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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?

We have a silverware drawer, organized, maxed out. A sharps drawer, organized, maxed out. Ziplocs, organized, maxed out. Bbq tools and oven mitts, organized, maxed out. But all this shit has no particular category so fuck me right. I gotta have an awkward necessary crap drawer. Maybe I should post all my drawers and crowdsource me some sense into my kitchen.

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[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, this is a junk drawer at its nascent stage.

My mother got into the pampered chef selling bulldonkey when I was young, and despite the dozens of items we got from them, only four really stood out, and she still has three of them. The ice cream scoop (how hard is it to make a shaped chunk of metal, after all), the kitchen shears (which were actually good quality), the slap-chop before there was a slap-chop brand (the one that is now missing/broken), and the kitchen organizer thing for the countertop: pic related. It was great for the longer shaped things, like some of what you have in the drawer. If the drawer bothers you that much, consider something that goes on the countertop or on the wall (or even a hanging pot organizer, which I love above a kitchen island.

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[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago

I do not have that drawer. Mine is at least twice as full.

Sorry to say, your wife is right. Sorry to say, even if she is wrong she is right.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago

This is not a junk drawer. A junk drawer has flashlights, pocket knife, some tools, tape, bandaids, pens. This drawer doesn't have anything like that.

This is the food prep drawer.

I have three food utensil drawers. Dining, serving, and prep.

If you have a small kitchen, maybe you would combine serve and prep utensils into one drawer.

Can opener, cheese grater, scale, rolling pin, whisks, mixer parts, and cooking knives, all go into drawer. But like the bread knife and cake knife go into serve drawer, along with labels, and serving spoons, for example.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 55 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Scale goes right next to the flour in a cabinet.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

You're the worst kind of human. Flour should be haphazardly measured using volume and feelings and a "good enough" mentality.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

I like having the right ratio of flour to salt, so my bread doesnt have that awful paste-y flour taste.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Every family has a misc. drawer. Staplers, pens, rubber bands, paper clips. Lots of office supplies usually but it often will broaden out to all kinds of random crap.

That one is not exactly what I’d expect in the misc drawer but it’s not totally out of bounds?

[–] mykl@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's not a junk drawer, it's specific to kitchen utensils.

Some other comments call it the food prep drawer or the kitchen overflow drawer

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

I just call that my kitchen junk drawer lol

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 hours ago

My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. The "junk drawer". Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.

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[–] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago

That's essentially the "overflow" drawer. The only solution is to have less stuff... Or just live with it like i do lol

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you're gonna need to deal with some misc haha.

Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)

We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 33 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

We do not have that drawer. My kitchen is tiny and only has 2 drawers. As a result, our entire apartment is a mess

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

I have this drawer.

It's not a junk drawer.

It's an irregular kitchen items drawer.

It's just the cost of being someone who actually uses their kitchen. We have the garlic press, scissors, pizza cutter, bench scrapers, microplaners, thermometers, etc... in there. All useful things that fit poorly with other things, so they get a drawer all to themselves.

The junk drawer with batteries and twist ties is another drawer.

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 61 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?

I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 79 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Throw in birthday candles, rubber bands, and a few coins and you got yourself a proper junk drawer.

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[–] kubok@fedia.io 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Dear OP, the only odd thing about your drawer is that your garlic press in in there (unless this is your backup garlic press of course). In our household, we have it in the main cutlery drawer.

BTW, we have several such drawers spread out over our home: one in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in the home office and several in the garage.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Of course, everyone has this drawer. It's called a junk drawer. Where else would you put this crap. What planet are you living on?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

I have three small awkward necessary crap drawers, and my apple slicer doesn't fit into them. But my kitchen is so small, I call in the galley (facetiously, it's not actually on a boat).

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Every family has this drawer.

Every single person does not have this drawer.

Every child has this for every drawer.

[–] nicky7@lemmy.ml 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

FBI... This one right here

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 31 points 15 hours ago

Every house have this. And yours is very neetly organised. Congrats. May you "tiroir à bazar" stay this empty of small non identified cluter.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago

Sorry OP, we've got two in our home.

[–] CodeHead@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Entropy wins.... always. You must free yourself and accept this. You cannot defeat entropy.

Every house has one. My mother with legit OCD had one... though she claimed it was a 'Miscellaneous' drawer and not a junk drawer. (To be fair, it was a well organized junk drawer at any rate.)

But yeah, your wife is right.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

[–] renrenPDX@lemm.ee 29 points 16 hours ago

Not only does everyone have one of these, they suffer from quantum entanglement.

[–] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

If you already have a maxed out sharps drawer, then you probably don't actually need any of the knives in this drawer. Like how often do you actually use the pizza cutter? I just cut pizza with a chef knife. Or the egg cutter? How often is that used? Sometimes the answer is to go through all your drawers and see what can be tossed to make space for the things you actually do use.

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 36 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 16 hours ago

Well this backfired on OP

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 63 points 18 hours ago (12 children)

Yes, every household in the developed world has a drawer like this. It's for things that you hardly need or never need, but might do, one day, probably (not).

Why it bothers me: in a more sane world, this stuff would be shared. Every community would have a junk tool shed - not every household of 4 people, or 2 people, or (increasingly) one person. It's reminiscent of that drill statistic: the average electric drill is used for 7 minutes in its lifetime. This is madness. Our planet is overflowing with junk. As a species we need to be smarter.

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[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago

The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?

I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven't used in a year or two.

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

I also don't have that drawer, but I have a box next to the toolbox labeled "useful crap that aren't tools"

[–] Un4tural@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah it's a thing. I've made wood box type things to separate the drawer out and try to keep it slightly organised.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

where's the sauce packets?

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

It's called a junk drawer and as far as I am aware it's an inevitability. However, I will say it's odd that you have utensils in there. Most junk drawers I've encountered are filled with random crap that rarely if ever gets used.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

This isn't a junk drawer, this is something different.

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Mine is definitely not a junk drawer since it contains things I regularly use and are all food or cooking related. I do also have a junk drawer.

Ah yes, the "junk" drawer. I have three! :-)

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Looks perfectly fine. Ours is the second drawer though. Top one is for cuttlery

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 98 points 20 hours ago

Every family has this drawer

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