How to organise drawers & co. with the basic order in the kitchen.
Do you regularly find yourself searching for salt or olive oil and are surprised when you discover food in the cupboard that has a best-before date three years ago? Then it's time for a new kitchen organisation.
One problem in the kitchen is all the food you buy and then rarely need: The exotic spice for your African stew, the grated coconut for Christmas coconut macaroons and much more. Utensils also often seem to multiply spontaneously in the drawer: The special cheese knife from the holiday in Holland, the sweet biscuit tins from the Christmas market and the milk frother for the cappuccino that has only been used once. That's the motto: Clearing out, separating and sorting for successful kitchen organisation. Find out how you can achieve this!
In the kitchen cupboards, provisions quickly slip to the back and are forgotten there. Start your reorganisation by clearing out the cupboards. Sort out everything with an expired best-before date. Try to avoid a second row.
It is very helpful to fill long-life food in airtight transparent tins and stack them on top of each other. When you open the cupboard door, you can immediately see all the tins. This is suitable for example for
If necessary, label the tins so that you can identify different types of pasta or lentils at a glance.
Do your larders remain half empty? Then consider taking them off completely. Wall units in particular make the kitchen look smaller than it actually is. Instead, use accessories such asstorage tins with nostalgic motifs or transparent jars that stand decoratively within easy reach on a narrow shelf for your kitchen organisation.
Speaking of ready to hand: When organising the kitchen, follow the tips on thecorrect order: Frequently used spices such as salt, pepper and oils for frying should be stored directly on the hob. With an innovative cooktop extractor system from BORA , for example, you can dispense with the classic extractor bonnet and fit a shelf in its place. The greater the distance from the hob, the more rarely used accessories and ingredients you can store in the cupboards there.
Drawers are a recipe for chaos the more kitchen utensils they accumulate. This is also the first step: Sort out everything you don't need (anymore). Then proceed as follows:
The work surface should be well thought out: The fewer accessories you permanently store here, the less chance there is of clutter. When organising your kitchen, focus on small kitchen appliances that you really need all the time, for example:
Only rarely used items, such as the waffle iron or the popcorn machine, go into a kitchen cupboard. At BORA, you will also find innovative ideas such as the BORA QVac built-in vacuum cleaner: It is built into the worktop and only moves out when you need it.
A real hack for your worktop is a rondel, a rotating plate: You place several small kitchen appliances on top and turn the appliance you need into the foreground.
Now you have a good idea of how to organise your kitchen. Tips on how to maintain this in the long term:
Another tip: Light is your secret helper. A linear pendant light such as the BORA Horizonilluminates your entire work surface evenly. This avoids dark areas where small kitchen utensils, spices and storage containers are quickly forgotten. What's more, working in the kitchen is much more fun when you have everything in your well-organised kitchen at a glance!
