so i'd say for the past six months my mom has been nagging me to really organize my cake stuff cause "it's taking over the ENTIRE kitchen". btw, i'm 24, still in school and took up caking to offset college expenses. so after totally ignoring her, because i couldn't have that much stuff, i decided to go to lowe's picked up a good size shelving unit and put it in our laundry/ resereved pantry area. omg i can't beleive how much stuff i've accumulated. from pans, to bake strips, levelers, tips, flavorings, decorations, tips, fondant tools, tips, etc. literally in less than 10 minutes that those shelves were full. luckily i had cleared some pantry space so i was able to put my flavorings, gels, deco stuff, and other non baking hardware there. i guess all those trips to hobby lobby to pick up an item or two just added up. oh well...just a little funny story for yal!

have a good monday!
chris

Yes, cake decorating supplies are like kudzu.

taking???

took!!!!

8 big storage tote bins + 1 moving box of pans

2 - 18"x48"x72" racks full

1 - 8 drawer mini tower full of "stuff"

3 cabinets in the kitchen full

and the KA out on the counter

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LOL -- love the kudzu analogy, kelleym!!!! perfect!!!

help, it's got my leg!

hmmm...

instead of "oh, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor"

we should rewrite it to:

"oh, I'm being eating by cake stuff and icing"???

I thought I was doing good when I bought a 7/8 drawer tower and started putting in the tips, bags, etc. I thought that my pans could fit in the bigger drawers in the bottom. NOPE! A couple maybe...but I also put books and recipes in one of them! I'm thinking of some clear totes or a couple 3 wide drawer towers for pans.

Since we bought a new house (without a cake room!) I am trying to figure out where to put all of my stuff! I have three portable pantries full, a old kitchen cupboard set plus 3 of the rubbermaid drawer things!!! It is crazy!

How we accumulate stuff! One 10x10 room, one 10x15 outside storage, one 14x30 building and still need more room, from ovens, freezers, refrigerators, catering stuff, decorating stuff, bakers racks full, counter tops filled with colors air brush tips etc. Peg board in shop full of candy molds, cookie cutters, specialty pans,. My DH says he has plans for another storage building behind the shop for more stuff, I have more then surpassed his stuff which of course is tools and all that goes with it. Fortunately he just keeps building and I just keep buying. What a nightmare!

My kitchen has alot of storage and not enough. I have cake pans everywhere. I have a desk built in the kitchen with a bookcase full of books and cake related stuff plus books organized on the counter by my workspace (designated for cakes and coffee ). 2 mixers about to be 3 hogging space. About 6 cabinets dedicated to cake stuff and 2 drawers full of tips, spatulas, bags etc. I don't know the exact sizes of the cabinets and shelves etc. but I have a nice sized kitchen and still feel I need more space. When we moved here, I thought the doors of heaven had opened up 'cause the kitchen was a dream...I still love it but I need an expansion

I know, my husband is about ready to kill me and toss my cake stuff out the door. I'm an impulse buyer and it's not a good situation.

The foyer coat closet is no longer a place for coats.

And the pool table is not for playing pool.

Need I say more?

The kitchen is full, and the laundrycupboards, the trestle table is holding 2 cakes at present, the assignment for my legal studies is buried under cake recipes and sketches on my desk.

I went out today to by a new bronze mesh sieve (it finally broke after 15 years, they dont make things like they used to ) and came home with a new cake pan, 4 flavourings, 5 chocolate moulds, impression mat and 2 books!!!

When I saw DBF today at his work, he said did you get what you need?

Yes dear (might have omitted to mention the extras )

This hobby is totally addictive. (Must do something about the diet I need to start though, have gained 4 kg since I started baking again )

Cheryl
p.s can I justify buying Toba Garretts book: The Well Decorated Cake at AU $25.00????

Yeah - you buy one or two items at a time and don't realize how much you have. The pans are the hardest things to accomodate as they don't stack so easy and take up so much room. I finally bought a shelf from Lowe's and put in laundry room. I have things in plastic bins but am slowly outgrowing this and I just do this for fun.

I remodeled my kitchen last year to house my baking stuff. Didn't work. I now have an entire pantry (6 feet wide) full of stuff, numberous cabinets, full of other cake stuff, stuff in the garage, and a cake room that we used to call a dining room. Seriously, we just called a contractor yesterday for an estimate for an addition. Help!

Glad to know I am sooo not alone!!! 1 cupboard in the basement full of pans, more pans and pillars on a basement shelf, a hutch STUFFED with
colors, tips, bags, RI pieces, cooling racks, smooothers, spatulas, more pans parchment paper, luster dusts, contact paper, round boards, flower formers, color sprays..oh lordy God knows what else...cake books and recipes on a shelf above the puter in the kichen, photo albums, boards and boxes, ribbons a boxful of cake 'stuff in my room, cake mixes, puddings, jello, powdered sugar, Crisco, marshmallows, chocolate on my pantry shelf!!! Lordy! Gotta love it...Dh has ben a dream about it, 'course he has 'stuff' too LMBO...and CAKE ON!

Ha ha ha I have under the bed storage bins in my BEDROOM!!!!

OMG, I must be doing good then! I have one shelf of candy melts in containers, one over the fridge cabinet for decorating stuff for cookies -sprinkles and the like, two top shelves of a 4' wide cabinet for spare flour and other cooking ingredients related to cakes, plus canisters that hold 5 lbs of each on teh counter. I have two 24" base cabinets for pans and cake boards, etc. and the top of a corner cabinet with three baskets for tips, cookie cutters and food colors. Oh, and one drawer for all baking utensils. I don't have anything else anywhere else and that's my PLAN to keep it that way... unless you take into account I have NOWHERE to go with the cake projector I have yet to try out because I don't know where to store it!!!

Melissa

Household kitchen pantry? No longer used for a place to store food for breakfast, lunch or dinner. It's all sugar, flour, shortening, flavorings, chocolates etc.

DH opens the door and says, "We don't have anything in here to cook, it's all cake stuff!" I just smile and say, "Yes dear, and should there be a crisis, we'll survive on cakes."

<raising hand> Guilty as charged.

I am infamous for finding Wilton pans at the thrift store for a buck or two, and buying them "just in case"...