How to Have an Organised Kitchen: A Buyer's Guide to Kitchen Canisters

Nobody likes working in an unorganised kitchen, but nobody likes it when someone else organises it for us. You’d be in the middle of something, or worse in a rush, you’ll reach for your something and it’s not there! If you were to ask 100 people, they would all say different things on how to have an organised kitchen, the only right way is if it works for you. Here, our Buyer’s Guide will outline the easy steps regarding how to have an organised kitchen, using kitchen canisters.

Having an organised kitchen will improve your efficiency, whether in a Michelin Star restaurant or at home; when you are able to move around your kitchen easily, grab things without hassle, and use all the potential space available to you, everything can be done much quicker, without causing you stress or making things harder than they need to be.

When you’re running around like a headless chicken, rummaging around, or generally feeling flustered and stressed, you don’t think properly and that can cause mistakes and accidents, which could potential harm yourself or others. Therefore, it’s important you know how to have an organised kitchen so you can limit this stress and thus, the safety risk. The last thing you need when making that dessert 5 minutes before rushing out the door is to cut yourself or drop something!

When talking about waste, we mean food waste and money waste – as either way, they can be a result of the other. It’s important to have an organised kitchen because it will limit this waste, for example, when buying foods, particularly bulk buying, if you have everything organised and stored effectively, these foods will remain fresher for longer and there will be no waste, but if these are not stored properly, the likelihood is they will go out of date - and then you’ve wasted the food and the money spent on it.

As well as these practical reasons, it’s beneficial to have an organised kitchen because it simply looks and feels great. Using kitchen canisters to store essentials gets rid of bland packaging, or packaging that doesn’t fit in with your décor, instead, it makes your décor look the same, or similar, giving a lovely, tidy theme across the room.

How to have an organised kitchen 101: decide on your kitchen aesthetic! Once you know how you’d like your kitchen to look, the style of it, the easier it will be to organise and buy the canisters you need. There’s a whole variety of styles out there so here are a few to get you thinking:

It almost seems impossible to have an organised kitchen with so many things that need to be there and need to be accessible all the time! However, learning how to have an organised kitchen has never been simpler because our answer is kitchen canisters, and you’ll see why:
While storage jars and plastic food storage are great for behind cupboard doors and in the fridge, kitchen canisters are perfect for your side essentials – the things that clutter and make your kitchen look untidy:

- tea, coffee & sugar

- biscuits & sweet treats

- bread

- paraphernalia (medical supplies, washing tablets etc.,)

- consider how you will clean your kitchen canisters, those that go in the dishwasher may be an easier option for busier homes

- look for canisters that have wide enough openings for what you want to store, for example, you will want to fit a scoop or a spoon into your canister of flour or sugar

- ensure you have airtight canisters for food

- buy the same style kitchen canisters for a stylish matching set that is consistent across room(s)

- before you do anything, declutter your sides and get rid of anything you don't really need - then you won't be buying canisters for things you aren't keeping!