Pals, hello!
Virgo season is hitting exhausting this yr when even I take to the pantry with new canisters and labels. Virgo season would have us holding ourselves to our highest requirements and I’ve taken that on, and I’ve taken it personally.
I’m working with two pantries lately. Within the Houston kitchen (pictured above) I cleared and arranged a pantry I really by no means organized after I moved in a (yikes) yr in the past. Watch the satisfying (solely barely chaotic) transformation right here! In New Orleans I’ve paired down and purged components for company coming within the subsequent few weeks. My dad, my large sister, and Beyoncé (my favourite Virgos) can be proud.
As a recipe tester with too many alternative sorts of cocoa powder, I want my pantry to werk. Listed below are 5 of the merchandise I take advantage of to get my pantry (and thus my life) collectively. There are some splurges and a few saves and all of it comes collectively to operate:
• 1. Splurge on the very best dry good containers and I imply this from the underside of my coronary heart. Just a few years again my pal Nicole was hit by a nasty case of pantry moths and I most instantly put a basket of dry items collectively to assist restock her pantry with a condolence card as a result of it was precisely that critical. If you realize, you realize – and I pray you by no means know. When pantry moths get into your dry items you merely must throw EVERYTHING away. For a baker, that is at greatest a bummer, however extra precisely – a tragedy. In my expertise, the very best containers are these Progressive Prokeeper Containers or this Prokeeper 9-Piece Set for his or her tight seal and considerate extras (just like the terra cotta disk to maintain brown sugar moist). For my part, these are far and away higher containers than the OXO containers with the pop button on prime. The best way that I can simply pull the lid off these containers? Get outta right here with these issues.
• 2. Use tiered spice racks and small lazy susans to carry visibility to the pantry. I don’t even wish to inform you what number of duplicates of components I had hiding at the back of my unorganized pantry. On this economic system? I’ll splurge on the tiered spice rack and humbly work by way of the three open jars of chili powder I’ve thaaaaanks.
The clear lazy susans are nice for storing all of my extracts and baking spices. I preserve these on the center shelf of my pantry the place all of the ingredient duplicates as soon as hid. The lazy susan is shut sufficient for me to succeed in and spin and fortunately, no extra hide-and-seek.
• 3. Mason jars are nice for storing what was as soon as a considerable amount of say components right into a extra compact container. They’re inexpensive and tremendous versatile. I make all my home made dressings in mason jars and retailer them within the fridge and I all the time find yourself take a couple of jars tenting with sauces and marinades.
• 4. Use Clear bins to collect teams of components. Why do I’ve 5 completely different sorts of cocoa powder? Clearly as a result of every one is crucial! Bins come in useful for misc objects like bottles of corn syrup and cans of evaporated milk. Take into account it the junk drawer of the pantry.
• 5. Every little thing within the pantry deserves a label. I’ve gone to those nice lengths and I wish to know precisely what’s what after I swing these pantry cupboard doorways open. Brown kraft tape and sharpie markers are my secret weapon. The kraft paper is straightforward to put in writing on and most significantly, can simply be faraway from the canisters and jars with out leaving a sticky residue. Cheaper than a label maker and simply as addictive.
In full transparency, I have to reorganize my pantry each three months or so. In actuality I do it possibly, annually. God bless Virgo season.
