What do you keep in the cupboard over the fridge?

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Just that really! I am trying to declutter my house, and re-organise things.
What do you keep in this cupboard? It opens at an awkward angle, so trying to be clever about I put in there. Looking for ideas/hacks!
Thanks

Cereal bottom shelf of it and my daughter’s various medicines on the high shelves

Scales, mixing bowl and eggbeater. I hardly ever bake.

How do you all have cupboards over the fridge? Dont you have a fridge freezer?

On top of my fridge are jars of unopened sauerkraut, sports bottles, boxes of cat food and beer cans that need the labels peeling off to go on the garage beer can label wall.

No cupboard above my fridge but I do have a wire basket which holds crisps and 3 large containers of flour which won't fit in the pantry cupboard.

Woke , steamer and some Tupperware

Woks !

@dementedma integrated appliances 🤷🏻‍♀️ Yes, a fridge freezer, one tall cupboard, 3 doors.

That’s the cupboard I let my husband keep his kitchen stuff in, like the iron his mum gave us and his bobble remover. Bless him

I have one of those big American style fridges so no cupboard above it. Ontop of it are kitchenrolls, packets of cereal & the iron. That’s one thing I dislike about our kitchen - not enough storage space so there’s stuff on every available surface & it looks really cluttered.

Thanks everyone!! Seems we are all quite similar! I have cook books currently up there (rarely used though!)
But it's hard to get them in etc due to the angle! Tin foil etc might work though!

Good dinner set, matching serving bowls etc that I only use occasionally. Wedding china.

I have one of those big American style fridges

A bit off topic, but what's the difference between an American style fridge and the fridges more commonly bought in the UK?

We have ordered a new fridge as the old one is no longer keeping temperature consistently in the freezer compartment and we wanted a bigger one anyway. I wish we didn't need to do it during lockdown, but that's life. We had to have the water heater replaced a few weeks ago too.

@MissConductUS

Well ours is huge, a full fridge and a full freezer, they open in a different direction to the UK ones, it’s got a filtered water and ice machine and a special section that opens out just for the fridge. It’s great. Really good for setting and adjusting temperature, it’s got holiday mode and cleaning mode etc. It’s a Samsung and has lasted us for 9 years so far.

@MissConductUS

I’ve just realised you might not be in the UK .

So this plus a separate Freezer was our old style

www.johnlewis.com/bosch-classixx-kir24v20gb-integrated-larder-fridge-a-energy-rated-55cm-wide-white/p757367

And this is an American Style one similar to
ours (but there are other great and cheaper alternatives)

www.johnlewis.com/samsung-rs68n8941sl-eu-american-style-freestanding-65-35-fridge-freezer-a-energy-rating-91cm-wide-silver/p3505344

@NameChange84 - I'm in New York, one of those sneaky Yanks on MN.

The second fridge you linked to is called a "side by side" or French style here. More common is having the freezer compartment on top of the fridge section. The freezer compartments in the side by side units tend to be too narrow to easily hold items like a large frozen pizza or a 15 pound turkey.

We've ordered this LG with the freezer on top. The Samsung units are highly rated here too. Our older one was the same style Whirlpool but about 3 cubic feet smaller. I can't wait to have the extra room.

23.8 cu. ft. Top Freezer Refrigerator in Smooth White with Reversible Door

@MissConductUS this is all so funny! So what we call a US Fridge Freezer you call a French one and the Fridge Freezer you’ve linked is what many UK people own!

We got a (so called!) American Style one after spending a lot of time living between here and the US and this was the style we became used to as it was popular in the homes we stayed in in California and the South.

I’m getting an Education in fridges now haha!

It turns out I was a bit off in my refrigerator terminology. The French door styles have two side by side doors for the refrigerator compartment and then a freezer compartment underneath.

www.homedepot.com/b/Appliances-Refrigerators-French-Door-Refrigerators/N-5yc1vZc3oo

The French door reference is no doubt due to the similarity to the tall, narrow French doors many houses have that open out onto a patio or deck, at least here in the US.

www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=french+doors+to+patio

I keep the first aid kit and lunchboxes x

For those who can’t picture it, this is a UK cupboard above what we call an American fridge freezer!

Thanks @GreyishDays