AIBU to ask where you store your bastard pots and pans?

[Sadhoot]

Every single time I want to cook anything the thing I need is in the cupboard under a different thing and I have to have a fight with the cupboard and I've just whacked my forehead on the counter trying to retrieve a frying pan

There has got to be a better way.

Probably have too many pans or, the ones you use rarely are being kept in the same place as the frequently used ones. Take the rare ones out and put elsewhere.

I've also solved the Tupperware problem.

1. Buy the cheap take away style ones from tesco or similar.
2. Stack the boxes and keep the lids separately in a cardboard box or similar.

No mis matching lids no time spent trying to find a lid no more guilt when one breaks or melts.. all interchangeable. Job done.

Pan drawers. And the massive things like wok or jam making pan go on the corner carousel (everyone always seems to think they're a complete waste of space but I think they're brilliant for oversized, odd-shaped stuff).

Big long cupboard in my stupid impractical Italian kitchen, designed for aesthetics not for use.

My 15 month old son likes to remove said pots and pans for his percussion practice.

In the bloody corner cupboard, under the counter , where all the pots, pans, lids, baking trays, muffin tins, sieves, colanders, baking sheets, cake tins, flan tins, bread tins , sandwich tins and just about any other bloody roasting thing lives.
( Need a new kitchen!)

Pan rack on the ceiling

67th vote for pan drawers.

Pan rack on the ceiling in previous house, deep pan drawers in this one.

Sorry sounds like my big long “cupboard” is also a pan drawer for which others are voting...

We have pan drawers too for a few bits that are too shit to put in the ceiling rack-and the lids

Like this - only problem, dust gets on them

Pan drawers one pan deep so no rummaging. Bigger cupboard above the oven for the big stuff which isn't used so often. DH has installed the Ikea kitchen of my dreams.

On the open shelving (Habitat 1984) with a rack for the lids to go in. Fitted kitchens are not all they’re cracked up to be.

Until I was about 30 I didn't realise you could store pans by placing it's lid upside down inside it, thus providing a basis for the next pan to stack on top. Life changing

On a pan holder thing in the garage. We have a door from kitchen into the garage. Wish my garage was an extension to my kitchen as garage is bigger. Supose really it is a kitchen extension due to the amount of kitchen stuff we have in it,bloody cold in the winter though.

I have a lovely new kitchen with a massive corner kidney shaped pullout thingy and all my pots and pans live there. It is a thing of beauty and I can often be found pulling the cupboard open for no reason than to look and admire. I

I feel your pain OP my old kitchen had no room for pans and I fought with the plates to get to them.

Pan drawers and I love them , I have 6 of them and couldn't be without them.

I have a big pantry, with colanders and strainers hanging from the ceiling and the pans from rows of large hooks on one wall.
I haven't completely solved the Tupperware issue but the heartache of matching up lids to boxes has proved too much for me to bear - I even numbered tops and bottoms with indelible pens once, but they quickly got washed off - so now I have one of those huge plastic chests on the pantry floor, under a shelf, which is big enough for me to store them with lids on. This is sanity.
In my holiday home I have a four foot high cast iron saucepan stand, which I love but wouldn’t have the floor space for here at home.

Do you have a lot of pans? I have three saucepans, milk pan, medium pan and large pan, stacked on the bottom shelf. Casserole dish next to those. Wok in the back corner. Frying pan on top of two oven dishes on the top shelf. Pizza trays and baking sheet live in the bottom oven.

I use a Mackapar shoe /storage cabinet from Ikea. I find it perfect for what I need, so no awkward bending down.It's white, has clean lines and fits neatly without taking up too much room. Probably originally designed for a hallway so that gives some idea of its size. The shelves are adjustable too.

I keep my pans on the hob - it drives my mum mad ("it looks so messy!") but I have no space to hang and it annoys me having to dig through a stack of them in the cupboard when I'm using them most days anyway

WitsEnding

Oh I would LOVE an unfitted kitchen. Unfortunately I didn't know they were a thing until after the new kitchen was installed.

Oh my life. I think I have pan drawers and have never realised (new build kitchen, so didn’t design it ourselves). Will be moving things around in the kitchen tomorrow. Thank heavens for this thread!!

We have a long strip of wood that matches the work top. Its about 4 or 5 inches wide and has been screwed to the wall vertically. It has brass hooks on it and the pans hang from there. I liked it so much that we did a similar thing on the side ends of the wall cupboards for things like the colander, wok and saute pan. Its great, no rootling around in drawers or cupboards and you can lay your hands on what you want at once.

In a fucking cupboard and in a shitting drawer.
Why the swearing?