Those of you with 1000cm deep kitchen drawers.....?

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What do you keep in yours. And, more importantly, is there a weight limit. I mean, could they take 2 large le creuset pans and a pressure cooker weight without collapsing??

depends what it is made of I would think.

2 large le creuset pans etc is likely to be very heavy though - you would need some hefty drawer runners to take that.

I use mine for pots, but as I have cheapo non-stick ones from Woolworths, I don't know if your poncy le creuset would be too heavy.

I know I know ...le creuset are far too heavy...i find them hard to lift now never mind when I'm older..bought them in my twenties..and too expensive to chuck out or give away..there must be someone else with 1000mm drawers and le creseut pans??

Bit late on this...all my storage is in metre wide deep drawers - pans, plates, mixing bowls, saucepans, including a set of le creuset pans and casseroles, the works. It is brilliant, imo. the le creuset stuff is fine but I tend to keep it in the bottom drawer.

thanks pandp..that's really useful info..do you have bog standard carcasses and runners or a really good kitchen..am thinking it might be the quality of the cabinets that might matter

unless you are buying an expensive kitchen most kitchen carcasses are similar in construction - just with different quality cupboard and drawer fronts. I have an inexpensive kitchen and keep a pressure cooker, 2 frying pans, 5 saucepans with lids and a colander in one drawer of mine with no problem at all!

It was a stupidly expensive kitchen (we were treating ourselves after 2 years in a house with no kitchen - long and horrendous renovation) but I think most 1000cm wide drawers are built to take that sort of weight so you should be fine as long as it is put together well. (The architect we used was very clear that cheaper carcasses are just as good if put in by someone who knows what they're doing - she uses IKEA carcasses with posher fronts in a lot of projects.) If we were doing it again I'd get a cheaper kitchen and try to poach the guy who built ours to put it together...