Egg slicers, taco holders, sushi bazookas, garlic choppers, hot dog toasters ( no, really )-all these one-trick-pony kitchen tools that sell themselves on efficiency actually create the opposite effect.
The more crap you have overloading your kitchen, the harder it is to find stuff, the less dynamic you are while cook, the more you easily become frustrated-OH MY GOD THE CHICKEN IS BURNING-and the more you think you hate cooking. Except that what you actually hate is all that accumulated cooking junk.
So whether youre looking to pare down your kitchen to the essentials, or youre stocking your first high-quality cooking space, we have you covered.
This list of the 30 most important cooking tools is vetted by Mens Health editors who know their way around the kitchen. But its also ranked and grouped according to how frequently you'll likely use them.
These are the products youll find in our home kitchens, where we use them almost every day. They make us happy. They make us incredible meals.
And not one of them is a hot dog toaster.
If you hate fun, you can stop reading now. These cooking tools posses the power to transform your kitchen into a place of booty-shaking, pasta-making, pizza-baking glory. Oh, now you want in?