How to Organize a Kitchen Pantry

1. Invest in a Label Maker

Keep a label maker in your kitchen for a more organized pantry. Whenever you store things in empty jars and bottles, make a label that will enable you to quickly identify the ingredients. Yes, you could handwrite labels, but the label maker ensures the writing is always easy to read.

2. Organize According to Size

Taller items should always be stored at the back of your kitchen pantry. Shorter items can go in front. This allows you to have several rows of items while still be able to see everything you have in your pantry.

3. Keep Canned Goods Together

Canned goods store very well on top of each other. For this reason, keep all your canned items together on one shelf. However, you should organize the canned goods according to use and ingredients. For instance, condensed milk should be with the canned pureed pumpkin, not with the canned soup.

4. Hang an Erasable Board

Hang a chalkboard or whiteboard next to your kitchen pantry to keep track of items you’re running low on. This way you’ll never be out of an essential ingredient for a recipe you want to make. 

5. Store Less-Used Items 

Less-used items like turkey roasting pans or stock pots either up high or down low. This will keep all the eye-level shelves available for the items you use most often. 

6. Install a Push Button Light

Inexpensive push button lights at each shelf will help you to see items inside your kitchen pantry. These lights can easily adhere to pantry walls or below the shelf above. 

These five kitchen pantry storage ideas will help make your Flagstaff, AZ apartments even more of a joy to cook in. To see the kitchen pantries in person, please contact us today.

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Winter’s a good time to clean those parts of your kitchen that get neglected for most of the year. It’s a good activity for keeping yourself warm and active when it’s too cold to go out. Here are a few ideas on what places residents of our Country Club Vista apartments in Flagstaff should focus on.

Your Stove

All that cooking during the holidays takes a toll on the inside of your oven. Be sure you use the right products for the type of stove that you have. Look online for tips if you’ve misplaced your original manual. You don’t want to end up ruining your stove by using the wrong cleaning spray.

Don’t forget to clean the top of the stove and the area around the knobs. It’s easy to let grease and other cooking remnants build up in these areas without noticing.

Your Pantry

It’s easy to just pile things in every week when you come back from the grocery store. Go through everything and clear out any items you don’t need.

Tips to keep in mind:

• Get rid of cans with rust or bad dents on them
• Throw away anything in a torn bag
• Check for bugs or mites
• Pull everything out and clean the pantry floor

Your Freezer

When was the last time you were able to see all the way through to the back of your freezer? Exactly. Put on some gloves, grab a garbage can, and start going through all of the frozen things stuck together that you’ve been ignoring until now.

If you can’t remember when you bought something, it’s best to chuck it right out. Remove any ice stuck to the sides of your freezer as well.

Our Flagstaff apartments are close to the best the city has to offer. Reach out to us online, or call us at (844) 825-5017 to take a look for yourself. 

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