Where should the sieve live?

[QueenOfWeeds]

Can you settle a disagreement in the Weeds household please? We have a deep cupboard in the kitchen where we store most of our kitchenware crap paraphernalia.

Person 1 - the (metal) sieve lives with the metal mixing bowls on the bottom shelf.

Person 2 - the sieve lives on the shelf above the mixing bowls, with the frying pans, adjacent to the saucepans.

For context, the colander lives on the next shelf up, with the second sieve. I fully accept this is the most logical place to keep the first choice sieve, but it’s really high up and harder to access.

We know how to make the most of a day off in this house! It’s wild!

I'd have it on the frying pans as it sounds easier to get it out. Mine lives on the shelf on top of the scales on the shelf over the microwave.

Pan cupboard for me but my mum hangs it up!

Mine sits neatly in a mixing bowl in a cupboard with all the other baking paraphernalia

Ohhh, hanging it up is a great idea!

Ours is in the paddling pool…

With the mixing bowls as it is more likely to be used with them than with pots and pans.

This is clearly a crucial matter and I am happy to provide a witness statement for any parliamentary enquiry or divorce court.

What is Person 2 thinking?!?!

PS - the colander should really be with the pots and pans.

Mine too

If it is used for sieving flour etc for baking then it lives with the mixing bowls, obviously.

<flexes fingers> Ooh, it might be time for a holiday cupboard reshuffle!!

Wherever it causes the least trouble and can be got when needed. Ours sits nestled in the colander in the big pan drawer with saucepans on one side, frying pans on the other. So can’t help you!

Depends what you use it for!
If you use it for sieving flour/baking, then it should live with mixing bowls.
If you use it for draining peas and pasta, then it should live with the colander/pans.

Ours lives with the pans, for that reason alone.

Same as @Talipesmum we have a deep pan drawer where the pans, colanders and sieve live.

Our big colander type ones live in the big pan drawer with the big stock pots and frying pans. The smaller, finer sieves (live in a deep drawer with random kitchenalia like the meat thermometer and the knife sharpener.

Interesting - in theory I agree with this. Unfortunately person 1 uses it for baking, preferring the colander or good old fashioned “lid of the pan at an angle” for draining things. Person 2 would default to the sieve.

I’m trying really hard to stay neutral here but I don’t think I’m doing a very good job! 😂

Sorry for random bracket

Colander in the cupboard with the pans. Metal sieves on a nail between cupboard and fridge and plastic sieve (for baking) on its own separate nail between cupboard and fridge.

Beware anyone that gets the metal and baking sieves mixed up 😀

I’m very envious of your living kitchen equipment, it sounds fun. Do you hear them chattering at night? Do you think they sneak off sometimes to stay with each other, or swap places to wind you up? What does the mustard pot do? ( see Sword in the Stone) . Our homey utensils just sit inertly wherever the user puts them, same with the intact ones…..

Any shelf as long as its in a cupboard.

Lives with the colander in the saucepan drawer

Ok! Thanks to @Wallawallakoala’s mum, we now have a command hook in the cupboard!

I’ll wait patiently for all the posts telling me I was right before, though.

Our harder to reach shelf has a stacking plastic mixing set which has the colander and the back up sieve in. Person 1 and 2 both agree this is the logical place for it to go, and yet simultaneously the least convenient. Frying pan shelf is more accessible, but it doesn’t nestle in as neatly. Mixing bowl shelf is slightly less accessible, but visually more appealing.

Don’t even get me started on the chopping board/salad bowl drawer of doom. I swear I’m going to lose a finger one day.

Sieves live with cake making things, baking trays, whisks, etc.

Frying pans and saucepans live in a separate place!

Colanders absolutely DO NOT live with sieves!

Whisks and baking trays together?!

They do if you use them for the same thing! I have a very small colander (perfect for pasta/rice for one person) and a pretty large colander (great for large portions of things), but my sieve (metal mesh, not a fine plastic mesh) is commonly used for draining 2 portions of pasta etc. It takes up less space in the dishwasher than the big colander and is easier to handle, so it's the default option.

I guess if I ever wanted to sieve flour, I could use it for that, but in 30 years of baking I have never done that, so I'm not likely to start now. I have a very fine, small sieve for icing sugar (stored with the baking stuff)

Uh oh, our two are having a forbidden romance then, living in sin in the same living quarters 😱