Cutlery Drawer

I have two cutlery drawers (with dividers) to house my 24 place settings (!!) of cutlery, plus a drawer for utensils. Plus a further utensil holder that's kept in a cupboard by the cooker.

We used to feed dozens of people at a time, but in the past couple of years our 'hosting' role has diminished. So it's only at Christmas and birthdays that our cutlery gets a decent airing nowadays.

Lisaholder - I have the same problem with disappearing knives and spoons. I have top drawer next to cooker with divider for my every day cutlery and small spatulas and various bits and pieces and like so many other posters the drawer below is home to many objects - rolling pin, corkscrews, hand mixer, icing equipment, stick blender, etc, etc. I have a stone jar handy beside cooker with wooden spoons, small hand whisk and spurtle for my porridge and on the other side of the kitchen a larger stone jar with ladle, masher, spatulas, draining spoons. I also have a cylinder holder thing with hard black plastic stuff that holds my sharp knives of all size kept well back so small hands can't reach.

Give her time Lemon It takes years to accumulate such
tat useful bits and bobs

I would love a pantry
My Imaginary walk in pantry has spice racks fitted to the door.
The shelves vary in size
and width for my homemade Jams and preserves (please note these are also imaginary).
Dry goods in clear containers all labelled with my imaginary label gun as recommended by MN.

I have serious pantry envy

The odds and sods drawer ( or bits and bobs drawer) is an essential part of any kitchen ( I have one in the study as well)
Small DGS is fascinated by these drawers and always asks if he can ‘look in the bobs drawer’.His little delighted face when he pulls out a fridge magnet with a cat’s face on it, a giant elastic band, a ball of string, a pencil, a clothes peg, a
Boiled sweet,( of uncertain origins) a ribbon, cake candles,
A ruler, a tube of Germolene, and other random objects, tells me that my DIL doesn’t have an untidy drawer like this.

Urmstongran we have similar, we call them sporks and actually find then quite useful.

It would seem on the whole that the cutlery drawer is still used by many GNers.

Odds and sods drawers will I believe be around for evermore.
Micheal McIntyre does a funny sketch regarding such a drawer

Ikea dividers are also useful in the sock drawer

Jalima we also have boxes in the loft of fish knives etc including a box of dessert forks with multicoloured handles (think bright) still in the package ordered from a daily newspaper (possibly Daily Express) by a great aunt of DH.

Now I come to think of it
We have also acquired commemorative multicoloured china courtesy of some newspaper offer

Our loft contents is another thread!

Cutlery drawers with dividers, for me, but I have three Ikea metal pots for utensils...wooden stuff, metal stuff and small stuff like peelers and scissors. Must do something about this OCD!

Anyone else remember those very trendy forks that were able to hold food like a spoon? From the 70’s. Viners. I had a set. Just got one left now from a set of 6. ‘splades’ I think they were called. Great for scooping chilli & rice from a plate!

Drawer with dividers for me too. Cooking tools in another with dividers.
Tea towels, dish cloths, foil, cling film etc in another and then odds and ends in another happily called the "rubbish drawer"

Yes, I have a divided drawer, and 'utensil pots' for serving spoons,metc

Yep, got a drawer, all divided with most things in logical places although the special (ex BP tankers jam) spoon for making gravy and the can spanner for evaporated milk tins and the spud peeler and the apple corer all go into a small wooden box that, I think, originally had dates in about thirty Chrismases ago. Isn’t a long term marriage a wonderful thing for collecting useful? crap !!!

I didn't mention my MIL's fish knives, forks and servers either (in a box) - apparently very passé now and going for a song on Ebay
(see other thread)

If the treebark cutlery is the one with three-pronged forks then I think it is a vintage collectors' item Stansgran, designed by Gerald Benney.

Oh dear I haven't mentioned my mother's silver in the dining room in a cabinet and then the silly coloured frenchutlery which drives table setters bonkers. I've definitely got too much stuff.

Perhaps a photo of the neatest. I would lose. Divided Kitchen drawer for breakfast & lunch cutlery then a drawer with a lift out teak caddy I think it was called with very dated wedding cutlery( Viners treebark) and a drawer for implements that don't get too much use. A celery jar has my basic implements that are vital for putting out a hand and getting and a stainless steel wine bottle cooler which had non stick spatulas and tongs and a stainless steel thingummy with a brush inside which has all the sabatier knives. I've got too much haven't I?

Mine sit in a pot. Teaspoons have their own cup great big thing with jd sports on it so I can’t drink tea or coffee out of it it’s to big. My cooking utensils are in a pot by the cooker.

I have a drawer with the compartment thingy in and I love it. I didn’t even realise that there was a hangy thing invented.

Dividers for me

My cutlery drawer looks like OP's too. Ikea still sell the cutlery trays to go in drawers, so we can't be to big of a minority, can we?

I also have pull out drawers in every cupboard which means I use the stuff at the back!

Everyday cutlery in the divided cutlery draw in the kitchen, silver in its velvet-lined canteen on top of the sideboard. in the dining room.
Kitchen utensils hang from hooks on the wall near the hob and wall oven, out of the way yet within easy reach and don't take up any work surface.

you have room in your garage for a car?

For me anything that gives you 'see at a glance'.
My walk in larder, unbelievably!!! so organised. Why then not adopt this to my garage where it is pot luck I find, apart from the car, what I am searching for.

Oooh a pantry - I'd love a pantry

We had a new kitchen in March and there was a cutlery drawer with dividers in one of the units, something we have always had and I see no reason to change it. We have a rail with hooks in our pantry and hang most of our utensils on that; it is much better than having to hunt through a cluttered drawer.