One of the most satisfying things in the world is sliding open a kitchen drawer to see everything in its own little compartment, neatly organized and easily found. Your kitchen is probably one of your family's favorite hang-out spots, so it's also probably one of the harder places in the home to organize and keep tidy (we're looking at you, random junk drawer.) Control the chaos with these handy kitchen drawer organizers so you can focus less on that overwhelming food storage container mountain and more on spending time with your family.
From deep drawer solutions to knife storage and cutlery trays, our list will help you corral your kitchen so you can find your favorite gadget quickly and easily instead of hunting through drawers. Plus, for tools like your best kitchen knives, a good organizer will not only keep the blade safe from banging into other tools and becoming dull and, even more importantly, keep your fingers safe when reaching into the drawer. This list includes picks from the Good Housekeeping Institute's Cleaning Lab, who test all sorts of organizing products along with the Kitchen and Appliances and Culinary Innovation Lab, who pay special attention to kitchen organizing products.
Our Top Picks:
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Best Overall Kitchen Drawer Organizer
Good Grips Expandable Utensil Drawer Organizer oxo
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Best Value Kitchen Drawer Organizer
No-Slip Large, Silverware Tray Organizer Rubbermaid
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Best Kitchen Drawer Organizer for Large Utensils
Birch Utensil Organizing Tray KonMari
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Best Kitchen Drawer Organizer for Deep Drawers
Bamboo Deep Drawer Organizers Container Store
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Best Bamboo Kitchen Drawer Organizer
Expandable Bamboo Silverware Tray Container Store
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Whether you're looking for space-saving solutions for small spaces or for something expandable to fit all your gadgets, these are the kitchen drawer organizers to help you achieve your perfectly sorted storage container dreams (sigh.) Looking for other kitchen organization tips and tools? Check out our guides on unique kitchen organization ideas, best pantry organization ideas or better ways to organize your pots and pans.
Best Overall Kitchen Drawer Organizer
Good Grips Expandable Utensil Drawer Organizer
- Has removable cutlery trays
- No-slip feet keep it in place
- Only has 2 caddies for flatware
This expandable drawer organizer from OXO is a great option for decluttering a lot of different items into one organized system. It expands up to twice its size so it can be adjusted to best suit your needs and grippy feet on the bottom help keep it in place so it doesn't slide around when you open and close your drawer. It comes with three removable trays too for easy clean-up: two for cutlery with spacers and a small cup for small, hard-to-store (read: easily lost) gadgets that otherwise roll around, as well as slots for other larger items.
Dimensions: 9.95" L x 16.65" W x 2.55" H (expands to 18.05" L)
Material: Plastic
Best Value Kitchen Drawer Organizer
No-Slip Large, Silverware Tray Organizer
- No-slip base
- Budget-friendly
- Not expandable or customizable
If you're looking for a basic, no frills way to organize your kitchen drawers, this silverware organizer from Rubbermaid will get the job done. Five vertical slots can organize a full silverware set (soup spoons and teaspoons in the same slot? Scandal) while a horizontal slot across the top can hold chopsticks, reusable straws or any other utensils that need a home. This organizer also comes with a no slip base so it stays put when opening and closing the drawer.
Dimensions: 15" L x 11.75" L x 1.75" L
Materials: Plastic
Best Kitchen Drawer Organizer for Large Utensils
Birch Utensil Organizing Tray
- Expandable
- Highly customizable
- No no-slip bottom
- Dividers can be sometimes be knocked out
Kitchen gadgets can make cooking a lot easier but sometimes they can be tricky to store. A slot full of long utensils and then one odd short garlic press can keep everything from fitting nicely together. With this birch organizer from KonMari you can make your own size spaces to form more precise compartments. The adjustable dividers lift out and can be rearranged to fit any number of different tools. It's expandable too, adding an additional four and a half inches to create one large compartment for big, awkwardly shaped items like ladles or handheld mandolins.
Dimensions: 18.75"L x 13.75"W x 2.5" H (expands to 23.25" W)
Material: Birch
Best Kitchen Drawer Organizer for Deep Drawers
Bamboo Deep Drawer Organizers
- Can create custom compartments
- Comes with rubber pads to keep inserts in place
- Too tall for shallow drawers
If you've got deep drawers and you're trying to organize large items like bowls, mugs and plates, adjustable drawer inserts allow you to create compartments that fit the dimensions of your dishes so they don't rattle side to side. These bamboo drawer organizers are spring loaded, so tension keeps them in place along with included rubber pads. They expand up to four inches too, so they can fit different length drawers. Be aware, they only come two to a pack, so you'll have to get multiple packs if you plan on outfitting all of your kitchen drawers.
Dimensions: 12.5" L x .625" W x 4" H (expands to 16.5" L)
Materials: Bamboo
Best Bamboo Kitchen Drawer Organizer
Expandable Bamboo Silverware Tray
- 10 inches of expandable space
This bamboo expandable silverware tray is a stylish way to organize out all of your cutlery, and it even has a few extra compartments for other gadgets too. It expands an extra 10 inches to create two wide compartments on either side to fit bulky items like large serving utensils, kitchen shears or measuring cups. Something to keep in mind, the bottom lacks no-slip feet or anything to keep it from sliding around the drawer. If you find it moves around too much, try a rubber shelf liner or museum putty to keep it in place.
Dimensions: 18" L x 13" W x 2.5" H (expands to 23" W)
Materials: Bamboo and medium-density fiberboard
Best Kitchen Drawer Organizer for Cutlery
DrawerStore Compact Cutlery Organizer
- Very slim to save space
- Compartments are clearly labeled
- Only fits up to 24 pieces of cutlery
As much as we love the huge ranch-style kitchens, some of us are only working with three drawers, one counter and sheer determination. This slim organizer is only 4.33 inches wide and fits up to 24 pieces of cutlery, giving you some extra space for other utensils or gadgets. Our experts in the Kitchen and Appliance Lab even use this organizer in lab and they love how the icon labels make getting organized easier. Keep in mind, if you have a lot of cutlery, you might have trouble fitting it all in since it's meant for smaller spaces.
Dimensions: 15.6" L x 4.33" W x 2.25" H
Material: plastic
Best Kitchen Drawer Organizer for Knives
In-Drawer Knife Storage
- Stores knives blade side down
- Removes knife block from countertop if you're short on counter space
- Might not fit a large set of knives
Storing knives loose in a drawer can be straight up dangerous. If you grab blindly into the drawer looking for another gadget you run the risk of seriously cutting yourself. This drawer insert keeps blades facing down and away from your fingers. It fits up to seven knives and frees up counter space that would otherwise be taken up by a large knife block.
Dimensions: 16.5" L x 3.5" W x 1.5" H
Material: Ash or walnut
Best Kitchen Drawer Organizer for Plates
Peggy Kitchen Cupboard, Shelf and Drawer Organizer
- Allows plates to be stored on their sides
- No-slip feet
- Too tall for shallow drawers
Another great option for deep drawers, this customizable peg board system allows you to stack dishes or pans on their side instead of stacked on top of each other. The pegs are removable and can be configured into a layout that works best for your storage needs. The organizer has non-slip feet and comes with 16 adjustable pegs and two adjustable ends, so the trays can be made to fit snugly into a drawer. Bonus, it works in a cabinet to arrange pans on their sides so they can easily be grabbed by the handle.
Dimensions: 21.38" W x 11.88" D x 4" H
Material: Plastic
How we choose:
Good Housekeeping has a long history of testing organizing products in both the cleaning lab and the Kitchen Appliance Labs. These picks come from experts who have used and tested them over the years and reviewed their unique features, material, size, no-slip bottoms, ease of use, and ease of cleaning, where applicable. Some picks come from our most recent organizing awards and we looked for organizers with excellent user reviews, too.
What to look for when shopping for the best kitchen drawer organizers:
✔️ Size: The best drawer organizer won't do you any good if it doesn't actually fit inside the drawer. Take careful measurements of the dimensions of the inside of the draw and keep them handy when shopping. If shopping in person, consider taking along a small tape measure to double check dimensions.
✔️ Design: Would you want something that slides right into your drawer and is one piece, or would you prefer a set of smaller containers that you can arrange to form a larger storage system? Organizers that are one piece might be better for standard sized drawers and items that are easy to arrange, like flatware, while customizing is particularly helpful for small, oversized, or oddly shaped drawers and kitchen gadgets with a more specific purpose, like wine stoppers or cooking thermometers.
✔️ Material: Plastics are usually easy to clean, and often comes with no-slip material along the bottom to keep it from sliding around in the drawer. Some even come with no-slip material in the organizer itself so your items don't jostle around in their compartments. Wood and bamboo tend to be more stylish and usually just need to be wiped down here and there and washed with soap and water as needed, just make sure to dry thoroughly.
How do I organize my kitchen drawers?
The best way to start is to pull out all of the products you'd like to organize and group them together by type or function. For example, you could keep thinks like cutlery together, or group together the products you use most closest to where you use them most (ex: stirring utensils and spatulas near the stove.) Sort in a way that makes sense to you in your daily routine. If you don't bake often, chances are you don't need baking tools in the top drawer, while it'll get really annoying to have cutlery in the back of the bottom drawer. Once you have an idea of where you want things to go, look into kitchen drawer organizers that optimize your space and keep those like items you sorted compartmentalized together. Pay attention to the dimensions of your drawers to figure out if you're better off with a one-piece kitchen drawer organizer or s system of more customizable ones.
We like to keep our flatware and prep tools we uses most close by, as well as our knives. If you have a tiny kitchen, you can store the extras in drawers that require a little more effort to get to, but if you organize everything by type you know where to look and it won't take you that much extra time to access.
Why trust Good Housekeeping?
Nicole Papantoniou is the Director of Good Housekeeping's Kitchen Appliances & Culinary Innovation Lab, where she manages all kitchen appliance content and testing. She helped asses these products based off of many years of experience using different types of kitchen organizers.
Abigail Bailey is the Assistant to the Institute Director at the Good Housekeeping Institute where she tests all manner of products from toys to home goods. Abigail has worked closely with the experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute to gather and analyze testing data collected for kitchen drawer organizers conducted in the most recent test. She loves to cook and has entirely too many kitchen gadgets to sort into the three drawers of her small apartment.
Abigail Bailey, Good Housekeeping Institute Assistant to the General Manager, GH Institute Abigail Bailey is Laurie Jennings' assistant at the Good Housekeeping Institute and is currently working toward her Master of Science in publishing in digital and print media at NYU.
Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping Institute Director, Kitchen Appliances & Culinary Innovation Lab Nicole runs the Good Housekeeping Institute's Kitchen Appliances & Culinary Innovation Lab where she oversees the content and testing related to kitchen and cooking appliances, tools and gear; she's an experienced product tester and developer, as well as recipe creator, trained in classic culinary arts and culinary nutrition.
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