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Review on Organize Your Kitchen With Toplife'S Bakeware Rack For Cookware, Dinnerware, Cutting Boards, Plates, Pot And Pan Lids In Brown - Top 10+ Picks by Scott Carlile

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Decent quality, but not practical

This is built decently well, although it's a bit shaky and not firm, eg the vertical dividers are not perfectly stable. Slight complaint is the color is not bronze, it's just brown.The major con for me in this product is something I could have guessed before buying if I paid more attention to the design in the pictures. Two things make it impractical for me:1. The base is slick metal. Where a skillet rests on it, there's no antislid covering/layer of any kind. So a skillet that's light but has a beefy heavier handle can only be placed in this stand two ways: the handle up, perfectly vertical, or any deviation from that vertical position causes the handle to rotate until it hits the tabletop. I was hoping I could use this in my limited height drawer, with handles at 45 degrees, so the drawer space next to the rack under the handles could be used for something else. This only works for very heavy cast iron skillets. Any light aluminum skillet - the skillet just spins until its handle rests on the drawer floor. 90% of my skillets spin on this stand. They occupy less floor space if I just stack them up, like I did before buying this stand.2. After discovering that this stand doesn't save any space at all if I want to store skillets with handles, I thought to myself, I guess I can at least store lids in it, since they don't have long side handles. Not so. If you look at the shape of the vertical divider, you can only compactly store lids that have round knobs and that are large enough in diameter for the knob to rest in the loop of the vertical divider. Any lid with a C handle will need the width of the storage slot to be adjusted to the absolute height of the lid or wider (2 inches for many of my lids). Because a generic normal width of a C handle is four fingers wide, and that's wider than the loop in the center of the divider.So, a specialized lid rack has wide space open in the middle of the divider, so the lids store closer to each other (handle of one lid can occupy space inside the next lid). The dividers on this rack don't allow that, and require each lid to have its own space.To resume, this would only work if I wanted to display skillets on my countertop, stored with handles vertical. I don't have space on my countertop. And if I did, this stand is not pretty enough to be displayed.This is not a knock on this particular implementation of skillet racks. Many of them have similar designs flaws. Before buying, visualize your skillets and lids in this stand, and try to see if it's really space saving for you.

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Pros
  • I really like the lid organizer, it freed up a lot of space in a small apt.
Cons
  • Not suitable for those who prefer a minimalist style kitchen