Tools and Gadgets

From digital scales (yes, you should own one) to thermometers and measuring cups, here are our favorite gadgets to fill up those kitchen drawers.
A person using a clip-on strainer to water from pasta noodles into a sink.
This Pasta Strainer Attaches to a Pot and Has Basically Replaced My Colander
A to-go drink cup with a silicone reusable straw in it
To Find the 5 Best Reusable Straws, I Drank Gallons of Water, Iced Tea, and Smoothies
A metal jar opener on a wooden table
Even the Stickiest Lids Are No Match for This Jar Opener
What To Buy Instead Of A Manual Food Chopper
No, You Don’t Need a Food Chopper—Get This Gear Instead
Bowl scraper and dough
Why Every Kitchen Should Have a $10 Bowl Scraper
One-Off Cadillac of Salad Spinners hand pushing down on salad spinner
This Is the Most Efficient Salad Spinner We’ve Ever Tested, and Now It's on Sale
WIBIMEN Ice Cube tray with a group of ice trays
We Made Pounds and Pounds of Ice to Find the 5 Best Ice Cube Trays
Person testing temperature of water in a bucket with the Breville Joule Sous Vide
The Best Kitchen Gadgets, According to Our Many Years of Reviewing Equipment
A person carbonating water with the Breville soda maker.
I Tested Breville’s New Soda Maker By Carbonating Lemonade and Cocktails (Yup, It’s Great)
Two potato ricers beside a bowl of potatoes and another bowl of riced potatoes.
I Made 18 Pounds of Mashed Potatoes to Find the Best Potato Ricers
someone using the anova precision sealer to vacuum seal pork chops
I Used the Anova Handheld Vacuum Sealer for Over a Month—It Was Fast, Reliable, and Portable
a bread loaf cut in half to display the crumb
The Tools You Need to Make, Maintain, and Bake Sourdough
the probe stuck into a raw, butterflied chicken
ThermoWorks’ New Wireless Thermometer Is Now My Go-To When Roasting and Smoking Meat
A colander spoon holding drained rigatoni of a Dutch oven full of boiling water
This Hybrid Colander-Spoon Is My Non-Negotiable Tool for Pasta Nights
A stack of dishwashing sponges next to a kitchen sink.
These 7 Winning Dishwashing Sponges Will Make Cleanup (Kinda?) Fun
Six portion scoops on a marble countertop
I Love Portion Scoops So Much, I Have 6 of Them
a person holding the lavatools javelin thermometer to measure the temperature of hot water in a tea kettle
I Love This Digital Thermometer So Much That I Travel With It
three pasta drying racks on a kitchen countertop
We Tested 14 Pasta Drying Racks—These Five Are the Best for Spaghetti, Fettuccine, and Sheets of Dough
the thermoworks square dot on a wooden cutting board next to a dutch oven
This Tiny Thermometer Can Track Two Temperatures at Once, Making It Great for Multitaskers
A sous vide machine on a blue surface
The Breville Joule Turbo Is the Most Powerful Sous Vide We’ve Ever Tried
Editor-approved chicken cooking picks
Skip the Guesswork With Chicken and Grab Our Editors’ Favorite Chicken Cooking Tools
A group of electric can openers on a kitchen countertop
We Opened 70 Cans to Find the Best Electric Can Openers
the airhood next to a griddle of bacon on the stove
Meet the AirHood: The Portable Kitchen Hood That Actually Removes Smoke and Odors
Several infrared thermometers on a grey countertop
We Took Hundreds of Readings to Find the Best Infrared Thermometers
true cubes ice maker with seriously good badge on a gridded background
This Clear Ice Maker Gives My Cocktail Game a Glow-Up
One white, one red, and one pick thermometer on a blue surface
How to Calibrate an Instant-Read Thermometer
Tatung Rice Cooker
My Mother Used This Rice Cooker Every Day— and It's Still My Favorite
four nut milk makers on a wooden countertop
I Tested 8 Nut Milk Makers to Find the Best Ones for Homemade Oat and Almond Milk
a food mill with boiled potatoes in a steamer basket on a white tile surface
To Find the 3 Best Food Mills, We Puréed 30 Pounds of Potatoes and Tomatoes
Three mini food processor on a marble kitchen countertop.
I Tested 11 Mini Food Processors to Find the Best Ones for Sauces and Other Tiny Tasks
A sheet of fresh pasta being rolled out.
The Best KitchenAid Attachments (for Burgers, Pasta, and Shaved Iced)
The Goldie Sourhouse on a wooden kitchen countertop
This Pretty Sourdough Starter “Sourhouse” Looks Like Decor, But Performs Admirably
several kitchen thermometers on a marble countertop
A Handy Guide to the Very Best Thermometers, Based On Our Tests
tortilla presses on a blue background
I Made Dozens of Fresh Tortillas to Find The Best Tortilla Presses
A stainless steel utensil crock filled with various utensils.
I Tested 11 Utensil Crocks to Find the Best Ones for Stashing Spoons and Spatulas of All Sorts
Sauce spoons on a pale pink marble countertop
Baste, Serve, Spread, Sauce, Scoop—What Can’t a Sauce Spoon Do?
an array of grill presses on a marble surface
I Tested 11 Grill Presses—5 Made Perfect, Crispy-Edged Smash Burgers
three shaved ice makers on a marble suface
We Tested 8 Shaved Ice Machines and 2 Delivered the Most Pillowy, Plush Results
the breville polyscience smoker being used
Our Favorite Smoking Gun from Breville Will Amp Up Your Cocktail Game
ThermoWorks Smoke Remote BBQ Alarm Thermometer
This Wireless ThermoWorks Thermometer Tells You When Your Barbecue Is Done
A hand rolling gnocchi on a gnocchi paddle.
12 Pasta Tools That’ll Help You Go Beyond Homemade Fettucine or Lasagne
two thermometers on a grill table taking the temperature of a piece of meat cooking on the grill
We Put 21 Wireless Grill Thermometers to the Test—These 6 Were the Best
The Meater Plus Smart Meat Thermometer with Bluetooth stuck into a piece of lamb displayed on a cutting board
The Best Meat Thermometers, So You'll Never Undercook (or Overcook!) Meat Again
using the oxo bench scraper to cut up pizza dough
The Best OXO Kitchen Equipment, According to Our Exhaustive Testing
Side view of a molcajete
Masienda's Molcajete Is the Best We've Found
A person turning the control knob of a deep fryer
Our Favorite Deep Fryer from All-Clad Made the Crispiest Chicken Wings
thermopop with bowl of ice behind it
Here Are 19 of Our Favorite Kitchen Gear Upgrades (And They're All Under $40)
an array of handheld and countertop vacuum sealers on gray countertop
Handheld vs. Countertop Vacuum Sealers
A hand loading a bottle onto the SodaStream Art
Our Favorite Seltzer Maker Actually Looks Stylish
Three portable induction cooktops sit on a marble countertop.
We Tested Portable Induction Cooktops to Find the 6 Best Ones for Everyday Cooking
cooking scrambled eggs in a pan on an induction burner
How Do Induction Cooktops Work, Anyways?
mini mortar and pestles
We Tested 10 Mini Mortar and Pestles—Three Crushed the Competition
Instant Pot sous vide on a colorful, white and blue speckled backdrop.
Our Longtime Favorite Budget-Friendly Sous Vide Machine Is from...Instant Pot
a person using an instant-read thermometer to take the temperature of a chicken roasting in the oven
The Best Instant-Read Thermometer is Lightning-Fast and Incredibly Accurate
A Thermapen one taking the temperature of a sous vide water bath set to 134 degrees
The Best Gear from Our Equipment Reviews, According to Serious Eats Staffers
a collection of tofu presses on a green background
I Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed By the Competition
Ninja Creami Deluxe on countertop
We Reviewed the Ninja Creami to See If It Lived up to the Hype
mandolines on a yellow backdrop
I Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease