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1. A beginner-friendly fermenting kit complete with everything you need to "set it and forget it." TBH, you might get so obsessed with fermenting everything you have to buy more jars to keep up with yourself.
2. A silicone donut pan that can also be used for homemade bagels, essentially covering the only two essential food groups.
3. The Always Pan from Our Place, which is perfect for anyone who has delicious culinary ambitions, but doesn't want to deal with all the complicated cookware to make it happen. This compact, BuzzFeed-beloved nonstick pan is actually eight pieces of cookware in one, and is designed braise, sear, steam, strain, sauté, fry, boil, serve, and store. Basically, if you can dream it, you can cook it in this bb.
4. A teensy electric ice cream maker to give you all the joy of home! made! ice cream!! without the veritable nightmare of trying to figure out how to shove a hulking container in your freezer.
5. A two-pack of TikTok-famous Dan-O's seasoning, a low-sodium, hecka flavorful option made with dried herbs, citrus, and granulated onion and garlic that reviewers love to jazz up everything from fish to beef to eggs to veggies.
6. A rapid egg cooker that I am warning you right now is going to become your most meaningful relationship. It can make soft-, medium-, *and* hard-boiled eggs in addition to poaching, scrambling, and making omelets out of them. This gizmo is, like, a thousand potential brunches and meal preps in one.
7. A set of three dough presses in different sizes perfect for hand pies, dumplings, ravioli, calzones, empanadas, and truly any delicious thing you can think of that you want tucked into a pillow of warm carbs.
8. A ridiculously popular (like, over 80,000 positive reviews) Lodge pre-seasoned cast-iron skillet you can use to sauté, sear, bake, broil, braise, fry, *or* grill. It's also built to last for decades, whether you're using it on the reg in the oven to make pillowy biscuits or on the stove to make the kind of steak that'll waft through your whole house.
9. A trio lasagna pan designed so all of your edges are so perfectly crisped it will taste like Remy from Ratatouille cut them with his own discerning, bougie eyes.
10. A set of nonstick, reusable toaster oven bags that will let you make grilled cheese, paninis, and toasted sammies right in the toaster during lunchtimes when you simply cannot wait.
11. A silicone baking mat for your sheet pan, so you can get experimenting with sheet pan dinners and baking bonanzas without having to scrub all the evidence off for an hour.
12. A compact AeroGarden so not only will you have a ton of mouthwatering fresh ingredients for new dishes on hand, but you'll be motivated to actually use them to their full potential, because you are a Proud Plant Parent (TM) now. Each of these comes with basil, parsley, dill, thyme, and mint, so basically you're the fanciest chef on your block.
13. Or even a mushroom growing kit that grows right there in the packaging, so you can add some sweet, sweet umami flavors to new dishes by sautéing, roasting, or air frying them up.
14. A jar of za'atar, a Middle Eastern spice blend of thyme, toasted sesame seeds, and sumac that you'll find yourself sprinkling on just about every meal your whip up to add a little extra savory, spicy depth to it.
15. A set of restaurant-worthy shallow pasta bowls to make you feel like you're genuinely ~plating~ all your meals like a professional — this is like a bowl and a plate had a very stylish, SUPER-convenient baby for all your pasta and salad needs.
16. Or a deep, bizarrely chic salad bowl that'll make your work-from-home lunch feel like it's getting served to you at a fancy café.
17. An air fryer that can cook so many different dishes using the power of rapid air technology that it'll spoil you for other methods of cooking forever. Perfectly crisped french fries, veggies, and chicken wings in less than 20 minutes — no oil required.
18. Plus an easy-to-follow magnetized air fryer cooking cheat sheet so you can can mix and match your basic meats, veggies, and frozen foods to your hungry heart's content.
19. A bottle of Mike's Hot Honey to instantly elevate every dish you make to "my compliments to the CHEF" level. You can add a pinch of sweet and a kick of spice to anything from pizza to salads to tacos to — be still my '90s bb heart — grilled cheese.
20. A bread-warming blanket that heats up in a mere minute so you can enjoy the majesty of fresh! warm! bread!!! for the entirety of your dinner. Psst — you can also try this on loaves that have long since come out of the oven (without doing things that might affect the texture, like using a microwave or oven).
21. An extremely nostalgia-inducing flameless s'mores maker (complete with four roasting forks!) so you can live your best summer camp life all year long.
22. A sushi-making kit perfect for beginners and experienced sushi eaters alike, so you can finally take the fate of your rolls into your own hands.
23. A split anti-soggy cereal bowl perfect for anyone who reserves the right to take their darn TIME eating their cereal without worrying about it turning into an unappealing, crunchless blob before they can finish it.
24. A silicone muffin mold handy enough to cook single-sized portions of eggs, pastries, and muffins without a ton of nonstick prep, and with ridiculously easy cleanup.
25. A set of porcelain ramekins to experiment with single-serving foods like mac 'n' cheese, quiches, and desserts, so you can inspire yourself to mix things up by letting your usual plate take a vacation.
26. A pair of shredder claws that carve all your meats up faster than Wolverine can blink, giving them the perfect consistency for sandwiches, tacos, and (mostly importantly of all) chip dips.
27. A panini press to make you gorgeous Panera-level sandwiches and elevate your WFH lunch to such an impossible standard that you may never order out again.
28. A 3D-printed spaghetti measure so you never again have to squint at a spaghetti box, think to yourself, "Eh, I got this!!" and accidentally make enough pasta to feed an entire floor of your apartment building again.
29. A collapsible microwave popcorn maker that doubles as a serving bowl, so you can have warm, buttery movie theater popcorn sans actually leaving the house and paying a zillion dollars for said popcorn.
30. An egg waffle pan to help you make Hong Kong–style egg waffles, a popular street food you can wrap around something sweet or savory.
31. A yogurt maker that can make 6-ounce containers of up to seven different types of yogurts at once, so you can make fruity yogurts in every color of the rainbow 🌈.
32. A TikTok-famous peach cobbler seasoning you've definitely seen before if you're following performer and vegan foodie influencer Tabitha Brown — she used this on her vegan peach biscuits video last year, and it is a full game changer for savory and sweet foods alike.
33. A tin of cocktail sugar or salt for the rims of your at-home cocktails that come in so many inventive flavors you might just call the Food Network to get your own show.
34. A mini-donut maker to keep anyone with a sweet tooth occupied — truly, can you think of anything in this universe more delicious than a warm homemade donut?? I'll wait.
35. An ingenious ceramic bacon cooker you can pop right into the microwave to get perfectly cooked bacon — the ceramic evenly heats and cooks the bacon while the lil' drip tray catches all those extra bacon tears. It's BLT O'Clock, y'all.
36. A Spatty Daddy set (as seen on Shark Tank!) to make sure you get every! last! drop!!! of that Nutella, that peanut butter, that ooey gooey hot honey. This is your way of reclaiming your deliciousness from the container gods once and for all.
37. A Basbaas sauce that can complement preeeetty much any dish you throw at it, and comes in two varieties: Coconut Cilantro Chutney and Tamarind Date Sauce. Each has a unique flavor profile, and is also vegan, gluten-free, and made with organic ingredients.
38. A stuffed-patty mold to elevator your burger game like WHOA. These are specially designed to hold the contents of the patty in place so you can truly go to clown town experimenting with the inside of your burgers, whether you're stuffing them with cheese, veggies, or — dare I suggest!! — Ritz crackers??
39. An electric potato peeler that, whoops, just got a permanent spot on your counter. Not only does it effortlessly peel potatoes, but it can handle pretty much any peeled produce you throw at it, from apples to kiwis to oranges to tomatoes. (To be clear, though, your highest priority should *always* be mashed potato-ing.)
40. A set of customizable spice labels so you can organize your kitchen to your *precise* aesthetic while always making sure your favorite spices (read: all of them) are at your immediate fingertips.
41. A see-through toaster so you can watch your toast get to your *precise* level of preferred toastiness and finally have the kind of breakfast you deserve. TBH, cancel my Netflix account, this is my new TV.
42. A steering wheel tray you'll be *so* glad you bought when it comes to long road trips and commutes — this makes it super easy to sit in the parking lot and enjoy a meal in the comfort of your own car (which is especially handy for anyone trying to avoid indoor dining right now).
43. A simple Instagram-worthy glass mug so you can have your oatmeal or your yogurt parfait but also make it a full ~Look~ (which is scientifically proven to make it more delicious).
Enjoying your ridiculously warm homemade popcorn in its collapsible bowl like:
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