Basement Pantry. Here's mine.

[Scott Hildenbrand]

Thought I'd show off where we store our goods once they're processed. We had another room in the basement for this, but it got smaller over time.. So I converted the room under the front porch into a pantry.

The standards are screwed into 2x4's which have been built up with lap joints into a grid. From there, they're screwed into the concrete wall only at the top above grade with lags, as I did not want to promote water leaching in via the holes.

The wall to the left is full of shelves from one side to the other. Down at the far end are quarts and pints of everything from salsa to cherry tomato pickles.
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The center section of the shelves, though not finished, houses apple sauce, pears and the standard fare of grocery items.
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Then turning to look at the rest, also not finished, are the canned goods.. Your standards such as corn, peas, etc.
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Down at the end of the room on the other side is part of the equipment storage area. The canners, Squeeze-O and such go here. I used extra deep standards to give deeper shelves for this.
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Then closer to the door on the same wall is the jelly section. It’s almost at capacity. I do want to redo these shelves to make them slightly deeper. They fit 3 jelly jars deep and 14 wide, or so. So this section can hold 350 jars or so.
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I figured it out one day as to how many jars of apple sauce and tomato product we have and it worked out to well over 50 gallons. We DO have a tally of products as to how many jars of each, but I'd not figured out any grand totals in quite some time.

Jellies and jams include, but are not limited to: grape, aronia, blackberry, mixed, apple, peach, pear, fig, persimmon, mint [inc chocolate mint] and etc.

One of these days when I get bored and have some cash to burn I'll go ahead and re-paint the walls and ceiling to make look prettier.

These pictures are slightly dated.. So there's more stuff in there now. 2 dozen or so quarts of peaches, more pears, etc.

[Ted Calver]

Scott....What an impressive pantry!!! I'm amazed at the amount of preserved food stored there and can only imagine the work involved in putting it up. How many mouths are you feeding? Great job.

[Scott Hildenbrand]

Thanks, Ted.. :) It's a bit of work, but really not as bad as most people think. It's something the wife and I do together through the season. Far as how many.. Only 5 in the household, but we give away lots of it to friends and family.. With the stipulation that they bring back the jars if they ever want a refill. Those pesky things are expensive.

[Eric DeSilva]

That's not a pantry. That's a grocery store. Seriously. I've seen bodegas with less inventory.

[Ken Garlock]

Scott, that is a really classy FRUIT CELLAR. At least that is what my relatives always called it. I guess it was because it always had canned fruit, jelly, and other garden items suitable for winter storage.

Regardless of what it is called, you have pantry to be envied. Great job.

[Mike Wilkins]

This was a fimiliar sight back in the 60's when my grandmothers root cellar was stacked to the ceiling with canned goods. Their house was an old one and only one room had running water and electricity-the kitchen. Not too many folks doing much canning these days. Good to see you keeping up the independent spirit.