[Chef21]

right now i share a kitchen with my mom so my cook books go in my book case in my room...but when i have my own kitchen i will definitely keep it in the kitchen in a small shelf which will be customized in my kitchen lol i will have a customized kitchen when im married

[ED BUCHANAN]

Originally Posted by mudbug

This question was inspired by Kimmie's post at the "form over function" thread.

We all have a collection of cookbooks which probably doesn't get smaller. How do you sort them? Where do you keep them (kitchen counter, cabinets, closets, stand alone shelves, shelves on the wall)? Do you have a cookbook on "display" in a plate holder? Do you have blank recipe books you write your creations in or keep them on your computer? Do you use them all or do you trade unused ones at the used book store?

Dont keep in kitchen as the grease from cooking in the air will yellow them faster. Keep them out of direct sun. also fluorescent light will hasten their ageing(cool flourescent lights oK not warm white type) away from heat sources. Dust every once in a while. I have some over 75 years old no problems so far.

[Oliver B]

everybody seems to be in the same boat here, LOL. I have somewhere between 200-250 books, they're just slowly creeping and taking over the large bookshelf in the living room, where they share space with similar amounts of books on art and music. They're in no particular order, those where i have more than one by the same author all sit together, but they pretty much just end up where there was room when I got them. I tend to remember (like a squirrel) where I stashed them. Once in a while I think about organizing them in some way, but figure it's not worth the trouble. I find the ones I want anyway. And once you organize things and get a couple more books about some topic, you have to move all books around to make room in the right place. No fun.

Magazines, I basically purge once every couple months. I might keep one or the other recipe or even entire issues, but mostly I throw them out. I hardly ever make the same thing twice, so there's little use for me keeping any given recipe around. I'd store it and foret about it and never make it again anyway. There are millions more that I have not even read yet, why stick to one I've already made? I don't read the same book twice either and hardly watch the same movie twice (with some exceptions).

I do "read around" in cookbooks just about every day though, and my wishlist on Amazon is well fertilized too, it grows like weeds!

:-)

[inventivefficie]

I would scan them onto the hard drive ^_^

[chongski]

i stack my cookbooks above my counter top. i have a cabinet full of them. I also arrange them according to their categories like pastries, salads, meals, etc. so that its easy for me to select whenever i need a cookbook.