Bamboo Cutlery Tray

A plain bamboo tray for the cutlery drawer. There is nothing clever about it, which is rather the point: the drawer you open twenty times a day is not the place for a mechanism that can go wrong. It holds cutlery, it comes out to be cleaned, and it will still be doing that in ten years.

The slots are sized for forks, knives and spoons, with a wider channel for serving pieces, so nothing has to lie across the top of anything else. Solid bamboo with smoothed edges means it does not splinter or catch a tea towel, and it holds its shape rather than flexing when the drawer is shut hard. It lifts out in one piece so you can clean the drawer underneath, which almost never happens with fitted plastic inserts.

It measures 33 by 24.1 by 3.8 centimetres and weighs 410 grams, in a natural finish that suits both a painted kitchen and a wooden one. Check your drawer internal width before ordering. Wipe with a damp cloth and dry straight away rather than soaking, and treat it once or twice a year with food-safe mineral oil to keep the grain from lifting. Done that way, bamboo outlasts every plastic tray it replaces.

• Material: bamboo, natural finish
• Size: 33 x 24.1 x 3.8 cm
• Weight: 410 g
• Slots for forks, knives, spoons and serving pieces
• Smoothed edges, no splintering
• Lifts out to clean the drawer beneath
• Care: wipe and dry, food-safe mineral oil once or twice a year