There’s one bit of worktop in every kitchen that never gets a rest: the strip right by the sink. It holds the washing up liquid, the sponge, the scrubby brush, and whatever damp cloth you used last. By the time you’ve finished the dishes, there’s a faint tide mark of water sitting under the whole lot. Yikes.
One gadget sorts it out, and it isn’t a complicated one.
A caddy that gives everything by the sink one home
The Joseph Joseph Caddy Sink Area Organiser (the large version) is built specifically for this corner of the kitchen. It’s an ABS plastic bucket sized to hold a bottle of washing up liquid and a brush, with a rail across the top that a damp cloth hangs over instead of puddling on the worktop. A draining plate sits underneath for a wet sponge, and below that there’s a concealed tray that catches the water dripping off everything above it. Joseph Joseph list it at 15cm tall, 30.5cm wide and 13cm deep, so it’s sized to sit on a narrow strip of worktop rather than take over the whole thing.
The whole thing comes apart, and Joseph Joseph say it’s dishwasher safe, so once it starts looking grubby you can pop it in rather than scrubbing it by hand.
Good to know
You do have to take it apart to empty the hidden drip tray, which is one more small job than a caddy with no moving parts has. It’s ABS plastic rather than stainless steel, so it won’t have the heft of a metal sink tidy, and a particularly large washing up liquid bottle might be a tight fit in the main compartment, worth checking against the bottle you actually use before you order.
It won’t make your kitchen bigger. It just means the one patch of worktop that’s always busy stops looking like a flood zone every time you do the dishes.
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