The Well-Organized Kitchen
For the Come-on-in Cook
You like to share conversation―and kitchen prep―with a friend, a mate, your kids. Your goal: to arrange things so that two (or five) can work as efficiently as one.
The Strategies
Make things easy for helpers to find. Bring things into the open with a wall-mounted utensil rack (Magnetic Knife Bar, $40, williams-sonoma.com). Rachel Siegel, owner of Spruce, an organizing company in Berkeley, California, suggests storing tools by function. Create parallel work stations. Set up separate work areas with equal access to commonly used tools and ingredients. A trash bin with a wide foot pedal can be moved about easily to serve cooks on both sides of an island or a counter (Semiround Step Can, $99, simplehuman.com).
Make the room kid-friendly. Create a zone where kids will feel welcome to help or just visit (chalkboard table, $300, and chairs, $36 each, available at The Conran Shop, 866-755-9079). For safety, move cleaning products and knives to adult heights. Stock up on kitchen tools made for kids and plastic bowls. Twin cutting boards( $12 each, crateandbarrel.com) let you chop the onions on your side of the island while your friend preps the apples on hers.
Next: For the Entertainer
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