I spent my morning looking for two separate grids for my 32" sink that can't fit in the dishwasher. When I couldn't find two that I liked enough I started thinking about alternatives. I was just considering Jim's idea with cutting mine in half, but was wondering if there would be any stability issues. Thinking about adding a bar to the cut edges, etc. Ended up reading Sedeno77's comment about removing the top half of the dishwasher, which I had also never thought about for some reason. Literally just threw it into the dishwasher now, but it barely fit. I can imagine a 36"+ not fitting. Might end up cutting for ease of washing anyway in the near future. During my search I came across the Circuit Chef grid from Elkay. Two halves, but they are still wire attached. Probably foldable and in line with another one of Jim's suggestions above. Really wish more companies would start offering this as standard for larger sinks.

I store the entire harvest of garlic and onions from my backyard in the cool garage. I keep only a small amount in nice ceramic trays on the countertop near the main prep area in my kitchen. I dislike supermarket onions and garlic because they tend to start rotting or shriveling in storage. The onions I harvest never seem to rot and my garlic stores excellently for two years, at least. I don't grow potatoes, so I don't have a ton to store until the next harvest. The 10lbs bag I bring from the supermarket goes into a lower cabinet in the kitchen - I make sure to keep my potatoes in a dark place. No spoilage since I go through them quickly.

2. Protect Oven: The excessive debris building up on the bottom of appliance can be prevented by the oven liners and washed and reused time and again. This is begging for trouble when those liners melt. I don't know of a single oven manufacturer that doesn't say, "Don't use liners!". You can see some of the threads here for more on the problems they create. Also, for #4, randomly pouring drano et al is foolish, wasteful, and not good for the environment. Keeping a plunger available for if you have a problem and using common sense like not pouring hot fat down the sink are both better ways to avoid clogged drains. But working methodically to avoid going back over where you were is a good recommendation.

I lay my garlic, onions, and tulips out horizontally on old wire refrigerator shelves suspended up about an inch above cardboard boxes. These are all on my front west-facing screen porch, which gets cross breezes from all sides of the screens but protects from rain and really never actually gets cool in the summer, since the shading trees were removed by a tornado quite some years ago. That would be like Example 3. They stay out there as long as it takes, but are stored in my kitchen ready to hand, by the stove actually. Multiplier onions, and other smaller onion bulbs and what soft neck garlics I have will get braided, if possible and hung in the kitchen. For small groups of bulbs, I have some paper lunch bags that I punched some extra holes, and one of those three tier wire hanging racks (I need another). My kitchen runs cool, maybe low to mid 60's in the winter time. I get some drying out of some cloves towards the end but no sprouting. Store bought onions sprout pretty quickly for me, but my own cured ones last very well, pretty much until they are used up. My garlics all last well through re-planting time and far into the middle of winter and generally are ok until they are used up. I only plant back the largest of the tulip bulbs (at the same time I plant my garlic); so I sort out the best hundred or so. The rest are almost all too small to bloom next year. I found out the hard way that planting tulips too shallow encourages them to multiply into nests like a multiplier onion and all of the daughter bulbs are then too small to be much good for blooming the next year. The order of harvest is such that the tulips are completely cured and bagged before the garlic comes in, and the garlic is done before the onions; so they all get to use the same racks. I am getting ready to dig my tulips pretty soon now. They are all Triumphs so they have all completed blooming even this far north. So I suppose it is time to clean out the porch!