Best Kitchen Gadgets That Are Actually Useful

This roller garlic peeler blew my mind the first time I used it! I was taking a cooking class and we all had roles in our group to speed the process along. My role was peeling and dicing the handful of garlic we needed and I started getting nervous that I’d be so behind having to peel so many cloves. Lo and behold, the chef presented me with this garlic peeler and it worked wonders!

It’s a small silicone tube that you roll on the countertop. You place a garlic clove in the tube and roll your hand back and forth over it a few times on the counter, and voila! The garlic cloves fall out completely peeled!

This little guy is a game-changer and I use it all the time. This one even comes with a case for storage.

This is an herb stripper that I thought seemed a little excessive until I actually go to try one myself. You take one piece of an herb and place the stem in whichever slot it fits snug in. You don’t want there to be too much space because it may not catch all of the leaves.

Pulling the stem all the way through the slot, the leaves fall right off! This works great for herbs like cilantro, rosemary, parsley, oregano, and even kale.

This herb stripper saves so much time when you’re in need of some fresh herbs in your meals.

I never really knew I needed a handheld juicer until my mom gave me one. Sure, it’s simple enough to squeeze a lemon by hand when you need some fresh lemon juice, but then you’re inevitably having to fish out a few seeds that spill out into your meal. This juicer retains the seeds in the cup and you’ll never have to hunt for rogue seeds out of your precious meal.

This juicer also yields SO much more juice! You think you’re squeezing the lemon thoroughly by hand but wait until using this guy. It easily helps me almost double the amount of juice I’d normally get.

It’s also really helpful that it can be used for limes too. There is another tool out there specifically to juice limes, but this one will do the trick.

I love this cutting board scraper from Pampered Chef. I normally don’t splurge on catalogue items like this but my boyfriend’s mom hosts parties occasionally and gets great discounts on items.

I really like this scraper more than standard straight-edge metal scrapers because of the flexibility it provides. It’s lined with silicone at the bottom edge and that really helps when ensuring you scrape all your chopped produce onto it without missing any.

It also has a wavy shape that creates a little nook for the produce to rest in, keeping it more stable when transferring food from the cutting board to the pan.

The Pampered Chef scraper is definitely my favorite scraper, but can be a little pricey. This Oxo scraper is more affordable and gets the job done, just without some of the extra benefits of the previous one.

Another great Pampered Chef item! These pan scrapers are really worth your money, and are at a very reasonable price considering you receive 3.

The pan scrapers help get off the stubborn pieces of food that just won’t come off in the dishwasher or when handwashing. They’re a lifesaver when using cast-iron as well.

If you’ll notice in the picture, three corners are rounded so you can get in all the corners of baking dishes and pans with no problem. The fourth corner is pointed and is the best when trying to clean something with more defined angles, like cast iron.

My go-to utensil when cooking rice!

I am a sucker for silicone kitchen tools. I just love how easy they are to clean, how effortlessly they scrape clean every kind of dish, and their heat resistance.

I purchased this fork as an impulse buy after a cooking class with the intention to add it to my collection of random stirrers. I’ve found that I always reach for this each time I’m making rice. It’s perfect when you need something with tongs to sift or whip or stir differently than you would with a large spoon.

This is a really handy tool and my second one is on the way!

For the longest time, whenever I needed lemon zest I would use my potato peeler. Now it still works decently, but I would end up with rather large chunks of lemon skin that really didn’t blend well.

I now have this zester that’s pretty long and skinny so it stores well, and has a thin microplane that really creates fine zest. It allows me to put lemon zest in so many meals and it blends effortlessly.

The cool thing about this zester is it also grates cheese!I love duality and the fact that I can use this with fruit and with cheese makes it a win in my book.

We tend to buy the conventional olive oil sprays from the store, but they are never the quality of oil that we buy in larger bottles. This would be fine when lining cookie sheets or sheet pan meals, but when it came to nicer meals with steak or fish, we wanted something natural and with better flavor.

My boyfriend was recently gifted this oil mister and it solved all of our problems! We can now spritz the high quality olive oil we love and know it’s a healthy choice that we’re making.

It can be used for cooking oils, vinegars, wines, and even sauces like soy sauce. Pretty soon you’ll want 10 to house all your cooking liquids 🙂

Yet again, another tried and true tool from Pampered Chef!

I love having eggs for breakfast and I used to scramble a couple of eggs on the stove every morning before work. I had never microwaved eggs before and was very turned off to the idea. I tried this egg cooker because all of the reviews raved about the quality of taste of the end result.

It greatly simplifies the process of scrambled eggs and you can customize them so easily. You simply crack an egg into the cooker, add any toppings you would like (cheese, peppers, bacon bits), shake well, and put in the microwave for roughly 60 seconds.

When you open it up you have perfectly fluffed scrambled eggs! One of my go to’s for breakfast is an egg with. a little bit. of milk, cheese, and hot sauce. It really saves me time in the morning, and now I can use that extra time to chop up some mushrooms and bell pepper to mix in. Yum!