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1. A pack of toaster bags so you can stop ruining your grilled cheese sandwiches on the stove.
2. An electric egg cooker so simple you'll feel like it cooked your breakfast for you. It can make hard-boiled eggs, soft-boiled eggs, poached eggs, scrambled eggs, and even individual omelets.
3. Or a breakfast sandwich maker that will LITERALLY, in every sense of the phrase, cook your breakfast for you.
4. A splatter screen if your main deterrent from cooking is how often you're physically assaulted by hot grease popping off the pan.
5. A Belgian waffle maker for a homemade breakfast, in case you ever get tired of popping frozen waffles in the toaster. This nonstick, anti-overflow model from Chefman seems great for novice waffle makers. You’d actually have to try very hard to NOT make a perfect waffle in this thing.
6. An automatic pan stirrer if you have a habit of wandering away from the stove while you cook — or if you just suck at stirring.
7. A garlic chopper that works almost like a children's toy. Just fill it with garlic, roll it around like a Hot Wheels car, and boom — you've successfully prepped an ingredient without slicing your fingers.
8. And a prep-and-pour cutting board so you don't waste any of that freshly-chopped garlic when adding it to your meal.
9. A snap-on colander if you're also trying to avoid spillage when straining pasta.
10. Or a microwave pasta cooker for the truly inept among us who've given up on traditionally cooking pasta altogether.
11. An electric tea kettle for those lazy nights you can't imagine "cooking" anything other than instant ramen.
12. A magnetic meal planning pad to make life in the kitchen more efficient. Seasoned chefs may be able to whip things up on the fly, but you know you need a little more preparation than that.
13. A plastic storage container that'll keep your produce fresh for weeks, in case you're the type to buy groceries and forget to actually eat them.
14. A veggie spiralizer so you can stop wasting money on prepackaged zoodles at the grocery store.
15. An Instant Pot to save you from having to master multiple appliances. This thing is basically a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, sauté pan, yogurt maker, and food warmer all in one.
16. An electric peeler for anyone who's as bad with a regular peeler as they are with a knife. Just slowly step away from the counter, and no one gets hurt...
17. A hard-boiled egg peeler in case you even suck at peeling things with your fingers. Just add 1/4 cup of water to the peeler with the hard-boiled egg inside, shake it up, and the shell magically slips off. It's science!
18. A three-in-one avocado slicer not only because we've established you're particularly bad at chopping and peeling things, but because nonmillennials in general probably have no idea how to slice avocados either.
19. An electric jar-opener in case your laziness knows no bounds.
20. Or an electric can opener for similar reasons.
21. A microwave omelet maker, since even people who are pretty good in the kitchen sometimes have trouble timing their flips on the stove.
22. An electric spice and coffee grinder that'll help make your mornings AND your meals much more interesting. This Hamilton Beach model is of course great for coffee drinkers, but the most creative use for it would be to grind fresh herbs for homemade seasonings.
23. And a battery-operated milk frother to go with your grinder. It'll make you feel like a fancy barista even if you just barely managed to avoid ruining your instant coffee.
24. A pair of tabletop cereal dispensers for those mornings you don't even feel like pretending you know how to cook.
25. A digital meat thermometer if you're still learning how to precisely cook different meats. You'll no longer have to slice your chicken open to see if its done. Just gently slide this bad boy in your freshly roasted bird.
26. A digital scale if you haven't built your kitchen confidence high enough to eyeball your ingredients.
27. A digital bread maker, since baking became a popular self-care hobby during the pandemic. This particular bread maker is apparently so easy to use, even experts who once preferred more old school methods wish they discovered this helpful little appliance sooner. It'll be great for people just now discovering this surprisingly soothing coping mechanism.
28. A tricked-out and generously sized indoor smart grill for anyone who has NO idea how to work a traditional outdoor grill.
29. And a pack of super-strong magnets, which will keep your beer/soda cold and handy for whenever you need to drown your sorrows after ruining yet another meal.
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