There are dozens of jars in my fridge. My husband is a chronic sauce buyer, and I love mustards, dips, and jarred cooking essentials. Between the two of us, there are probably 45+ jars in the fridge.

Many jars have been sacrificed to the back of the fridge over the years, lost in the depths until they were discovered, moldy and unusable. But a year ago we got a rectangular lazy susan, and there hasn’t been a moldy or wasted jar since.

Best of all, the rectangular lazy susan only needs an extra inch of space around the sides to be able to spin. Below, I share all of my thoughts on why this has been the perfect kitchen item to streamline my jar collection (and how I’ve actually been able to use everything I buy).

LAMU Lazy Susan Organizer

The LAMU rectangular lazy susan comes in two sizes. Mine is 15.5 x 11.7 inches, but it comes in a smaller size of 14.5 x 11 inches. It has a nice lip around the edge so nothing spills out while you’re rotating it.

You’d think a rectangular lazy susan would be kind of clunky while it rotates, but it turns perfectly smoothly. It’s made of two panels: a rotating platform and a base. The base has two suction cups on it that attach to the shelf of the fridge (or wherever you want to put it) to keep it in place.

It’s the heart-shaped track that allows the platform to spin on top of the base and need hardly any extra clearance around the sides. I don’t know how it works, but it does.

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Maximizing All the Space

The best part of the LAMU lazy susan is I lose basically no space in my fridge. All you need for it to be able to turn is about three-quarters of an inch on either side of the short ends, and an inch on either side of the long ends.

With a round lazy susan, if you stick it toward the back of the fridge or cupboard, you lose a whole corner or two where you can’t put things because they’re behind the rest of your items on the lazy susan.

Round lazy susans also make it hard to see whatever is in the middle. Spin it as much as you want, but that middle is just as far from you as it was before. With a rectangular lazy susan, you can spin it so you’re reaching from the longer side; the middle is much less far away than it is if you’re reaching for it from the shorter side.

I’ve set up the lazy susan so that the long rectangular edge is aligned with the front edge of the top shelf. There’s not a ton of room on that shelf, so before the lazy susan arrived, any time I had tried to reach for something, I’d knock something else over. But now because I’m able to turn the lazy susan and get all the jars to the front edge of the fridge, I don’t knock anything over when I grab it. (Fewer spills, cleaner fridge.)

All My Jars, Stored

My rectangular lazy susan has 20 jars on it—yes, 20, I just counted. That’s almost half of all of the jars in the fridge. The rest are organized neatly in the shelves on the door. They’re much less likely to dry up and die there than they are in the back of the fridge.

The maximum weight capacity is around 18 pounds, but I don’t think I’ve come anywhere near that. Even with a ton of weight on it, it still rotates super smoothly. You don’t get the problem that happens with round lazy susans where if the weight is unevenly distributed it doesn’t spin right.

The only thing I would change is that I only have one. I think I need at least three.