What are some cool kitchen gadgets to ease up your work?

 What are some cool kitchen gadgets to ease up your work?



Kitchen gadgets that ease your work


  • Quality knives and the skills to use them
  • Multiple color-coded cutting boards
  • Mandoline
  • Multiple sided grater
  • Stand mixer
  • Blender
  • Mortar and Pestle set
  • One or two Induction burners and a skillet, 2-quart pot, whistling teakettle that works with it/them.
  • Baking pans
  • Wet/dry measuring cups
  • Measuring spoons
  • Space-saving stacking bowls, dishes, tableware, pots, utensils
  • Sinks and drainer
  • Basic cookbook with illustrations


What kitchen gadgets does every home chef need?


I will try to break this down as I would for a single frugal person and again for someone who really spends a lot of time in the kitchen.

Frugal Person: All the BASICS that will cover 90% of your needs.




  • 1 large sauce pan with high sides
  • 1 large, heavy metal bottomed stock pot
  • 1 set measuring spoons
  • 1 set measuring cups
  • 1 glass 2 cup measuring vessel (a mason jar can work for this too)
  • 1 good, large chef’s knife (this knife does 95% of my cutting)
  • 1 knife sharpener
  • 1 cutting board (use 1 side for veg and the other side for meat)
  • 1 vegetable peeler
  • 1 set kitchen utensils
  • 1 electric tea kettle
  • 1 manual can opener
  • 1 box grater (many prefer a micro-plane but I’m old school)
  • 1 set of large mixing bowls
  • 1 colander
  • 1 flat of canning jars (used to store foods, mix dressings, measure liquids, etc…)
  • Home Chef: LUXURY items in addition to the list above.
  • 1 stand mixer (include whatever attachments you like)
  • 1 sous vide cooker
  • 1 vacuum sealer
  • 1 vegetable slicer (mandoline)
  • 1 thermometer
  • 1 kitchen scale
  • 1 electric skillet/griddle
  • 1 small kitchen torch (for creme brulee)
  • Gadgets that we have been gifted and NEVER used:
  • 1 panini press/cooker
  • 1 egg cooker
  • 1 corn on the cob butter holder
  • 4 corn on the cob trays/holders
  • 1 waffle iron
  • 2 George Foreman electric grills
  • 1 strawberry slicer
  • 1 cherry pit remover
  • 1 pineapple cutter (larger version of a press down apple slicer)
  • 1 set of meat shredding claws
  • 1 each, marble and glass “cutting boards” (terrible on knives and dangerous to use)
  • 2 sets of holiday serving dishes









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