My wife says every family has this drawer. I do not believe every family has this drawer. Do you have this drawer? Do you know a good solution to this drawer?

We have a silverware drawer, organized, maxed out. A sharps drawer, organized, maxed out. Ziplocs, organized, maxed out. Bbq tools and oven mitts, organized, maxed out. But all this shit has no particular category so fuck me right. I gotta have an awkward necessary crap drawer. Maybe I should post all my drawers and crowdsource me some sense into my kitchen.

  • This is not a junk drawer. A junk drawer has flashlights, pocket knife, some tools, tape, bandaids, pens. This drawer doesn’t have anything like that.

    This is the food prep drawer.

    I have three food utensil drawers. Dining, serving, and prep.

    If you have a small kitchen, maybe you would combine serve and prep utensils into one drawer.

    Can opener, cheese grater, scale, rolling pin, whisks, mixer parts, and cooking knives, all go into drawer. But like the bread knife and cake knife go into serve drawer, along with labels, and serving spoons, for example.

  • recentSloth43@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    That’s essentially the “overflow” drawer. The only solution is to have less stuff… Or just live with it like i do lol

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    2 hours ago

    Almost every home has a junk drawer or other junk container. Mine has multiple.

    All that being said, I don’t think I’ve seen a drawer as confusing as this.

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    56 minutes ago

    Entropy wins… always. You must free yourself and accept this. You cannot defeat entropy.

    Every house has one. My mother with legit OCD had one… though she claimed it was a ‘Miscellaneous’ drawer and not a junk drawer. (To be fair, it was a well organized junk drawer at any rate.)

    But yeah, your wife is right.

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    2 hours ago

    Of course, everyone has this drawer. It’s called a junk drawer. Where else would you put this crap. What planet are you living on?

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    I have this drawer.

    It’s not a junk drawer.

    It’s an irregular kitchen items drawer.

    It’s just the cost of being someone who actually uses their kitchen. We have the garlic press, scissors, pizza cutter, bench scrapers, microplaners, thermometers, etc… in there. All useful things that fit poorly with other things, so they get a drawer all to themselves.

    The junk drawer with batteries and twist ties is another drawer.

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      This isn’t junk/misc, most of those things should have proper places.

      This is a monstrous misuse of the misc drawer. The pizza cutter, for example, should be with your knives.

      It’s so not a junk drawer it should be a proper utensil drawer if nothing else. Get that scale out and just line the others up like you live in a society!

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    Remove the scale, electronics don’t belong in the misc food prep and niche baking implements drawer. Once you do that you’ll easily recognize it as the food prep and niche baking implements drawer. The scale goes on a shelf, or in a cabinet next to the mixer/food proc/salad spinner.