How do you store your cake pans?
I have been going crazy trying to figure out ideas!
I used to keep them in storage boxes.......now I have too many.
I had my husband put peg board up on our garage wall and i still don't have enough wall space to hold all of them.
I would appreciate any ideas or testimonials

I "nest" all of the sizes of each shape pan, then put them in a plastic storage container on their side.

My aunt has a lot of character pans. She keeps them in egg crates in her closet. Each Egg Crate is numbered and there is an index on the door of the closet with a list of which pans are in which crate. It saves lots of time trying to find the one I want to borrow.

I think that is one of those $1,000 questions!!

HeHe. I've seen people store them in the big plastic bins, hanging them up on the walls, and using racks to stand them up sideways.

I haven't found the best way for me yet, but am hoping once I get shelves in the cake room I'll figure it out.

Please excuse my ignorance. I am a California girl and to make it worse a "valley girl" But what is an egg crate?

Oh my gosh! I must have had a brain freeze. Egg crates are what you get to put on your mattress to make it softer. What I meant was those crates from wal-Mart that you get for college dorm rooms. You can stack them on their sides to be bookshelves or just use them normally. They are plastic. Sorry.

[quote] What I meant was those crates from wal-Mart that you get for college dorm rooms.



SHenyd:That's funny, those are called milk crates. You were close enough, they are both in the dairy section!

Thanks. That would have driven me crazy all day. I tried to ask my DH and he said they were just called "bins".

I was perusing Earlene Moore's site today, and she has a storage idea for her nesting pans that I am going to "borrow". She had her husband make slats on shelving, and then she nested them and rolled or pushed them in on their sides. I can see fitting a lot more pans into a smaller space that way, and they are easier to get at.

Of course you have to have a shelf or two available.

I ran out of space, so I brought one of those ex-large trash cans (that you can keep outside) and have it stored in my storage building.