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Found secret drawer in kitchen!

33 replies

Boxshibe · 07/05/2023 11:39

Deep cleaning kitchen ready for inspection. I obviously don't pay attention as I found a drawer under the built in oven and weve been herea year. What's it for? Plates?
Anyone else found something secret in their house?

OP posts:
Cillmantain · 07/05/2023 11:42

It's possibly a warming drawer for plates

My281NewestName · 07/05/2023 11:42

Is it a warming tray?

My281NewestName · 07/05/2023 11:42

Sorry warming drawer not tray.

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Batalax · 07/05/2023 11:43

I have one under my oven I keep baking trays in.

StaySpicy · 07/05/2023 11:43

We use ours for storing baking trays and cake tins.

Notanothernewname · 07/05/2023 11:49

I just have a plinth but I want a drawer now. Seems like such a wasted space.

notsayingmuch · 07/05/2023 11:51

I once found a cupboard I hadn't used. I moved in and put stuff into what I thought was a single cupboard above the kettle. Months later I realised that the unit had a double front and there was another totally empty side to it!

Singleandproud · 07/05/2023 11:52

@Notanothernewname I take the plinth off and store things like fizzy drinks bottles, extra cleaning products and christmas supplies under there in low boxes/trays so they can be pulled out.

GCWorkNightmare · 07/05/2023 11:53

Plinth drawer! For baking trays or frying pans usually. Has them in a flat in London and thought they were brilliant. Will definitely put in my next kitchen.

Crinkle77 · 07/05/2023 11:56

Proving drawer?

mynameiscalypso · 07/05/2023 12:00

We use ours for baking trays and a waffle iron. I don't think it gets warm enough for any real purpose like warming plates etc. it also tends to get quite grubby too although maybe that's a result of my slapdash approach to oven cleaning.

YaWeeSkitter · 07/05/2023 12:18

In a holiday cottage we spent the best part of an hour looking for cutlery .
The cottage was well fitted out with everything else so missing knives and forks were a mystery. It was only after giving up and using a measuring spoon for our drinks that someone spotted that the utensil drawer was actually a double decker. There was a slim drawer above it which had a flush edge and no pull or anything to give it away. And there was the missing cutlery!
I was torn between being annoyed and admiring the design.

Its was only afterwards that we read the instructions for finding the drawer in the cottage handbook. A simple sticky label would have helped though.

SinnerBoy · 07/05/2023 12:54

YaWeeSkitter· Today 12:18

There was a slim drawer above it which had a flush edge and no pull or anything to give it away. And there was the missing cutlery!

We have one of those, my wife tried various drawers in B&Q and kept going back to it. I wasn't keen, but she raved about it.

Soon after the fitters left, she asked me where the cutlery was, I told her I'd put it in the special drawer, then had to show her... She then had a tantrum and said it was crap and that we should get rid...

MrsCarson · 07/05/2023 15:30

Love my Plinth drawer, we store baking trays in it.

Oldraver · 07/05/2023 15:52

We put in a single built under oven and there was a sort of blanking plate under it, so rather than fixing it in, put some hinges on it. It was great for the grill tray and baking trays

Ive now got plinth drawers for baking trays and one for Typperware

NeverTrustAPoliceman · 07/05/2023 16:10

YaWeeSkitter I think we have stayed in the same cottage. We had to text the owner to ask where the cutlery was.

My Dad built a secret cupboard in our house when I was a child. We kept some jewellery, passports and other important documents in there. Weirdly my mother also used to keep her books of green shield stamps in it. When I eventually sold the house I showed it to the new owners who were very excited and said they would have lived there for years without discovering it.

billyt · 07/05/2023 16:21

@Boxshibe

I'm just pleased you called it a drawer, not a draw Grin

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 07/05/2023 16:35

YaWeeSkitter · 07/05/2023 12:18

In a holiday cottage we spent the best part of an hour looking for cutlery .
The cottage was well fitted out with everything else so missing knives and forks were a mystery. It was only after giving up and using a measuring spoon for our drinks that someone spotted that the utensil drawer was actually a double decker. There was a slim drawer above it which had a flush edge and no pull or anything to give it away. And there was the missing cutlery!
I was torn between being annoyed and admiring the design.

Its was only afterwards that we read the instructions for finding the drawer in the cottage handbook. A simple sticky label would have helped though.

I have one of these. It was fitted by the previous owners as part of their (rather strange) kitchen refurbishment. Mine is actually Inside the drawer though, it just looks like a sort of shallow rim under the hob.

I don’t think they knew it was there, it looked as if it had never been used. The kitchen units are Polish ( they imported them from Poland themselves, complete with fitter) I’ve never seen this before in UK, or France.

prettycolours · 07/05/2023 16:38

Got all excited reading this thread as I have a drawer-shaped bit under my oven that matches all the cupboards and I never paid attention to it despite renting this place for a couple of years. So I went over to test if it was a secret drawer and it turns out it's just a bit of wood Angry your thread got my hopes up OP Grin

but I'm happy for you that you have yours! I love secret stuff in houses.

Original poster
Boxshibe · 07/05/2023 16:42

prettycolours sorry about that. I'd never of noticed if I wasn't deep cleaning. Think I'm going to put pan lids in it

OP posts:
bornintheuk2 · 07/05/2023 16:43

We have a bespoke oak kitchen and whilst doing some investigating with regard to fitting a new hob we tried to see if we could remove the extractor hood fittings (to allow for regs regarding items above a gas flame). Inside the fascias were small shelves and on one there was a glass vase wrapped in a brown paper bag. How bizarre!

CordyLines · 07/05/2023 16:56

I have plinths that are cut to the same size as the cupboards/oven above (bendy down oven). They were with the house when bought. They are not drawers yet although there are plans to hinge them or something. They come off and attach back with magnets! Super storage and hidey holes.

hettiethehare · 07/05/2023 17:09

Boxshibe · 07/05/2023 11:39

Deep cleaning kitchen ready for inspection. I obviously don't pay attention as I found a drawer under the built in oven and weve been herea year. What's it for? Plates?
Anyone else found something secret in their house?

We were in our last place for a good 10 years until we found the drawer under our oven. Clearly the mice had known it was there though as it was minging and full of mouse droppings!!

Inertia · 07/05/2023 17:15

SinnerBoy · 07/05/2023 12:54

YaWeeSkitter· Today 12:18

There was a slim drawer above it which had a flush edge and no pull or anything to give it away. And there was the missing cutlery!

We have one of those, my wife tried various drawers in B&Q and kept going back to it. I wasn't keen, but she raved about it.

Soon after the fitters left, she asked me where the cutlery was, I told her I'd put it in the special drawer, then had to show her... She then had a tantrum and said it was crap and that we should get rid...

We have one of these drawers- we keep the cutlery in the lower deck and spare house/ car keys in the hidden top deck.

Heartsnrainbows · 07/05/2023 17:17

It's for keeping baking trays in. All ovens used to have them but you don't see them much anymore.