So here’s a question I never realized would ever be in question: when placing the silverware tray into the drawer which side should be deepest in the drawer, and which side should be nearest the handle panel?
I contend the side with the many narrow columns should be closest to the handle to provide the easiest access to the main pieces of silverware – the forks, knives, spoons (and in our place chopsticks fill the last slot). The larger squarer space is for a random assortment of miscellaneous cutlery that is seldom used, and therefore further back in the drawer. This is how the silverware tray is placed in my world (note: Greg’s world consists of every house he’s ever been to, as well as the visual displays in stores and online).
Selena, however, adamantly insists that that miscellaneous yard-sale section of the tray needs to be the most prominent. The everyday use of basic silverware does not warrant it being in closer reach than the Chinese soup ladles, the purpose-less odd-shaped spoons with narrow handles and oversize heads, and the sporks (you read that right, we have sporks).
Like so many other casualties in the Silent War in the 301 (the candle on the stove, the spoon rest on the stove, anything on the porch), the silverware tray is continually being turned around and around depending who was last using the kitchen.
geez, greg…you obviously have a ton of kitchen issues, don’t you?
sorry, but again, i’m with selena on this one. i totally undertstand your reasoning, but i like the yard sale part in the front. i’m not really sure why.
i have an idea! throw it in the dryer and see which way it lands!
My logic is that when the yardsale is in the back, you can’t see what you have, because half of the time, you don’t open your drawer up all the way. Even with the yardsale in the front, you still know where the other utensils are. God forbid you use a regular spoon someday for your egg drop because you forgot those great Chinese ladles existed!
Greg, you’re right again. OR at least that’s how I would do it. Then again, my yardsale part consists of steak knives that are very sharp, so I keep it in the back because the last thing I want to do it reach in and cut myself. Plus, you know, kids.
Well in an ideal world, you can fit the tray lengthwise, thus allowing easy access to all parts.
But if your drawer is short (like ours is), then I have to side with Greg – ours is with the small slots closest to you.
True “yard sale” items should be in an entirely different drawer. Miscellaneous knives go in the big slot.
yard sale in front! else the junk there will never make it to the yard sale cuz you’ll never see it.
Yard sale in back!
Of in the ideal world, you have drawers with birthin’ hips and can turn it sideways and have the yard sale on the side…equal access.
What’s in your yard sale…we have corn cob knobs! We’ve made corn on the cob 1 in 6 years! but there they are!
I’m with Greg. But I am lucky enough to have a really wide kitchen drawer, so I have my silverware tray thing on the left, with the narrower handle-slots right at the front, and then I have about 6 inches of open space to the right still in the drawer. That’s where the can opener and various other utensils (garlic press I’ve never used) go. Like Scotte, I do have an odd assortment of corn cob thingies in my yardsale section!
I’m with Greg on this one. Why would you bury the everyday items?
Well, in my high-class college apartment, we do it Greg’s way, and have our plastic utensils (well, the ones I save and reuse anyway- no one else really does that) in the “yard-sale” slot. I have all the other big stuff in a separate drawer.
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