What are the essential kitchen items that every home needs? The kitchen items that make your life easier? Today I am sharing with you the essential items that every kitchen needs.
This article focusses on what goes inside the drawers and cupboards. For design & appliance ideas, check out my Grey & White Kitchen Inspiration post.
Check out my full kitchen tour below, packed full of kitchen organisation ideas, or keep reading for essential kitchen items that you need right now.
Table Of Contents
Crockery
Once thing that you will definitely need in your kitchen is something to eat off. We have this set of white dinner plates, side plates and bowls. It’s sensible to choose something that you can replace easily if you have the odd breakage, so try not to choose an end of line set.
Cutlery
Pans
Do you have a gas or induction hob? If your hob is induction, you will need specialist pans in order to make it work. We have these from John Lewis and they are a fantastic quality.
Wok
Pan Lid Sorter
If you are sick of hap hazard pan lids falling out onto you every time that you open a cupboard, this little in cupboard sorter will banish your pan lid woes.
Wooden Spoons
Using wooden spoons for cooking rather than metal utensils will protect your pans from scratches, especially if they are non stick pans.
Knives
I love this set of knives as each one has a colour coordinated safely cover.
Chopping Boards
You will need more than one chopping board, so this set of 3 is ideal.
Microwave Steamer
I adore my microwave steamer for nights where you are frantically busy. I even do pasta in ours for a quick kid’s tea.
Rice Steamer
This microwave rice steamer is amazing for ensuring that the rice comes out perfectly fluffy every time.
Grater Box
This grater box is by far the easiest method of grating and spring cheese.
Baking Trays
Go for non stick baking trays (you will need a few) and make sure that you follow the care instructions to avoid damaging the non stick coating.
Pizza Stacker
This pizza stacker is a game changer for when you need to cook multiple pizza (or anything else for that matter) with limited oven space.
Heat Mats
Protect your countertops with protective mats when placing hot things on them.
Containers
These stackable kitchen containers are the best ones I have found. The stack, so save space, plus have clever air tight lids and come with blackboard labels too.
Blackboard Labels
Yes, the food containers I talked about above come with these labels, but if you need more for your other containers, these are the ones you need.
Clip Storage Boxes
These System Klip It Boxes are amazing for storing food in the fridge or freezer, taking on picnics and heating food too.
Food Clips
Food clips are essential for closing partially used bags of food and snacks to keep them fresh.
Slim Baskets
I make it a point not to put things directly onto the shelves in my cupboards. Instead, I use baskets, meaning it is easy to take things out, see what you have and clean up too. I love these slim baskets for fitting lots into deep cupboards.
Fridge Baskets
As with my cupboards, I like to organise the contents of my fridge into baskets, rather than placing things directly onto shelves. Baskets make it easier when to comes to stock rotation and cleaning your fridge.
Can Storage Containers
These can storage containers are the perfect way to store your sodas.
Folding Step
If you’re like me (your cupboard re tall but you are not) a foldaway stool will be your best find for reaching those top shelves in high cupboards.
Food Waste Caddy
We all need somewhere to put our waste food and this stylish caddy has a removable inner compartment to make cleaning it easier.
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