Spice rack overhaul

food52.com
food52.com

On food52.com the other day-a great resource for inspiring-but-relatively straightforward recipes geared toward regular home cooks-I saw this ingenious idea for organizing spices.

The author, Amanda Hesser, re-vamped her spice drawer by purchasing a set of lightweight tin jars with clear lids (which she ordered on the site specialtybottle.com). Every spice gets its own tin, and on top, she used a fine tipped wet erase marker to identify each one (the advantage of this kind of pen is that you can swap lids and spices easily, since the ink can be wiped away). It's a great way to streamline the jumble that comes when you buy spices in all different size bottles, and the clear lids are handy for identification purposes. If you don't have a drawer, you could use a labelmaker to spell out the names of all your spices to stick on the sides of the cans, and stack them in a cabinet.

How do you organize your spices?