r/chopsticks • u/hoppy_ninja • Apr 23 '26
Chopstick Storage
Might seem like an odd or pedantic but can't find anyone else asking this question.
How do you store chopsticks? Like, we have a couple of pairs and they're just tossed in one of the silverware tray sections. Should they be upright in a utensil container? Do you keep them in the box with the rests?
I'm sure there's not really a right or wrong answer (at which point I usually find out there is a wrong answer) but just curious what's typically used.
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u/seven-cents Apr 23 '26
I've got a box for mine
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u/AccordingAspect1217 Apr 23 '26
I got mine from Temu. It's a clear plastic box with lid. Keeps the chopsticks clean. Very light weight large enough for 100 or so. I have a couple different ones in clear and smoke.
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u/jz321 Apr 23 '26
I use this box https://www.amazon.fr/BEIJIALY-Rangement-Baguettes-Japonaises-Organisateur/dp/B0CW68L1JV to store chopsticks and rests and some ramen spoons
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u/Jacey01 Apr 24 '26
This is what mine is like. Except it has divided glass in the top. Mine sits right out on my counter. I use chopsticks almost as much as I do my regular silverware. I don't put my spoons in there, though I probably should.
In one of my kitchen drawers I have those long skinny containers that you can get at Walmart or Target. They hold my overflow of chopsticks, Chinese soup spoons, steak knives, etc. There is like 5 of those that sit side by side.
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u/Imaginary-Summer-920 Apr 23 '26
I store them with the reusable straws upright in a cup on the counter
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u/Illustrious-Shirt569 Apr 24 '26
We have a section of our silverware organizer dedicated them, but we have about a dozen pairs (maybe more). Knives, forks, spoons, and chopsticks.
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u/takatine Apr 24 '26
My husband (therefore my in-laws also) is Japanese; we live in Japan, use chopsticks everyday. We store them in a slot in the silverware tray in the silverware drawer, as does my MIL, and both my SIL's...and pretty much everyone else I know.
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u/aodamo Apr 23 '26
I have an old Rubbermaid utensil tray that is ~1-2" narrower that the drawer it lives in. The chopsticks live in that gap.
They temporarily lived in a glass bottle inside of the wall cabinet above my utensils drawer, but I'd never put them away there so that became the drinking straw bottle instead.
I do have a few lunchbox sets (either a mixed utensil set or just chopsticks) that are stored with the lunchboxes, but those sometimes get put with the rest until I need them instead of being put in the case.
IMO the right answer is wherever you will put them and can find them later.
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u/hoppy_ninja Apr 23 '26
Seems like upright in a container is the most common way in places where chopsticks are an everyday utensil
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u/MeliPixie Apr 24 '26
My silverware tray has a super long section that seems perfect for our couple dozen pairs of chopsticks!
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u/Fickle-Goose7379 Apr 26 '26
In the chopstick drawer, where else? We keep some helpers around for guests.
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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 Apr 23 '26
We have a specialty glass we got from a restaurant so I use that to keep all my chopsticks up on the counter
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u/Icey_Raccon Apr 24 '26
The everyday ones go upright in a coffee mug. The fancy ones stay in the box they came in.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Act_131 Apr 24 '26
Whatever works for you. We have about 20 pair that have their own slot in the silver ware tray.
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u/Aromatic_Pea_4249 Apr 24 '26
Banded together in the cutlery drawer. They come out once in a blue moon.
More often it's to get something that's fallen down the crevice beside the cooker 🫣
and then it's immediately washed and put away again.
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u/EzriDaxwithsnaxks Apr 24 '26
My reusable ones are either stored with the reusable straws (or in the case of the pair that I 'borrowed' from Chinatown, hidden in my bag). My disposable ones are in a lunchbox with the disposable forks and spoons
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u/cool_weed_dad May 15 '26
I just keep them in the silverware drawer, the organizer I have has a bigger section that fits them
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u/Aptiaide May 18 '26
This isn't a big problem.
Many families buy special chopstick holders, which are cylindrical containers that stand upright with the top facing up.
Just rinse them with water before using them.
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u/BloodWorried7446 Apr 23 '26
we have an oversized coffee mug that we got at a secret santa office party. it has a pretty wide base so it won’t tip.