Pan Drawer - Clueless

[peachesarenom]

Thanks to a recent thread about useful things that make you happy, I've realised after 6 years, that I have two pan drawers in my really annoyingly small kitchen! I also have a larder cabinet which has been till now the kitchen's only redeeming feature.

However, I have no idea how to make use of my pan drawer, up until now, one has been used for mismatched tupperware and a lot of excess lids. The other is used for all the kitchen gadgets we don't use!

Meanwhile I have only two working pans left.

I need new pans and I want to make the most of my pan drawers!!! Please inspire me! DH thinks you just make a massive pile of pans and sit them inside the drawer, that can't be right, surely there must be an element of easy access?

I have two big drawers, the bottom one is pans and the top one plates. In the pan drawer I put a storage rack from Lakeland for all the lids. There's room for a stack of fryingpans and a stack of pans, in size order.

Thank you! I'll have a look in Lakeland!

I have one pan drawer with two stacks of frying pans (a stack of two & stack of 3, it’s a wide drawer). And another with saucepans in stacks of 2. Avoid stacks of >3 if you can. I have a divider across the back which holds lids vertically.

Marie Kondo says you should only have to remove one item to get to something. I don't agree with everything she says, but that has stuck with me. Guided by that priciple, I would stand an on their sides in a pan drawer. I actually use mine for other stuff (plates, mixing bowls etc) and have pans on a shelf in the tall larder unit, but I don't use many pans.

The one thing I'm good at it is kitchen organisation.

I have two pan drawers. Top one has my three saucepans individually placed with their lids on top and a stack of wok, large frying pan, small frying pan, colander, sieve. It helps that I have a wok & big frying pan with a removable handle.

Bottom drawer (which is slightly deeper) contains my stock pot, small casserole with it's lid inverted on which sits my two pyrex measuring jugs. At the back there is a minor jumble of all my bakeware (loaf tin x2, sandwich tins x 2, deep round cake tin, canapé quiche tray, individual loaf tin tray.

My big casserole doesn't fit in the pan drawers and my roasting tins live elsewhere but other than that this is all my cookware. I don't think I'm missing anything major - I used to have a griddle pan but I didn't use it much so got rid of it.