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Thread Number: 83065
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
The return of the Pantry |
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Post# 1073569 , Reply# 1 5/21/2020 at 00:11 (1,436 days old) by CircleW  (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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My sister's new kitchen has a pantry cabinet that is either 36" or 39" wide, 84" high, & 24" deep. It has roll out trays in the lower section, and divided storage for cookie sheets, etc. at the top. | ||
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Post# 1073582 , Reply# 2 5/21/2020 at 05:00 (1,436 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 I have two 18" wide by 24" deep pantry cabinets...one on each side of my SxS fridge. They hold everything from bags of cat food, paper towel packs, cookie sheets, foil and plastic wraps, pyrex, small coolers, the blender, some canned food (like you said, it gets forgotten so not much put there), dry goods like beans and rice, boxed mixes, bags of cereal, chips, cast iron cookware, my pressure cookers, and stainless stock pots. I have a smaller cabinet spanning between the two pantries and above the fridge. | ||
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Post# 1073591 , Reply# 3 5/21/2020 at 05:36 (1,436 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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My pulmonologist told me back in January to begin stocking up on products like Clorox Disinfecting Wipes, Lysol Disinfecting Spray, toilet paper, Kleenex, and canned/frozen meats/vegetables. He correctly predicted that there would be shortages once the virus began to spread. I was too slow on the draw to order N95 masks and lost that opportunity. He told me to be prepared to shelter in place for up to three months without leaving the apartment and to disinfect all grocery packaging as well as shoes. I thought he was crazy. Who knew?!
CDC has modified their recommendations and am no longer disinfecting food packaging. I bring everything that needs refrigeration or freezing in the house and leave the other groceries in the trunk of my car for a couple of days. That has significantly reduced the use of disinfecting wipes. My pantry is what was probably meant as a narrow linen closet at the end of the hallway and an open-faced built-in in the living room. I’m well stocked, so have no reason to buy large amounts of products at once. I simply replace a product every time one is taken from the pantry, which maintains a 3-month inventory. The only things I can’t get regularly are disinfecting wipes and Lysol Kitchen Pro cleaning spray. Was able to order a 4-pack of Lysol cleaner from Tri-State Camera, so did, despite the hefty price. | ||
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Post# 1073619 , Reply# 5 5/21/2020 at 09:35 (1,436 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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 I created a pantry in this house by relocating an opening and taking advantage of a recess in the kitchen. It's not yuge, but large enough for 5 shelves and as noted above, when I go to the store and encounter things I always use and they're on sale, I now have space to store the goods. My kitchen cabinets are very limited and the pantry also makes a great place to store cookware that isn't used often.
I did the same thing in my last home in Atlanta and loved the results. That pantry was larger and I put the microwave in the pantry so I didn't have to see it out in the kitchen.
The first pantry that I remember belonged to an aunt of mine who lived down in Perry County, AL. My uncle built a house in 1960 after he retired from the Navy and my aunt designed her kitchen to have no wall cabinets, but a very nice pantry. Being retired USN, they would go to Craig AFB about every 2 weeks or so and shop at the commissary, otherwise they were 15 miles from "town". That pantry was full of stuff and I loved how her kitchen looked without wall cabinets - lots of windows.
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Post# 1073637 , Reply# 6 5/21/2020 at 11:07 (1,436 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 My parents have a closet in the kitchen behind the bar with floor-to-ceiling shelves and an extra refrigerator. Mom calls it "the pantry" but uses mostly for non-food storage. The food-pantry is a floor-to-ceiling double-door cabinet next to the double walloven where the previous owner stored all of her silver-service items. | ||
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Post# 1073638 , Reply# 7 5/21/2020 at 11:10 (1,436 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Pantry
Ours is a double door job with a lot of shelves and storage on the doors to the left of the refrigerator. I just cleaned it last week and I have to say, an organized pantry sure makes cooking life a lot easier and when I need to take inventory of what we need it's so much easier. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. Well I guess I do, it wasn't a lot of fun checking dates on everything, etc. | ||
| Post# 1073654 , Reply# 8 5/21/2020 at 14:30 (1,436 days old) by Xraytech (Rural southwest Pennsylvania ) | ||
I’d love to have a pantry, but my galley kitchen with breakfast nook doesn’t permit one.
I have one upper cabinet 40” w x 42” h that is used for food storage. Luckily I have a cellar under both of my porches, accessed from the basement. The smaller 4’ x 4’ cellar is my fruit cellar that has shelving to store my home canned items, as well as empty mason jars and supplies. My larger porch about 8’ x 20’ is the coal cellar, I use 2/3 of it for storing firewood. I think I’m going to install a shelving unit along the one 8’ wall for additional canned good storage. With the difficulty of finding products at grocery store lately, I’ve since turned my Tell City maple console chest in living room into an overflow storage place for store bought canned goods, pasta, and rice I also have a 22 cu ft chest freezer full of meat and last years tomatoes | ||
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