2024’s Most Surprising Kitchen Trend Has Us Scratching Our Heads

If you have the cabinet space, storing baking sheets vertically using wire dividers can make them easy to “grab what you need, and only what you need,” The Home Edit founders Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer write. No avalanches of baking sheets, plus you can use ‘em to keep cutting boards in place—and they’re a pretty affordable fix.

Can’t sacrifice cabinet space to stow your cookie sheets? Our Lady of Chambray can’t either—and she doesn’t. “I have a huge basket for all those things that don’t fit in drawers, like half sheet pans and baking racks, big cutting boards,” Ina Garten shared in a 2009 interview with House Beautiful. She stows them vertically in the basket, so she can easily pull each one out. “I don’t think I have anything stacked on anything else.” (Before stealing her technique, just make sure you choose a basket that’s at least 13 inches wide, so a half-sheet pan can fit in it—and that you have a spot to store that basket. Garten keeps hers on the floor, at the end of a table.)

You could even combine methods one and two, sticking a divider inside the basket, so everything stays upright and easy to stow. Our basket pick is 27 inches wide by 17 inches tall, so baking sheets can be fully hidden inside.

Arguably the best option—if you must ignore the oven drawer—is a pull-out organizer, like this one from Amazon. That way you aren’t digging into the abyss of your cabinets to reach the organizer. Plus, it uses an adhesive film to stick to the bottom of your cabinets, so it’s a renter-friendly installation too (no drilling holes!). Just be sure to measure your cabinet space before buying, in order to save yourself the hassle of hitting the 30-day return window.