The Top-Rated IKEA Find That's Ideal For Organizing Pots & Pans Lids In Deep Cabinets

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Like most oddly-shaped items, the lids to your pots and pans can be challenging to organize precisely because of the limitations created by features like the knobs or handles. Deep cabinets place additional strain on your ability to organize these items. The deeper an item gets tucked into the back of the cupboard, the more likely you'll forget about it. As a result, you could find yourself in a situation where you have a jumble of extra lids without pots to go with them. Fortunately, the IKEA OSTBIT Bamboo Plate Holder rids you of the issues that come with trying to organize the lids to your pots and pans within the recesses of a deep cabinet.

Using the OSTBIT plate organizer is a genius pots and pans lid storage idea as the shape of these lids are similar to those of dinner plates. The IKEA piece features 14 upright wooden knobs sitting in two parallel rows (seven knobs per row). This allows you to slip up to six plates between the upright knobs, provided that you face all of them in the same direction. The IKEA OSTBIT works the same for the lids as it does for the plates, though the handles on the lids do cause them to take up more space. However, the gap between each of the knobs is wide, so most lids will fit. If not, it's possible to place a lid between every other knob on the piece. Doing this should give you enough clearance to use this IKEA hack without too many challenges.

The OSTBIT measures approximately 11 inches long by 5 inches wide. It stands 3 inches high and typically holds six plates. It's long and narrow making it a logical choice for the organization of deep (and most likely, narrow) cupboards. Standard cabinets can be anywhere from 12 inches to 24 inches deep. For cupboards that are 24 inches deep, get a couple of the IKEA OSTBIT dish racks and place them end-to-end in the cupboard to hold more of your lids. And speaking of lids, if you have some that no longer match any pot or pan in your cupboard, consider getting rid of them. When it comes to keeping your kitchen cupboards tidy and clutter-free, those unmatched lids just take up valuable space in your cabinet that you can use to house pot and pan sets that still have their lids intact.

Finally, there's one more tool that you may want to consider using in tandem with the IKEA plate organizer: Install pull-out shelves. Online stores such as AmzAge feature items like Pull-Out Cabinet Organizers, which you can put into your deep cupboards. Once these pieces are installed, you'd then add the IKEA organizers, along with the lids, into the cupboard. When you're ready to take a gander at your lids, you'll pull out the shelf and see the item you need. This is one of the best ways to organize your kitchen cabinets because it allows you to overcome the space constraints brought on by the combination of piles of lids errant lids and deep cupboards.