Drawers inside a kitchen cupboard

[PenelopeFlintstone]

Excuse my ignorance but I've moved into a house with a kitchen cupboard that contains 3 drawers. I don't know what to use them for as I don't know what weight they take.
What do you keep in yours?
Thank you

Everything - I have no bottom cupboards just drawers. In one I keep pots and pans, another baking items, another cups and plates. In the shallower top drawers the usual forks, knives and cooking utensils.
They are much easier to use as you pull them out and can see what's there rather than bending over and routing around.

Thanks, PipandMum.

You lucky thing having all drawers ( my kitchen designer insisted I couldn’t have all drawers - I really wish I’d talked him down). You can keep plates and other crockery, saucepans , kitchen appliances - anything really. They are far far far better than cupboards

Show us some photos please, and look carefully for any brand names. If the fronts are grey plastic, and the trays are grey steel, with ball-bearing runners, they may be Blum or Hafele which are very strong and well-made.

Look up "Tandembox" or "Antaro"

In the one set I have utensils in two and my plastic storage in the big bottom one.

I then have many junk drawers , though some contain useful stuff like chopping boards and tea towels.

Think about where they are in relation to appliances. I keep spices in one, veg in another (potatoes and onions), use one as a bread bin, keep foil, bin bags and cling film in some others.

Are they wall cupboards or base units?

Deep drawers in base units are great for pans, mixers, bottles. You can also get a plate rack insert to hold plates on their sides.

Shallow drawers are great for cutlery and utensils. Again you can get dividers or inserts.

Are they pan drawers?

I only have drawer units and appliances. I have a drawer for cutlery, one for medicines, one for pans, one for all stuff you need for homework, another one for onions and potatoes, one for Tupperware but my favourite is the spices drawer.

All my kitchen base units are "larder" ones, so the door is attached to a drawer at the bottom and I have hidden drawers inside.

I believe mine take 25kg per drawer (Ikea Faktum - old style kitchen)

I have everything in them, plates, bowls, pans. I love not having to reach over to get things at the back of the cupboard.

Thanks everyone. Sorry I’m late replying. I’m in a different time zone.
They are three shelves in a normal height base cupboard.
They’re in an old 90s kitchen, so possibly quite modern for the time. (Fits with all the old appliances being Smeg.)
They are just white.
Thanks all.

I’ll post a photo when I’m back at home. I’m away at the moment.

I have drawers for everything!

but my favourite is the spices drawer

Me too!

I use the deepest drawer to the left of my kitchen range - I sacrificed a second pots & pans storage for my lovely spices drawer - it's deep enough to take litre bottles of olive oil and all the stuff easy to see and get at immediately. (I have a Howdens kitchen btw - basic but lovely).

Top tip, OP - use drawer liners which stop things from sliding around inside the drawer - I bulk-bought in IKEA