Sorting out the cooking stuff

I have been doing slow tidy for two weeks, and already there is an improvement - the kitchen benches are now clear, the table is clear and the kitchen chairs are now clear. This has not happened for two weeks at a time since we arrived here, so it is a major breakthrough!

He who helps is off this weekend, so I can sort out the cooking stuff.

There are three drawers and a cupboard to look at. I know this is slow tidy, and I only need to do one shelf a day, but this stuff is a real problem. The plastic stuff is distributed throughout a cupboard and two drawers, the pyrex glassware that can be used for microwaving or baking is in any of two drawers and the cupboard. I can never find a mixing bowl. He who helps (who does all the washing up) keeps on putting things in the wrong place, and I can never find things when I am cooking!

In response to my complaints about not finding things, he took to leaving things on the bench, so the bench filled up! And because it wasn't empty, it used to have other things on it - like letters that had been opened, letters that were unopened, things that had not been put away...

So I have put everything from the two drawers and cupboard on the kitchen floor...

Big saucepans and casserole dishes 

More stuff

Silicone baking dishes

How could all of that fitted into the space!!! And I am not even doing the saucepan drawer yet! Or the place where I put my metal oven trays. How can I have so much? The big saucepans and casserole dishes need to go into the cupboard - these saucepans are too big for the drawers. Six of the casserole dishes are the same size - I can't use them all - EVER! I use the preserving pans (especially when I am making two soups at once), so they can be kept. 

The plastic containers that are incomplete are going into the recycling. Excess casserole dishes, microwave cookware and pyrex is going to the op shop. 

However, to keep it apart and not end up with the mix up I had before, I need to have four drawers (not three) as well as the cupboard. I moved all the stuff from a fourth drawer, somewhere else (that hasn't been slow tidied yet - hopefully there will be enough room!). I have put all the silicone bakeware together in one drawer, all the microwave dishes in another, all the plastic containers in a third, all the cooking utensils in a fourth, and the cupboard has all the big stuff and the casserole dishes. Everything fits nicely into the drawers and the cupboard, and they have all been cleaned - LOOK AT THIS...

Casserole Cupboard

Microwave cookware drawer

Silicone bakeware

Mixing bowls and other cooking utensils