Pan Drawers or cupboards for food storage?

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I need to finalise my kitchen this weekend and I’m stuck on the last 3 or 4 units. All undercounter units no cupboards above the worktop on this side of the kitchen. I need a large baking cupboard/drawer - flour, sugar, nuts, decorations (I have 6 sugars, 4 flours etc…) plus a unit for snack and bread products - I have 2 teenagers. Cupboards or deep pan drawers?

Drawers every time. The only thing I’d have a cupboard for is tall cereal packets. Obviously I don’t have any drawers because I never gave it a thought when I bought my kitchen, it’s something I regret constantly.

I agree drawers all the way.

No empty unreachable corners, no having to turn the cupboard out to find things.

The only thing I prefer cupboards for is heavy crockery.

We've got pan drawers in our new kitchen and I don't know how we ever lived without them! Xxx

Drawers!!!! Absolutely drawers. I've just ordered our kitchen and even my tall larder units have internal drawers. It is rubbish bending down to get to the back of an under counter cupboard!!! Drawers you can see everything and pull out anything without moving the stuff at the front.

Drawers, no squatting down and having to move stuff from the front to be able to reach the back. We have pull out cupboards for all the base units, each cupboard door is attached to a drawer at the bottom and then we have hidden drawers inside.

Thank you as i thought drawers are popular. I can do two 800 drawers or three 600 drawers - is bigger more likely to get messy or is 600 too small? Very helpful comments so far, I hope it will help others.

I’d do three 600 and yes all drawers, definitely no cupboards.

I'd only have wall cupboards as cupboards. Everything below counter is drawers. I even want under the sink a drawer!

Make sure the drawers have high sides as well as deep fronts, some places charge extra but its worth it.

Drawers for your larder absolutely! We have extra wide ones, amazing!!

Another vote for drawers!

I am a draw hater, just hate them, would much prefer cupboards.

I had pan drawers for food in our last house and I hated it. Everything was piled on top of each other and I still ended up having to take half the stuff out to get the thing I needed that was inevitably at the bottom of the deep drawer. Next time I’d have a larder type thing with individual internal pull-out shelves/drawers. My sister has this in her kitchen and they’re great.

Something a bit like this: www.bullerltd.co.uk/images/detailed/12/1703-016-vauth-sagel-lava-planero-swing-out-larder-en-7-buller.jpg

We have lots of big pan drawers and I rate them over under counter cupboards.

However the good ones are more expensive than cupboards. We have hidden top drawers in two of the units- good for hiding stuff from the kids but a bit annoying as you have to open and close two drawers to access them.

I have wall cupboards floor to ceiling (almost) for crockery, glasses, mixing bowls. The fact that they are shallow means there is no raking in the back for stuff and you can get way more shelving in too, so very little need to stack things

The floor unit drawers are used like a larder and you can get so so much in there...esp if they have the deeper sides.
I will say though I wouldn''t go deep and wide, because the deep 600mm drawers are very heavy with tinned/baking goods.

I cannot wait to do a new kitchen in a new house!

I'd say cupboards for food. You may have to dig to the back of them but how is it any different to having to dig to the bottom of a drawer? Tins all look the same from the top so you'd have to pick every one up to find what you're looking for. Seems a lot of hassle to me.

I have deep pan drawers 800 mm wide and some 600mm. Get the two level ones, so it's a drawer within a drawer. You can fit so much more in and not have things stacked on top of each other.

My top 2 drawers are tin height or a bit higher and then I used the deeper bottom one for crockery storage.

@magicstar1

I have deep pan drawers 800 mm wide and some 600mm. Get the two level ones, so it's a drawer within a drawer. You can fit so much more in and not have things stacked on top of each other.

You can get dual level ones now? Thank you so much for telling me that @magicstar1.

Blossom those are the ones we had too.

The current ones the internal top drawer is a bit shallow as designed to be used as a cutlery drawer.

We have some with shallow inserts for cutlery etc., and some with deep inserts. They’re so handy. The pic is my cutlery drawer

This is my baking drawer, 800, and is under my island where I do most of my cooking. Absolutely love it, so easy to see and get to things out, even when I buy too much!