Kitchen Gifts for the Foodies In Your Life | 2023
If you are on the search for a gift for someone whose favorite place is the kitchen, the search has led you to the right place. We have rounded up a chef’s kitchen’s worth of great small kitchen appliances that will thrill that culinary-minded person. What’s more, we have included many great kitchen gadgets that even the experienced chef may never have used but that he or she will never want to be without again. And hey, these great kitchen gifts may just be ones you get to enjoy yourself, because food is at its best when it’s shared.
Yonanas Frozen Fruit Dessert Maker
A Yonananas soft serve ice cream-style dessert maker almost seems too good to be true — almost a gimmick, even — until you use one. Can a $50 countertop kitchen gadget really turn frozen bananas into a delicious, sweet, soft-serve dessert? Well yes it can! And in fact, when you add frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, cocoa or cacao powder, bits of coconut, and other additions, it can make desserts a lot fancier than just that, too.
Brim Electric Gooseneck Kettle
This little kettle brings water to a boil so fast that it’s almost like magic. Even better, the Brim kettle can also rapidly heat water to any other temperature you want below the boiling point, so you can quickly heat water to an ideal temperature for tea, coffee, or any other beverage. It doesn’t hurt that a Brim kettle also looks great there on the countertop — it’s one of the few small kitchen appliances you won’t put away each time even though it’s small enough.
Wolf Gourmet Precision Countertop Electric Griddle
A Gift Guide Go-To’s tried-an- true, you will use this plug-in electric griddle so often you'll wonder how you cooked without it. From omelets and pancakes to quesadillas, veggies, fish, and more, it can cook all of your favorite foods and with amazingly precise temperature control. And what's even better is the fact that the nonstick surface wipes clean with ease and retains its smooth nonstick surface has literally remained in like-new condition after years of regular use.
Braun MultiQuick Immersion Hand Blender
A hand blender is one of those kitchen gadgets that seems superfluous until the first time a person uses one, and that thereafter seems indispensable. This powerful little blender from Braun makes short work of soups, sauces, dips, and more, and with its included whisk attachment, it also makes a great hand mixer, so it’s like giving two gifts in one, both of which are very — wait for it — handy.
Hamilton Beach Dual Breakfast Sandwich Maker
Yes, this clever multi-level countertop cooking device can quickly and reliably make the perfect egg and meat (or meat alternative) sandwich, saving you (or your giftee) the need to venture out to a fast-food chain for a greasy, overpriced breakfast. But keep in mind it does not have to be used only to make breakfast sandwiches. It can also be used just to prep eggs. It can make hot non-breakfast sandwiches. And on it goes!
Magic Bullet Blender
The compact, affordable, and amazingly effective Magic Bullet blender is one of the all-time top-rated small kitchen appliances. It can be used to make smoothies, soups, sauces, and more, it can chop and mince veggies, it can make dressings, it can make cocktails, it whisks eggs, it can pretty much do it all as far as grinding, pureeing, and generally chopping and blending and mincing and all goes.
Nespresso Virtuo Next Deluxe Coffee and Espresso Machine
Bring some Wow Factor to your giftee’s kitchen with this gorgeous, elegant coffee making device. And also bring some great coffee! At the mere touch of a button, this slender coffeemaker (it’s less than six inches wide) can prepare cups of coffee of varying type and strength that taste as good as you can get from the coffee shop on the corner, and for pennies on the dollar per cup.
Cuisinart Griddler 3-in-1 Panini Press
Calling this countertop kitchen device a sandwich maker is like calling a barbecue grill a burger maker. Yes, it can make great hot sandwiches, but it can do so much more, too! This panini press can, for starters, be used to grill burgers. And fish and chicken cutlets and tofu and more. It can cook and even sear veggies or steaks. And its removable grill plates can be wiped clean or popped off and put in the dishwasher with ease.
Latent Epicure Battery-Operated Grinders
An electric salt and pepper grinder set may seem like overkill to the person who only cooks now and then, but to the busy chef who is used to working with both hands flying and five pots on the stove and the oven roasting away and more, the ability to add just the right amount of freshly-ground salt or pepper using one hand at a time? That’s a real gift right there.
Aroma Housewares Rice & Grain Cooker
Rice is one of the tastiest starches around but it’s also one of the easiest to cook poorly. Also, cooking rice can take forever, leading many busy folks to pass on it altogether. With a great rice cooker, though, properly and quickly cooked rice is just a few button taps away. This Aroma Housewares rice cooker makes a great gift because it’s high quality but low cost.
Cuisinart Compact Bread Maker
Bread makers seem to some people like the kitchen appliance they’ll just never use, to be honest. But here at Gift Guide Go-To one fresh homemade loaf coming out of this reliable, easy-to-use bread maker from Cuisinart and the story shifted: now it’s about how quickly we can finish baking this loaf of rosemary bread so we can get a whole wheat loaf started. And then a pizza dough for dinner. Then banana bread for dessert.
Presto Ceramic FlipSide Belgian Waffle Maker
If you’re looking for a great kitchen gift for a known breakfast lover, then you just found it. This easy-to-use waffle maker produces perfect waffles every time — waffles that are just begging for butter, syrup, whipped cream, or even a drizzle of chocolate. Or the chef can take it the other direction and mix some flax seeds and fresh fruit in with the batter and make a genuinely healthy and superbly tasty breakfast the whole family will love just as much.
Eufy BoostIQ RoboVac 11S Robot Vacuum
Even the cleanest, neatest chef is still going to make something of a mess if he or she cooks a large enough meal. Why not save your chef buddy the unpleasant hassle of cleaning the kitchen floor with the gift of an excellent (but affordable) robotic vacuum? This little guy can bustle about after the cooking is done cleaning up crumbs, spices, flour, bits of veggies, and anything else that found its way from the counter to the floor.
