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How to Organize Your KitchenOrganize your kitchen and make it a well oiled machine in your home. Especially if you are cooking for a large family, creating a meal can become quite a chore if you are not organized. If you find that you spend more time preparing to cook and serve rather than actually cooking and dining, you need to organize your kitchen! The first step to organizing your kitchen is to empty all of your cabinets and drawers. This may seem tedious, but the only way to organize all of the items found in a kitchen neatly or orderly is to start from scratch. Use your dining table, kitchen floors, countertops, and other surfaces to keep the items until you are ready to put them away again. Start with your dishes. You never feel like you have enough room for your dishes. Find the largest cabinet in your kitchen, and start filling it up with plates, saucers, soup bowls, cereal bowls, and glasses, in that order. Nest everything, stacking from largest to smallest. You’ll be amazed how much you can fit into one cabinet! Next, put away your silverware. If you don’t have one, get a plastic silverware organizer from your local dollar store and place it in a drawer, preferably the one closest to the cabinet you placed your dishes in. Sort your silverware by forks, spoons, knives, and serving ware. Again, stack from largest to smallest if your silverware doesn’t match. It will fit much more neatly. Now it’s time to put away all of your pots and pans. This can be quite a chore if you have a lot of different pans and not much storage space. Cookie sheets, iron skillets, and griddles fit well in the broiler section of your stove. Other pots and pans should be placed neatly, nested from largest to smallest, in the cabinets closest to your stove. If you don’t have enough cabinet room, consider a hanging pot rack for your pots and skillets. Get a utensil holder, or make one out of a decorated coffee can. Place all of your cooking utensils in the holder on the counter next to your stove. If you don’t have a spice rack, pick one up at your local department store very inexpensively, and hang it on your wall next to your stove. Alternatively, you can get a spinning spice rack and place it on the counter next to your utensil holder. Baking supplies such as mixing bowls, measuring cups, mixers, beaters, and measuring spoons should also be kept together. Choose a cabinet that is close to a drawer, and place your mixing bowls, mixers, blenders, and other supplies there. Then, use the drawer to store your beaters, whisks, measuring cups, and other baking items. Finally, it’s time to put away all of your dry and canned goods. The best way to do this is to organize them into categories. Put your canned goods away by placing them in rows according to the type, such as peas, green beans, corn, etc. Then, put away your boxed goods in the same way, such as stuffing mixes. When you organize your kitchen, you will find that meal time becomes less of a chore, and much more enjoyable.
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