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Help with walk-in pantry design
We’re in the process of designing a walk-in pantry in our new kitchen which will be around 4 x.1.8m
We’re planning to have a full height integrated freezer, an appliance garage, a sink and a worktop area for the air fryer, toaster etc
What else have you put in yours? I’m undecided between cupboards, shelving, drawers, a mixture of all of them.
It will mainly be used for storing unopened food items, jars of pasta, rice, wine , beer, vegetables that don’t need to be refrigerated, homemade jams and chutney, the dog’s food (maybe use a pull out bin for this)
If you have any photos of your pantry you’re happy to share I’d love some inspiration. Also if there is anything you wish you’d done with the benefit of hindsight. Thanks!
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If it’s going to have your air fryer and toaster in, is it not more of a second kitchen at that stage? Is it for storage or for ‘not meals’ food that doesn’t need the hob or oven? Intrigued as to how much time you plan to spend in it vs the first kitchen
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We use our air fryer and kettle inside our pantry, which works really well as our kitchen is open plan and we can shut the doors to reduce the noise from those appliances. Just make sure you have an extractor fan in the pantry. We just have a ceiling fan like you’d put in a bathroom but in hindsight a more powerful in line fan might have been better (depends how far the ducting has to run to outside)
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I think some great points about how much you plan to be in there versus the main kitchen.
I’ve seen a home that zoned it more around what they cooked where so they made their pantry the baking part as they were a large family of ho baked a lot so jus put their baking appliances in their pantry!
This worked well as the older kids did their baking there without distracting from the main meals cooking.
I would be wary of putting your every day appliances in the pantry like the toaster and air fryer as you may find yourself relegated into here versus making sure you can do as much as you need in the kitchen.
A lot depends on how busy your life is when it comes to quickly making meals and also think about the distance you travel around the kitchen.
It may not seem far but the triangle in cooking still works well as it speeds up tasks and reduces exhaustion.
We often take the path to least resistance when in a rush.
I think a pantry focused on storage and the freezer is great use and then for those less often used worktop appliances is perfect.
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Here’s ours. We have open shelves for large saucepans and appliances beneath the work top.
We have matching baskets with labels for all the leftovers that don’t fit into the jars. The jars are all coffee jars with labels on.
I particularly love the spice jar racks which we got on eBay. You can add as few or as many as you need. We’re UK based…we buy all our spice jars from Sainsbury’s so they match.
I wish we had put in sockets for the appliances and a small sink.
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I have a marble shelf in mine – which is brilliant for keeping things (& the pantry itself) cool. Ideal for cooling cakes down!
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