We’ve been having a little bit of a rearrange in our kitchen this week. We added some extra storage – in the shape of repurposed apple crates – behind our Esse range cooker. It meant that we now have some more shelf space for foodstuffs.
Something I’ve wanted to do for a while is get all our herbs and spices into uniform containers. At the moment we have a hodge-podge of ones from different brands and supermarkets – and it looks untidy, in my opinion. Thanks to the reorganisation, we now have the perfect display space for a row of matching glass spice jars.
The basic Nutley’s jars will do the job aptly; they’re hexagonal so can be positioned snugly against each other as well as stacked upon each other. You get so many of them that we can get all our dozens of different herbs, spices, salts and peppers refilled. I can label each one using my nifty Dymo.
The bamboo lidded variety are very beautiful to look at and they’re available in two different sizes – so more bulky things like cinnamon sticks will fit the larger one nicely. They come with pre-printed sticky labels – but what about the less well-known spice mixes that we use such as panch phoron, za’atar and ras el hanout? Well, not to worry, you can specify the words that you want printed… as well as having the choice of three different fonts.
The Kilner jars are my favourite of the three here. I already have a range of glass Kilner jars that I use to store dry goods, make jams & preserves and to soak sloe berries in gin – so they’d be in good company. They have a nifty screw lid with different sized perforations – very practical – which means that, in many cases, you don’t even need to remove the lid to use the contents. Again, I could make my own little labels for each – there’s a little designated space on the jar under the Kilner name for just this purpose. If I could find these for sale in bulk – at a discounted price – they’d would be lining my shelves pronto!
- Nutley’s 190ml hexagonal glass jam jars, gold lids (pack of 36): £32.50, Amazon
- Spice jars bamboo lid 200ml / 300ml: from £30.00 for six, Etsy
- Kilner 250ml storage jar with shaker lid: £4.00 each, Ocado
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