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Is it wrong that all I want to do is put on a Velcro Suit and throw myself at this? – Ms. Fix-It
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Meh, not really a Kludge, more like a to cheap to buy it.
“… to(o) cheap to buy it”, is one of the leading causes of kludges.
Very so, in fact one of the truest signs of a kludge is prying nails out of your neighbor’s shed because you can’t be bothered to got to the store to get your own for your kludge.
how wicked, so that’s why my shack fell down!
Wait, that requires sticking Velcro on the back of each spice! Let’s improve a bit.
Now introducing (drumroll font here) the Duct Tape Spice Rack (TM). You can even throw spices from across the kitchen and they’ll stick, you can even throw your cat or child, not clumsy velcro-at-the-back prep work required!
Now that’s gonna stick! (R)
(and if you can’t figure out the picture in my head you don’t belong here)
Duct Tape loses its stickiness over time unlike velcro which lasts as long as you you want it to.
Indeed
But how many times can you restore your spice rack with a single cheap roll of duct tape?
(not counting that velcro doesn’t work as well on the cat)
BWAHAHAHAAA!!!
true – more lolcats that way
Basement Cat disapproves. Unless its used as a torture device for when the hoominz wont give up the location of the tuna cans.
Well, that no really true.
When you remove Velcro™, a fraction of the loops are broken open.
So after a long time of intensive use, the Velcro™ wouldn’t be as sticky it was when brand new.
you really felt the need to use the trademark symbol HERE?
umm.. refrigerator door magnets on the wall and a 10d nail in each spice jar?
Why not just put a piece of Velcro on a thick rubber band and then use them for the spices as you buy them.
magnets like the knife racks!
This is awesome, not a kludge, it’s a solution.
Check out “Good Eats” with Alton Brown.
He’s got a magnetic spice rack, methinks. Also an excellent solution.
No, it’s velcro; it’s just on the inside of the kitchen cabinet instead of the outside. A smidge less tacky.
He’s got a magnetic knife holder, and yes, the velcro is for his spices, however, this person only listened to half of what he said, since they’re still buying craptastic cheap spices.
Though, Alton has a problem with using some rather expensive ingrediants in his shows. I wanted to make his Stuffed tomatoes, and the Morel mushrooms he used are $40 a pound….
*laugh* They may not have much of an option on the spices they can afford. The expensive spices, the mushrooms, some of those cuts of meat and tuna he uses…but a lot of his advice still works even when you’re using budget ingredients. I approve.
I would actually probably use something like this if I used more than three spices. My fingers used to get caught in my mom’s spice rack.
velcro is like duct tape, very versatile and fixes everything!
Thats a great idea actually!!!
I’m with you, great idea…and could be just the solution I need for my spices. (Or….a sign that I need to stop looking at this site!)
Yes, me too, also. Except am not really fond of that ripping sound. Takes a lot less work and skill than building a spice rack.
I’m here because I watched “We Were Soldiers” and am trying to wind down. That’s 3:20 a.m. here.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -Albert Einstein
I knew I would have a problem after I watched that film, no matter when, but esp. late at night. I felt I owed it to those who were killed to experience just a tiny bit of the anger, grief, confusion, horror, that was associated with the ending of their lives.
Relatively speaking, of course.
Indeed–I avoid this entirely by not cooking anything that needs spices. I think I have a container of salt and one of cheap garlic powder in the house, and that’s about it.
this is an EXCELLENT idea!!! why didn’t anyone think of this before?
Why not cover the entire wall with velcro and have a midget toss?
Win… Now where did that midget wander off to?
You had me at velcro
Needs more Velcro.
It has been said that the person who controls the spice controls the universe. Bow before your leader!
So velcro controls the universe now? Actually, didn’t it already?
Oh, man… the spice must flow…
Alton Brown of the Food Network does this on his show Good Eats. It’s a bit less ghetto, and he does use nicer canisters with labels on them, but I’m pretty sure that’s to avoid having a specific spice manufacturer on the show.
I swear, I remember seeing something similar in an episode of Good Eats…
He uses magnets, and puts the spices in metal containers.
That’s sage advice.
why the bad puns all the thyme?
maybe to curry favor with you
They add spice to the site.
It’s just spice; Don’t be a nut, Meg!
It’s just a parsley sum to invest in that improvement.
That one container will still leek.
True. Other have their head up their anise though.
Anise way to store things.
What a bunch of chive talkers.
The magnets are for his cake pans. He uses metal containers and velcro for the spices he keeps on the doors of his spice cabinet.
You can get those from Ikea…
Wow! I need to make something like that for my place!
All those spices… surely some of them must be duplicates..
They’re not duplicates. And don’t call me Shirley.
Not duplicates? You can say that again.
(…and don’t call me Shirley.)
I just wanted to wish you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
I’m thinking it would be a great way to store my sodas, but having to peel the velcro off to throw the cans away could be pretty time consuming.
So you’ll have this inside your fridge?
Here’s your challenge:
What do you think the plaque above the rack says?
Use velcro and add spice to life!
“Seems like only yesterday that this kitchen was clean”?
“Ginger, Jasmine and Rosemary aren’t just stripper names.”
Rosemary? How old is this gal?
It has to be a manual for proper use of velcro spice rack.
Spices are the variety of life.
Life is simpler when you have a great rack.
(snerk)
Dear Lord,
Thank you for velcro. It rocks. Amen.
I racked my brain, but couldn’t come up with one!
“If you can read this, you don’t need glasses.”
“Wall plaque is watching you spice.”
With or without Velcro, the cinnamon sticks.
In spice no-one hears you steam
Wow….. I’ve never been able to figure a way to deal with the many, many spices I have in the limited shelf space in my kitchen. This is genius, really.
A guy at my former job used to do this with his tools— he was pretty organized already, but I never saw him hunt for a skinny phillips.
Gotta hit the workshop, then the kitchen. REALLY!!!!
Then the wall.
well its a great idea and i think the guy should stick to it! which he will when its wooly jumper time…
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein
The spice of life! oh wait the spice on Aracknas.
*Arrakis
I bet they still can’t keep track of the damned poultry seasoning though.
Another fine example of stick to itiveness.
not only is this a brilliant solution to the hunt for the spice behind all the other spices, but I’m also going to think about what else I can apply it to!
Not Velcro, but if you have a lot of earrings, brooches, or hinged bracelets, they can be stored on pieces of rigid or semi-rigid “Styrofoam”-like bars — like what electronics are padded with for shipping.
I’m about ready to glue some bars to inside of closet doors to protect the jewelry a bit more from the dust.
“HERB! Unstick yourself from that wall right now! She said it was to store ‘herbs and spices’, not ‘Herb’!”
Maybe this is just a very powerful air conditioning duct.
Are you saying that it sucks?
Maybe it just blows.
This is the kind of thing where Andy Warhol would stop whatever he was doing to paint it.
My mother actually does this. She has 2 rows of velcro stuck straigh onto the inside of the pantry. Doesn’t have as many spices on it though.
A new generation of Spice Girls? They don’t have to sing, do they?
“If you wanna be my clover…”
I think this is actually genius.
@ Ms. Fix-It:
Might be a little difficult for it to support your weight, unless you’re the size of the Indian in the Cupboard…
And, is it obvious which half of the Velcro she should use? Or would it be a suit of alternating stripes, or maybe a woven pattern? IMWTK.
Yep. If your name was Mrs. Dash instead of Ms. Fix-It, you’d have a better chance.
had one of these for years. What’s the problem?
Love it!
snicker out loud: thanks!
The part we can see is clean, has art on the wall, mugs (plastic though they are) are neatly arranged.
And are those More spices racked to right of photo?
What is that attached to front of frig? Looks like a fly swatter. Which I admit I have in my kitchen too, though it’s a gross image. Better a dead fly swatted than a dying fly doing the backstroke in my water. Though that would entertain the cats, give them some fishing practice.
(If they don’t moderate this out as being too gross, I may be surprised.)
to avoid the reapplication of velcro on the container, the velcro should be on the lid – throw away bottle – like those nail-holder mason jars in workshops. I tried to recreate the magnet-type spice rack – it failed. Magnet’s on container weren’t strong enough, containers hold limited qty – more makes them too heavy for magnet also – STILL have spice containers for amount that doesn’t fit into magnet spice container. Most slid off after a couple days – needed lots of tweaking – cheaper to buy one but dimensions would not work. Velcro= cross-dimensional.
Totally WANT! Although I’d probably overdo it with the Velcro strips on the spice bottles, just so I could fling them at the wall and have them stick…
I think I just discovered the answer to my kitchen cupboard clutter…
Prob is, need some way of keeping the sun off them once they’re up :/
Maybe combine best of both worlds and make a duct tape sunshade?
. . . or, just close the cupboard.
This is my apartment, the spice rack was left by the old roommates and it still works ^_^
This is PURE GENIUS!
I like this Idea its better than the normal one I have now that the spices keep falling out of
This is freaking brilliant!!! No more little jars of spice falling off the rack. Plus I can make it as big as I want. I am so going to do this.
My first thought at seeing this was, “I want one!”
Now if I can just get the bitter half to make it for me…
bitter? that was a typo, right?
Genius, pure genius
kludge or frikkin’ awesome?
Yes
Personally, I think this is ingenious. Imagine, you no longer have to pull the bottle out of the cupboard, turn it around to look at the label, then use it. Just pull it off the board. The time used to put it together is well worth it because you will save time in the long run. Especially if you use as many spices as I do. You can even put them in alphabetical order for ease of finding. Can’t wait to make one of these!
After a little pepper, a velcro spice rack is nothing to be…(achoo)…… “sneezed” at…
Y’know….that makes sense……. ???
Spice rack! How I miss you… This is what happens when you have limited counter space and creative room mates. Love it!
this is pure genius!!
for a second i thought these were magnetic strips and they just decided, “we’ll just add some ground up lead to each spice in order for them to stick!”
Form follows function! That is such a good idea that I think I might adopt the same thing for my kitchen too!!!
someone will come and build me one? I could use that XD