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.

Tupperware was a nightmare - 1000 mismatched boxes and lids. I've been using these from Lakeland. They're brilliant as they're all the same dimension except different depths so the lids all fit and they stack. In a pull out plastic tub in a cupboard.

Smaller pans in a fucking drawer and bigger pans and frying pans in a shitting cupboard.

@AlwaysLatte

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

Why not?

@kowari

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.

Is that all? I like to use pans that fit what I'm doing. I have 3 18cm saucepans, other sized saucepans and a selection of frying pans in different sizes, a big saute pan with lid, a woke I quite like and a wok I like less but use when I prepare multiple dishes (eg a meat dish and a veg dish) and a saucepan with steamer insert that sees quite a bit of use in winter but gets shoved to the back of the cupboard in summer.

In a pan drawer. Brilliant invention

Is that all? I like to use pans that fit what I'm doing.
There's just the two of us and I've never needed anything else. I don't even use the big saucepan as I cook curries, chilli, soup and so on in my 3 litre casserole dish instead.

I have 6 pan drawers, for the pans, Tupperware, plates, everything used frequently is in the pan drawers. It is a brag, but I waited 30 years to get a new kitchen so I feel entitled

I have a ceiling rack, it's hugely satisfying when you get them all balanced up there, all the colanders, sieves and quite a lot of other random shite is up there too

It does have to be screwed into the rafters/joists though...ain't no rawl plugs in the world would hold that baby up otherwise!

Hang the damned things. It's the only way. I HATE rummaging about in cupboards.

I've got a bastard pan stand because my kitchen is tiny. I've also got dogs who brush past it all the time so I have to wash them every time I need to use them.

I dream of a big kitchen with pan drawers and actual storage.

Maybe I should put a shelf somewhere.

I have a worktop with just open shelves underneath. All my pans live there. I love it, I can see everything, separate space for every pan - only the frying pans are stacked, really easy to clean.

All 8 saucepans fit in one 600 pan drawer and 3 frying pans on a shelf in a stack.

We have a similar problem, they're mainly stacked on the hob and then moved to a different room when we cook.

We have little storage space, no wall space for a shelf or rack or anything. Our kitchen is crap and we can't afford to do anything about it. It's annoying.

In the shit heap of a cupboard that requires reorganising approx once a week. Every time I go in it the dog runs away in anticipation of the whole effing lot falling on the floor.

Nephew has pan drawers. Bliss.

Had a new kitchen fitted this year and all base units are pan drawers (and little inner drawers) with just one cupboard under the sink. I do not miss the cupboards..

I've always wanted something like this but don't have the room 😔

Basically you need to rip out your entire kitchen. This is what I need to do but I have a leaking bathroom and ripped moth eaten carpet which needs to be replaced first.

So all I can offer is split your cupboards into certain types of pans. All frying and big sauté pans together. Nesting saucepans together and then sieves and colanders together. Fuck knows what to do with lids. They are a law unto themselves

OK, so pan drawers.

I have three in my kitchen. I had no idea and just had to Google what a 'pan drawer' is.

I thought they were just drawers. They don't hold any pans...all our pans are shoved in a normal cupboard 😂😂

Oh bloody hell, I apparently also have pan drawers!?

They're very narrow and full of junk though, I don't know if I could fit more than one pan in each drawer.

I having the lids separately eg. In a drawer is a bit of a game changer
Also seems to help with Tupperware

Thanks to this thread I’ve just discovered that we in fact have pan drawers!!! Wow!!! So now all 10 pots and pans plus lids are tucked away in 2 deep pull out drawers. I’ve had the same problem as OP for years, wish I’d known sooner. Have lived here for 10 years....

Just done a Tupperware cull- I wonder when they’ll start multiplying again

Tefal space-saving saucepans, the handle comes off. My kitchen's really tiny, and all pots and pans fit in a shallow wall unit, (used as a base unit).