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The Epicurious Guide to Organizing Your Kitchen

2022 can be the year you finally create a streamlined, tidy kitchen. Start with these tips from organization pros, food experts, and Epi editors, and you'll be well on your way.

Set Your Kitchen Up for Success

Organizing your kitchen begins with thinking about how you use your workspace. Get organization tips—and thoughts on kitchen flow—from food pros who cook all day, every day.

How to Create Kitchen Stations for Streamlined Cooking Every Day

What if you stopped organizing your pantry by category, and started organizing ingredients and tools according to the way you use them?

We Asked Food Experts for Their Kitchen Organization Tips

Seven secrets for keeping even the busiest kitchen super organized.

Tackle Your Pantry

Should You Really Decant Every Pantry Item Into Storage Containers?

Sure, it looks great on blogs, but is it necessary? Organization experts give us intel on whether everything in your pantryreallyneeds to go into a storage container—and how to do it the right way.

The Best Pantry Storage Containers for Flour, Sugar, and Beyond

Keep your dry goods dry (and safe from pests) with the storage containers commercial kitchens swear by.

The Best Label Maker for All Your Obsessive Organizing Needs

If you want to feel like you really have your act together, a good label maker is a must. Here's our favorite one.

Yes, It's Possible to Finally Corral Your Spices

Learn our color coding method—plus, find our favorite spice organizers.

After a Million Failures, This Spice Organization Hack Worked for Me

Here’s why color-coding your spices is the best method for keeping your cupboard spice rack in order.

The 6 Tools You Need to Organize Your Spices Once and for All

Our staff's all-time favorite spice-organizing tools

Create a Flavor Station

Why You Should Have a Quarter-Sheet Pan That Never Goes In the Oven

Use this utilitarian tool as a one-stop station for your frequently-used oils, acids, and seasonings.

Maximize Vertical Storage Space

9 Ways to Use Wall Storage to Organize Your Kitchen

Not enough storage in your small kitchen? Make use of the vertical space you're forgetting about.

How to Design a Pegboard Wall and Organize Your Kitchen Like Julia Child

Maximize storage and show off your copper cookware at the same time.

In a Chaotic Universe, Shelf Risers Make My Cabinets Orderly

Maximize the vertical storage space in your kitchen.

Make Your Fridge an Oasis

The Best Way to Clean the Fridge

Condiment goo stuck to your shelves? Almost-empty ketchup bottle from 2010 still hanging out in the back? Here's how to give your fridge a deep clean.

Fridge Baskets Keep Your Fridge From Descending Into Chaos

Turns out, shoving two weeks-worth of groceries into the refrigerator at once is difficult. Fridge baskets keep things under control.

Everything You Need to Make Your Refrigerator Look Like an Organization Blog

These are the best products for storing produce, stacking cans, and saving leftovers in a tidy fridge.

Keep Counters Clutter-Free

10 Bowls, Trays, and More to Keep Your Kitchen Clutter to a Minimum

Find a home for mail, keys, and those rings you always perch on the edge of the sink.

Make Cleaning Tools Accessible

Use This Kitchen Basket System to Curb Your Paper Towel Habit

Use fewer paper towels—and look good doing it.

5 Types of Paper Towel Holders, Ranked

A totally biased and emotionally-driven assessment.

Because of This High-End Goat Hair Duster, I Dust Every Day

Are you fancy? Do you love functional decor? Read on.

Finally Tackle the Tough-to-Store Stuff

How to Organize Your Utensil Crocks

Because the whisk and tongs just can't play nice.

19 Wine Glass Storage and Organization Solutions

What’s the best way to organize your wine glasses? It depends.

How to Organize Oven Mitts and Pot Holders

Stop piling them precariously close to the stove.

How to Finally Organize Food Storage Containers

Have a mess of mismatched containers? We’re here to help.

How to Store Pot Lids for a More Efficient Kitchen

An inexpensive office supply product that will keep your pot lids upright and out of the way—plus more pot organizers we love.

We Asked a Fridge Restock TikToker for Pro Organization Tips

Read her two most crucial recommendations for making your fridge look like the pristine ones you’ve seen online.

Your Kitchen Probably Needs a Pot Rail

It’s a simple, stylish, and practical way to eke a little extra storage space out of a small or over-crowded kitchen.

Short On Counter Space? Get Yourself a Lid Rest

It’s deceptively sturdy and super handy.

You Say Fruit Basket, I Say Snack Basket

How to use a three-tiered hanging basket for storing more than just fruit.

Your Fridge Needs a Magnetic White Board

If your grocery list lives on your fridge, you'll never forget mustard again.

See How a Professional Baker Organizes Her Home Kitchen

Including open shelving, utensil hooks, and lots more ways to make the most of a small space.

These Tiny Mise Cups Help Me Streamline Weeknight Cooking

因为有时小准备碗不是small enough.

An Inexpensive Way to Give Your Kitchen More Drawers

These adhesive drawers are the perfect storage solution for your weirdest kitchen items.

A Lazy Susan Makes Everything a Little Bit Easier

These turntables keep a well-organized kitchen within arm’s reach.

The Epicurious Guide to Organizing Your Kitchen

2022 can be the year you finally create a streamlined, tidy kitchen. Start with these tips from organization pros, food experts, and Epi editors, and you'll be well on your way.

Tame Your Out-of-Control Kitchen Drawer With These Smart Utensil Trays

Store your flatware and cooking tools so everything is accessible for cooking and tasting.

Kitchen Organization Is Easy—and Kinda Cute, TBH—With Open Spaces

This direct-to-consumer brand has everything you need to (stylishly) tackle your kitchen organization project—and nothing you don’t.

How to Organize Your Freezer

Chest, pull-out, or reach-in—these tips and tools have you and your toaster waffles covered.

Best Knife Blocks, Docks, and Magnetic Strips to Store Knives

It's not just what storage you choose (magnet, drawer, block)—it's how you use it that keeps them sharp.

How to Turn Your Kitchen Table Into a Home Office Space—and Back Again

If your new normal means eating and working in the same spot, use these tips to create the best possible (easily storable) WFH set-up.

A Kitchen Funnel is the Key to Bulk Ingredient Organization

You won't lose a single grain of rice (or drop of olive oil) in the process.