Optimize Your Kitchen Countertop With These Rules
For those of us living in living quarters with less-than-spacious kitchens, the counter is invaluable and it can be difficult to decide who is going to be outdoors. Basically, your countertops are a workspace, which means you need a place to work , and if you turn off every fixture it can get cramped.
Rather than collecting all the condos and stowing everything in a drawer or cabinet, I keep my kitchen clean and tidy by only allowing appliances to be on my counters if they fall into one of the following categories:
You use it at least twice a week
Take a look around your kitchen and notice what you use the most. For me, this ismy precise Anova cooker (and the accompanying Cambro), my vacuum sealer, cast iron skillet, chopping board, mortar and pestle. With the exception of the cast iron skillet, which I keep on the stove or in the oven, all of these things have counter space, because diving into the cupboard to dig them out will annoy me almost daily. It’s important to be truly honest with yourself here, because the essence of this rule is to optimize your kitchen to suit your unique needs, and you may find yourself storing appliances that most people would never think to put away. … For example, I get most of my caffeine from Diet Coke and cold drink concentrate, so my coffee pot lives in the closet.
Is it heavy or cumbersome
I don’t use the KitchenAid mixer on a daily or even weekly basis, but I’ll be damned if I try to take this thing off the shelf every time I feel the need to bake or (during the summer months) whip ice cream . My Instant Pot, however, is surprisingly easy to move around, so it stays in the closet until you need it.
Looking at this, you are glad
Do I use each wooden spoon twice a week? No, but they look really cool when grouped together – sort of like a pretty bunch of kitchen utensils – so I like to keep them on display in a cute little pot. I also love looking at my red stand mixer, which is another reason I keep it on the counter.
Again, I stress that the whole point of this is to create a cooking space that is tailored to your very specific needs, no matter how niche the device is. Drinking made-to-order sodas all the time, but only enjoying a smoothie a couple of times a month? Keep that fizzy flow and keep the blender, fuck social norms.