You're on your way home from the office and are overcome by an irrepressible urge to braise short ribs. Problem: you can't remember if you have any bay leaves left at home. Enter technology. My pantry has now gone 100% digital. I've entered every non-readily-perishable ingredient (all 353 of them) in my kitchen into a Google Doc spreadsheet which I can access and update any time from my computer, my phone, or my laptop, even in the middle of the supermarket. More

Hey, that looks a little like our kitchen during a big cooking or baking project. You know, when you might assume a mini tornado ripped through the scene? Ree Drummond, aka the Pioneer Woman, uploaded this photo over on Instagram. Ain't no shame in sharing the reality of a chaotic kitchen. Do you usually let the dirty bowls pile up, or are you a clean-as-you-go type? Does looking at this image stress you out a bit? More

Where does the electric turkey carver go on non-Thanksgiving days? When's the last time you dug into the treacherous bowels of the junk drawer? Where should you store all those darn lids? In this time-lapse video, Lifehacker editor Kevin Purdy organizes his kitchen, getting smart about what goes where. Space-hogging bits and bots, begone! The four-hour kitchen purge was inspired by the "Organize Your Kitchen Like a Programmer" chapter in Cooking for Geeks by Jeff Potter. Also, the video contains a cat cameo. More

After trading my pen for a pan and working in nearly a dozen different kitchens, I've picked up some amazing techniques. I am still in awe every time I walk in a kitchen and watched the seasoned pros do their thing with such style and grace. They make it look so easy. It's not. More

[Photograph: Caroline Russock] Last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge was a little different than our usual topics. In fact it didn't involve actual cooking at all. Catastrophic Cupboard Cleanup stemmed from my embarrassingly overfilled and disorganized kitchen cabinets. I was curious to see how all of you keep your pantries neat and tidy with so many ingredients on hand. How do you keep track of what lies behind the closed doors of the cupboards to make sure you don't go out buying a second jar of fennel seeds or yet another can of coconut milk? Organization is obviously the key to overcoming kitchen clutter, let's take a look at some face the chaos.... More

[Photograph: Rupert Blanchard] London-based designer and builder Rupert Blanchard made these nifty kitchen cabinet doors by veneering them with vintage tea packing chests from the 1930s to 1960s. The kitchen belongs to Time Based Arts, a post-production studio based out of an old Victorian townhouse attached to Shoreditch Town Hall. [via Re-Nest]... More

[hu2.com] Hu2 Design creates stickers that can be applied to walls, windows, furniture, or any other flat surface around the house. In the kitchen department, they've got some neato images of a corkscrew, plants, a fly swatter, and fridge contents. As a wee lass, I spent way too much money on stickers. Maybe it's time to readopt this financial approach. Related 'Print' Magazine's Food Issue Swissarmius, a Swiss Army Knife-esque Cutlery Holder Spilt Milk Cereal Bowl... More

Check out the ultimate "Man's Kitchen," according to Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor and Al Borland from Home Improvement. It's got everything today's man needs: vegetable pantry of beans and potatoes, super powered "macrowave," butcher, drink dispensers (beer, root beer, and Pepto-Bismol at your fingertips), and more. It's even self cleaning! Watch the video after the jump.... More

Our cabinetry is set to arrive today, and installation is scheduled for tomorrow. If all goes according to plan, in a few days, we'll be moving forward with countertop fabrication. In the course of designing our kitchen, our choice for countertop materials was complicated. Since we use our kitchen so often, picking a durable, practical material was important, but so was aesthetics. Besides, this is the center of our home. Inspired by apothecary shops and old-school laboratories, we initially wanted materials like white marble and soap stone. Both can withstand the heat of a hot pot (though suppliers recommend trivets and cutting boards to further protect the countertop materials), and properly finished, they also provide a cool, smooth surface for... More

The hall floor, before and after renovation. Physical work on our new kitchen began about two and a half weeks ago and has been moving along. Our new tile floor is down and looking lovely, demolition is done, our stove hood ductwork is in place, most of the plumbing is completed, and electrical work is in progress. Leveling the Ceiling and Floor There have, however, been a few minor snags. These have mainly resulted from the fact that none of the surfaces in our kitchen or its adjoining hallway are level, square or even smooth. When measured from a level line struck around the perimeter of the room, the height of our ceiling varied by about two inches—a significant... More