My wife says every family has this drawer. I do not believe every family has this drawer. Do you have this drawer? Do you know a good solution to this drawer?
Remove the scale, electronics don’t belong in the misc food prep and niche baking implements drawer. Once you do that you’ll easily recognize it as the food prep and niche baking implements drawer. The scale goes on a shelf, or in a cabinet next to the mixer/food proc/salad spinner.
Scale goes right next to the flour in a cabinet.
You’re the worst kind of human. Flour should be haphazardly measured using volume and feelings and a “good enough” mentality.
Clearly you’ve never had to bake for a gluten intolerant spouse with several other dietary restrictions
Call me Heisenberg, cause at this point I’m a goddamned chemist
It really is fundamentally different. With wheat flour you add water and develop gluten by hand until it feels good enough. Then you let the yeast work until it’s big enough. It doesn’t really matter what you put into regular bread because there’s just so many ways to fix it along the way.
Every once in a while I’ll just make something for me, and it’s so easy. GF baking is a pain, but i love my wife, so there it is
We have the scale on the top at hand all time and use it for everything. Is pretty good for measuring water.
I keep my scale in the cocaine room.
Using a single precision gram scale for cocaine seems wild but then again what do i know…
That’s only an issue if you’re weighing single digit grams.
Using a sub-gram scale to measure flour seems a bit … Uhhh
Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don’t have more than one.
This is not a junk drawer! This is a cooking utensil (mostly baking) that has no other good place drawer!
The junk drawer got like, loose screws and scotch tape and batteries and scrap paper and whatnot
This guy has it right. That’s basically my mom’s kitchen gadget drawer. Junk drawer has duct tape, 3 leftover zip ties, some loose AA batteries and the big screwdriver everyone seems to have
The takeout chopsticks on the right must have escaped from the junk drawer/ packet drawer, looking for a better life.
We have 3. And they’re packed. But I know what’s in there!
As a household that has thankfully many drawers, we unfortunately have more than one.
Every family has this drawer
Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?
I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.
We have long sticks and tools around in case something gets stuck in any drawer, I think last stuck draw was a one of the dinner trays sticking up and we couldnt open the drawer, before that was the cutlery drawer and a long knife sticking up XD
Dinner trays? Those things people used in the 70s to eat dinner infront of the TV?
Yeah, we still use them for different purposes, quite handy at times, can just wipe them over clean and put back in draw. I find them easy to carry food and so does my parents, both mum and I have autoimmune illnesses that affect us, dad has Parkinson’s so gets shakes and is often bit unsteady, so dinner trays help alot :o)
Well fair play to ya! Surprised they’re still a thing but that makes a lot of sense.
Ty, mum informs me they have a tray in the boot of the car…lol…I didn’t ask why XD
Yep. The “junk drawer”. Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.
Throw in birthday candles, rubber bands, and a few coins and you got yourself a proper junk drawer.
I actually think they need one or more random sharp objects to almost cut yourself on, just to be on the safe side. Pizza cutters just aren’t sharp enough for this application.
Don’t forget the batteries which may or may not have a charge. If you want to modernize it, it should also have some wall warts and USB cables.
Almost every home has a junk drawer or other junk container. Mine has multiple.
All that being said, I don’t think I’ve seen a drawer as confusing as this.
This drawer is the solution. To everything…
…except getting something out of the drawer.
What sucks is when you end up super frustrated getting everything to fit, so you rip apart the drawer and put everything back in all nice and wow would you look at that you can fit everything and close it easily!
For two days. Tops.
Every family has this drawer.
Every single person does not have this drawer.
Every child has this for every drawer.
TIL my wife is a child
FBI… This one right here
You’ve lost this one, and if this was a hill you were prepared to die on I would get ready to lose a lot more.
That’s not even a proper junk drawer, that’s all kitchen gadgets, but okay… Yes, in my experience, most households have a junk drawer.
What?
Yes. Minus the scale, absolutely. It’s the tools that too big for the utensil drawer but too small to take up shelf space in a cabinet.
This. The scale is the only issue here, but it’s a big one lol
You’re the third person to be opposed to the scale that I’ve seen in this thread. This drawer is exactly where the scale lives in my house. TBH, the OP’s drawer looks a lot like mine.
Edit: I found a fourth
Fifth here. That scale doesn’t belong in the “awkwardly sized cooking utensils” drawer.
You see, there’s a journey of self discovery that every household goes through, and during that journey, it’s ok for the kitchen scale to go in different places. We’ve all been there, so no one is judging.
When the time is right, it will find its way to a shelf where it will live happily for the rest of its life.
Sixth. We keep the scale with baking supplies (measuring cups, flour, etc), since we mostly use it when making dough. Other than that, our drawer is nearly identical.
We have a space for that in our cutlery drawer, as well as a basket of miscellanea in a shelf where it doesn’t matter if they get dusty.
Sorry OP, we’ve got two in our home.
