I am a total fan of hanging things on walls, particularly things I use over and over again. Even before we moved into this condo, I'd made sure I had lots of hooks for our kitchen implements, and I installed them on what little wall space is available in our long, galley kitchen.
Also, hanging cast iron.
Because this kitchen has a very helpful pass-through to the dining room, the only remaining vertical space above the counter is on the refrigerator. I decided this spot was where I wanted a magnetic knife rack. BUT. Obviously, I'm not going to screw a knife rack into the refrigerator. I'm also not a fan of adhesive strips; they create messes when you take them off, and they make changing your mind about where things go much harder to do.
What I really wanted was a knife rack that was magnetic on both sides, so that it would cling to the refrigerator and also allow the knives to cling. But none of the knife racks I saw online had that option.
Then, the other day when I was in the Restaurant Store (kind of like an outlet of equipment for people who own/run restaurants), I found an inexpensive screw-in magnetic knife rack . . . and I had a brilliant (if I say so myself) idea! I bought two of them, and used a trio of thick screws to screw them to each other.
Voila! Magnetic on both sides!
The disadvantage, which doesn't seem to be too major, is that this is twice as thick, so the knives are a bit further out than on a regular knife rack. But the advantages are just what I'd hoped: it's easy to move this knife rack up and down along the fridge if I need to do so. Moreover, if I decide later I want to take these apart, I just unscrew them and they're still perfectly useable as screw-in knife racks.
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