Cooking Gadgets

A dull knife is the most common problem in a home kitchen and the easiest to fix. What sharpening actually does, how to tell when you need it, and the three ways to do it at home.

Twelve meal prep tools judged on both halves of the problem: cutting prep time, and keeping food good enough to still want on day four. Plus the popular container set to avoid.

Ten trending kitchen gadgets with a clear verdict on each, judged on owner reviews written months later rather than launch hype. Four are worth buying, three are not.

The twelve baking tools that matter in your first ten recipes, chosen because they change the result rather than the convenience, plus the expensive purchase to postpone.

Twelve kitchen tools that save real time once you count getting them out and cleaning them, including the two that are not gadgets, and where we disagree with every other list.

Fifteen unfamiliar kitchen tools that solve a problem you have learned to live with, each judged on whether it earns its drawer space, plus the popular one we would skip.

A useful kitchen tool does not have to be expensive. Twelve gadgets under twenty five dollars that earn their drawer space, plus the best selling one we would skip and why.