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Kitchen tips and ideas

Looking for tips and ideas to optimise your kitchen storage or plan your space around your unique needs and budget? Need guidance on caring for your kitchen essentials or discovering mouth-watering recipes with IKEA ingredients? It’s all here.

Planning your space | Style and refresh | Storage and organisation | Light, sound and smart home | Health and sustainability | Safety | Guides | Recipes

Planning your space

How to buy an IKEA kitchen in 5 steps

A white METOD kitchen in the last stages of installation. A drawer sits on the floor and its front leans against a cabinet.

How do I make a small kitchen look bigger?

A kitchen has drawers and wall cabinets with white ENKÖPING fronts and a nickel-plated HULTARP rail with hooks on the wall.

Kitchen layout ideas for the best workflow

A kitchen with white STENSUND drawer fronts and glass doors, oak effect worktops and a white sink bowl with visible front.

Maximising kitchen space for more room to cook

A white/oak effect ENHET kitchen by a grey-tiled wall with a birch rail, two birch wall shelves and a white wall cabinet.

Style and refresh

Dream kitchen island ideas for any space

A large kitchen island with ASKERSUND fronts in light ash effect has two black stools and a white pendant lamp above it.

3 ways to refresh the style of your kitchen

Potted plants in a window by a kitchen worktop, plus more plants in white hanging planters and black containers on rails.

Storage and organisation

Kitchen shelf ideas to maximise storage and style

ENHET high frame wall shelves filled with glasses, plates, bowls, and bottles. Open shelving showcases a mix of kitchenware.

Easy ways to organise your fridge

A French door fridge/freezer with both doors open showing foods in containers, boxes, jars, resealable bags and carafes.

How to organise food storage containers

A white-tiled pantry has IVAR shelves of natural pine with full and empty glass jars and plastic containers stored on them.

How to organise kitchen cabinets and drawers

Four pulled-out MAXIMERA kitchen drawers with various items in a cutlery tray, an adjustable organiser for drawer and boxes.

Light, sound and smart home

Illuminate your kitchen: crafting ambiance with light

A kitchen with wall cabinets with glass doors and lighting inside, plus pendant lamps over the worktop and extendable table.

Health and sustainability

Tips and ideas for waste sorting in the kitchen

Rows of white SORTERA waste sorting bins with lids stacked on top of one another under a row of pine cabinets, plus a rug.

Safety

Kitchen safety and living with children

A matt dark beige kitchen with a white marble effect worktop, plus black rails and pictures in black frames on a yellow wall.

Guides

What is the best cookware? How to choose a pan.

Four pans of different styles and materials are placed on a brown surface with different kinds of vegetables around them.

What materials are best for pots and pans?

Pots and pans made of different materials, from cast iron to stainless steel, are placed on a light brown surface.

Knife guide – choose the right knife for your kitchen tasks

A VARDAGEN cook’s knife and a VÖRDA paring knife are placed on an APTITLIG butcher’s block of bamboo, next to some mushrooms.

Recipes

Smoothie milkshake

Two light pink LÅNGLUR fruit smoothie milkshakes are topped with red raspberries, red currants and cookie crumbs.

Smoothie bowl

A white bowl has a mix of LÅNGLUR fruit smoothie and yoghurt with HJÄLTEROLL granola and it’s decorated with red berries.

Chia pudding with smoothie & oat drink

Chia pudding, red berries, yoghurt and kiwi are layered in a glass jar with a slice of passion fruit and mint leaves on top.

Frozen tea cubes with milk

Someone is pouring oat drink for coffee from a jug into a glass jar filled with ice cubes made of FLÖJT black tea and water.

Veggie bowl with cabbage salad and hummus

A turquoise plate is placed on top of a blue plate. There is colourful mix of vegetables, fruits, and vegetable medallions.

Vegetable balls & Indian style stew

A turquoise plate is placed on top of a blue plate and contains rice and a stew and is garnished with coriander.

Granola bars with nuts and dried berries

Home-made granola bars, cut into squares, some wrapped in baking paper, are placed on a grey chopping board on a table.

Thai soup with plant balls & noodles

Three bowls containing dishes with Asian flavours are placed on a bamboo surface. Chopsticks are resting on one of the bowls.

Vegetable ball tortillas with sweet potato

A person is picking up a tortilla filled with vegetable balls and colourful vegetables, placed on a blue plate.

Chocolate truffles with coffee flavour

A white leaf-shaped plate with seven chocolate truffles, placed next to two turquoise cups on saucers with coffee.

Salmon and veggie salad with garlic sauce

A colourful salad with grilled salmon, radishes, carrots, snap peas, and fresh herbs, served on a white plate.

Breaded fish bites with mashed potatoes

Five pieces of breaded fish bites, fried golden-brown, with mashed potatoes, green peas and a dip are placed on a blue plate.

Overnight granola breakfast buns

A granola breakfast bun with cheese and lettuce is placed on a pink plate with some blueberries and a slice of grapefruit.

Meatballs & tzatziki in Greek pita bread

Pieces of pita bread, filled with meatballs, vegetables and tzatziki, are placed on a metal tray on a light grey worktop.

Spicy chicken meatballs & cucumber salad

Two white bowls are placed on a light green table, and they are filled with a salad made of meatballs, rice and vegetables.

Cinnamon French toast with ice cream

A white oval dish has several pieces of French toast with ice-cream, fresh raspberries, red currants and almonds on it.

Asian wraps with meatballs & soy dip

A hand is holding a meatball wrapped in a lettuce leaf over a pink plate and is dipping it into a white dish with soy sauce.

Waffles with salmon & cream cheese

A person in a blue sweater is holding a wooden board and it has heart-shaped waffles with salmon, cream cheese and lettuce.

Oat biscuit & raspberry jam cheesecake

Several glasses of different shapes, filled with oat biscuit and raspberry jam cheesecake, are standing on a metal tray.

Waffles with jam & whipped honey cream

Two heart-shaped waffles with jam, whipped cream and powdered sugar on top are placed on a blue plate.

Crispy potato rösti with shrimp & caviar

Two golden-brown rösti have shrimp, caviar and a lemon slice and they are placed on a white plate on a green tablecloth.

Smörrebröd with salmon & mustard sauce

A pink plate has a dark piece of rustic bread with several slices of salmon, lettuce, cucumber, dill and a mustard sauce.

Classic Swedish meatballs & cream sauce

A white plate has a portion of meatballs, mashed potatoes and green peas, with a jar of lingonberries and a glass next to it.

Oven pancake with apples & almonds

A golden-brown oven pancake with apples and almonds has been baked in a metal baking tray that is placed on a green surface.