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.
The Emulstir salad dressing mixer on a wooden table in front of a white wall.
This Tool Is the Best Way to Make Salad Dressing—Fast
A person holding a pair of poultry shears.
Spatchcocking a Chicken? You Need These Poultry Shears
ninja thirsti with multiple carbonated beverages around it
The Ninja Thirsti Soda Machine Makes it Easy to Customize Fizzy Drinks at Home
A Scottish spurtle, used for stirring oatmeal
Why I’ll Choose a Spurtle Over a Wooden Spoon Every Time
A person using an Anova vacuum sealer
We’ve Tested Loads of Vacuum Sealers—The Anova Pro Is the Best
a person using a butane torch to light wood chips in a wooden drink topper
Smoked Cocktails! Wok Hei! Crème Brûlée! Why I Love My Butane Torch
Various cookie presses arranged on a tray
I Tested 7 Cookie Presses and Found 3 Worthy of Your Grandma’s Recipes
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
Bowl scraper and dough
Why Every Kitchen Should Have a $10 Bowl Scraper
WIBIMEN Ice Cube tray with a group of ice trays
I Popped Out Dozens of Ice Cubes to Find the 3 Best Ice Cube Trays
OXO Mini Tongs being used for a pickle jar
These $10 OXO Tongs Have All the Things We Love About Our Winning Pair—In Mini Form
A person carbonating water with a soda maker.
I Tested Breville’s Soda Maker By Carbonating Lemonade and Cocktails (Yup, It’s Great)
A marble salt cellar surrounded by other salt cellars on a pink and white marble countertop
The 5 Best Salt Cellars, According to Our Highly Seasoned Tests (and Editor)
Ninja ice cream maker on countertop with tester pouring into a cone and serious eats badge in top left
I Was Skeptical About the Ninja Swirl—But the Fun Outweighed the Flaws
Various cheese graters and shredded cheese on plates displayed on a surface
I Found the Best Cheese Graters by Shredding Mountains of Cheddar
Two potato ricers beside a bowl of potatoes and another bowl of riced potatoes.
To Find the Best Potato Ricers, I Made 18 Pounds of Mashed Potatoes
The Most Essential Thanksgiving Tools
The One Thing Guaranteed to Ruin Your Turkey (That No One Warns You About)
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
Closeup of a bowl of pesto being mixed with a wooden pestle
You're Making Pesto Wrong—Try This for a Creamier, Greener Sauce
a bread loaf cut in half to display the crumb
The 18 Essential Tools Needed for Sourdough Bread at Home
the probe stuck into a raw, butterflied chicken
ThermoWorks’ New Wireless Thermometer Is Now My Go-To When Roasting and Smoking Meat
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
three pasta drying racks on a kitchen countertop
We Tested 14 Pasta Drying Racks to Find the Best for Spaghetti and Fettuccine
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
A group of electric can openers on a kitchen countertop
I 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
I Took Hundreds of Readings to Find the Best Infrared Thermometers
One white, one red, and one pick thermometer on a blue surface
How to Calibrate an Instant-Read Thermometer
Almond milk is made in the Nama M1 Milk Maker
We Tested 9 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 12 Mini Food Processors to Find the Best Ones for Small-Batch 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 7 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
Kitchen countertop with various ice shaving appliances and a red KitchenAid mixer
I Tested 12 Shaved Ice Machines and Found 4 That Created Pillowy, Plush Ice
A hand rolling gnocchi on a gnocchi paddle.
12 Pasta Tools That’ll Help You Go Beyond Homemade Fettuccine or Lasagna
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
inserting a probe thermometer into a spice rubbed pork tenderloin on a rack
You'll Never Undercook or Overcook Meat Again with These Meat Thermometers
using the oxo bench scraper to cut up pizza dough
The Best OXO Kitchen Equipment, According to Our Exhaustive Testing
The Masienda Molcajete on a white countertop. A graphic in the upper right corner states that it is a "Seriously Good" product.
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)
Three portable induction cooktops sit on a marble countertop.
We Tested Portable Induction Cooktops to Find the 5 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
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
Thinking About Buying the Ninja Creami? Read Our Review First
mandolines on a pink background
I Tested 10 Mandolines—These Are the Best Ones for Fast, Fear-Free Slicing
Personal blenders displayed on white countertop
I Tested 22 Personal Blenders—The Best Pulverize Ingredients Into Creamy Smoothies and Sauces
Three pasta makers on a kitchen countertop.
I Tested 15 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Making Spaghetti, Linguini, and More