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Here’s a tip for all you budding cabinetmakers. If you’re going to go to the trouble to custom-build cherry kitchen drawers, do not design them with an inset panel on the drawer face. These things are like magnets for crud. This pictured unit is especially bad because there’s an eighth-inch gap between the panel and the frame. You can’t imagine the amount of stuff that collects in there if, say, you accidentally spill a can of vegetable soup down the face of the drawer.

I admit it — I lost my grip on the can opener and flipped a can of soup off the counter. The entire contents ran down the fronts of four drawers. I spent 15 minutes digging out all the onions, leeks, tiny bits of bell pepper, tomato, etc. I dug out a lot of bits I didn’t recognize, too, implying that probably I wasn’t the first one to spill soup. I was just the first one to clean it up.