Post your pantry photos!

mrs_lds

Lots of ideas here.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pantry&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&biw=1024&bih=672&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=DCdUUOCPOMLX0QXyyYCYBA#biv=i|188;d|qik5PjIDd8nX3M:

GreyQueen

mrs_lds wrote: »

Lots of ideas here.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pantry&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&biw=1024&bih=672&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=DCdUUOCPOMLX0QXyyYCYBA#biv=i|188;d|qik5PjIDd8nX3M:

Pantry P0rn!

Ohmigosh, a lot of those pantries are the same size as my entire kitchen, envy envy.

I have sachets of dried custard powder in poly bags in the shallow drawers under my sofa. Anyone else got weird storage? Cannot post pix as haven't got anything to take them with.

tessasmum

I've got pictures but they're not on this computer, so not able to share at the moment.

My pantry comprises of two old MFI wardrobes which are screwed together back to back (because they are getting old and wobbly!) in the garage/store room. They are shelved out and filled with all our tins, packets [flour, sugar, etc], and dried stuff, with AF bulk-bought loo roll on the top of them, alongside boxes of cat biscuits! All my home made jams, pickles, jellies and chutneys are out there, too. We also have three chest freezers which I consider part of my pantry arrangements, although I know pantries traditionally store non-refrigerated/non-frozen goods. To me, our pantry encompasses all our stored foods. I also have shelves in the garage where I keep things like the slow cooker that I don't have room to store in the kitchen, and don't use every day.

lostinrates

GreyQueen wrote: »

Pantry P0rn!

Ohmigosh, a lot of those pantries are the same size as my entire kitchen, envy envy.

I have sachets of dried custard powder in poly bags in the shallow drawers under my sofa. Anyone else got weird storage? Cannot post pix as haven't got anything to take them with.

Atm we are in a temporary kitchen. Ita ok, but a bit of a hassel. I have three boxes of spices/ baking goods in the top lifting section of a gun chest (also my only work surface, so any build up clutter becomes a night mare) and a sort of rubix cube arrange ment of plastic boxes on another unit (hence no surface space there). Because they are clear plastic i can (just) rotate them and shuffle the one i need to the top to get what i need.

I do not aspire to keep a uears worth of anything bar hm preserves and frozen /bottled home produce...flour etc i am hapy to buy three or even four times a year. I like to buy tins of tomato a tray at a time, and two trays would be preferable, but the most i think we would 'need' to survive for here would be a few months (when i am too ill to go out but not ill enough to not cook). If i get more ill than it will all go to pot anyway. The men buy stuff everytime they cook rather than check the cupboards. I am hopiong that our ultimate pantry arrangement will make it easier for them to plan and check.

I love the look of lots of those images, but would need to lable my storage jars, i cannot cguarantee i could tell rice flour from cornstarch for example, once decanted. Or different types of rice at a quick glance. Lables often start to look dog eared, which i hate. A marker onto the glass or plastic might be preferable?

I am also planning to have higher than standard kitchen storage. I will need a ladder to access it. It seems perfect height for once a year stuff like christmas baking tins and cookie cutters etc, rarely used gadgets, and even the punch bowl we rarely use but don't want to get rid of.

As for regularly used tools, i plan to devote a dresser sized unit in my new kitchen to these, and have had a power supply left there so that i can have sockets at the back of these so that when we can afford a kitchen i can have pull out 'drawers' with these so that on low strength and mobility days i can still cook. This will give room for things i use or plan to use a lot to be in place and only need removal for cleaning, as they can be lugged in in situ, and pushed away should we eating in the kitchen itself! I was excessively proud of this original idea until i found out high end kitchen retailers already do this.

Also, they told me, 'most' people (opting for hugely expensive kitchens) now opt for two dishwashers instead of plate and cutlery storage they sore it in the dishwasher, taking the clean from one, and puting it into the other one when dirty, so that they never have the job of putting stuff away (one of the most hated jobs in my family and in laws i have noticed). Does make me wonder how much these peoe spending six figure sums on kitchens actually cook as the first thing i thought was about pots and pans for different cooking etc.