Looking for the best kitchen gifts and stocking stuffers? Whether you are shopping for a home cook, professional chef, or even yourself -these kitchen gift ideas are not only practical and functional, but they are also beautifully crafted. Includes my favorite wellness gifts, cookware, unique gadgets and kitchen tools, knives & appliances for the home. *This post contains affiliate links.
Stocking Stuffers
Milk Frother
This handheld milk frother has become one of my favorite little gadgets! Froth milk, cream, protein powders or even salad dressing! I use this every morning when I add collagen peptides to my coffee.
Maras Salt
My Peruvian friend Sara has imported Maras Salt from the Maras Salt Reserve in Peru. Hand-harvested from ancient Andean salt ponds, this artisanal salt is naturally free of microplastics, aluminum, and toxins—your trusted choice for clean, premium salt.
Favorite citrus Zester
Many of you have asked about the lemon zester I use in my photos and in my catering business. This is the brand I love and it’s still one of my favorite kitchen tools.
Spray Oil Canister
This Spray-Oil Canister is the best! Fill it with a good quality extra virgin olive oil for spraying instead of using god-knows-what! I use this all the time and love it. It sprays lightly and evenly.
Instant Read Thermometer
Every home cook or chef can use a good instant-read thermometer! Here is one of my favorites!
✨ Wellness Gifts
As a chef and former caterer, my health was imperative to success. You can’t call in sick when catering a wedding! Here are a few of my favorite wellness tools that I still use today, that help restore my body and bring it back to balance. Perfect for the home cook or professional chef.
Oura Ring
The revolutionary smart ring! Track your sleep, activity, stress, HRV, heart rate and more with this ring. I love observing how stress, work, exercise, sauna, and diet affect my deep sleep.
Inversion Table
Being on my feet for long periods of time while carrying and lifting heavy pots, pans, trays and boxes of wine all took a toll on my lower back. Inversion table to the rescue! Lengthening and stretching, it helps realign my spine. A godsend for those in the food industry!
Vibration Plate
Standing in the kitchen for long periods of time can be taxing on the body. I love this compact vibration plate because it helps with lymphatic drainage, circulation, joint pain, and even muscle building. It’s small and light. You can even use it on your feet, sitting in a chair- it feels heavenly!
ReD LIGHT THerapy
I love using red and near-infrared red light therapy to ease pain and inflammation in my back, and improve skin tone, boost melatonin (to help me sleep better), accelerate muscle recovery, and more!
Splurge-Worthy Kitchen Gifts
KitchenAid Stand Mixer
The Classic Series 4.5 Quart, Tilt-Head KitchenAid Stand Mixer is a joy to use. I have one with a glass bowl, which, though tough, I have managed to chip repeatedly. The metal bowl is probably more durable. Kitchenaid recently released this beautiful wood bowl option, which I just saw in person at a friend’s house, and it is dreamy!
Dutch Oven
My Favorite Dutch Oven – This white 7-quart Staub is so elegant! It has a black interior, ideal for bread baking. For more on Dutch ovens, please read this in-depth Dutch oven post!
Shun Chef’s Knife
My Favorite Knife – I recently tried this 7-inch Blond Shun Knife and fell in love. Perfect for every skill level, it is a beautiful chef’s knife!
Gooseneck Kettle
This electric kettle makes coffee and tea feel like a ceremony! I use it twice daily, morning coffee and afternoon tea – and it feels luxurious. I figure the amount I save in making coffee at home versus buying it, justifies it somehow. 😉
PARIS Peppermill
Paris Peppermill “Peugeot Paris” is revered for their highest-quality mills, which they’ve been making since 1840. With a handsome design and patented, adjustable grind control system, prepare for unlimited showers of fragrant, perfectly cracked pepper exactly to your liking.
This Stoneware olive oil bottle is completely free of toxic heavy metals (like cadmium and lead) and holds a generous 34 ounces of olive oil! Dishwasher safe.
Whipped Cream Dispenser
This Otis Whipped Cream Dispenser makes whipped cream so easy (just pour the cream in and voila!) but you can also use it for frosting, savory fillings, foam, froth and mousse. It’s incredibly handy! A good friend bought this for me and I’m in love with it!
The Beast Mini Blender
I’m in love with this mini blender. I use it all the time for small-batch salad dressings and smoothies. It’s called the BEAST! It is designed for smoothies, dressings, sauces, homemade mayo, and pretty much anything made in small batches. It makes me happy every time I use it!
Spice Jars
I am a sucker for these wooden top spice jars. I love jars with a wide opening- big enough to dip a whole tablespoon into. These come with ample preprinted and blank labels (top labels too). A little secret… when life feels overwhelming, sometimes I’ll spend 30 minutes organizing my spices, which somehow puts my mind right. A little piece of chaos, that I can control. Haha!
Japanese Rice Cooker
This Japanese-designed Kakomi Rice Cooker is so elegant and makes perfectly fluffy rice! The double lid and round shape of the pot generate the right level of pressure and convection inside, making rice with a fluffy texture and also preventing liquid from boiling over when cooking. *Must be used on a gas cooktop.
Favorite Small appliances
Immersion Blender
If you love making soup, this immersion blender is a godsend! They come in so many fun colors. They also make a cordless one which I am also considering…
Vitamix Blender
It took me a while to jump on the Vitamix Blender bandwagon, but ever since then, I’ve never looked back. I love how the dial can be rotated at any point during the blend, so you’re in complete control! I love that I can blend HOT liquid without an explosion. The size and shape of the 64-ounce container is ideal for blending small to large batches. And, you can even heat soup in the blender- with its powerful motor.
Cuisinart Food Processor
Because I am a hummus girl through and through, this Cuisinart Food Processor is probably the most used small appliance in my kitchen. I use this more than my Vitamix for sauces, pesto, and so many other things! This powerful food processor is great for shredding cabbage, mincing, dicing, puree & kneading pie dough, cutting prep time in half!
My favorite Toaster Oven
During the summer months, we rely on this toaster oven to keep our kitchen cool, rather than firing up our big commercial gas Wolf. I love how small this is- but has 8 different cooking functions: Toast, Bagel, Bake, Broil, Pizza, Roast, Cookies and Reheat. I use it for reheating, toasting small batches of nuts and making small batches of cookies.
Air Fryer
My husband bought me this Air Fryer for Christmas one year, which I thought was quite funny, since it was really a gift for himself. I was resistant to using it at first, but it won me over in the end. This one is affordable, sleek and works great!
Ice Cream Maker
This is hands-down my favorite appliance. This Whynter Ice Cream Maker has a built-in compressor and makes ice cream or frozen yogurt in 30 minutes—with no freezing of the canister. I love it and use it nightly for healthy frozen yogurt. They also have it in white, but the pink is discounted and just makes me happy.
For the chef who has everything
Smoking Gun
This Breville-Smoking Gun food smoker adds natural cold smoke flavor and aroma to cheese, meat, fish, vegetables, sauces, and cocktails without using heat. Here is a pretty glass smoking cloche that you can place on a plate or pedestal.
Butane Torch Gun
This Butane Torch Gun is great for quickly browning or caramelizing the tops of things, like salmon, goat cheese, or creme brûlée.
Cookware
Caraway Non-toxiC Ceramic Cookware Set
This Caraway Non-Stick Ceramic Cookware Set (12 pieces) is a great option if you want non-toxic, non-stick cookware. It comes with a storage rack and it’s affordable, smart looking, and comes in fun colors. Oven safe, and even works on my new induction stove!
All-Clad Stainless Steel Cookware Set
If you are looking for a stainless option, this All-Clad D3 3-Ply Stainless Steel Cookware Set (10 Piece Set) is a great option. A step up from this is their 5-Ply Stainless Cookware.
Favorite Kitchen Gadgets
- Silicone Spatula
- Knife Sharpener
- Fish spatula
- Stainless Mixing Bowls with Lids
- Cherry Pitter
- Metal Pizza Stone and Peel Set
- Pastry Mat
I don’t know if you have Dollarama near where you live, but I found the spice jars you recommend as well as matching larger ones for everything else there for a reasonable price. I agree that they are really useful, easy to clean, and just look lovely!
Thanks Norma!
Hi Sylvia, we love our Fontana Forni Wood Oven. We now have a Friday or Saturday Night sourdough Pizza Tradition .❤️
Thanks so much Nikki!
Hi Sylvia,
I recently purchased a Green Mountain pellet grill, the Trek Prime. It has an add-on pizza oven insert. I haven’t purchased the insert yet, but I absolutely LOVE my pellet grill!
I will look that up! It sounds really interesting! Thanks so much!
Hi, Sylvia, Do you have a recommendation for a knife sharpener? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Oh, how funny, Carole, so my husband just suggested I add our knife sharpener because he loves it. He does the knife sharpening in our house! It’s a Wusthof- I’ll find a link to the exact one and add it. 🙂
Thank so much, Sylvia. We are just back from a cycling trip in Sicily where the food was amazing! Pistachio pesto, busiati pasta, eggplant. Oh my! I’m wondering if you have any recommendations for a cappuccino maker?
How fun! No sorry, I don’t have a cappuccino maker but maybe someone else out there has some ideas?
I really like my Brevilie Bambino. It’s very simple – no bells and whistles. I’ve had it about a year and a half and it’s holding up well.
Great to hear!
I have/want many of this list! I’ve had the roccbox pizza oven for 4 years now / absolutely love it. I only use the propane (not wood) it makes phenomenal pizza, also great for naan pita tortillas etc. mainly vegetarian here, but it cooks steaks and burgers etc really well in a cast iron skillet – I get lots of compliments and I definitely don’t do meat well!!! It’s a sturdy, compact, non fussy workhorse! Highly recommend- also a great Facebook group of users skilled in sharing dough making of all levels!
Thanks Louise- have you tried the wood in that model? Just curious. I love the idea of being able to use both.
HI! We recently purchased a Gozney Dome: https://us.gozney.com/products/dome
…and LOVE it! You can cook from gas or wood, you can bake and roast in it too. Hope this helps. Best, Julie & Joel
Thanks so much Julie! I’ll look into it. I like that it works for both gas and wood!