Get your baking supplies organized to make your baking experience, easy, fun, and stress free!

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Anyone who enjoys baking will know just how much time and money can be spent on this tasty hobby. From an endless amount of topping choices, different case shapes and cutters, hundreds of icing styles and so on, there is a lot to store in one kitchen. You also find that for many people, there is only a small section of the kitchen that can be dedicated to baking supplies, so it’s really important to organise and sort them properly to ensure you have them all ready for your next baking project.

Sort Through Everything

The first thing to do when organising and tidying your baking supplies into one neat space is to check everything. Baking products are often quite frustrating, because you want to stock up on everything, yet you may only use one certain item once or twice within its shelf-life, so you end up having to throw half of the product away.

Go through every baking supply you have, including your tools, and check every sell-by-date, as well as checking to make sure all tools are working and in good shape. If you find yourself throwing items away, then this will help to free up essential storage space, as well as preventing those annoying moments when you reach for the ingredient, to find its out of date and you need to run to the shop!

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Decide What Goes Where

It’s difficult to know exactly what you want to live where within the kitchen, especially when you have a whole range of different tools and equipment to bake with. Decide exactly what you want to go where, for example, you may want to add some drawer inserts into one set of drawers to keep your knives, wooden spoons and other utensils. You may then decide to have all electrical appliances in one cupboard, trays and pans in another and so on. This will help you to know exactly what is where and you’ll be utilising the space you have really well.

Containers are a Must

Storing certain ingredients can be frustrating, especially when flour and sugar is packed into thin paper bags. By adding all of your ingredients into containers, preferably clear ones, you can keep everything stored safely and neatly, with no worry of any ripped packaging. Having a cupboard filled with clear containers is also ideal for keeping track of how much you have left of each item, as you can see the exact level that the ingredient is at and therefore you will know when you need to go and buy some more. It’s also much easier to stack the containers together, so your cupboards will be much neater and items will be easier to reach.

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Keep it Labelled

When you store ingredients in clear containers, it’s pretty easy to identify what’s in each one. The problems do start to occur, however, when you have multiple items that look similar, such as caster sugar and granulated sugar, or sugar and salt. This is why it’s important to label your containers, as this will make the whole baking process much, much easier. It’s also really nice to label everything so that your cupboards are organised and neat, which will make you feel much more on top of the things and together. There are lots of different labels available that you can buy that have wipeable surfaces so you can switch them around whenever needed.