Hanging Spice Rack
Buy the best hanging spice rack selected and recommended by interior designers. By Tara Gosselin.
Wall hanging spice racks are a great way to properly showcase your spices and have easy access to them when needed. Never have to hunt around a junk drawer or a cabinet to find your spices again. Not when you have an easy an attractive medium to keep them organized. Take a look at our extensive collection of walls hanging spice racks for your kitchen aesthetic.
Hanging Spice Rack
Buying Guide
Tara Gosselin
Interior Design Expert
Tara is a San Antonio-based award-winning landscape architect, writer and educator, passionate about eco-friendly solutions and growing her own food. She knows all it takes to help you create a sustainable backyard retreat that combines blissful charm with a modern take on landscaping.
To install a wall hanging spice rack, first mark your desired height, measure the space between the mounting hardware and mark holes on the wall, screw in drywall anchors, and use screws to mount your rack. The majority of spice racks come with holes pre-drilled as well as the hardware needed to hang them. All you need to do is measure appropriately before drilling holes and hanging your spice rack.
Drill slowly to the depth slightly longer than your screw anchors. Gently insert the screw anchors into the holes until they are flush with your wall. Next, screw in the screws partway, leaving enough protruding to hang the rack’s attached hardware; around ½” is sufficient.
If your spice rack only comes with drilled holes, screw the screws in part way and align the holes for hanging. If the holes are smaller than the top of the screw, you will need to hold the rack in place against the wall and screw in each screw.
For smaller, lighter-weight spice racks, you may be able to apply glue strips or hooks to hold them in place.
A wall-hanging spice rack can fit anywhere from 10 to 30 jars depending on the size of the rack and the style of the jars. A stainless steel mountable rack offers space for 15 jars arranged octagonally, while a mounted bar rack where jars hang by their lids holds 7-plus jars and is limited only by its length.
A classic countertop spice rack holds around 8 jars, while a large wooden wall-mounted rack accommodates more than 30 jars of varying sizes. To ensure that your spice rack fits as many spices as possible, get jars that are the same size and shape, reducing wasted space. Another interesting solution is to use a spice rack with magnetic jars and metal strips to store your spices horizontally.
When storing your spices, you need to understand that they are perishable and therefore vulnerable to light and thus need specific storage containers. While some people choose to use glass jars to store spices, others prefer plastic. So let's take a look at each type of storage container for spices and which is better. High-end and expensive spices are normally stored in glass jars as glass extends the shelf life significantly.
The interaction of glass jars with plastic caps allows them to seal with both the cap and the liner. Additionally, when storing your spices in a glass jar, there are no faint tastes of the material in your spices, making it ideal for high-end and frequently used spices.
On the other hand, plastic is a more affordable option; however, it is still porous and allows small amounts of air to damage spices. Plastic also tends to leach in temperature extremes, and either freezing or heating these containers leads to small particles entering the spices and ruining the flavor. That said, our recommendation is glass jars for all your spice storing needs in your wall hanging spice rack.