There’s no need to empty out your regular pantries. Take the easier route with a temporary setupwith portable shelving like this.
I have Covid to thank for this change in my Pesach prep.
I have a nice walk-in pantry (yes, I know how lucky I am and I’m grateful for it every time I walk in.) Every year before Pesach, we dedicate a full day to emptying it out, washing every container and basket and then removing all actual chametz.
After that, I’d somehow manage to fit all the containers and bins onto one side of the pantry so I could use the other side for Pesach. It was a juggling act before Pesach – but it was really a drag after Pesach was over and we had to put it all back together after turning over the whole kitchen.
Then Covid happened. With my husband and teenage daughter sick in bed, and no cleaning help, it was me and one older son doing all the Pesach prep. The psak was made that we should not dispose of our chametz. So even though we normally don’t sell our chametz, that year we did. Which meant we didn’t even have to clean the pantry. We just closed the door and sold the whole thing. Not just that – when we turned over the kitchen, we loaded lots of the chametz utensils and appliances into the pantry instead of packing them up in boxes and schlepping them to the basement.
We brought up an extra set of plastic shelves we had in the basement, cleaned them, lined them and set them up just outside the kitchen. Instant pantry!
This was SO. MUCH. EASIER.
Since then, we clean the pantry, remove all the chametz, wash all the bins – and put them back where they belong. We load up the pantry with our chametz “stuff” and close the door. And we sell it.
The portable pantry gets set up and then taken down after Pesach in just minutes. And every Pesach since Covid I wonder again why it took me so long to make this change.
Some prefer using this metal version that doesn’t need to be disassembled but simply folds to be stored away and can be moved around.
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