Upright freezers.......do you have a system as to what goes where ?

[Bonefish Blues]

I have one like that. Packs badly too.

Yep, I know that feeling. Shopping is also a series of random careerings around the store as opposed to something that will buy what we need in the least time by using the list which I've written in sequence to match the layout of the store. Familiar?

 

[Reynard]

Cutlery drawer... Now that would depend whether you're talking about the two cutlery drawers in the kitchen, one for cooking utensils and serving cutlery, the other for everyday cutlery (1 & 2), or the two cutlery drawers in the chiffoniere in the dining room (3 & 4).

In order the packing system is as follows:

1) Everything gets wanged in. The soup ladle and the potato masher tends to jam the drawer. Except things like bread knives, carving knives, carving forks and such that have pointy bits get put in with the pointy bits to the end and the cutting edges down.

2) Forks, knifes and spoons from left to right, and teaspoons in the doodad across the bottom of the cutlery tidy. To the right are my kitchen knives, again, point towards the back of the drawer, cutting edges down. At the front are things like scissors, vegetable peelers, citrus zesters, kebab skewers and chopsticks.

3) Forks, knives, soup spoons, dessert spoons. The crossways compartment has fish cutlery, teaspoons and cake forks.

4) All the random gubbins such as cake slices, fish slices, pastry tongs, nut crackers and the like.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

two cutlery drawers in the kitchen, one for cooking utensils and serving cutlery, the other for everyday cutlery (1 & 2),

The cooking utensils I use most are hanging on hooks from a rail, really handy.

two cutlery drawers in the chiffoniere in the dining room

Wow, you're a posh one
What was meant to be my dining room is now my bike room

 

[Gwylan]

4 deep draws.
#1 frozen (surprise) meal portions. There's only 2 of us at home so I tend to batch cook and freeze
#2 frozen bread, pizza, ice cream, sorbet
#3 frozen dead animal flesh and fish corpses
#4 peas and corn as emergency vegetables, frozen portions of garlic, ginger and chillies. Then boxes with coriander and mint

Yep, I know that feeling. Shopping is also a series of random careerings around the store as opposed to something that will buy what we need in the least time by using the list which I've written in sequence to match the layout of the store. Familiar?

Oh shopping!
Why not arrange things in some order on the conveyor belt and then bag upas things arrive.
Start
Wine bottles, heavy undamageable items
Chilled and frozen.Revolutionzry idea - why don't we put those together in the cool bag
Then a bag for fruit and veg
Finally a bag for the heavy, robust items.


Nah, chuck it all in different bags and pile the potatoes on top of the grapes and eggs.
Oh! The bog cleaner has leaked over the flour.

 

[katiewlx]

We used to have a system but its all gone to pot. Now I just shove anything in where it fits. Only 1 basket remains ordered, that's veggie stuff for the stepsons gf, which never gets eaten so we currently have 4 bags of quorn mince in there

yeah I had a system with my old fridge/freezer that worked for best part of 20+ years, unfortunately it went to silicon heaven, and my new fridge/freezer whilst its the same outside space, its smaller inside, and the old system just doesnt work with it, and I cant get my head around a new one, so stuff just goes in gaps and I hope I remember Ive bough it. which frequently in the fridge part Im finding Im not.

 

[Gwylan]

Cutlery, well there's a story. We now have

Everyday table cutlery that hangs on a funny piece of sculpture that lives on a work top.

Utensils,small, compact,cooks for the use of. Occupy the top-drawer of one of the kitchen units. Ranged in trays and filed appropriately
Below that is a deeper draw that holds cling film and aluminium foil dispensers. Also ladles, spatulas and so on.

Cutlery for entertaining is kept in a drawer of the sarcophagus. It's really a huge family heirloom disguised as a Jacobean dresser in the Welsh style.
The cutlery was a wedding present from a friend of my wife's family. She was very generous to us and we never understood why. It's over 50 years old and has worn very well.
The sideboard is about 100 years old and came from my paternal grandfather.

It is one area of our world where I manage to keep obsessive order