Patent ID: 8118179

Claim:
A method that allows a user of a storage rack for cooking utensils to adjust the storage rack to accommodate a particular cooking utensil comprising: providing a storage rack having a base with a lower surface for engaging a support surface and a plurality of bendable members operatively attached to said base, each of the plurality of bendable members being bendable by a user of the rack using their own strength or their own strength supplemented with a simple or typical household tool; providing a cooking utensil having a vessel for holding food and an extended handle operatively attached to said vessel, said vessel having an exterior surface with a substantially flat bottom surface, an interior surface, and a rim extending between said exterior surface and said interior surface, said vessel having a substantially circular shape in plan view; assessing at least one characteristic of said vessel relative to said plurality of bendable members; first bending, based on said assessing, at least one of said plurality of bendable members such that a pair of said plurality of bendable members define a slot with a width that potentially accommodates a portion of said vessel; attempting, following said bending, to place said vessel in said slot such that one of said pair of said plurality of bendable members that defines said slot engages said rim of said vessel, the other of said pair of said plurality of bendable members that defines said slot engages said exterior surface of said vessel, and the cooking utensil does not tip such that said interior surface begins to face said base.