Cookbook Stands Save Hands
Give yourself two hands to work with while checking that recipe book.
Unique styles to give your kitchen counter a practical stand.
Hold Your Cookbook In Style
There are cookbook stands for every taste and interior decorating style. A large number of them are made of wrought iron or metal of some sort and twisted into all sorts of pretty looks. I needed a cookbook holder and that sent me looking at what was available. I love the ingenious designs, but am a bit old fashioned in the styles I like- shabby cottage chic is closest description. But what if you like minimalist or Georgian formal? There are cookbook stands that are a charming addition to your kitchen.
Here is a collection of some of the interesting styles available, perhaps you will find one right for your kitchen.
Ironwork in red color, a French touch
Good color for a kitchen with red appliances, black ironwork hardware, and most country style or rustic decor.
Iron Cookbook Stand ~ Book Holder Adorned with Bird ~ Worn Red Color Artful scrolling with a pert bird in the design. Great for French Country or Mediterranean décor or to match with cast iron look pulls and handles.
Hold Everything- Do You Use A Cookbook Stand?
Holding open the cookbook to the page you need without it flopping closed.
Many Styles and Types of Unique Stands – Did you realize there was such a variety?
French, Country, Modern, there are unique types and one is just right for you.
French style adds the same pizazz to your décor as the French can also add to your cooking. Graceful scrolling makes a beautiful addition in use and simply out on the counter.
Pantryware(the general label for this kind of kitchen accessory) is the ideal way to add a bit of pizzazz to your décor. Kitchens are usually places of efficiency. We want our work surfaces, landing spaces, and appliances to help us produce our culinary masterpieces- or at least the family meal with ease of care and capability. But kitchens have also been a way to add decorating flair to the place in the house that everyone is sure to use daily. Adding style with unique accessories, giving touches of color, this is the job of even small utility pieces like paper towel holders, napkin holders, recipe books and boxes, and cookbook holdersNow you can pick one that makes your counter shine and makes more space for bowls, ingredients, and important stuff of the process.
Today’s Way To Display
Decorative Red Bird Metal Cookbook Stand Book Holder Easel
Tablets are one of the best ways to find new recipes, so a holder for yours might be one of the best kitchen accessories you’ve ever put on your counter.
Basically a practical thing to have, but with the way many are designed they can become art, too. Whimsical or traditional, you can add the type of accent that most appeals to you.
Usually, the more modern kitchens with white cabinets and appliances will provide the best backdrop for colorful and sculpture look stands.
While a country kitchen shows off wood and iron materials as the most natural partners.
A clever use of utensils bent to provide a landing place for holding a book is one design, and there seems to be no shortage of ideas of how to hold your cookbook.
Try A little humor in your kitchen
I’ve always liked the utensil theme in a kitchen, do you like this one, too?
Think about having a little fun when choosing a peripheral gadget like this. Use it not only for practical use ( which it will provide) but for a little bit of whimsy.
What about flimsy magazines with great recipes? Prop it up and hold the pages open to just the right spot. Not everyone likes to tear the pages out. I am one of those people who likes to collect cooking magazines and keep them stored in sturdy files, but when it comes to actually using the recipes you need one of these beauties to hold the place and keep from messing up the pages.
Decorative Scrolls
Iron Leaf Scroll Kitchen Cookbook Stand
Bring some French style to the kitchen. Put that magazine here to use a recipe, or set up your iPad. However you use this stand, it will give a touch of class to the counter.
Aren’t these original looking? So many styles, one would match up with a kitchen style whether it is modern, minimalist, European, or country. Need to prop a book on your desk while working on your laptop? Match your décor and keep a favorite 8×10 photo or two propped in a place of honor.
Some people cook from their iPads. They love the food bloggers and want to try the recipe without the intermediary of printing out the recipe on paper. The kitchen stands made just for their electronic needs are the answer for them. May you can’t prop an old fashioned hardcover book on it- it safely and conveniently holds your iPad while you refer to which ingredient to add next.
Like this one?
Made of reclaimed wood, which is among the hottest decorating trends, a way to bring warmth and strong design where you want it, plus a sturdy holder for your iPad tablet or book.
There are specially made sleeves like this one, but there isn’t any reason why a regular stand couldn’t safely support your electronic device like a reader or an iPad. Just like having a personalized case, a unique stand gives some sparkle and personality to the kitchen counter while folding away neatly if you are through using it or want more space.
What happens when you open your favorite recipe book to bake up that fabulous chicken for your guest? Or when you’ve found just the right recipe on your tablet? Too often the book won’t lie flat or the it lies too flat. The mixer splatters a bit of batter onto the surface. Many stands have a shield or page holders.
Hold Pictures, Photos, or Recipe Books – Shabby Chic Cottage Look
Simple and inexpensive, but the scrolled design adds cottage charm to its task of keeping your cookbook upright.
Save Counter Space
This is the top reason to use this pantryware
How many benefits can you think of?
There Are Benefits To A Stand
Not one of the most necessary gadgets for the kitchen, but like a paper towel holder, one that increases the convenience and efficiency of common kitchen tasks.
Most of us use recipes from which to cook up our meals. Cookbooks, printouts from the computer, recipe cards, all of which are usually paper and subject to spill. Anyone who has tried to read the recipe from a cookbook while running the mixer knows what a balancing act that can be!
These stands, which stylishly hold the cookbook, solve the problem.
- Keep important recipes, books, and electronics out of the way of accidental spills and splatters. At first, it seems that a few splatters just prove how busy you’ve been in the kitchen, but over time those really add up and ruin not just the appearance, but the page integrity of the book.
- And I just hate bending over the book when I could see it easily, straightaway, on the stand.
- Make more workspace on the counter
- Hold the pages open and give support to magazines
It is surprising how many ingenious ideas people have for utilizing a simple kitchen gadget or devices that make life easier or a job more convenient. This is a simple one, for sure but there may be life hacks that you can think of if you just put on your thinking cap (or if you hang around Pinterest long enough!).
For instance, you know those pants or skirt hangers with the clips? Yes! Someone turned one of those into a cookbook holder. Granted it looks a little kitschy, but that might be just the thing for a certain kitchen style. See that idea here.
For me, my tastes run to some of these, presented in this post. I bounce between wanting a sleek one that folds up out of the way and the scrolled ironwork type.
That is my problem: I like too many and can’t seem to make up my mind. If you have a favorite, why not mention it in the comments?
Holders and Stands
Use As A Bookstand
You can use a cookbook stand for other books- even your Bible! Which is why you shouldn’t think of having one of these stands as merely one more gadget for your kitchen counter.
Don’t stop there, as a unique style of easel for a favorite large photograph, or a piece of art.
Undercabinet Hide-Away Cookbook Holder
Space saving convenience, this one folds away out of sight when you aren’t using it.
Protect Your Cookbooks From Splatters and Spills
Make it easy to read while you cook. You can also use the stands for your tablets, etc.
Giving You A Bird’s Eye View
IMAX Audubon Park Book Easel Cookbook Stand Rustic, artsy, this is a cookbook holder with a strong sculptural look. If you love sculptural birds perched on natural looking branch, this is the perfect choice for your counter. It goes with a wide range of cabinet styles: French, contemporary, rustic.
One of the best for matching cabinet pulls made of iron or bronze, and great gift for any bird lover.
Make Your Own? Do It Yourself and Save Money – if you are handy
Sterling Home Embossed Vine Bookholder, 15-Inch Tall
Old Cookbooks Are Protected From Spills
I love old cookbooks. Some of mine came from my grandmother- I wish I had more of them now! To protect them from spills just makes sense and is one of the more important reasons to use a stand.
Some come with splatter guards, although an upright position for your recipes books is probably all that is needed.
Lipper International Bamboo and Acrylic Cookbook Holder
Recipe Card Idea, Too
While you are at it … making the use of recipes more convenient while you cook… why not use something to hold your recipe crds that aren’t in book form?
Here is a cute idea for holding single recipe cards, same idea on a smaller scale. Although drips and spills might show that you like to use that recipe, it is tough on the card. I have a cookbook style holder with plastic sleeves, but much prefer the old fashioned recipe box with individual cards, and this little card holder eliminates the wear and tear on the recipe cards.
One thing I’ve used for recipe cards is a picture holder, one of those little wire ones that you insert a single photo inside the circle of wire. It holds just the recipe card I am using and I can see both sides. The card is held high above the surface of the counter and doesn’t get marred by moisture or a bit of spilled flour or milk.
There are all sorts of these photo holders, too. I have some seasonal ones: seashell summery styles or Christmas snowmen, and they work really well to hold the 3×5 cards that I have a fav recipe written on (some of my 3×5 recipes were my grandmothers!)
What’s Your Kitchen Style?
Which cookbook holder would you spring for?
