Do you have a cabinet above the refrigerator? Those always seem like a great place for bulky and seldom used kitchen items. I use mine for SO's rarely used counter-top appliances (vacuum sealer, meat slicer, deep fryer, etc).

I plan on storing infrequently used (but used!) items on top shelves or at the back of a shelf... those not so easy to access areas of the kitchen, but still in the kitchen. I don't mind getting a step stool once a year when I'm going to make jam or to pull out the holiday plates. But I hate going down to the basement to get kitchen things. I think when they are stored somewhere else in the house is when they get "lost" and you end up buying another.

I have a walk in pantry and I store some of these type items on the top shelf. None of your actual example items are there, however.

My bundt cake pan and pyrex pie plates(and I have 4) are in a drawer in the kitchen. My rolling pin is in the back of a top drawer. My special jam stirring spoon is with my canning gear which is in the utility room in the cellar.

So what is on the top shelf of the pantry: Whirly pop popcorn maker, 2 waffle irons(because DS1 likes thin waffles and DS2 like Belgium), mini donut baker(this should probably go to goodwill)

I don't have room in my kitchen for once a year items so I keep them in a closet in the basement. That's where my bundt pan is and I can't remember the last time I used it. It's a pain but it's really my only choice. The items I use a few times a year are above my fridge.

Lol, had to laugh as the angel food cake pan just went in the Goodwill bag. Made an angel food cake ONCE. It was good, but I will probably never do it again. Twelve eggs!

Angel food tube pan, bundt pan, assorted pie plates and oven accessories go in a deep drawer below my microwave. it is very handy.

All racks, baking sheets, the griddle, baking stone and shallow pans go in the vertical slotted cabinet above the ovens. One good reason to remove any soffit.

Those two areas do a great job of keeping things accessible but out of the way.

I keep things in kitchen, pantry, utility closet, or basement based on how often they're used. The least used items, farthest from kitchen. Items are grouped together so I rarely lose anything. One cabinet in the basement is strictly kitchen and canning items), one shelf in utility closet is just kitchen items, one shelf is pantry is non-food items, so it's easy to spot what I need. I don't have to look already. I do sometimes forget which item is in which spot so I might have to search pantry first (closest to kitchen), then next comes utility closet, with basement last before I find what I need but it never takes more than maybe 4-5 minutes since I don't have to search all over in those areas but, rather, in designated places in each spot. Hope that makes sense.

My brain is super disorganized and forgetful so I've trained myself to be fairly organized in my storage or I would lose things and buy double, triple what I really needed because I couldn't find it. I'm not naturally organized so this has been a bit of a life-long struggle. Having designated spots for things, not just kitchen stuff, and reducing clutter has made my life so much easier. I'm still working on it. Still have a lot of keepsake clutter to organize and remove but it's like a weight is lifting with each step.

Pantry or upper cabinet are great ideas!

Point out to your DH the cost of replacing these items annually. If he would prefer you do that, rather than store them.....

New build and not moved in yet. I plan to store rarely used items in large plastic bins in the basement. The ones only used at holidays or maybe once every other year. Those used occasionally will go in the walkin pantry. I do plan to toss or give away to charity.

I have a canning closet in the basement I use for storing canned goods, canning equipment and equipment rarely (but) used items. For items I keep in the kitchen that I don't use that often (bundt and angel food pans included), I keep them in cupboards/drawers of the kitchen that are not normally opened for everyday cooking (high, extra low, kind of tight areas, etc). I have my go-to drawers/cupboards filled with the items I use frequently. I also have an "out" and "surplus" box in the canning closet. The "outbox" items will go to goodwill next trip and the "surplus" box has all those extra wooden spoons and other duplicate items I already have in my kitchen. I just go grab one when going to a potluck or after I break a spoon, etc.

If you don't have room in any of you kitchen cabinets or pantry, do you have a garage or basement? My DD has limited kitchen cabinets and uses a plastic cabinet from Home Depot in her basement for items that are only used occasionally (tube pans, roasters, large serving bowls, etc). I actually have one on my back covered patio just outside my mudroom door to store outside things like plant food, watering cans, outdoor toys for the grandchildren, bug spray, grill supplies, etc. Most people would store this type of stuff in their garages, but my garage is detached and I am too lazy to walk out there.

I actually store my HUGE turkey roaster in the garage (used no more than twice a year), my canners (that haven't been used for several years - but will after retirement), large entertainment dishes/trays/punch bowls, etc that I use OCCASIONALLY (perhaps every 2-3 years) for parties, showers, etc.

Example: Home Depot/Lowes storage cabinet

Like some of the others, I store those odd baking items in a plastic bin inside a cabinet that I don't access often.

I do go through my cooking implements every once and a while to purge items I no longer use. LOL I'm always surprised to find more items each year that need to go.

I have a ton of shelves in my basement. I store turkey platter, turkey roaster, cake holders, nesco, etc. all down there.

We live in a loft with a great room. The kitchen is part of the great room, and is a simple galley (uppers and lowers along the wall, large island, entry from both ends). Fortunately we also have a walk-in pantry in the corridor. One wall is for food, one wall is for everything else (meaning angel food pans and roasting pans that get used at most once a year, the KA mixer, pressure cooker, soup pots, serving dishes, etc.) We can't afford to keep little-used stuff in the kitchen itself (although we do have some empty upper cabinet shelves)

lol. I have TWO angel food cake pans (luckily they nest in each other). I figure there are just so many things I will bake and angel food cake happens to be one of them (it's diet food!) so I keep the pans. I have three rolling pins (one of which I cannot part with because it belonged to my grandfather from his Italian pastry store.). There are three things I am so glad we did in our remodel: drawers because you can get so much stuff in them; a tray cabinet above the oven/microwave stack (there are lots of lasagna and pizza pans, the big turkey roaster, baguette pans - all the big stuff); two deep pantries with pull outs (one for food), the other for the small appliances (Cuisinart, crock pot, salad spinner, juicer, etc).

I have just put in an 8' long narrow IKEA lowers and uppers for DH office that is just off the kitchen. I will be claiming one lower and one upper for kitchen overflow. Otherwise most rarely used things go down the basement with the spiders. I have no fear of spiders, lol.

I've learned that just because something isn't used frequently, doesn't mean it will never be used. Serving pieces for entertaining are a typical example in our house. They might not deserve prime kitchen real estate, but there are other places to put them out of the way, yet not inconvenient to find. My mother uses the shelves in her closet , and under the bed hidden by the dust ruffle for this type of storage. Plastic bins in a guest closet are also used for some things.

My thought is that if things are neatly organized and put away out of sight, they aren't "clutter". And down the road if one finds they really never do use these items it's easier to sell/donate them because they have been pre-culled.

I've never understood the appeal of angel food cake.

Enduring, spiders are one thing... but in my basement I have a mound of dirt with an overturned cast iron bathtub atop it -- who knows what's under it! I'm not lookin'!

I am liking the plastic tub idea... I think I'll get a giant one and store it in the barn attic and send DH to fetch the angel food pan -- after I've baked the apple cake recipe!

Linelle, good homemade angel food cake is amazing, and I have hens so my eggs are extra tasty and readily available :-) Come on out and visit and I'll make you some to-die for angel food cake with fresh local strawberries and whipped cream from the organic dairy up the road.

I make cakes quite frequently so the drawer under my double ovens holds my cheesecake pan, squares, various rounds and bundt pans.

The storage above (will be) divided tray storage for cookie sheets, cupcake pans, cooling racks, etc but until my I build my dividers, all of that is also in the drawer below.

My canning supplies are under my prep/ wet bar sink except for my giant canning pot and I store that in the garage.

I planned for storage for those items since I do use mine fairly frequently.

That apple cake recipe is to die for! I eat much to much of it every time I make it :o

I have storage compartments in my banquette that are used for seldom used and seasonal items: large serving platters, madeleine pans, springforms, crudite trays, etc.

I sometimes wish, though, I had enough contiguous space to store things by theme. Right now my large sautes and fry pans are separated from their everyday peers. And I need to find a better way to store and organize all those kitchen devices that don't seem to fit in the upper drawers -- the rolling pins, mortars, cheese graters, mandolines, pastry cutters, tarte moulds, etc

Where do you live Mabel? I'd love to taste a real angel food cake.

Good angel food cake is amazing; it's also less bad for you than other cakes, inch for inch. (That said, you could wad up and eat an entire cake into two bites...).

The apple cake looks good, and no yolks to find a home for afterward!