Хоть кухня и маленькая, без контейнера и салатницы здесь всё равно трудно хранить еду аккуратно.

It is a common concessive pattern meaning although, even though, or while it may be true that.

So:

Хоть кухня и маленькая = Although the kitchen is small / Even though the kitchen is small

The sentence sets up a contrast: the kitchen is small, but that does not change the fact mentioned in the second part.

Here и is not a normal and. It is part of the concessive pattern хоть ... и ....

In this structure, и helps reinforce the contrast:

• Хоть кухня и маленькая...
• Хотя кухня маленькая...

Both are possible, but хоть ... и ... is a very natural way to say even though ...

So you should understand и here as part of the pattern, not as a separate coordinating conjunction.

Because кухня is feminine singular, and маленькая agrees with it.

• кухня = feminine singular noun
• маленькая = feminine singular adjective

Russian often omits the verb to be in the present tense, so:

• Кухня маленькая literally looks like Kitchen small
• but it means The kitchen is small

So in Хоть кухня и маленькая, the adjective is describing the subject кухня.

Because it is part of a present-tense predicate with кухня.

In a sentence like:

• Кухня маленькая

both words are in the nominative. Russian does this when saying what something is like in the present tense, with the verb to be omitted.

So маленькая is not being used after a preposition and is not a direct object; it is the predicate adjective describing кухня.

Because the preposition без requires the genitive case.

Base forms:

• контейнер
• салатница

After без:

• без контейнера
• без салатницы

And when they are joined together:

• без контейнера и салатницы

So both nouns are in the genitive singular because they are governed by без.

Russian often uses the singular when referring to an item in a general or typical sense.

Here the idea is roughly:

• without a container and a salad bowl
• or without having a container and a salad bowl available

It does not necessarily mean there is only one possible container in the world. It just presents these as the useful items needed in the situation.

If you used the plural:

• без контейнеров и салатниц

that would sound more like without containers and salad bowls in a broader, more literal plural sense.

Here всё равно means still, anyway, or all the same.

So the logic is:

• Even though the kitchen is small, it is still difficult...

It emphasizes that the fact from the first clause does not change the conclusion in the second clause.

Do not translate it too literally as everything is equal. In everyday Russian, всё равно very often means still / anyway / it makes no difference.

Because this is an impersonal construction.

Russian commonly uses words like:

• трудно = difficult
• легко = easy
• можно = possible
• нельзя = impossible / not allowed

followed by an infinitive.

So:

• трудно хранить еду аккуратно = it is difficult to store food neatly

English needs a dummy subject, it, but Russian does not.

You can also add who experiences the difficulty in the dative:

• мне трудно хранить еду
• ей трудно хранить еду

But in your sentence, no experiencer is stated.

Because еда is the direct object of хранить, so it goes into the accusative case.

• dictionary form: еда
• accusative singular: еду

So:

• хранить еду = to store food

Here еда is being used as a general mass noun, meaning food in general, not one specific dish.

Because it modifies the verb хранить, not the noun еду.

• аккуратно = adverb = neatly / tidily
• аккуратный / аккуратная / аккуратное = adjective = neat / tidy

So:

• хранить еду аккуратно = to store food neatly

If it were an adjective, it would describe food, which would not make sense here.

Салатница usually means salad bowl: a bowl used for serving salad, and sometimes more generally a bowl of that type.

Depending on context, it can suggest a medium or fairly deep bowl that could also be useful for keeping or serving other food. So in this sentence, it is being treated as a practical kitchen item that helps keep food organized.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible, and the position of здесь reflects emphasis and flow.

In this sentence:

без контейнера и салатницы здесь всё равно трудно хранить еду аккуратно

здесь sets the location: here. It comes before всё равно трудно, so the sentence naturally feels like:

• in this place / here, it is still difficult...

Other word orders are possible, but they would shift the emphasis slightly. The given order is natural and idiomatic. Russian often places adverbs like здесь where they fit the information flow best, rather than following a rigid English-style order.

Yes. You could say:

• Хотя кухня маленькая, без контейнера и салатницы здесь всё равно трудно хранить еду аккуратно.

That would mean almost the same thing.

Very roughly:

• хотя is the more straightforward although
• хоть ... и ... is a very common, slightly more expressive concessive pattern

So both are correct, but хоть кухня и маленькая is especially natural in conversational Russian.