Knife/Spice Rack

Our fifth wheel had no where to store our carving, paring, bread, steak & utility knives so they resided in the drawer along with spatulas, meat forks, cooking, serving spoons and all the other utility items that go with preparing meals. Everything was always tangled up and sticking your hand in the drawer rootin' for the item you needed at present was frustrating and dangerous with all them butcher knives in there.

The solution I came up which I had seen done by some RV manufacturers was to construct a knife rack at the back of the stove. That space is just wasted in all RV's so it was a natural that the rack would go here. I previously tried a small flat rack that screws on the back of your kitchen cabinet door but ruled them out for several reasons. Some of our knives were too long to fit on the back of the door, so this only addressed some of the problem, the racks even though pretty flat took up valuable space inside the cabinet.

As I was strainin' my little grey matter, I came up with the idea to incorporate a spice rack with the knife rack. The wall space, like the counter space behind the stove is unused in most RV's so why not. All our spices had always ridden in small baskets in one of the cabinets and when a spice was needed you pulled out a basket and started searchin'. If you were lucky you hit the right basket the first time, if not you started on the second basket.

This is what my finished product looks like. The knife rack holds one Chefs knife, carving knife, boning knife, spatula, bread knife, Ginsu, two paring knives and four steak knives. The spice rack has two shelves and holds about twenty jars of spices depending on the size. All held in place by one screw in a once wasted space