We have developed a love for a few kitchen tools, that in our opinion, would make awesome gifts for your fellow foodie friends.

Going in clockwise order, first we have a pepper grinder that we picked up the other day at Amy’s Place in the Reading Terminal Market. It’s a little guy but it’s strong and has a ceramic core which we were psyched about. Plus it was only $20-something!

Next we have a mandolin, that we busted out on Thanksgiving. It’s great for making homemade french-fries, or coleslaw, or thinly cut cucumber salad! This instrument (hah!) can save a lot of time and energy, and give you beautifully consistent cuts, but be forewarned, you can easily lose the tip of a finger. You can get one at Fante’s, on 9th Street, one of America’s oldest and most distinguished resources for cooks’ wares, established in 1906.

Then we have this potato peeler, made by Rösle, and it is (according to my father – once a professional chef) the best potato peeler around, and worth the investment. I used it to peel the skins off of a dozen potatoes on Thanksgiving, and not once did my wrist cramp up or did I feel a snag, nor did I slip and cut myself. It really is astonishing, and we will never go back to disposable peelers again! You can pick one up at Kitchen Kapers on 17th Street, or check out the Rösle Factory Outlet in Newcastle Delaware.

KitchenAid is King! If you didn’t already know, the KitchenAid Stand Mixer comes with hundreds of attachments for all your wacky kitchen adventures, like a pasta cutter, a juicer and a sausage maker. Get it as an early present before all the cookie making begins! Baker’s Royale is also having a Giveaway for one of these babies, so get on it.

Just for fun, there’s this Breville Pie Maker. I know, we rolled our eyes too. Take all the fun out of baking why don’tcha William Sonoma. We still thought it was cute, and it’d be a great gift for more unadventurous bakers.

Lastly, and along the same lines, is this weird Nordic Ware Waffled Cake Pan… What kind of world are we living in? Oh right, one where someday we’ll be using our phones to pay at the store, instead of swiping our credit cards. Though we’re still a fan of huge fluffy belgian waffles, this was too ingenious to not share with y’all.

Have fun shopping, friends!

“[...] get it nice and hot, then cut an onion in half and spear it, take the speared half and, flat-side-down, rub it on the grill. You’ll see immediately how it brings all that crappy black and grey ash off your grill.”

We know it’s unprofessional and all, but, uh, that’s what she said.

Holy Pancake Robots!! We kind of can’t believe the Chefstack is real, but apparently, it is. The World’s First Automatic Pancake Machine uses a Teflon conveyor belt to spit out 200 pancakes an hour and form a neat pile of delicious. This little wonder costs $3,500 and is being marketed mainly to convenience stores and large-scale cafeteria operations. We would like it if it were a bit more Rube Goldberg and a little less Easy Bake Oven, but you can’t have it all.

(Editor’s Note: We accidentally wrote 200 pancakes per minute. In hindsight, that would be so awesome, but is unfortunately not true. Sorry guys.)

For the tail-gator who simply cannot help spending themselves into oblivion, we now turn our gaze to this Phillies grilling set, which’ll set ya back $59.99, plus shipping. We hear it’s Bubba Burger-compatible.

And how sweet it will be! A lifetime of dreams of having access to fresh draught beer at a moment’s notice will finally become a reality. You’ll aspire to fill your kegerator and stomach with the finest Belgian blondes, India pale ales, and amber lagers — only to realize that on top of buying the kegerator, Co2 tank, tubes, tap and a slew of other accessories, you still have to buy beer. So, now in the hole upwards of $500, who else is there to turn to but your long-time friend and confidant PBR? Not to worry though, your dreams of consuming the finest beer known to man in true hedonistic fashion are not in vain.

Thanks to the Tap Board, a nifty chalkboard/tap handle combination, you can enjoy any beer you so choose at bargain basement American macro-lager prices! It may take a some pretending at first, but soon you’ll be enjoying coffee stouts with breakfast, pilsners with lunch, and IPA’s with dinner. So if you were thinking about getting rid of your kegerator, don’t give up on the dream just yet. The Tap Board may have just saved your fantasy.

“The Locavore iPhone app will come in handy next time you’re at the market and want to know what’s actually being grown near you, and what is most likely to taste the best right now.”

Truly, we live in great phoodie times.

Go ahead, say it, we know you want to:
This thing could do for rice what the iPod did for the mp3.

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