We all love playing with good kitchen gadgets. Especially if you have some tasty snacks along the way. And every week, new and exciting tools hit the market to make meal prep faster, easier, and more fun.
Whether you want to master a new cooking style or rearrange your usual eating rituals, keep scrolling for our list of the best kitchen gadgets.
Best Kitchen Gadgets of 2023
Anova precision cooker
Ready to revolutionize your cooking? The Anova Precision Cooker claims to be the world's number one sous vide cooking tool for “perfect results every time.”
Sous vide cooking is commonly used by professional chefs and involves submerging vacuum-sealed food in water. The wand circulates it, keeping it at a constant temperature and cooking your food evenly.
Simply place the ingredients in an airtight bag and add them to the pot along with your utensils. The Anova Precision Cooker is Wi-Fi enabled, so just set the time and temperature from the included app.
If you don't know where to start, take a look at the app. It comes with the world's largest selection of sous vide recipes for you to explore.
Cuisinart ICE100BCU Professional Gelato & Ice Cream Maker
What could be more fun than making delicious gelato at home in under 40 minutes? No kitchen is complete without an ice cream maker, and this ice cream maker, like most kits, comes with a pre-frozen inner bowl. It's especially great because you don't have to.
This kitchen gadget allows you to make 1.5L of gelato, frozen yogurt, or sorbet at a time and comes with two paddles for a smooth consistency.
Just add the ingredients to the bowl, set the digital timer and press start. Cuisinart also keeps ice cream frozen for up to 10 minutes, even if you're not hovering over the machine to closely examine the moment of termination.
tower air fryer
Air fryers are gaining popularity as the new must-have kitchen gadget. This one from Tower is affordable yet has all the features you need.
It circulates air rapidly to create a crispy texture and, more importantly, uses far less oil than is required when frying or baking food.
This air fryer can hold up to 4.3 liters, making it a good sized option for pulling out large amounts of food.
hotel chocolat velvetizer
On the wish list of chocolate lovers both here and abroad, Hotel Chocolat's famous “Velvetizer” is a must-have for lovers of rich, frothy cocoa, but who isn't?
You can fill it with 200ml of milk or plant milk, add a tablespoon of chocolate flakes, and it heats and froths to create smooth, delicious cocoa in just 2 and a half minutes. It's available in white, charcoal or eye-catching copper and comes with two cups.
The pack includes the velvetizer itself and two ceramic pod cups. You can also purchase a starter kit containing a variety of hot chocolate pouches and sachets to try out.
Instant Pot Smart Wi-Fi
The Instant Pot is one of the best kitchen gadgets for people with busy lifestyles. It's basically a pressure cooker and slow cooker in one, so you can mash chili peppers or turn pork shoulder into tender pulled pork in 30 minutes. Alternatively, you can set the device and leave it alone for a few hours to slowly cook a stew or create the perfect bowl of rice.
This version includes Wi-Fi connectivity and an app that lets you control it remotely and send notifications when your food is ready, making it perfect if you're really short on time and energy. is. Just add the ingredients, heat it up before you leave, and dinner will be ready when you get back.
The app also has recipes designed specifically for the Instant Pot to keep things refreshing.
Jura ENA 8
While the office was closed, I relied on the drip coffee method. With this technique, you simply pour hot water over the coffee grounds that sit on top of the filter. It's a barista favorite, but it doesn't compare to freshly brewed coffee at the store.
ENA 8 brings you as close to a coffee shop experience as you can without leaving your home. You can also launch it from bed using the Jura smartphone app.
This machine has a clean, compact design and offers 10 types of coffee, from espresso to flat white to latte, via a sharp 2.8-inch touchscreen. The coffee is smooth and rich, offering all the special flavor you get from grinding your own beans without the hassle.
always pan
If you have a pile of pots falling over and taking up too much space, the Always Pan could be the perfect replacement. Made to replace all other pots, it works as a frying pan, sauté pan, steamer, skillet, saucepan, and more. It also comes with a nesting steamer and colander, so you can also steam your food.
It is a much-loved product that comes in a wide variety of colors, has over 22,000 reviews, and has received an overall rating of 4.5 stars.
lakeland adjustable food dryer
If you've ever tried to dry food yourself, you know it's a difficult process. If you leave it in the oven a little too long, it will end up a little crispier than you'd like. Luckily, this little kitchen gadget makes everything a lot easier.
The dehydrator distributes hot air evenly across four drying trays, preserving the flavor of your food as much as possible. It comes with four temperature settings (38 °C, 48 °C, 58 °C, 68 °C), a 12-hour timer, and a handy manual with guidelines for heat and timing selection.
This dehydrator is a versatile kit. You can dry everything from fruits, vegetables, and sliced meats to herbs, candied peels, and even dog treats. As Christmas approaches, why not make your own fragrant orange and lime garland?
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Livin Farms Hive Explorer
If you're feeling really adventurous in the kitchen, try ditching the steak and getting your protein from something crunchier. Eating insects instead of meat significantly reduces your carbon footprint, and Hive Explorer opens up the idea of insect farming.
Mealworms feed on food waste (ideally vegetable scraps and grains) and create fertilizer that can be used on vegetable gardens and ornamental plants. Once some of the mealworms pupate and become adults, they reproduce and repopulate the farm. Other mealworms you harvest and eat – that's the circle of life minus Disney.
Manufacturers suggest grinding them to make meatballs or roasting them to add a crunchy, nutty flavor to salads. Hmm. And even if you can't see it directly, the birds in your garden will gladly accept it.
meeter
It may not look like much, but Meater is one of our favorite pieces of smart home technology. This is a meat thermometer that links to your smartphone via Bluetooth and reveals the internal temperature of whatever you're cooking.
Even better, when you tell the meeter what you want to cook, it measures the temperature inside the oven (not what the dial on the front tells you) and tells you how long to cook a perfectly pink leg of lamb. It estimates how much it will cost. , for example.
Basically, there's no guesswork involved in making a meaty feast, and you don't even have to open the oven door. This little metallic sous chef helped me create the perfect Sunday roast.
Ooni Coda 16
With a little know-how, you can make great pizza in a conventional oven. But to achieve a real crunchy base with a charred crust and perfectly cooked toppings, you need a cooker that can increase the heat.
Of course, the ideal solution would be to clean up the garden, build a wood-burning oven out of clay bricks, and eat like Donatello, Leonardo et al. But if that seems like a bit of overkill, Ooni's range hits the sweet spot between convenience and reliability.
The Koda 16 comes pre-assembled, so all you need to do is connect it to your gas supply. Koda emits an L-shaped flame along the side of the oven, heating the interior up to 500°C.
It takes 5 minutes to set up and an additional 20 minutes to reach the optimal temperature. Be sure to rotate the pizza once to ensure an even finish.
smart voice egg steamer
Perhaps boiling your eggs using an electric steamer with voice announcements is a little overkill…but if you're struggling to achieve the perfect runny yolk, this kitchen gadget could be just what you need maybe.
When you want to eat boiled eggs, just use a measuring cup to add the appropriate amount of water to the heating plate. Next, poke the egg into the bottom of the cup, place the egg inside the compartment, and turn on the steamer. Three indicator lights and an audio alert let you know when it's soft-boiled, medium-cooked, or hard-boiled.
Plus, the measuring cup can be stored in a convenient compartment inside the steamer, and the whole thing is only slightly larger than a standard six-egg carton. So unless your cupboard is bursting with capacity, you won't have a hard time finding space to put it.
Thermomix TM6
This is probably as close as having a robot chef in your kitchen. In fact, this may be one of the best kitchen appliances ever made. In fact, Thermomix packs most of your kitchen equipment into his one machine. He can chop vegetables, fry them in a pan, and mix them into soup, all in one pot.
Thanks to the central temperature control, you can use the Thermomix to perform delicate culinary techniques such as sous vide, fermentation, and slow cooking. Or you can cook rice, knead dough, or whip cream.
There's a scale to weigh everything you put inside, and it's all controlled via a smart touchscreen that displays recipes created for your device. Teach him to swear and Gordon Ramsay will lose his job.
