Another favorite kitchen “tool”

I love using this drying rack! It’s designed to stand or hang and collapses for storage in a drawer or under the sink. Hanging baggies to dry always reminds me of a baby shower I went to hmmm… 24 years ago! One gift Whitney received was a box containing plastic “Baggies”, a net bag, and special soap to clean them in the washing machine for re-use, plus a set of cloth diapers and their special soap. Recycling programs were in their infancy (now we have curbside recycling!) Whit was expecting their second child – it was all she could do to wrap her head around how to manage a new baby, never mind washing the baggies. Today we’re all fairly vigilant about plastic – it’s use and reuse.

Note: I also use the rack to dry bottles and as a stand to dry rubber spatulas which I separate to clean. Get one for yourself; you’ll be happy you did!

P.S. It’d make a great gift along with a box of plastic bags for the cook who has everything else 😉

http://www.amazon.com/Down-to-Earth-Plastic-Bottle/dp/B000E8OQNK

11 thoughts on “Another favorite kitchen “tool””

Fantastic. 1) Recycle/Reuse. Score! 2) it’s the thing from the photo. Cool! 3) You wrote a log about it. cLEVER!

Clever! I like this a lot, will have to pick one up.

Cool, I’ve never seen one! I’ll have to keep my eye out for one. 🙂

I wondered what it was you had the wishbone drying on in the other post. It’s like you read my mind and made a post just for it. Thanks.

I’m forever hanging Ziploc bags over the kitchen faucets to dry them – what a great idea! (Now to find something like that… hehe)

Hi! Thanks for visiting and liking my blog. I’ve never seen anything like this gadget either. When my mom washes and re-uses plastic bags, she puts them over a washed and re-used jam jar to dry. Her method works ok, but I must say it looks a lot less attractive on the counter.

Oh man, I can think of so many drying uses for this, I need one!!! 🙂

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I think ti was originally for hanging your baby bottles and nipples on, so you didn’t go crazy digging them out of your dish rack. I love it for baggies. I wonder if Bed, Bath and Beyond has them?…