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We don't have one, we have multiple

There isn’t a house in existence that doesn’t have one of these. All houses that exist have one of these by celestial mandate.

We have several of those drawers.

I have this drawer, and also the junk drawer. This is the correct solution to 'uncommonly used tools of an awkward shape'

I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.

Wow. Yours looks really clean. We have two of these drawers and they're maxed out double as full.

My wife got snap apart customizable drawer organizers and it's a big difference. She showed me the way.

We have a space for that in our cutlery drawer, as well as a basket of miscellanea in a shelf where it doesn't matter if they get dusty.

I have whole cabinets like this

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

Only if you have extra drawer space to waste. Most beneficial would be to give a dedicated space to the scale

We had one when I grew up. Now that I'm living elsewhere with my own family we don't; we have two.

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

im afraid that everyone has the forbidden drawer. the drawer that should never be opened except as a last ditch effort to find that one appliance that seems to elude you in every other drawer. you can try to destroy the drawer, but it will always come back in some form.

I sort of have 3 variations of this drawer. One is fully named “the junk drawer” and contains things like rubber bands, batteries, scissors, garden snips, things that are sort of odd one out in other spots, but I feel are still relevant to my kitchen. Then I have one that is this but specifically things used on the stove and for mixing. So that puts spatulas, whisks, and such into their own mess. Finally is the “kitchen gadgets” drawer which looks very similar to yours. No organizer tray because everything is odd shapes, but also honestly sees little enough use I don’t really mind digging through it.

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

I want to know how OP would like this drawer to look instead. Random kitchen utensils always seem to get shoved in a drawer like this

I have one and my parents have one

No drawer. Probably due to the kitchen layout, we don't have smaller drawers, so the tools and such go into their own container.

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

I have several. It takes a few months before the order becomes chaos. I do know where to find my stuff though.

Yep.

I do have it.

It's called a junk drawer and as far as I am aware it's an inevitability. However, I will say it's odd that you have utensils in there. Most junk drawers I've encountered are filled with random crap that rarely if ever gets used.

We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use

We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

Every kitchen has this, but I'd work on your layout. You could put about 50% more gadgets in there.

Also, store the scale vertically somewhere for maximum efficiency

My work does one of those round robin steal it gift exchanges. One of my coworkers would just dump her junk drawer into a bag. It had the best stuff!