Article: Tools for the kitchen drawer

[HeyBub]

From Popular Mechanics:

I especially like the idea of a magnet on the end of a tape rule (for retrieving things...).

[metspitzer]

IMO, the number one tool for a kitchen drawer is not listed. You need a screw driver with a flip shank with 2 sizes of standard and Phillips bits.

Trying to drive screws with a multi purpose hammer just sounds wrong.

[HeyBub]

In the olden days, people used a fern. Didn't work too well for Phillips-head screws.

Note the hammer in the recommended set contains a screwdriver set in the handle.

[Tony Hwang]

How about Robertson bit?

[Scott]

I taped a magnet to the end of a plastic chopstick.

We have a "toy set" of strong neodymium magnets and steel ball bearings. Naturally, one of the ball bearings found its way into the garbage disposal. A neodymium magnet scotch-taped to a chopstick was just the thing to fish it back out.

I have yet to determine how to retrieve a neodymium magnet stuck to the inside of a garbage disposal. Also, dollar-store scotch tape is not trustworthy.

[Norminn]

I keep my tool trove hidden under the dish towels, where hubby will NEVER venture :o) Those are some cool tools on the list.

[Doug Brown]

The article doesn't say that these 10 items are the be all end all of kitchen drawer gadgets, just the start of a pracitical bunch of tools.

[Phisherman]

I agree. It's not a kitchen junk drawer without a couple screwdrivers. A a cheap pair of pliars will crack any nut and will prove useful time and time again.