Spice Stack Rack - (White)
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Spice Stack Rack - (White)
Customer Review: Bought 2 - love 'em!
Summary: 5 Stars
First, these are great. They have five narrow spaces in the front and four wider spaces in the back of each drawer. They pull out and lever down conveniently. They fit nicely on our cabinet shelf and really helped to make our spices usable and tidy.
Now for the things that you should be aware of before purchase:
1) The plastic is not flimsy, but it is not sturdy either. The structure wobbles a bit when you use it -- so I pull out the drawers with care. I love this thing and don't want it to break!
2) The spaces are sized to fit your traditional round spice containers (tiny half sizes, full size, and larger sizes in the back), but they do not fit the extra large sizes that you can sometimes get in the grocery. These I put on another shelf. We have a few fancy new square glass bottles and rectangular spice tins that are roughly equivalent in size to the traditional containters. So that you know, these fit in the drawers, but they obviously don't fit the round shape.
3) In the description, I recalled that it said that the shelves could be labeled. No labels are provided. There is space for this, but you will have to cover a colorful, oddly shaped sticker that displays the product name on each shelf. I suspect that our organization scheme may change from time to time as our spice selection changes, and that labeling over the product name sticker will look hokey, so I am letting the label idea go.
Overall, this product was a bit more expensive than I would have wanted to pay for an organizer, but it works quite well.
Customer Review: Solid and strudy
Summary: 5 Stars
I almost didn't buy this product because of some of the negative reviews, but I am so glad that I did purchase it. It is a solid, sturdy product, and am surprised that several reviewers called it flimsy.
Before purchasing this, all of my spices were in a large plastic basket, where they were jumbled up and hard to find. This spice stack makes it possible to access your spices quickly and easily. All of my spices have fit into it, even though I have a rather motley collection of jars from various brands.
It also comes with a pre-printed sheet of labels and one blank sheet of labels that you can add to outside of the drawers. I ended up alphabetizing my spices, so I'm not sure that I'll use these stickers, but it's a nice feature.
Also, a few reviewers complained that when you tip each drawer down (as shown in the photo for the product), the stack is wobbly, but I have not experienced this at all. Each of the three drawers tips downwards so you can find your spices, and even though my drawers are almost all filled, they are very stable. What is really nice is that the drawers pull out so far that you don't even need to tip them down; I can easily access the spice jars in the back rows just by pulling out the drawers.
This handy product has made our pantry so much tidier, and it's great! Highly recommended!
Customer Review: Going to Buy Another
Summary: 5 Stars
It seems silly to say, but this is one of the best purchases I've made in a very, very long time. I have a ton of spices that I use on a constant basis...probably somewhere in the area of 75 bottles. Even though we built a large cabinet to house our spices, poor organization made it as useless as if the cabinet were tiny. I'm short, and reaching stuff that had fallen to the back of the cabinet was so very, very frustrating...sometimes it felt like gathering the spices to make dinner took longer than actually cooking the meal. This simple plastic cube has made cooking much more pleasant. The fact that the drawers fold down is just about the best design idea ever. I was afraid that the whole stack would tip over when I left the drawer down, but nope...totally sturdy. It fits all of my jars, short and tall (Penzeys, Spice House, Spice Islands, Rancho Gordo and McCormick). In addition, it also makes it easy to keep spices that I commonly use together in one place, which also cuts down on prep time (baking on one shelf, Mexican on another, Indian on another). We needed two but decided to just buy one to make sure that it met our needs. We'll be ordering the second one shortly. No issues with shipping or product quality.Customer Review: Genius solution!
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently moved into a new studio apt. with a teeny-tiny kitchen and not a single drawer in sight. I hate having my spices out on shelves because everything that's exposed in the kitchen tends to be covered in a sticky greasy film withing weeks. So I was looking for a rack that would let me keep my spices in the cabinet and give me easy access.
After looking around for a long time and almost building my own under-cabinet spice drawer, I found this great product. It fits into most cabinets and lets you store a whole bunch of spices while keeping them organized and easily accessible.
Pros: great concept, works as described and expected. stores more spices than I actually owned.
Cons: has a tendancy to tip forward when you pull out one of the drawers with heavier spices (in glass containers for instance). BUT, if you have a shelf directly over the rack it will not tip forward, so that's an easy fix. I guess you could also always secure the back of the bottom of the rack to the shelf with a bit of self adhesive tape, that should do it.
Bottom line: great great product. love it and recommend it.
Customer Review: The answer to my spice cupboard mess
Summary: 5 Stars
For years I've tried to find something that would help me find the spices I need instead of pulling everything out of the cupboard to get at the back bottles. Turntables were OK but I still had to get at the spice bottles in the center. This is the answer. It fits perfectly in my cupboard and I got 40 bottles in it what with doubling up the short ones. As an added bonus I was able to clean out my cupboard and found that I had many duplicate bottles of spice that I bought because I couldn't find anything before. I thought I would need 2 of them but one held way more than I thought. When I first looked at it I thought "I paid thirty some bucks for this?" The plastic is not really thick but I don't plan on standing on it anyway. Mine was missing one of the little anti slide foot pads on the bottom but I had an adhesive pad for the backs of chairs that worked nicely in its place. After I got it in place and filled it up I was very happy that I bought it. It's really nice to have an organized spice shelf for once. If you're thinking of buying this product, do it. It's the answer to your spice storage problems.