The Best Spice Storage Solutions
The Best Spice Storage Solutions
We searched for the best spice storage and organization devices on the market and found several great options for a variety of spaces.
Buy the Spicy Shelf Deluxe: https://bit.ly/3yaXTUl
Buy the mDesign Spice Rack Organizer: https://bit.ly/3WskALF
Buy the LYNK PROFESSIONAL Organizer: https://bit.ly/3ytBvW7
Buy the Over the Door Organizer: https://bit.ly/3Su4fFb
Read our full review: https://cooks.io/49Z0ptO
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The masked people in the background make me want to puke.
Does this help protect the spice from Harkonen invaders?
To have that amount of spices on hand is ridiculous. Most will go stale and manky.
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That’s a specy spicy meatball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😊
We have an over-the-door pocket shoe rack that we use on our pantry door
Love the behind the pantry door hanging rack! 👌🏽
I built my own inside the pantry door spice rack. Then I filled in all of the available space (why was there a knob on the inside of a pantry door on a closet pantry that has full built in shelves? It’s gone btw) with wisks, spatulas, brushes and rack for foil, Saran,wax paper. Lol I replaced the hinge screws with longer ones.
I have a similar over the door unit, I can’t tell from the video, but are all of the shelves the same depth on the one shown? The one I have has shelves that are different depths, which is great for us. Mine looks a little chaotic since I don’t have the shelves in any semblance of order (by depth) but it woks great. Since the shelves on mine are wire, I cut foam board down to size and placed one in each basket, it works great! Everything stays up without falling over. If I can ever find a semi thick plastic that I can cut with a box cutter, then I’ll get that. I need that for our reusable shopping bags anyway.
I’ve got 2 Spicy Shelf units and they are great.
as a God Emperor I am very interested in ways of hoarding spice to control the Spacing Guild
I have an antique oak medicine cabinet mounted on the wall in my country kitchen. Perfect!
After trying a few options, I ended up buying the mini mason jars – I like to get my spices at a bulk place that tares your container and you buy what you want without additional waste, so the refillable jars are perfect for my wants. I just keep them in a couple of $4 baskets I bought at Target, stacking the baskets on top of each other. It takes up way less space in my cupboard than other solutions.
Is that George "Goober" Lindsey?
I have the U-shaped rack, but what they don’t address is that the empty space is apt to become crowded with other items. After all, if you can afford to leave that space empty, you’re already doing fine, it seems to me. I’m here looking for a better solution!
Thanks for the review of the variety of storage ideas.
when I designed my kitchen, I asked for a top drawer in my island that is a little deeper than planned. So when I’m at the island my spices are right at hip level in a giant drawer, right there where I need them as I mix ingredients. This is also opposite my stove where a quick grab might be necessary.
The very wide drawer is deep enough for the bigger grocery-store sized glass spice jars. I also use the squat Ball jars to store bulkier-purchase spices. I don’t use any risers or anything. the jars simply store upright with handmade labels on the tops. I have a LOT of spices, so they are stored alphabetically. Generally I repackage spice purchases into the glass spice jars for size conformity. Porous plastic is almost always traded for the fresher-keeping glass [or a few tins too].
The drawer, away from heat sources, also allows storage of some odd boxes, warehouse-sizes [put on their side] and tins too. I do use flexible plastic separators [like the kind for lingerie drawers] to separate the rows and keep them in some order.
In other houses, I’ve tried the other styles, including the metal hanging rack [the second best], but right there all in one place in a drawer has been the most satisfying.
Also I designed my kitchen cabinets [all wood] with adjustable racks on the inside of the doors. That’s where all the odd-sized varieties of salt and pepper go. In that cabinet’s adjustable shelves are oils and vinegars, liquid smoke, vanilla, various flavorings. That kind of design alleviates the deep cabinets and allows for an easy reach.
I actually have the Spicy Shelf Deluxe and it’s split in two to fit in my small mobile home cabinets. And it’s going into the bin soon. It does its job, but if you put anything else in the cabinet then you have to shuffle things around or remove items to get at the spices you’re looking for. If you can devote a whole cabinet for it and only sit smaller spice jars on the bottom between the shelves, it would be just fine. I just don’t have that luxury. (Also, it’s just cheap plastic and fidgety to adjust.) I’m probably going with a countertop solution with a wooden tier that I’m currently using elsewhere. One thing I didn’t see here is something like you’d see the spices in at the grocery store, a slanted rack where they’d slide to the front. Something like that would be a great way to deal with them. Similar to that, I have a platform for my Keurig (gone bye-bye) with a divided drawer for K-cups which will be perfect for the little stubby spice jars, and I’ll sit that wooden tier on top of it. Another solution I already use for spices from large jars or packages is the Kamenstein magnetic spice tins that I stick on the side of my fridge. The tops are clear so you can see the spices and they twist for shaker or pour openings. There are also magnetic or wall mount spice racks, if you don’t have a pantry door to hang a set on. When space is limited there is often no one good solution and you have to get creative.
Love it. Great segment 👏🏾
I have an over the door like thst in my kitchen. It has been a HUGE help.
I live in a very arid, desert city and my family requires storage for quite a large amount of spices. Do you have any recommendations for storage solutions that are extremely durable? Particularly against guerilla attacks and improvised explosives. Thanks!
I got some little wire rack shelves from Home Depot that can be attached to a cabinet or door with screws. I think they were about $10 each. They are installed right by my butcher block table, in plain view. No big deal.
I think the plastic stand-alone ones look cheap and inconvenient. Where do you put them? I don’t have that much counter space. The one that wobbles is especially bad.
I made one using glass magnetic jars that hang so it looks like art ❤
Our kitchen is small so space is no more. This drawers will be using at that time for spices and something.
I made an alchemy cabinet with every spice in a different mini vase. I use display shelves.
Very nice ❤❤❤
This is the nudge i need
I once had a kitchen that had a pull down ironing board. That was removed and shelves put into it for a spice pantry with a door to hide everything. I absolutely loved it.
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I have the door storage racks on every door in my mudroom/storage room because they really do expand your storage capacity. I love the fact that all of the shelves are adjustable as well; nearly doubles my storage space for cans and dry goods.
Best video! I have been searching for such a video for long
I glued metal shelves on the wall of my stove. Holds 52 jars. Would recommend, as I can reach for them without leaving my cooking. That being said, I need to store the back up bags of bulk spices for refilling the jars in the pantry. They’re just unwieldly. Definitely a lot cheaper to buy spices in bulk, though, unless you’re someone who considers a dash of oregano too spicy. But my chili uses more than a literal cup of spices, so I need to buy in bulk. xD
Theres no way anyone is using 50 different spices in the home kitchen.
Nothing to help organize Lazy Susan storage?
My husband built a wooden version of the clear 3 tier shelf. My spices look like a chorus on bleachers.
Nothing seems really good.
when you are blind, it does not matter if the spice jars are actually invisible with their labels facing out. I am a blind cook, my spice jars, have talking labels on them, I had to buy a special pen that allowed me to do that, which of course cost over $100. Definitely well worth it though. I put my labels on the bottom of the jars, so people who can see, when they come over can grab a spice so while they see it.
Wait a minute! Why no discussion about proper storage for some spices to the refrigerator?
Really should look at Magnetic Shelves as well. Lots of people have extra space on the sides of the fridge.
I got the Spicy Shelf Deluxe. Got it on sale at Bed & Bath in a 2 pack for $20. Been basically perfect and checks nearly every box.
Curious: what are your thoughts about the magnetic ones for the side of your fridge for most used spices?
I have Vertical Spices drawers ….expensive but great. And best of all are plastic drawers I have but forgot where I got them.
I use magnetic spice tins that I label and keep on the side of the frig. You just need to make sure the frig doesn’t get too hot.
I just buy the good quality spices and I put ‘em in the door of my fridge. Nothing dries out and they stay fresh almost all throughout their life of me using em. And they’d blocked from heat and light. Especially when it comes to bay leaves.
The spice must flow!
Meh – I prefer to keep mine in the freezer door. Out of sunlight and the cold helps them stay fresh longer.
The Spicy Shelf winner looks like junk… I bet whenever you grab one bottle, two more fall off the shelf.
The best spice storage space I ever had was a large lazy Susan built into the corner of the lower cabinets of my kitchen. I no longer live there but miss that lazy Susan so much. It beat any drawer storage space for spices.
I have purchased a Spice Storage Containers of Various Sizes and have No Problem.
When You use a Particular Spice a lot buy the larger size Spice instead of the small one.
Consider it.
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Cuttable spice drawer organizer was best for me … those stepped shelf ones got too messy and constantly shuffle about to see .
He who controls the spice storage controls the Test Kitchen.