Show me your spice drawer

[Tulipmonster]

Not sure if I should be posting this here or in the home & garden section but here goes.

I’m at a loss for how to store spices in my new kitchen. I’ve a drawer set aside for the purpose but am stumped by what to store them in, how to organise them etc. Help!

Pics and links to products especially appreciated!

Ikea bottles and rack attached to a cupboard side.

We have spices in the little spice jars from Ikea, upright with the lids labelled, in alphabetical order. You can also store the Ikea jars kind of half on their side, so the contents are visible

mine are all in alphabetical order too, how sad!

Nah, it’s not sad; just makes finding them easier and quicker.

I have spice rack envy. Our kitchen is very small, so I keep my spices in small jars in old ice cream cartons in a cupboard.

However, the lids are beautifully labelled using my Brother P-Touch labelling machine.

This is a cutlery depth draw with Tesco spices.
I like how they're immediately to hand but not getting greasy on the bench.

This is how I know I'm not a proper grown up....I have oregano, curry powder and 5 spice. In a cupboard. I dont know what I'd do with all the spices....although they all look lovely!

@phyllidia wow that’s so satisfying 😌

I don't have enough drawers in my kitchen to do thatphyllidia. I'm so jealous. Spices aren't meant to be kept on a workbench as they lose flavour quickly.

lastburritos I made a delicious lamb bhuna (a Tom Kerridge recipe) yesterday, using various Indian spices. I even made my own Garamond masala (a Madhur Jeffrey recipe if anyone is interested)

Garam masala! Bloody auto correct!

Mine are all in packets stuffed into a huge lock n lock box.

I have really limited storage in my kitchen so have to have two large racks attached to the wall.
I was talking about spice racks recently and two friends looked a bit confused and asked why I needed all those spices as they don't have any.

My MIL and SIL also don't own any either. Not a single dried parsley, no oregano or basil, no Paprika, and turmeric is just a funny word to them.
SIL has a tub of curry powder, some salt and some ground black pepper. Nothing more. And MIL has just salt and pepper. That's it. How do people cook without them? I mean, what do they eat?

Your friends and in laws must eat a very unimaginative diet OcheAye

Bit of a mess but broadly in alphabetical order. The difficulty is having different shaped jars- I'm going to investigate the Ikea ones!!
Like PP I can't imagine cooking without all of these, what do people eat??

I have a herb bed in the garden, and a bay tree, so I always have fresh bay, rosemary and sage all year round. And in the summer I have fresh mint, thyme, parsley and chives as well.

I love mine but there's no real order to it

@bilbodog @KarenW These are very inspiring - what are you using to label the jars?

Used a box of round stickers from Amazon and just wrote the labels.the stickers are about a centimeter across.

Tulip - i got some sticky labels from Amazon that had all the usual herb and spice names already printed on

Bloody hell! So many spices! Do you all use them, or are some of them one-offs for a specific recipe?

Think I might need to up my cooking game

Oh god... my spice drawer is RAMMED... too much in fact! I have indian spices, English spices, Chinese spices, whatever else! I built it all up over the years and just restock now when it gets empty. So It is completely full! I regularly cook from scratch so they're always needed. Any recipes at all that calls for seasonings / spices, I can guarantee you I've got them right there.

Our spice drawer is 2 (fairly shallow cupboards). I had no idea people kept their spices in a drawer!

Oh my God, I neeeeed a spice drawer!! Will post a pic of my chaotic spice cupboard....

weedsneeds now THAT is a thing of absolute unadulterated beauty! I think I've seen you post a pic of it on another thread a while ago. I've never forgotten it!