Comments on: Frustrated with my spice cabinet

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:41:17 +0000

Gary,
You have some great ideas. I have since moved to a different set up. Mostly I benefited from a larger kitchen. I too, have written dates on my spices so I know how old they are. I am curious what spices do you store in the fridge/freezer?

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:44:00 +0000

This works for us.
When we bought our current home about 18 years ago, we had a 2-tier lazy susan put in a lower corner cabinet where the door is attached to the lazy susan.
Upper shelf we have all of our small and medium spices in alphabetical order.
Problem – you can’t read the front labels on a lower shelf.
Solution – I made a list of all the spices and printed little round labels for each. Your local office supply store probably has a crazy variety of shapes. Add dates to these labels to help you purge extra older spices, that you really should not be saving for your grandkids. Then placed each label on the top of each jar.
I too am big into Penzy’s. We have one 3 miles from our home.
Lower shelf is used for large, Sam’s Club, type container, etc.
We recently purchased a refrigerator with French doors. One side has very shallow shelves by the ice maker. We use those for spices we want to keep refrigerated.
We use the small basket inside the freezer for additional longer term spice storage.

By: JStansell

JStansell — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:50:00 +0000

Don’t know if you will see this comment or not but I, like everyone else, had many spices of different shapes, sizes, etc. What has worked wonderfully for me is in my pantry i hung a spice wire rack from lowe’s and numbered the shelves. BUT the best thing I did was type a list of all spices in alphabetical order and I hung a small cork board right beside the spice rack and just stuck the list by the spices with a thumb tack. I can go in and, at a glance, see if I have the spice and exactly which shelve it is located. This also helps tremendously if I have “help” in placing spices back…..as anyone can see where it goes. If I run out of a spice i make a note and if I add or delete a spice, i just make the change on my computer and print a new list. This has been a life-saver for me.

By: Crissie

Crissie — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:51:00 +0000

I put all my spices/salts in jars – mason or 4 oz jelly jars – my hubby glued sheet steel to the underside of all my cabinets and I purchased earth magnets and glued to the top of my lids. All my jars are stuck to the bottom of my upper cabinets – there are 78 of them… I used tiny magnets with a 1 1/2 pound pull for my jelly jars and larger ones with a 5# pull for my masons – I have cabinet lights behind them and although you can barely see the jellies, they reflect the light and look really good! They don’t take up any counter or cabinet space that way ; )

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:06:22 +0000

I haven’t tried one of these. But anyone that designs a small spice cabinet is not my favorite person. I have always needed something just larger than what I have. I did buy some shelving solutions from the Container Store. There is a brand called Elfa and they make these nice back of the door systems that are great for helping you organize what’s in your pantry.