pot rack

[NMDemDist2]

I am thinking of adding a half circle wall hanging pot rack above my baker's rack/microwave stand

something like this one I think...



I used to have a large hanging pot rack over my cooking island in California. this kitchen is a bit smaller so I can't do anything elaborate. I could free up a large cupboard with a pot rack though..

any suggestions?

[cmf]

1. I have a bakers rack

with a pot rack on top. I hang 4 pots and one small skillet from it. It really does save a lot of room in your cupboards. The only caveat is that your pots have to be in reasonably good shape - no stains, etc, since they will be on display.

[WritersBlock]

2. Those aren't stains; they're culinary excellence commemorations ;)

I want a pot rack, too, but we've got an extremely small kitchen, so there's no place for one even on the wall.

[eleny]

3. We have a half circle pot rack

It looks similar to this one with the metal grid/mesh interior where you can hang additional hooks. It's over the stove because we don't have a range hood.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I would advise the one eleny posted in Number 3

It can be mounted higher up the wall, thereby allowing you to hang pans with long handles (like frying pans) without them hanging so low as to be in the way.

Here's our pot rack. This was custom made from stainless steel when we redid our kitchen. Between the pot rack and the wall shelves, also custom, we gained back two whole base cabinets.

Be **really** sure the pot rack is well mounted to the wall. Notice on mine the two long support brackets that are a foot long. We used 4" stainless steel lag bolts to hold this puppy up. We used similar bolts to hold up the shelves.



Sorry about the picture. The color is waaaaaay off (the walls are a yellow color, not rose!). I used my little Palm Zire to take this and its barely functional as a camera!

[merci_me]

5. I have a pot rack exactly like the one you posted.

When we moved down here, I had no open wall space in the kitchen so I spray painted it to match my laundry room and that's where I hang my hangers as I pull things from the dryer, or hang some wet things to dry on hangers.

Actually, I never used it for pots. Before that part of the year, I used it to hang corn to dry for squirrels and the other times, to dry herbs or roses, depending on what I had.

I've always been blessed with tons of cabinet space and cursed with ugly pot bottoms from my gas range.

Mary

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Why worry about pot bottoms?

Pots are used in one of two ways .... as decoration in the upscale "perfect" kitchen or as tools. Tools get marks on them. Tools show signs of actual use. Tools have dents and scrapes and marks on them. Tools do not look "like new", nor should they.

Its funny (not speaking to you here, merci_me) ..... the "commercial" kitchen look is all the rage. Ever been in a commercial kitchen? Dented pots. Black carbonized spilled food on range tops. Pots turned black and splotchy from use. This is not to say they're unclean - more often than not they're really **quite** clean - but to say they show serious signs of serious use.

[wildeyed]

8. I think people want the idealized version of the commercial kitchen,

not the real thing. I am reorganizing my kitchen and have decided to go for the commercial look out of a lack of funds. I added some free standing furniture as extra counter space and open shelving on a previously blank wall. Also a pot rack.

I am saving my nickels and dimes for a really nice kitchen re-do, but for now I am really happy with the industrial style changes.

[merci_me]

11. It's a combo of things

first, most of my pots and pans are cast iron and would pull the rack down and secondly, I'm only 4'11' and hanging the rack low enough to be convenient for me to reach, means the pot bottoms are staring my 6ft husband in the face. LOL

With the corn and herbs, it was able to be hung very high and once the herbs were dry, I'd climb on my stool to get them down to store. In the laundry room, I can hang it where it's easy for me to reach up and hook the hangers on.

Finally, when I bought the rack, I lived close to my mom and you can say what you want about the credibility of the bottoms of the pots, you'd have to know my mom. The cooking gene skipped a generation and her pots all looked like new, cause one grandmother lived next door and the other lived in an duplex on the otherside of us and thank god they did all the cooking and taught me how. My mother, Mrs. Clean on steriods, was just like Rita Rudner's mother: "You now how some people build castles in the air? My mother dusts them." LOL

Mary

[wildeyed]

7. We are both on some big kitchen reorganization kick.

I bought a new pot rack yesterday! I got the hanging kind, though, since I don't have any open wall space. The one I purchased has slats on the top so I can use it as an extra shelf for items not in heavy use as well as a hanging rack.

[NMDemDist2]

9. thanks for the input everyone, I had a gift card & found this at Pier One

it didn't work worth a darn with the chains "meeting in the middle" even on two hooks

so hubby is going to mount hooks thru the ceiling joists (one hook for each front chain) and bracket it to the wall in the back.....

we'll see if that works out or not..

[NMDemDist2]

10. what do you guys think?

[WritersBlock]

12. Very nice!

And it matches the scrolly-bits on the baker's rack, too. Looks great!

[NMDemDist2]

13. thanks, and yes that's why we wanted to try to keep it and make it

work

I did some changing of the accessories & decor and it looks even better now

I put a low silk ivy plant on the rack, and changed some of the decor on the rack shelves

looks more pulled together and actually made the microwave part of the kitchen proper

my stove is just to the right of the rack on the other side of the garage door, so it's a quick step to the pots instead of digging them out of a bottom corner cupboard

edit to add, you can see the putty marks in the ceiling where we tried to install it "as directed" :P

[eleny]

14. looks great - but tell me...

what's the gizmo on the bottom shelf of the baker's rack????????????

[NMDemDist2]

15. LOL that's my CD player boom box so I can rock out while cooking

or listen to Air America radio, depending on my mood :)

[madmax]

17. I like it very much!!

Not too big and holds a lot of pots. Very nice.

Girl, you've got to stop doing this!! I'm such a copycat. Now I'm thinking, hmmmmm a pot rack - not to big, not too small... just right! Pier One you say? I like the shelf type area above it, too.

:hug:

[NMDemDist2]

19. yup only $40 and they have the same size in an oval if that's a

better fit :evilgrin:

[NMDemDist2]

16. finally finished (except painting the room)

[silverlib]

18. very nice!

It looks superb!

[NMDemDist2]

20. thanks! now for paint...... n/t