Our Top 10 Kitchen Gadgets
There are a number of kitchen essentials in the market that promise to be life-changing. The sad truth is that a lot of them takes up space and time leaving us all gullible and full of shopper’s remorse. But how can you tell if a product is worthwhile?
Here’s a collection of our favourite gadgets that can help you skip a few tedious steps. They are all great for everyday cooking and for anyone with a busy schedule. From chopping and slicing to mashing and straining, these gadgets will save you time and energy.
May your garlic be pressed, your cherries split and your avos completely smashed.
1. Crushing Garlic Without Removing the Clove | Dreamfarm Garject
This garlic press is very much a unitasker, but it is a kitchen tool that we think will save you the pain and time. You can make sharper, spicier garlic in less time than most people can mince.
This one, in particular, is our favourite because YES you don’t need to peel your garlic. All you need to do is press your garlic with Garject and the little lever will push out the peel. Say goodbye to garlicky stank on your fingers.
2. Heavy Duty Chopping Solved | Progressive Food Chopper
Make salsa quicker than you can say Fiesta. Prepare celery and carrots for a potato salad faster than a chef can chop, or prep apples and nuts for muffins. The comfortable soft grip pusher means you can chop for hours.
It also comes with a bottom cap that acts as the base when you chop. Alternatively, you can use your cutting board as a base to chop too. If you don’t feel like using the cutting board, turn over your chopper and fill it up with your ingredients, put the cap back on, flip it over and start chopping.
3. Killing Peeling Time by Half | Savannah Speed Peeler
They say, speed kills. Well, this peeler kills time. It’s extremely easy to use and suitable for both lefties and righties. The handle is comfortable and offers a non-slip grip making repetitive strokes much less of a struggle.
Tips & Tricks: Rather than going the old school way of peeling from the thickest point of the carrot, here's a handy trick with the Savannah Peeler to take your speed up a notch. Run the peeler down to the base tip of the carrot, rotate, and peel back all the way up! That way you are utilising both sides of the peeler blade.
4. Splits Vegetables and Fruits within Seconds | Gefu Flexicut
If you’re not a Speedy Gonzales with your knife skills (no judgements), this little gadget will make quick slicing and dicing work for you. Its small size makes it great for anyone who doesn’t have much kitchen counter space and it is perfect for tiny city apartments. It is also easy to use when meal prepping while camping or during a road trip.
All you have to do is add your fruit or vegetable in the Gefu bin and press the top through the bin where it will slice or chop everything inside. You’ll also love that you can choose the slice or chop sizes.
Some meals you can prep using Gefu Flexicut are potato salads, potato wedges, fruit salads and baby food.
5. Smooth and Creamy Mash in a Flash | White Magic Masha
While there may be heaps of stick blenders and mixers out there, Masha certainly stands out from the lot. Let’s take potatoes for example. The point is, any time you plan on making starch potatoes, it's best to steer away from any sharp blades and anything with high speed.
The reason for that is because when you use a high-speed blade, it cuts the grains of the starch and releases what’s called amylose where it imparts a glue-like consistency. You’ll just get glug.
Masha, on the other hand, features a patented rotor-cone technology that acts like a motorised version of a ricer or a food mill. What Masha does is, it forces the ingredients through the outer slots. Its polymer blade is not sharp at all and is also safe for kids. The rotor goes at a low speed too, so no cutting involved. The end result? Creamy, consistent fluff and no lumps.
The blades are also easily released for thorough washing up.
6. Flip & Chop Food with One Utensil | Dreamfarm Chopula
Chopula really is a chopping sit-up spatula. The thing about it is that it is designed to be able to chop and sit up. If anything at all, you’ll always want a spatula that’s flexible as well as nice and thin so you can get it underneath your food.
Say you’re cooking a sunny side up, Chopula can easily scoop the egg without destroying it and transfer on to your toast smoothly.
When you need to chop your food while cooking, you can turn your Chopula over to chop. The handle will be out-above the pan making it easy to chop your minced meat. Great for any day-to-day fry up.
You'll find multiple curves on the outer edges of the Chopula. These curves will easily get into any corner of your pan regardless of its size or diameter. If you are cooking a runny sauce, Chopula has a little drip-catcher. So when it sits on your countertop it will catch the drips easily and you can avoid stains and muck falling on the bench.
7. Chop, De-seed, Scoop and Mash Avocado with One Tool | Savannah Avo Shark
Avocados are no longer having a moment— they’ve officially earned their place in every household kitchen around the world so much so tools are invented for us just to tear them apart.
One of our favourites, the Avo Shark is a game-changing gadget that chops, de-seed, scoop and mashes the avocado. This handy tool comes with a protective sheath to cover its jagged blade. In the middle, there are teeth-like edges on both sides for easy grip of the avo seed. With a strong grip, you can easily twist the seed and lift it up.
The scoop, on the other hand, is designed with slots for consistent smooth mashing.
8. One-Size-Fits-All Strainer | FusionBrands Spin Out Strainer
Our favourite detail about this strainer is that you no longer have to store big chunky colanders in your kitchen cupboard. The strainer is about half a circle 33 cm in diameter when open and when it is collapsed, you can easily store it flat in a drawer. Perfect for when you lack in space.
Plus it fits onto any bowl or pot size and diameter — saves you a lot of transfer time from pot to strainer.
It's great for straining out any juices from cooked meat, fruits and water from boiled pasta.
The strainer is also designed with a stay-cool silicone knob and a collapsible handle so you can hold it down firmly when you strain.
9. Efficiently Strips and Chop Herbs | Microplane SwiftStrip Herb Knife & Stripper
The SwiftStrip Herb Knife and Stripper is a curved blade that has 5 different holes designed to fit different stems of leafy greens such as dino kale, kale or chard and two smaller holes for herbs.
Our favourite detail about this tool is that it helps save time in de-stemming as well as cutting. The top of the stripper is a sharp edge knife, perfect for cutting off unwanted parts of a long stem. This tool makes the chore a little easier. The handle, on the other hand, is ergonomically designed and can be used by both lefties and righties.
If you frequently make salads at home, the Microplane SwiftStrip is an inexpensive tool that will be a perfect fit for your kitchen.
10. A Fast Chopper that Mashes and Stir | Hackit
Ever found yourself going through three different steps with three different tools while trying to cook up a meal? You need the knife for chopping, the masher for mashing and a spatula to stir. Wipe that sweat away and let Hackit do all three for you, using just one tool.
The key takeaway of this tool is that it saves you time and reduces clutter as you prepare your meal on the countertop. With the ergonomic handle of this food chopper, you won't be taking the occasional fatigue breaks in between mashing, chopping, and stirring."
The blades are made from high-quality food-safe nylon and are heat resistant of up to 210 degrees. This means you can use it directly in the cookware. And yes, it can be used in non-stick cookware too.
Do you need more tools or gadgets? Don't worry we have a wide range of highly functional kitchen multitaskers and unitaskers that can make your life so much easier and more efficient. Explore our collection now.
