Here is my pantry.

Organization aside, why do you have so much mayonnaise?

Oh look. He bought all his spices at once in a lovely matched set.

[QUOTE] I can pick up some tips?

Yes. Throw everything in your pantry and start afresh. I can't see use for all that garbage you have there.

I applaud you not having your spices out in the light in a rack over the stove.

Seriously Jif?

I painstakingly jarred and labeled them individually R2. Is that worse? I use most of them.

Congrats on your pantry. Its purpose is to store food and I think you're doing it right. There is food in it.

And Jif is better than Peter Pan, which is oily and rancid from the start. Jif is clearly the superior peanut butter. Smooth, not chunky. Chunky is gross.

The JIF dark roast is good. I enjoy it.

R1.

R1 to throw out of course.

Nutella and mayo? Are you a great big fat person, OP?

[quote] I painstakingly jarred and labeled them individually [R2]. Is that worse?

No. Just different.

You need cabinet organizers. You can get a regular storage container, tiered shelves, or a lazy Susan for the spices. The Container Store has all kinds of kitchen cabinet organizers to help you visualize. Stackers make great use of space for smaller items and you get to go crazy with the labels. It’s also easier to grab stuff off the top shelves.

I think you're better off leaving the spices in their original containers, at least then you still have the freshness date. Also, since not all brands taste the same, you will know exactly what you had when it comes time to repurchase.

It's fine. If you wanted, you could put like items with like inside a clear or labeled box. For example, placing everything you spread on bread into a box you can pull all the way out would eliminate stacking jars which is a jumbly pain, imo. All your spices would probably fit nicely in a shallow box, freeing up a lot of shelf space. It looks like that method would leave room for adding a shelf or two.

That's not what I consider a pantry. It's a cabinet.

It looks normal. If you want it to 'look better' then that would be about putting everything in neat and matching containers like the spices but I prefer having the original packages at hand (instructions/ingredients/dates, as well as easier to identify).

I label my spices with date of purchase.

Not bad, but I don’t think it would pass muster with Julia Robert’s abusive husband in Sleeping With the Enemy.

This is my pantry this is my steeple open my hands and here’s all the people.

Honestly, it looks fine to me. Do you have to continually take out items in order to find other items? If not, I think it's totally fine. Not everything has to look ready for a magazine photo shoot; a pantry should be functional and yours seems to be.

R13 and R15 are correct. I would add, as a total cupboard nazi, that the solution here is to:

1. Stop hoarding. Buy items as you use them. Then your cupboard won't be as stuffed with unopened mayo etc.

2. Ruthlessly (and I mean RUTHLESSLY) go through every single item in there and throw out everything out of date and/or close to its date and everything you haven't reached for for 6 months. I would say 3 months but some will think that insanity.

3. When you have purged, clean the interior and re-arrange.

4. Countertop also looks cluttered. Put that stuff away somewhere (out of sight) if you can.

Roll-out shelves are a godsend against losing stuff in the back of the cupboard.

Are those Entenmann's boxes stashed at the back of the top shelf? Hmmm?

Your spices in the back make the space in front of them useless if you want to see what you have. Put them on the inside of the door with either a magnetic rack or velcro and you will have have instant acces to them all the time. Since you are already labeling them and putting them in custom containers anyways. I am talking about something like this:

Here are my spice jars on the pantry door. These are above the doorknob. There's another rack with four shelves below the knob. That has the different kinds of salt and pepper I have , bigger jars of whole spices that don't easily fit in the smaller jars (like whole nutmeg) and some other miscellaneous stuff.

Lol, that’s not pantry. It's a kitchen cupboard. What's there to organise? All your carbs, sugar and sodium?

And you type and eat fat.

Your shelves are sagging like your man boobs. If they are removable, flip them over and they will even out for a while.

R27 I was going to mention that it's a cupboard too, but I don't like to mock the poor.

However, a pantry is for dry food products, like flour, sugar, breadcrumbs, etc. Also, unopenedjars and bottlesthat will require refrigeration after opening.

Since you seem unaware of this, you type even fatter because your dietno doubt, consists of fast food. Fatty McFatfat..

OP stocks up on REAL mayonnaise but fake chicken stock. What do you call that the fatty shelf?

OP I think your cupboard looks just fine. It’s not overly stuffed…you can see what’s there. I have a walk-in pantry with narrow shelves which works for me…can’t hide anything.

If I were ever to own this much mayo, I would keep it all in the refrigerator. I've always been afraid of getting food poisoning from mayo. My grandmother once left a silver spoon in a jar, outdoors, and this green gelid substance grew up around the spoon.

The difference between cupboard and pantry is that cupboard is an enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc while pantry is a small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to food storage and/or storing kitchenware since the pantry is not typically temperature-controlled (unlike a refrigerator or root cellar), the foods stored in a pantry are usually shelf-stable staples such as grains, flours, and preserved foods.

Thanks for confirming you are an idiot R29. You are therefore eminently qualified to advise OP.

[qoute]If I were ever to own this much mayo, I would keep it all in the refrigerator. I've always been afraid of getting food poisoning from mayo.

You are an idiot, unopened Mayo sits on store shelves for months. It's shelf stable and air tight. Your grandmother leaving it outdoors with stuff in it surprised things happens is even more of an idiot. Apple really does not fall far from the tree in your family does it.

Mayo isn't in the refrigerated section of grocery stores, is it?

Nice work! A small shaker of your SSRIs centered on the lowest shelf, with the label tastefully turned to the back, and perhaps a darling pot of flora on the counter below, would really tell a story, OP!

I only see one jar of mayo. That's hardly hoarding to have a backup on hand. What's in that big red ball next to it? Pickled red cabbage?

R37 here. Ok I opened the picture and saw 2 xtra mayos (presuming one is in fridge). Only acceptable if it was twofer sale. There are more spices on the top shelf too! Its freaking me out a bit. And the backup Lea & Perrins should be on same shelf as mayo. Keep all backups together. Keep all spices and stocks together. Keep you nutella and pb, etc. together.

OP, you must be tall to reach that top shelf. Or you don't really use the stuff on that top shelf.

A lot of that stuff (on all 3 shelves), I'd store in my refrigerator or freezer. (Condiments & medicines in fridge door. Spices, rolled oats, yeast, bouillon, panko in freezer.)

The bottom shelf is the worst as far as organization. All those little spice jars against the back wall and prime cabinet space (in front of spices) left empty. If you're going to keep those spice jars on the shelf, just line them up (stacked) on the left and right sides.

Those are 2 small jars of mayo. Not a lot. I like Jiffy peanut butter. Jif is good, too.

What this kitchen needs is a pie safe.

Five different spices should be enough for an enthusiastic cook.

It's fine.

I would hate to fill my cupboard with loads of plastic bins and plastic lazy Susans and plastic trash that's always in the way and needs to be moved to find something.

Maybe out your tins of spices in an L-configuration in a corner: enough room to see and maneuver things in and out, but it opens more shelf room for other things. Also I might code the tins for easy finding: one color or indicator for spices, another for herbs - or however makes sense, a couple or a few basic divisions to find them easily. Write a date of when to replace on the top of each tin with a grease pencil that wipes clean when you start again.

Once I had one of those very awkwardly shaped corner cupboards and believe it or not, but the largest lazy Susan at BB&B fit perfectly in there and I had all my spices on it. It was the best possible use of that space that could be.

The mayonnaise glasses stacked on top of each other would make me nervous because the construction isn't very solid and broken glass with mayonnaise is a hell of a mess. For the rest it's fine - no need to overthink it.

Is that all there is?

I can't believe people still eat JIF peanut butter. It's 2022. Seriously? Otherwise everything else is fine or whatever. Nobody comes on DL for food or organizing anyway since nobody here can cook. DL's idea of a great meal is what you would eat in 1985.

OP, just remember, it’s your pantry and can cry if you want to.

Having a pantry (or a small cupboard storage) is good for emergencies when shops have to close for a few days (we are living in uncertain times after all). You should have supplies for at least a week (including bottled water) to manage on your own.

My emergency food supply is cans of various stews and ravioli I can heat up with a camping stove. And alcohol, lots of alcohol to keep me sedated.

Got to admit, my "pantry" (two cupboard shelves with glass doors) are filled with spices, cake mixes, dry pasta, flour, coconut oil, shake powders (like spirulina), cans of tomato sauce, big sized jar of Nutella, and a selection of various tea packages. I open it for making tea most of the time, second most is taking out the Nutella jar making Nutella sandwiches.

[quote]I don't like to mock the poor.

[quote]However, a pantry is for dry food products, like flour, sugar, breadcrumbs, etc. Also, unopenedjars and bottlesthat will require refrigeration after opening.

Odd that you would mock the poor when you obviously can't afford a space bar.

[quote]I can't believe people still eat JIF peanut butter. It's 2022. Seriously?

I bought Jif for the first time in decades recently because there wasn't anything else available. It was Jif Natural and it's, I dunno, fine I guess. The generic Kroger crunchy peanut butter is really good but people seem to be lining up at the trucks in the morning to get their hands on it.

Get a lazy susan for the spices. get rid of the stuff so old you don't know when/why you bought it. Stop buying mayo---it's gross, filled with fat and pretty un-necessary.

Mayonnaise is yummy so all you haters can STFU already.

OP- You can’t go to a Trader Joe’s and buy their Organic Peanut 🥜 Butter with no sugar and no salt.

it's a bit small

here's a tip--don't buy Jif.

also, mayo failure!

OP got fucked by the latest trend in kitchen design…just like I did!

Not sure why I didn’t notice it before moving in, but I only have a whole 4 overhead cabinets. 1 is taken up by plates and bowls, one is taken up by drinking glasses, and one is taken up by coffee mugs and beer/wine glasses. As a result, I have a whole one cabinet for pasta, cereal, spices, bottled sauces, and snacks. It sucks.

It's my pantry and I cry if I want to

Those spices belong in a drawer.

OP is just humble-bragging that he can afford Panko crumbs.

R48, I agree. Having only a real-time supply of dry goods isn’t a good idea, especially in these times. Someone mentioned upthread about being a storage Nazi, which could turn out to be a regrettable obsession.

I keep at least a few weeks supply of boxed and canned items such as pasta, sauces, soups, rice, cereal and related accompaniments. I also try to keep a 2.5 gallon jug of water on hand as well. I’m going to get one of those compact packable camping stoves as a backup, too.

Listen cunts, I CUNTED first, at R16, that it's certainly not a pantry.

R60 The real product to humble brag and show you have throwaway wealth in your panty is Biscoff Cookie Butter.

Unless you're buying a home, it doesn't matter if someone labels a cabinet a "pantry." Most people would let it go, or bring it up once, not continuously mention it repeatedly over the course of 9 hours.

^^ DL isn’t most people. Not by a long stretch.

meh, R63.

---- tins and jars of French and Italian specialities.

sniff.

I'd show off my pantry on here, but one of you perverts would break into my house and poop in it.

Or you'd call me Lady G McSizemeat or something.

harrumph

Mayo comes in plastic bottles these days.

R70 Half of DL hasn't had a drop of mayo since 2003, the anorexic cunts. And the other half of DL buys mayonnaise by the bucket, and has no use for your suggestion of cute little plastic bottles.

Be ready for someone to call you a Fat Whore for suggesting it.

The pantry namer is back. This is an old time OCD DLer on par with John the Used Textbook Troll. In fact, i wouldn’t be surprised if it is John. Naming what’s in his pantry, asking for everyone else to list what’s in their pantry and asking for recipes is the M.O.

It's my pantry and I'll cry if I want to.

R73 You’re the third one, congratulations!

[quote]DL isn’t most people. Not by a long stretch.

I am aware, but this cabinet thing sounds suspiciously like people trying to brag about having real pantries, and I don't understand who they're trying to impress. The bragging makes a kind of sense on the interminable finance, investment and retirement threads, I guess, but this seems pettier and far more repetitive to me than usual.

R72, if John was behind the original congee thread, I will absolutely plotz. It was a bloodbath. The replacement thread is bad enough but the original was mean in ways I rarely see on DL.

Renter here. I have a pantry similar to OP's. Not the same contents, but shelves in an over-counter cabinet.

You poors who shove your grim popular food in a cabinet and call it a pantry are using pantry in the abstract. Such as calling your SRO your home.

- My grandmother was a Lady in Havana Marqués de San Felipe y Santiago de Bejucal y Vizconde de la Bahia Honda de la Real Fedelidad

OP, I think you should follow up this thread with a picture of your linen closet and we can dissect that too, especially your towel folding ability and if you do it in the proper thirds as it should be and what your folded fitted sheets look like.

Please DON'T. I can't deal with the appalling fabric blends.

After the "pantry" and "linen closet," we need to see a "wardrobe" closet.

OP- You had a decent number of responses on your thread but it would have been far greater if your thread title was-

Here is my PENIS

What’s in your packet drawer?

The twink is cute but his penis is as unimpressive as OP's soi-disant pantry.

R84- You are right. I should have posted someone with a more AMPLE penis but this is the first penis I saw when I typed into google- Erect Penis so I posted it.

Get yourself a couple of small lazy susans, so that you don't have to move a bunch of stuff to get to the bottles in the back.

It's a cupboard NOT a pantry, OP.

R87= The it's a CUPBOARD not a PANTRY troll.

R88, I just hate it when people mislabel things, such as when someone calls a cupboard a pantry. Same thing for people who say that their house is on a lake when it's really a retention pond!! Now poor OP here wanted us all to think that she's so sophisticated because she has a variety of spices (which she probably doesn't know how to use or how to pair them with the right food).

OP probably drains pasta too!!!!

Someone needs to tell that Ginger young Irish boy not to give it away for free, he can make money off that penis, no matter what the size.

My grandmother had a large walk-in pantry. I wish I had one of those.

Here is my panty.

It looks more like a Larder than a Pantry.

My grandmother too, R92. And she wasn't even close to being rich. Is it a UK thing for even poors to have pantries?

[quote] I am aware, but this cabinet thing sounds suspiciously like people trying to brag about having real pantries, and I don't understand who they're trying to impress. The bragging makes a kind of sense on the interminable finance, investment and retirement threads, I guess, but this seems pettier and far more repetitive to me than usual.

Internet anons trying to convince other internet anons that they're rich and/or "classy" tells you enough about their actual circumstances that the only feeling should be pity. Incidentally, I don't think that's what OP was trying to do. It's a normal cupboard, not a fancy one, and the goods inside are normal goods, not fancy ones.

Holy shit, I am NEVER posting my pantry photo on here. How do you all have time? I am going under my covers to cry in shame now.

It's not a larder, R94. It's a cupboard!!

I'm too lazy to post pictures, but I will report that I store Costco size flour, quinoa and cannellini beans in a hall closet on the shelf above insecticide containers.

I don’t know why, but this thread reminds me of the old lady meme where she says: “This is my out for today. If you don’t like it you could leave.”

I have a problem in my pantry.

I have a large glass jar in which I decanted some white powder.

It tastes sweet so it could be caster sugar but could it also be Baking Powder or Baking Soda? So confusing!

R82 So, that’s not just some random Irish boy, my sources at LPSG identified him as well known porn personality Justin Bates.

I would enjoy 30 minutes in the pantry with Justin.

I though it was only 7 minutes, when did it get expanded?

That's heaven. This is a pantry.

Thank you, r104, that's the palate cleanser I needed.

Insecticide cookies at R98's house! (bonus: no bugs in the flour)

My mom wouldn't buy Jif's, because she said it had too much sugar in it. We always had Skippy's (crunchy).

There are a lot of things my childhood shit-tier taste has evolved on. I'm an insufferable snob asshole about chocolate these day (and a number of other foods as well). But peanut butter? I have no explanation for why but I still much prefer the sugary, crappy stuff to the organic peanuts-only stuff.

There is a reason your pantry has doors, to hide stuff. Close the doors and don't worry about it.

Reference to the Used Text Book Troll and the Congee threads made me LMAO. DL gold!

I miss the simpler days of PMBT, R110.

OP don't listen to those lazy susan people. You will end up hating them. You have to lift the items up and out. Not practical. I do suggest you get a grabber for the higher shelves tho. Once you get one can you show us your grabber storage cupboard so we can analyze the contents?

My apartment was once a pantry..

It's not a larder, R94.

Mayonnaise is one of the 5 mother sauces that all came from France. Supposedly, every sauce is some derivative of one of those. That said, I dont think it was ever meant to be processed, bottled and put in a plastic jar to sit on a shelf for months. You can make it at home. All it's made of is eggs, oil, salt, mustard and lemon juice whipped into a creamy consistency.

^ yes 'fat whore' you're so right. it's not hard to make at home and it DOES NOT have sugar in it.

OH, silly humans, the best peanut butter has the teddy bear on the jar.

Mmmm, Panko Bread crumbs!

Where's your butt plug? I always keep mine next to the mayonnaise.

Pull all of your herbs and spices ouutta the cabinet and clean out a drawer . Put the spices laying down front up. So all you have to do is open drawer look down. I started doing this 6yrs ago and i will never go back to cabinets or spice racks.

R120 - If you have an actual pantry, put racks on the door facing the inside of the pantry. Putting them in drawers takes up a lot of space.

Enjoy!