Ours is 9 inches wide with adjustable shelves for the tall bottles. Don't have a pic at the moment. It seems plenty wide to me - enough for 2 bottles wide 6 total on one shelf. Hope this helps.

Mine is about 9 1/2" wide. It came with 3 adjustable shelves but I removed one to make room for bottles. The bottom shelf isn't very accessible so I store lesser used, short items there.

Thank you for your replies!! I was starting to think I was the only person who thought a oil-vinegar pullout was a good idea, since no one responded for a while!

Kulagal and Erikanh, where do you have yours? Mine is next to the oven now, but that seems like a bad idea, now that I think about it.

I never heard of one before. I guess it's the same as a spice pull-out only wider. Who knew? I'd love to see a picture!

Mine is to the right of my cooktop. I really needed one because I have no wall cabinets on the cooktop wall.

We have two, one flanking each side of the rangetop. Each is 9 1/2" wide

-Gorilla

Thank you, thank you!

Erikanh, I can see how it would be hard to reach those bottom items. (Totally off-topic, your kitchen looks amazing, BTW!)

Cloud swift, that looks like a great solution, so you can reach the bottles in the middle and on the bottom.

I just printed out a picture so I can tell my KD to make ours just like that!

Gorilla x...Looks like we cross-posted. Thanks for sharing your photo. Hmm...I think we could use something a little wider than yours. I have an obsessive amount of oil, sauces and vinegars! Love your cabinets!

I have a 15" tower pullout that I use for oil and vinegar, and a lot of other stuff, in my prep/cooking area. Only the top and bottom shelves are fixed, all the other pullout interior drawers operate independently-- so I don't need to worry about headroom above the bottles, and can easily see the contents of each pullout drawer. I find 15" of width works great:

I also have a 12" base cabinet pullout that I use for cleaning supplies, but the cabinet would also work well for oils and such. Only the base drawer is attached to the door front-- all other drawers operate independently. Again, this makes the pullout more functional because you do not need to worry about headroom, or having the contents of one level obscured by a higher level:

Very cool, Morton5! It is so helpful to see how you have organized your kitchen, on this and the other thread I started about drawers. Care to share how you organized your spices?

Thanks, hollister. Most of my spices are in a 15" top (shallow-depth) drawer in my prep/cooking area. I tend to buy the small .75 oz. McCormick plastic jars, and store them upright in the drawer. I write the name of the spice with a sharpie on the top lid, and the date I opened the jar on the bottom. I also have a few tall bottles in there lying on their sides. They aren't rolling around, so they're fine, but a curved Ikea insert is available for tall bottles. Most jumbo-sized spices and salt are in the 15" tower pullout pictured above, though I keep a few (like peppercorns used to refill my grinder) in the pantry a few steps away.

Since I am not fumbling around on shelves for the salt anymore, I now tear back half the top of the salt package, so that I have easy access for a measuring spoon, and forgo the spout. It's one of those minor details that has made my life easier.

Boy, IKEA is just awesome for organization! I will look into the curved insert. I have a lot of the taller type of spices. Thanks for sharing!

Even if you have no interest in doing an Ikea kitchen, I think it's worthwhile to visit their web site, visit the store, and/or pick up their kitchen catalog for ideas. The Blum web site also has interesting ideas for ergonomics and organization.

Here is a home made organizer for a spice drawer with the tall bottles:

However, I have switched to buying most of my spices in bulk on line from Penzey's or The Spice House. I keep the bulk bags in the freezer and use them to refill short round spice bottles from SpecialtyBottle.com that sit upright in the drawer. That way the 24" drawer holds a larger variety of spices.

Mine is not installed yet but is a 12" and will be to the left of the cooktop. I have no upper cabinets in that area so the pullout was a must have.
Will be putting items away as soon as my cabinets are all in. It's great seeing how others have arranged their items.

I have two 6" pullouts flanking my cooktop. BUT, they're not adjustable (which I found out too late!) and my oils were too tall. So, I put spices, baking powder, shortening, molasses, honey, recipe cards, etc. in it.

Left side, baking sprinkles; Right side spices, etc.

Baking Sprinkles:

Spices, etc.:

Hollister, check out this thread for some neat spice storage ideas.

Eliz

Here is a link that might be useful: How to store large collection of spices

Cloud swift, I love the custom drawer inserts...looks beautiful! That thread on how to store large collection of spices was very inspiring. I think I'll go the drawer route with Rev-a-Shelf insert.

Thanks again, everyone! Buehl, sorry your shelves weren't adjustable. Wow, that's a lot of sprinkles!!

Hi, Hollister. Copying Cloud Swift's pullouts is going to be a good choice. I have the 12" Ikea pullout Morton5 shows and initially thought I definitely wouldn't want it wider (ranks of 2 to 4 bottles just with the 12") until I started writing on their lids or even glass shoulders if the lid's dark with a Sharpie ("dk soy" "wh V"). Works fine and I wouldn't hesitate to do 15" if other factors made that a good choice.

Morton5, that pullout works so well for your cleaning supplies that I ran into my kitchen to reassure myself there was no way I could have included it if I'd only thought of it. :) Thanks also for the salt idea. I love that so much I'm going to go ahead and see if it'll work for me in Georgia in the summer even though the air's like soup around here these days.

BTW, just for fun as a counterpoint to the excellent systems shown, I confess most of my spices and powders are in whatever they came in--glass, metal, cardboard bottles, boxes and bags of various sizes and shapes, and even languages, which doesn't work all that well with formal organizers. I use the ones that don't roll to hold groups of those that do sort of in place. The same for the mortar, nutmeg grinder, etc. My "system" works well enough if you're not in a tearing hurry and does give a sort of sloppy "international market" look to my two 18" drawers that I like.