Kitchen Gadgets

Kitchen Gadgets

Every kitchen needs standard cooking items to survive the everyday task of feeding hungry stomachs. Kitchen tools like pots and pans, knives, cutting boards, measuring cups, measuring spoons, and mixing bowls simply help a kitchen function as it should. Other kitchen accessories like vegetable peelers, bread makers, and food processors may not be considered as necessary, yet are still incredibly practical kitchen gadgets to help with food prep. Home cooks who are invested in making foods from scratch may find that a pizza oven or a citrus juicer become some of their most used kitchen finds. However, perhaps the best kitchen gadgets are those that make quick work of specific tasks like scooping cookies or peeling garlic. Kitchen gadgets are one of our favorite things at Kooi Housewares - so let's talk about them!

Let Us Introduce Some Kitchen Gadgets You're Sure to Use

A good kitchen gadget makes tricky cooking tasks a piece of cake - which is really a tall order for some tasks! Ever tried to separate an egg yolk from the white? Maybe you have a knack for picking out oranges with the toughest, thickest peels... or despise peeling small cloves of garlic and then chopping them! Try using an Egg Separator that will catch your egg yolk for you, letting the white slip through the cracks. Sounds like you might need a Citrus Peeler too - it will get that skin sliced open and ready to savor. Oh, and we have all the garlic tools you ever needed, like a Garlic Peeler and a Garlic Press, for starters!

Preparing a fruit salad for a cookout shouldn't be as stressful as it feels. That's why gadgets like Apple Corers, Pineapple Slicers, and Strawberry Hullers exist! A Grape Cutter will help reduce your chopping time, while these Grapefruit Spoons will help you remove every last morsel from its skin. Grab a Cherry Pitter for that summertime cobbler you crave and we promise that making it will never be the pits again.

Gotta Get Dinner Going? Chop to It with These Vegetable Prep Gadgets

Don't kale yourself using that random knife you found in your kitchen drawer to do all of your Vegetable Prep for you. Instead, turn to gadgets like this Mushroom Slicer to get precise, uniform slices with zero hassle or a Corn Cutter to remove corn from the cob with just a swipe. If you're a human being, your eyes probably water embarrassingly as you cut onions (literally, not figuratively!) - why not give some Onion Goggles a shot? And if you hate how onions never stay put when you need them to, not to mention the fact that the smell sticks around your hands for far too long, then this Onion Holder and Odor Remover will be a grace.

These Kitchen Tools Are Really Cool...

We're all about the new, fresh, practical, and exciting... so here's a few untraditional kitchen gadgets that will earn their keep in your kitchen. You may not have heard of a Bench Scraper, but this handy dandy little piece of stainless steel will change the chore of chopping for the better. No longer do you need to go back to the cutting board four times to get the last of your diced tomatoes into your guacamole - reach for the scraper instead and you'll have them all contained in one slide. Don't want to use multiple knives to chop and remove those pesky spots and cores from said tomatoes? Try a Tomato Corer, a small device also made of stainless steel with sharp teeth that precisely grip the flesh of your fruit, removing unwanted portions with a quick twist, without coveting any of the perfectly good fruit that often comes off when using a paring knife for the job.

Browning meat might be the hardest job to use a wooden spoon for. While it's great for stir-frying, serving, and even spanking in some families, it's always the last tool you reach for when your sausage hasn't quite thawed all the way yet, since it makes a terrible chopper and spatula. Norpro's Chop-N-Stir changes the game (no pun intended!) Does your favorite salsa recipe just so happen to call for more jalapenos than you care to pare? Use this Jalapeno Corer in the place of a knife. Feel like you're always switching between spatulas and cookie scoops when baking your world-famous snickerdoodle cookies? Now you only need one utensil to do it all - the Talisman Cookie Scoop Spatula has one tool on each end!

Here's Some Kitchen Brands Behind Which We Stand

Certain brands do it better - that is, creating and producing the best kitchen gadgets out there! We just can't pass up an opportunity to share about a few we love. Starting off strong, Oxo is known for their high-quality, convenient kitchen utensils and tools. Their Good Grips collection was specifically designed to make cooking enjoyable. Oxo Good Grips has transformed the world of kitchen utensils and gadgets with comfortable handles made of materials like silicone and santoprene, steering the ship away from kitchen accessories that make the chef's hands tired. Oxo also has intentionally engineered their products to be in compact sizes, compared to large, bulky kitchen utensils that made cooking clumsy and took up too much storage space. Oxo Good Grips' kitchen gadgets are among the finest, being both practical and versatile.

Dreamfarm takes a different approach to creating kitchen accessories - instead of taking a universal problem and solving it on a wide scale like Oxo does, Dreamfarm identifies specific frustrations with certain cooking tasks and creates fun new products to solve them. One of their pet peeves with traditional measuring cups and measuring spoons was the need to use your fingers to scrape off excess sugar after scooping. Thus, their products Levups and Levoons were born - self-leveling measuring cups and measuring spoons that eliminate that extra step (plus having to wash your fingers off afterward!) Or take the Brizzle as another example - you know, the baste-and-drizzle brush. Instead of using a standard pastry brush and 27 strokes to get enough marinade on your chicken, this basting brush has a built-in scoop that flexes to receive oils, egg washes, and other ingredients. The sauces can then be brushed on, while simultaneously dripping through the small holes in the scoop, saving time and ingredients all at once. This is just a small taste of Dreamfarm's genius inventions!

Not to be outdone by the others, Progressive's kitchen gadgets range from standard kitchen tools that could use a little design upgrade, to unique food prep accessories that make life in the kitchen easier, a little at a time. Whether you're cooking a hearty meal of roasted potatoes and fish or a filling stew, Progressive has a gadget to help with that. Most of their gadgets are dishwasher safe too, making them convenient to use when you're not in the mood for lots of cleanup.

Great Meals are the Real Deal with These Kitchen Gadgets

There really is a gadget for everything - and we've got them all! Check out our full selection of kitchen utensils and gadgets here.