The Lunchbox #23: 'The Sweet Bit'

Kitchen choreography and an intriguing, must-try cookie recipe

12 effective ways to organise your kitchen like a pro

A cleverly designed kitchen can make all the difference to your cooking (and cleaning) experience, but how often do any of us get to build a kitchen from scratch, just how we’d like it? Not very often, I would guess. Instead, we have to make the most of hand-me-down kitchens often designed to merely fit the space rather taking into account the experience of using it.

Well, there are a few things you can do to maximise your inherited kitchen, simply by arranging your equipment and ingredients in logical, energy-efficient ways. This is a guide to how I arrange my kitchen - though, of course, there are many different approaches. My advice is get a system in place and try to stick to it.

1. Your hob is the focal point of the kitchen since this is where you do the most cooking. Place your most-used ingredients such as oils, salt and pepper, soy sauce etc within reaching distance so can grab them mid-flow.