Best Gift Ideas for Foodies, Cooks, Home Chefs

What a beautiful addition to any kitchen. Made of Acacia wood, this is a showpiece that is also practical to serve and store cakes, pies, muffins and other baked goods.

7 Qt is the perfect size for baking artisan bread. Lodge is the brand you can trust for its functionality and affordable price! I use this Dutch oven nearly every day for baking bread, oven pot roast, and casseroles, too! Love it.

This Harvest Foraging & Fruit Picker Bag is the perfect companion for home chefs with green thumbs or foodies who frequent the farmer's market. With adjustable straps and shoulder pads, this bag ensures comfort during all-day foraging adventures. Whether they're harvesting herbs from their backyard garden or browsing the stalls at the local farmer's market, this bag offers hands-free convenience and style. It's the perfect gift for those who appreciate the joy of cooking with fresh, locally sourced ingredients.

Two brew styles—classic or rich, each brew is flavorful and never bitter with custom brew strengths. 14 cup carafe—perfect for entertaining. But also features small batch option for 1-4 cups! Programmable so you can set it, delay start and have your morning coffee hot and ready to go exactly when you want it. Check out the more than 18,000 5-star reviews! This is a great product and even better value.

Brews multiple cup sizes (6, 8, 10 oz.). Four color choices. At this price—a real bargain for this highly reviewed Keurig.

Chops vegetables like nobody's business and cleans up like a dream (provided you use the cleaning tool tht comes with it). Saves a busy cook so much time. And everything comes out uniformly, perfectly chopped. Comes with interchangeable blades and includes a spiralizer attachment.

Every kitchen needs a cast iron skillet, and this Lodge is definitely my brand of choice. I use my 10.25-inch skillet nearly every single day! And the 6-inch option (so cute) is always on the stovetop.

Hundreds of cookbooks are published each year. Some are good. Others are exceptional. A few are essential. This one is essential. The fabulous thing about this book—it teaches readers about cooking, how to employ various techniques, and how to grasp that any subtle variations in technique can have significant impacts upon our end results. It is possible to learn how to cook great food.

Delight the food enthusiast in your life with a taste of Iceland. Hand-harvested from the waters of the Westfjords, this collection features an array of unique salts: Arctic Thyme Salt, Birch Smoked Salt, Lava Salt, and Flaky Sea Salt. It's the perfect surprise for any foodie or home chef looking to elevate their culinary creations.

Effortless cleanup, even, controlled heat. Because it doubles as a warmer, you can take it right to the table, then when you're done with the meal, the plate goes straight into the dishwasher! Includes drip tray that catches oil and grease for easy disposal. 4 color choices.

I was late to this game, but have now conceded. Big time. It's not a fad, not a come-on for late-night-TV viewers. For starters, a spiralizer is a great way to get kids to eat veggies (zoodles are just spiralized zucchini). But so much more. The Ultimate Spiralizer 7 comes with an extra blade caddy and Recipe Ebooks with so many awesome ideas and directives. This is it, my fellow foodies!

Finally, a pizza stone that is not so fragile I have to worry about it cracking under extreme conditions (I must be super hard on pizza stones because I have broken more than a couple).

First, it is extra thick at 3/4-inch. And heavy (thank you, Prime shipping). But here is the most amazing thing—guaranteed to withstand up to a whopping 1000 F. degrees! Culinary Couture Pizza Stone for Grill and Oven will not crack.

This storage container set from Chef's Path includes 7 clear plastic containers of varying sizes with lids and 10 reusable chalkboard labels—packaged for gift-giving. Lids lock to create 100 percent airtightness. And if that's not enough, these are space-saving containers that are compact to make judicious use of cabinet space. BPA-free.

Two words to describe this home chef favorite: Fast and accurate.

ThisCooking thermometer features 3.9 inches food grade stainless steel probe and a high precision sensor which displays the internal temp within 3-4 seconds. Accurate to ±0.9 ℉, too.

This beautiful cordless electric wine bottle opener removes the cork in seconds. This wine opener features a Stainless Steel housing with a transparent shell surrounding the corkscrew mechanism. No guesswork required. Built-in rechargeable battery, opens up to 30 bottles on a single the secure cordless electric wine bottle opener removes the cork in seconds. Such a great gift!

Calling all bread bakers—whether you're into 5-Minute Artisan Bread or something that takes much more time. This is the knife you want handy when you cut into those beautiful loaves. This Mercer Culinary Millennia 10-inch Wide Bread Knife will not tear fresh bread apart even if it is still warm (who can wait until it has cooled for at least two hours?!).

This countertop airtight container has a snap-on lid, making it so much better than wrapping quick breads or loaf cakes in layers of plastic wrap—and having to replace all of that after removing a slice or too Such a pretty color, too.

Weighing ingredients makes such a difference in any baking recipe. This one can weigh up to 22 pounds (for the record I have never weighed out 22 pounds of flour, but just in case I know I can). This scale is so versatile and super accurate. Weighing ingredients saves time, and is more accurate than measuring cups.

The guy is amazing—part sleuth, part scientist, the rest comedian. I'm a fan, not only for Todd's entertainment value but because every copycat recipe of his that I have ever tried has come out spot on—a dead-ringer for the real deal.

This is my favorite of Todd's books (there are many), as evidenced by all the food splatters and dog-eared corners!

There must be a thousand Instant Pot cookbooks out there. I have not personally reviewed every single one, however. That's because I've gone straight to the best—the number one Instant Pot how-to, step-by-step recipes. With photos. I have followed its author, Jeffrey Eisner for years before this book was published. I credit him with everything I know about using my Instant Pots (yes, I have two—3- and 6-qt) with nearly 100% success.

This recipe book comes with tips and tricks to help anyone become a better cook but is largely blank so you can fill it with your family’s favorite recipes. It’s a great excuse to start a new tradition: plan a time to cook together once per week, then detail your favorite recipes in this book to create a family keepsake for years to come.

It has sections with blank pages (2 per recipe) for appetizers, soups/salads, sides, entrees, desserts, beverages, and “other” recipes, each with its own write-in index page. It is very high quality, a hardback with nice thick pages. Look toward passing down treasured family recipes in this book.

Made from beautiful acacia wood, this beautiful salt cellar gives any foodie instant access to any kind of salt. It swivels open conveniently. Closed, it protects contents for freshness. And so charming, Ironwood Gourmet Appalachian Salt Cellar looks great when left out on the stove or counter.

Little Starfrit is lightweight, smooth, and easy to pick up and use. It's mostly plastic—only the blade and its housing are metal. Operating Starfrit is effortless—it's one smooth operator. Starfrit is Everyday Cheapskate pick for Best Inexpensive can opener. One of our EC readers says she has had her Little Starfrit for 30 years—and it's working as well as it did on Day 1. Another feature of note: For seniors who struggle with arthritis, this gem is a perfect solution. So easy to use, requires so little effort. There is no better manual can opener out there. Available in both white and black.

The meat masher with 5-inch wide beveled pinwheel blades easily chops and crumbles food. Ergonomic handle design can perfectly fit your hand curve and increase grip and relieves hand fatigue. I use this mostly to break up ground beef, and love it!

Cleaning kitchen blades and knives is not child play! This scrub brush is designed to clean knives in a flash and lets me keep all my fingers! A wonderful safety measure for every kitchen! And just wait for the first person to mention it looks like dentures. It'll happen!.

No one wants to wash their dishes with a sponge, scrubbing brush or dish rag that has been sitting in a pool of stale water and no one wants a sink caddy that moves around. Avoid this undesirable kitchen sink circumstance with this clever sling sink caddy! Three color choices.

This is absolutely the best hand citrus juicer. Fits lemons, oranges with a smaller compartment for limes. Now in a variety of colors, too! NOTE: For me, this turned out to not be dishwasher compatible. Hand-washing is not a problem at all given all its positives.

The hubs and I bought a teeny tiny ... RV! How tiny? Well, I have one drawer in the kitchen, a term I use loosely. Ha! One cabinet with a tiny sink, a small built-in fridge, and one tiny drawer. This organizer is so unique and well-designed to hold basic cutlery that it gives me the equivalent of at least two drawers! Love it.

Santoku knives are top of the line. They were developed in Japan as a more versatile alternative to vegetable cleavers and quickly became the country’s most popular kitchen knives.

With a short, thin, rounded blade that measures 7 inches in length, the smaller size of a santoku makes it easier to handle than many chef’s knives. This one from Zwilling is more than impressive, with its comfortable handle and its ability to slice through food without resistance. It’s a versatile, durable knife that chops, slices, and dices with ease.

Various speeds to mix every recipe to the desired consistency; mix from a slow stir to a high whip. Comes with accessories and your choice of 5 colors.

This compact toaster oven was among the best at evenly toasting bread, baking cookies, and bringing frozen foods to life. This super handy oven performs as well as or better than other options that cost significantly more. Highly recommended! Color choices: silver, black, white.

This 4-quart cocotte is the cast-iron workhorse of the kitchen. Perfect for cooking a full one-pot meal for a family of four, it is so versatile it may never leave the stovetop.

Use the cocotte to braise meat, poultry, or vegetables. Whip up cooling summer soups or warming winter stews. You can even bake bread in the cocotte. The hot, humid environment created in a covered cocotte builds steam, creating a sublimely crispy crust, highlighted by a pillowy soft interior. Available in a multitude of colors, prices vary.

Written and designed to empower kids in the kitchen. It includes step-by-step photos of tips and techniques to help kids learn how to cook like a pro, no matter their age. Readers will also hear directly from the young chefs who cooked alongside America’s Test Kitchen test cooks—they provide product reviews and testimonials that will encourage other kids as they learn.

If you’re looking for a way to bond with your 4 to 7-year-old grandchild, Grandma & Me: In the Kitchen is the perfect activity! Lots of great stuff in one adorable box.