The best spice racks

The Seville Bamboo Spice Rack is available in three sizes to meet your needs, it's affordable, and it's beautiful.

Bamboo is a type of wood that's commonly found in kitchens, thanks to its clean look, toughness, affordability, and environmentally friendly makeup. So if you already have some bamboo tools in your kitchen, the Seville Classics 3-Tier Expandable Bamboo Spice Rack can fit right in while keeping your spices organized.

It's especially nice that you can pick up this smart looking spice rack for as less than $20 depending on the design you select. For an all-wood spice rack, that's a highly desirable price point.

In its review, Kitchen Gadget Review highlights the stair-step design of the Seville Bamboo Spice Rack, which helps you see all of your spices at once. You may want to place labels on the lids of the spices to make sure they're easier to find, as the labels on the spice bottles in the back may be hidden by other bottles.

My favorite aspect of this Seville unit is its flexibility. Seville offers two designs for use inside a cabinet or drawer. You can expand horizontally several inches to allow for storing more bottles. This is a great feature for ensuring it'll fit tightly in a drawer or cabinet without wasting space.

Most user reviews on Amazon are favorable, and the low price tag is a big draw. Customers appreciate the clever design of the Seville spice rack. However, we'd strongly recommend that you precisely measure the space in which you're planning to store the Seville Bamboo Spice Rack before ordering it, just to ensure that it'll fit. Some customers reported they liked the spice rack, but that it didn't fit quite where they wanted to use it.

For reference, the cabinet spice rack unit measures 8.25 inches long by x 3.3 in. high and ranges from 8.75 to 15.5 in. wide. The flatter drawer version measures 15 in long by x 8 in. wide and 2 in. high.

Pros: Extremely low priced spice rack, sharp looking design using bamboo, adjustable size to fit different cabinets, can see all spices because of stair-step design

Cons: Only accommodates a limited number of jars, may not fit some drawers or cabinets

Buy the Seville Classics 3-Tier Bamboo Spice Rack (in-cabinet large version) on Amazon from $13.89 (originally $21.57)

If you cook a lot and have a ton of spice jars, the AllSpice Wooden Spice Rack will keep all of them sorted perfectly.

Sometimes making choices is difficult. So if you have a cabinet with 50 or more spices, and you don't want to have to pare down your collection, the AllSpice Wooden Spice Rack is built with you in mind. The AllSpice unit offers a rack with 60 jars, each of which can hold about one-half cup of spice

It's one of the biggest spice racks on the market, and the company makes a smaller design with 12 jars, too. The 60-jar unit is huge, weighing 28 pounds and measuring 24 x 16 x 4.75 inches, so be certain you have space for it on your countertop.

There's nothing fancy about the AllSpice Wooden Spice rack, but it's made of beautiful, solid wood. It looks like a wooden wine crate, and the jars slide into their own individual slots. You will have to transfer your spices from their current containers into the jars that ship with the AllSpice unit, as those jars are the only ones that will fit in the spice rack.

The lids of each of the jars will hang away from the spice rack just enough to make them easy to see. The AllSpice kit ships with more than 200 sticker labels to mark each jar clearly. One of my favorite aspects of this unit is the fact that AllSpice offers shaker lids with different size holes to accommodate spices consisting of powders, flakes, and seeds.

Even though the AllSpice Wooden Spice Rack's design is simple, it is available in a variety of wood styles, including bamboo, cherry, natural, oak, and walnut, as well as white paint. In its review, Foodal highlights the quality of the finishes of this spice rack.

The people who can fit its high price tag into their budgets tend to be big fans of the AllSpice Wooden Spice Rack. One customer highlighted the strong organizational design of the AllSpice unit for speeding up the process of cooking. Another customer appreciated that this spice rack occupies less depth on the countertop than expected.

The AllSpice Wooden Spice Rack isn't for everyone, but for those who love spices — and have a bunch of them — its design is nearly perfect.

Pros: Accommodates up to 60 jars of spices, extremely strong build quality, variety of wood finishes and styles available, easy to see each jar in the spice rack

Cons: Very high price tag, heavy and large spice rack

Buy the AllSpice Wooden Spice Rack on Amazon from $79.99

The Gneiss Spice Rack just looks cool, and its magnetic design means you can mount it anywhere there's metal in your kitchen.

We really love the interesting look of the Gneiss Spice DIY Magnetic Spice Rack. It comes with either 10 or 24 hexagonal glass jars with magnetic lids, so you can mount the jars to any metal surface in your kitchen, such as the refrigerator or a metal backsplash.

The hexagonal shape of the jars allows them to fit together tightly, and you can create cool honeycomb patterns with them.

Each jar measures about 1.75 inches by 2 inches and can hold just shy of one-quarter cup of spice. These jars are a little smaller than some other spice rack options, so you may be refilling the jars frequently for spices you use most often.

Unlike most spice racks, which put the jar lids front and center, this spice rack shows you the back of each jar so you can see all of the different colors and textures of the spices inside.

One downside to this design is that the label for the jar is on the lid, meaning you can't see the labels when the lid is stuck to a magnetic surface, but you can also label the glass end of the jars in case you don't recognize your spices by sight.

Customers report that the magnets in the Gneiss Spice jars are strong enough to adhere to the refrigerator without sliding around, which is an important feature. Additionally, having the spices within easy reach and visible at all times can speed up cooking.

User reviews on Amazon recommend this spice rack for small kitchens that have limited cupboard and counter space. It's very convenient to pop spice jars on your fridge and free up your cabinets. Reviewers also love the way Gneiss' spice jars look in their kitchens.

Pros: Create an artistic look with the spices visible in the jars, magnets adhere tightly to metal surfaces, spices are easily accessible, three jar lid colors available, saves counter and cabinet space by moving your spices out of the way.

Cons: Jars are small, price is above average for limited number of jars

Buy the Gneiss DIY Magnetic Spice Rack on Amazon from $45 (originally $50)

If you want the easiest and quickest access to a limited number of spices, the DecoBros Spice Rack Stand delivers.

The free-standing DecoBros Spice Rack Stand will look nice on your countertop, but it's also functional. Through its three-tiered design, you can see all 18 spice jars clearly, allowing you to grab the right one easily and quickly.

You'll have to transfer your spices from their current containers into the jars that ship with the DecoBros Spice Rack. The spice rack also comes with 48 preprinted sticker labels that you can use to mark the jars.

Customers like the sturdy design and build quality of the DecoBros Spice Rack Stand, which sports a chrome finish. The jars have plastic lids, but they also feature a chrome finish, contributing to the pleasing look of this spice rack.

One complaint some customers have is that the holes in the lids for the jars are so small that they really only work with powder spices. You can use a hole punch to increase the size of the holes to work with spices consisting of flakes or seeds. Alternatively, you may be able to transfer the plastic lining from a store-bought spice container to the DecoBros jars.

For those who have dozens of spices they'd like to display, the 18 jars with this DecoBros option won't work. If you like the look of this unit, though, you can buy two or three spice racks and spread them throughout the kitchen. As Kitchen Gadget Review points out, it's not a big spice rack — it only measures 12 by 5 by 8 inches — so it won't occupy a lot of space on your countertop, even if you need multiple units.

Overall, user reviews on Amazon are positive, and the DecoBros is an attractive, affordable spice rack that will look just as good on your kitchen counter as it does in your cabinet.

Pros: Stylish looking spice rack, doesn't require a lot of counter space, sturdy build quality, inexpensive price, ships with preprinted label stickers

Cons: Holes in lids are small for non-powder spices, can only accommodate 18 spice jars

Buy the DecoBros Spice Rack Stand on Amazon for $21.97 (originally $24.97)