What I wished was different were solid bottoms on the carousel. I had wire ones, bigger things were always tipping over, small things (like the top to the food processor) falling through.

Here's what I did or plan to do:

The two shelves of my bottom super susan holds all of my small appliances: sous vide, mixer, blender, food processor, grill, Nesco roaster--that sort of thing. There is a lot of vertical space between these two shelves, and small items do not make good use of that vertical space, IMHO. There is very little wasted horizontal or vertical space here.

One year after cabinet installation, I am just now getting around to putting super susans into the very larger corner wall cab. 15'' wall cabs make for a very big and very inaccessible upper area (26'' x 26'').

I am putting four susans in with less space between than is usually planned. The two lower shelves will hold sets of fairly often used items: mugs, stemware, tumblers. Upper shelves will hold seldom used casseroles and such.

Because there isn't much space between shelves, I plan to store largish flat items or sets of duplicate items like glasses to make it easier to find what I am looking for.

Because the upper cabinet has glass doors, the fronts of each susan will probably showcase white teapots and pitchers for decorative effect, as the shelves do now.

I simply cannot WAIT to get these installed. They SHOULD go in Saturday. They are just to big and heavy for me to lift into place. So I empathize with your eagerness to play.

(other than the fact that Super Susan gets a lot more done :)

Pro(s) to both:

• It's very easy to access whatever is stored in it...everything is in front. All you have to do is rotate the shelves and what you want is right in front of you!
• If something does fall off (in the cabinets w/out a curved wall, more on that later), it's much easier to get to the item than if you have a blind corner cabinet and something fall off. With a blind corner, you have to reach (if you have very long arms) or crawl into a cabinet that's deep inside a "blind" area. [This reason plus the fact that many of those "half-moon" units don't last is one of the reasons my KD discourages blind corners of any kind.]

Pro(s) to a lazy susan:

• Biggest pro, IMHO, is that the walls of cabinets designed specifically for lazy susans follow the contour of the round (or pie-cut) shelves so closely that I'm not sure even a grain of rice could fall off the shelves.
• Another big pro, again IMHO, is that if you have the pie-cut type, the doors can be attached to the shelves and rotate into the cabinet when you open it. No doors banging the adjoining cabinets...something that can be an issue, especially the doors that are two pieces attached with a piano hinge with the doors flopping about.

Pro(s) to a super susan:

• No center pole in the middle to limit the size of items you can store on a shelf.
• No center pole to block access to items.

Con(s) to a lazy susan:

• Has a center pole in the middle that limits the size of items you can store on a shelf.
• The center pole could block access to items. However, all you have to do is rotate the shelf and no more "blocking"!

Con(s) to a super susan:

• Walls are usually not (never?) curved to follow the contour of the round shelves. This is the biggest con, IMHO.
• Doors cannot be attached to the rotating shelves so the doors must be opened b/f access contents, You also have to be careful the doors do not bang into adjoining cabinet(s).
• You lose some vertical space b/c you have the stationary shelf + turntable
  for each "shelf". (Lazy susans just have the "turntable" shelf and it's usualy thinner.)

For super susans, it's best if the stationary shelves are adjustable so you can customize the height of the shelves.

Our lazy Susan is made of flimsy plastic and is underutilized. It would suffer under the weight of a Cuisinart, for example. I would like to replace it with something else after we do the refacing of our cabinets. It's good to hear about what others do with this space.

The storage pics might be useful on this thread, too. Just keep in mind that these are 15'' uppers, not 24'' base cabs which could hold much, much more. But it would be equally accessible.

Here's the link:

I have the big oval crockpot, rice cooker, waffle iron, juicer, 2 big stockpots, and the food scale on it in one cabinet. On the sides, I have the extra KA mixer bowls, the spare prep sink (you never know when one of those babies is going to go out, so I keep a spare,lol!), and some boxed liquor bottles.

On the cooking side, I have cast iron skillets(3), 12" skillets, the wok, the elbow to install the hood, the double boiler and bowls for it. I put some clear plasic magazine files that I got at Container Store on either side, in the unused space, and they give me divided vertical storage for metal pans, cookie sheets, and cutting boards. Ther is also room here for oil bottles. I actually have room above all this on the sides to have another layer of storage.

Just some ideas for ya.

Nancy