Say Goodbye To Cabinet Clutter: Martha Stewart's Smart Tip For Storing Baking Sheets

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So you've managed to organize the clutter of your pots and pans, and now it's time to tackle that pile of baking sheets and trays that suddenly set up camp in a cupboard when you weren't looking. They're tricky ones, usually awkwardly sized too, making it hard to stack them with much efficiency, and usually they end up in a bit of towering chaos that makes it impossible to reach the ones at the bottom. But there is a way to tame them, at least according to Martha Stewart, who swears by a really simple solution –- dividers. Instead of the inevitable move of just letting the trays pile on top of each other, Stewart recommends tray dividers inside cupboards so that each tray is separated upright, which makes them all fully visible when you open the door and creates a super easy setup for you to pull out what you need.

This small tweak makes a big difference, which anyone who has ever used dividers to organize their home knows. And because you can find dividers that slot into almost any-sized cabinet, you can really make use of your space properly. Plus, with a system like this in place, you can even group trays by specific purposes, so think cookie sheets on one side and roasting pans on the other, which would be very Martha Stewart of you.

Using dividers is a great way to organize baking sheets, and you can also use them to store your baking trays, chopping boards, cookie sheets, and pizza pans — basically anything long and flat that tends to end up in a pile. And if this hack wasn't clever enough, there's an even smarter solution: pull-out dividers. These are tray dividers that are mounted on sliding tracks, so instead of you basically having to get into your cupboard to see what you're working with, your trays can glide out to meet you. Of course, they'll require a bit more of an installation than the kind you can simply place inside, but they have a great pay-off, especially if you do a lot of baking and roasting or you have deep cabinets that tend to swallow everything up. It's never been easier to fix up your kitchen like this. You can find them on Amazon, like this KUJIGBY Pull Out Cookie Sheet Organizer for Cabinet for under $75, and have it delivered and installed within days.

And getting organized like this is a good reminder that baking trays need the occasional deep clean too –- because there is no point in having perfectly stored trays if they're coated in last week's cookie crumbs. Get them cleaned and gleaming, then get them organized, and let them no longer be a part of your kitchen you dread having to encounter.