Practical to keep food, reduce packaging and bring a decor touch, jars are good. But how can you use them to organize the kitchen? Our advice.
Great for Adopt the bulk and reduce wastekitchen jars also offer better food storage than paper or cardboard packaging. They also allow better organize the pantry by standardizing the containers which can then more easily tidy up. If you have a kitchen with open shelves, the jars will also be a size decoration asset. Here is everything you need to know to get into the storage of the kitchen with jars.
What to put in kitchen jars?
Almost all foods can be stored in glass jars. We will however favor dry food as :
- flour,
- sugar,
- pasta,
- legumes,
- rice,
- Coffee,
- Aromatic herbs
- The cookies
- Or the preserves of vegetables and fruit that you have made yourself.
Other foods can of course be stored in jars, but should then be kept in the fridge.
What jars for loose foods?
The choice of jars will depend on the foods you want to store! The ideal is to choose models glass or plastic which perfectly isolate air food thanks to a seal on the closure. You can opt for:
- of the screw jars,
- with metallic mount and washer,
- or with simple lids.
On the decoration side, we prefer jars with similar aesthetics for a more harmonious rendering. Depending on the space available, it may be interesting to choose Stackable models. You will find beautiful models at a low price at Ikea, Sostrene Grene, Hema, Action or even jars the perfect in the shelves of supermarkets. You can also recover pots after consuming jam for example.
What size of jar to choose?
Provide different contents with jars of 35 cl, 50 cl, but also 1 l, 1.5 l and even 2 L For older children. Foods like flour or sugar will more easily find their place in the largest jars. Sides forms, also vary in order to accommodate pasta like spaghetti for example.
What labels for kitchen jars?
You will find white labels where to write yourself or already ready in many decoration, stationery or creative leisure shops. Stickers are also traded commercially to nicely decorate your kitchen jars. On the Internet, Print models on sticker paper There is no shortage of and you can also Create your own models On online software like Canva. A dymo type labeling will also do the business to label your jars easily. Cricut machines, DIY champions, allow you to make ultra -creative adhesive labels in the blink of an eye.
The jars easily find their place in the kitchen! They will replace all classic paper or cardboard packaging and will settle on the shelves inside the cupboards. Very decorative, they will also be comfortable on Open shelves of the kitchen. We can also fix a shelf near the worktop to have its basic ingredients on hand or downright place its essential jars directly on the worktop.
Store your jars by installing thebigger on the bottom If you should arrange them on several lines. In this way, you will be able to see all the ingredients in the blink of an eye. In the kitchen cupboards, place the pots you use the most At hand and the others more in height. Avoid stacking them too much so that you don’t have to get everything out to catch the one you are looking for.
