Works-For-Me Wednesday: Eye-level recipe holder

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WFMW is being guest-hosted by Melanie at Don’t Try This At Home this week since Shannon is in Uganda.

I don’t have a lot of counter space in my kitchen. When I am making something with a recipe, it’s hard to find a place where I can put it and see it easily while stirring and mixing, etc. Plus I am needing to get things closer to my eyes to see them these days. 🙂

I saw this idea in a magazine (I don’t remember which one — I think it was Taste of Home or one of its spin-offs). I tried it tonight and it worked great.

Recipe hanger

You just take a pants or skirt hanger and clip the magazine into it, then hang it from the knob of an upper cabinet. This would also work if you have recipes in a notebook and can remove a page at a time.

It would probably also work for recipe cards except that if they are clipped from one side it would probably lean: perhaps another card could be clipped to the other side to balance it, or if you had a similar hanger that was child-sized, that would work for cards or smaller recipes. They used to make little hangers with a single clothespin-type clip for hanging nylons after washing: that would work great if I could find one. I used to have several of them when I wasn’t using them: I’ll have to check through junk drawers to see if I kept any.

But I was thrilled: I loved having the recipe at almost eye level.

26 thoughts on “Works-For-Me Wednesday: Eye-level recipe holder”

  1. How very clever! It’ll keep your recipe clean from spills, too… and flames if you’re prone to placing it too close to the burner… not saying that’s ever happened to me! 😉

  5. This is possibly the coolest thing I have seen in a very long time. I’m going to have to try it out and share on my blog as well! Brilliant!

  8. Oh isn’t this the best! I have such a small kitchen and this is a very useful way of using the space we have 🙂 thank you for sharing, I will be doing that!

  11. I never would’ve thought of that. It would even free up counter space while you’re cooking because the recipe would be out of the way. I might just have to try this out. Thanks!

  12. My cabinets don’t have any handles, but what I did come up with is a clip that has a magnet on the back. I put it on my fan hood and clip my recipe up with the clip.

  14. Hi Barbara!
    Thanks so so much for visiting my tiny corner of blogland! It is always so nice to see a comment from you. 🙂

    This OWOH event is just beyond cool! So many new friends to meet and blogs to visit! I think it will take me a week to visit them all! Cannot wait! 🙂

    This hanger idea is great! I have a “pretty” cook book holder which actually doesn’t work too well. This idea looks PERFECT!! I think I will totally give it a try! 🙂

    Thanks for sharing!!

    Best Wishes!
    xoxo Jenny

  16. This is great idea. I was all reved up to use it until I realized that I don’t have handles on my cabinet doors. 😦

    Great tip though.

  21. Well that sure beats the 60 dollar under cabinet mounted recipe holder I wanted until I saaw the price tag! Thanks for such a great tip!

  25. This is brilliant! I may not be hanging recipes but I do have in mind what to do with these hangers. Many thanks for the fantabulous tips.

  26. I use one of those for the grands’ number for car pick up at school.
    It is getting harder to read those recipes unless they’re eye level or copied on the computer and printed out.
    Mama Bear

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