What do you get for the chef who has it all? If you’re stumped, consider these great gifts for any kitchen, whether rated with five Michelin stars or at home for personal use. From ways to provide ease and convenience to mind-blowing new devices, here are ten great gifts for your foodie friends.
The Fullstar vegetable chopper
It slices! It dices! It makes Julienne fries! You don’t need a genie for this kind of magic convenience. Hand peeling and carving can be a time-consuming hassle for even top chefs. Fortunately, artistic arrangements and meticulous cuts are easy with this vegetable chopper. Just plop the whole onion, potato, or radish inside, gently close the lid, and voila! This frees up more time in the kitchen to focus on innovating new recipes and improving your culinary skills.
$20.97 each
A bamboo cutting board set
Working in the kitchen is about more than technique and skill. There’s also a degree of artistry and creativity required, to inspire chefs to create beautiful recipes. The difference between a bamboo cutting board and a plain wooden board is the same difference between fine caviar and regular fish eggs. Being naturally antimicrobial and toxin free is a nice added feature, but at the end of the day it’s a stunning material that’ll enable chefs to create equally luxurious meals.
$25.99 per set
A cheese board set
Presentation is very important, as the staging ground between preparing a great meal and serving it. For cheeses and charcuterie, knowing how to prepare them for snacking is only half the job — anyone can slap a few slices of cheese and salami onto a plate, but making decadent presentations requires finesse and the right equipment. This luxurious Artiswear bamboo set collapses into itself for storage, with a minimalist internal tray holding all the serving implements neatly away until needed.
$29.99 per set
A convenient strainer
Italian cooking can get very messy very quickly, as any pasta master will tell you. There’s flimsy noodles that need separating without splitting, hot sloshing broths and sauces to transfer around, and other challenges to making a perfect plate of spaghetti worth kissing your fingers over. One of the most obnoxious and dangerous jobs is straining the boiling water from the noodles. You have to be quick and clean to avoid burning yourself — unless you have this snap-on strainer, in which case it becomes easy!
$16.99 each
Copper mugs for fizzy drinks
Part of aspiring to greatness in the kitchen is having the right tools for every job. In particular, to make a proper Moscow Mule (or any carbonated drink of the type), you need beverage
containers that cool down quickly, retain their chill for a long time, and have a beautiful sheen to them. These copper mugs fit the bill perfectly, combining presentation with effect. For any
bartender or mixologist looking to bring the magic home, this handcrafted set is the perfect
addition to their kit.
$42.87 per set of 4
An herbal garden starter
Fresh meals start with fresh ingredients, but for many the time and space required is
unsustainable. Starting your own herbal garden is a real hassle unless you already have a
huge backyard full of properly tilled and treated soil — or this handy kit! With over 40 reusable
pieces, ranging from pots and markers to high-quality seeds and nutrient-rich soil disks, an at-
home window garden to start growing your own chives and cilantro has never been easier to set up and maintain, and won’t require a ton of space!
$39.99 per set
An effortless electric grinder set
Now that your foodie friend has grown their own fresh peppercorn, the next step is grinding it for use. However, they’ll need a compromise between the old fashioned mortar and pestle, which guaranteed fine grinds but required preparing in bulk, and a modern hand-grinder, which gives fresh pepper on demand, but requires intense twisting action. This electric grinder set is perfect for that — just add the whole pepper and salt into the reservoirs, set the desired coarseness level, and then just tap a button to instantly have fresh seasoning for your meals.
$47.99 per set of 2
An indispensable dispenser
Food storage is an often-overlooked aspect of food preparation. You need ready and easy access to common ingredients, but they need to be kept sealed tight for freshness. This dual-dispenser from Zevro fits the bill perfectly. Just load up the airtight storage containers with cereals and granolas, then turn the non-crush knob to dispense a quick serving size. Freshness guaranteed for 45 days, without tight screw-on lids that are a hassle to fumble off, or easily-broken suction seals that let food spoil.
$48.99 each
An all-purpose, non-contact thermometer
Making a meal is equal parts finesse and artistry to chemistry and science. Making a perfect cheesecake or steak requires careful monitoring of temperatures and the environment, on top of the know-how and talent to make it taste great. Some incredibly gentle treats, like souffles, cannot be disturbed even slightly, or they’ll collapse, requiring you to start over. That’s where this non-contact temperature gun comes in. Just point it and pull the trigger, and it’ll accurately tell you whether that chicken is undercooked, that bread yeast denatured, or that flan ready to transfer.
$29.99 each
A trashcan to hide mistakes
We don’t like to admit it, but we all fail sometimes in the kitchen. Even your cordon bleu expert friend will have an off-day, or experiment and mess up a recipe. That’s where an easy access trash can comes in, to scrape away the evidence and allow them to get back to cooking. This trashcan is perfect for the kitchen since it filters out scents, has an enormous capacity, and intuitively opens at just a gesture. Combined with the germ-resistant surface, this keeps their kitchen up to code!
$69.99 each
