Hi SBelle - Sorry not to have noticed your question; I've been very offline lately. But your response to what I'd posted over in appliances came to my email so that's good. Just for the record, if anyone wants to reach another and they've enabled the possibility, you can click on their name, I think, and find your way to GW's email info for them.
Anyway, onward. I was just thinking about (and loving) my cutting board drawers today so thanks for asking! This has worked better than I dreamed. I used to keep these things on edge between a toaster oven and a wall on the counter in my old kitchen -- they were always slipping over and falling down various cracks and -oh - so many headaches. I just slide open this long, tall drawer which is right under my work surface and voila!
I love the concept of those old cutting boards that themselves slide in underneath the counter. But I found you could never cut very hard on them and they wobbled always, up and down enough to be really annoying when chopping. I imagine modern technology can deal with this and I know some here like theirs. But you're right, it's not what I have.
Here's an overview of the space where it's at. It's the tall thin drawer:
And here's a picture of it open.
And here's a picture of the insides:
My biggest, favoritest cutting board from days of yore won't fit -- it's massive and actually sits on the bottom of that open shelf you see, protecting it and available when I want to haul it out. I have only done so once; it's kind of a pain to do so because stuff resides on top of it now. I might have to do something about that in the future.
But the point is, this particular drawer at least won't fit a really big cutting board inside. That would have to go in the kind of setup, I think, mentioned above - essentially a cookie sheet slotted setup.
But for all "normal" sized cutting boards it works great. The interior of my drawer measures 5 7/8"w x 19"d x 15 3/4"h. So it's narrow and deep. And sits next to an open shelf that I use for quick, easy access to a compost bucket, salad spinner (always wet, but it doesn't matter in the open shelf), colanders, lg. cutting board, etc.
The only issue, and it hasn't been a problem at all, just something I've noticed, is that because the drawer glides are on the bottom of such a tall thin drawer, it wobbles a bit pulling in and out; it's just a little bit unsupported. It's not a problem, but with more weight or less care closing or perhaps more time it could be I suppose. I don't think you can make a drawer infinitely high for this wobbling reason (that is, there's some limit on a functional height, but I don't know what it would be and it's a function of more than just height but weight and configuration too I imagine).
I highly recommend this setup if you have a good space available.
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open shelves, frosted glass cabinets?
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