Ridiculously useful cooking/baking tip when using recipes off the 'net

[gryphonrhi]

I'm sure some of y'all are already doing this, but I only thought of it a few months ago.  If you have a vent-a-hood over your stove and a spare magnet from pictures on the fridge or whatever, putting your recipe clipping/printout up on the vent-a-hood is the best thing since coffee presses/sliced bread... okay, not chocolate.  It puts your recipe

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[feonixrift]

I prop up notebooks, sometimes behind spoon holders or spice jars. Somehow, my recipes never fit on a card.

[gryphonrhi]

Yeah, I've got one of the clear plastic cookbook holder/shields, so that you can read it but won't splatter it. But I'm also used to kitchens with very limited workspace, so I hate giving it up to a cookbook when I could have a cutting board or ingredients instead.

[feonixrift]

My kitchen is a hilarious combination of large yet badly arranged - nothing is in a convenient place, and it's not tight enough for that to not matter much. So, it has its own oft-splattered notebook, with me taking heavy advantage of my fast writing, since I could never complete a recipe on just one side of the kitchen. Oh, for a tight orderly space!

[gryphonrhi]

When I had a tight, orderly space, I ended up doing most of my prep work on the dining room table. I'm not sure it was an improvement.

[rike_tikki_tavi]

I always put recipes on the window sill. They don't block working space that way, they can't get wet and as small as my kitchen is, they are still right there when I need a look. I actually try to stay as far from my vent-a-hood as possible, because I tend to bash my head into it.

[gryphonrhi]

Hmm! I need to look at clearing my window sill, then, because you're right, that'd be great. And yeah, I bet you do! Being shorter than you, I don't have the same problem... {{hugs}}

[rike_tikki_tavi]

I know a lot of people not much smaller that me, who have no problem with those hoods. The thing's just, I'm not used to them. We got rid of the one at dad's place years and years and years ago because it didn't work half as well as just opening the window did and now that I have my own place, the hood there now and then reminds me rather painfully of it's existence.