drawer and have a section to stack tupperware boxes inside each other and the other section takes the lids. Works well as tupperware is the bane of my life.

My deep drawer didn't have deep sides so I used cardboard to build up the sides and Iv used it as my snack/sweetie/biscuit/pretzel etc drawer.

These are all super helpful tips. Don't think it is an IKEA kitchen so I will ask the former own where it is from, and definitely do some DIY dividers! Thanks all.