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1. A stuffed patty mold to turn boring ol' burgers into something more exciting. It'll help you create the perfect little space for delicious fillings before sealing up your patty nicely to avoid ingredients oozing out and burning during the cooking process. You'll end up with perfectly sized patties full of juicy and delicious flavor in every bite!
2. A bottle of Everything but the Bagel seasoning that'll elevate anything you sprinkle it on! Use it to upgrade your avo toast, eggs, pizza, popcorn, salads, and much much more.
3. A toaster oven, because it will change your life! This thing can bake, broil, toast, and keep warm — allowing you to make perfect pizza, golden slices of toast, chicken nuggets, and more in just minutes! Plus, you won't have to heat up the whole house by turning on the oven.
4. An Everyplate subscription so you don't have to keep trying to come up with ideas for dinner every single night. You'll receive three to five meals per week that are super easy to make and will save you a lot of grocery shopping and meal prepping time.
5. A Tokyo Treat box full of delicious snacks straight from Japan so you can send your tastebuds on a well-deserved vacay!
6. A Levo II that'll allow you to easily make herbal infusions in your own kitchen! Create everything from deliciously infused honey, butter, and oil, to salad dressings, scented candles, and even ~edibles~ without any professional skills using this super cool gadget.
7. An automatic ice cream maker so you can experiment with making your own fruit-filled sorbet, delicious ice cream with all your favorite mix ins, and even tasty yogurt. It does most of the work for you, making two quarts of your fave frozen dessert or drink in as little as 25 minutes, and is super easy to use and clean!
8. A variety pack of Truff sauces — featuring the Original, Hotter, and White Truff hot sauces — that'll make even the most plain dishes burst with flavor.
9. An Instant Pot that'll allow you to easily make an impressive variety of dishes, since it's basically a pressure cooker, a slow cooker, a rice cooker, a steamer, a sauté-r, a yogurt maker, and a warmer — all in one device!
10. A handcrafted mortar and pestle for making pastes and dips, crushing spices, and expanding the flavors you use in your cooking.
11. A panini press grill that makes it quick and easy to achieve perfectly pressed sandwiches, quesadillas, and much more — no flipping required! You can even use the lock top lid to warm things like personal pizzas and open-face sandwiches!
12. A veggie spiralizer so you can easily make delicious noods, garnishes, chips, and other tasty foods from a variety of fruits and vegetables like apple, onion, carrot, zucchini, cucumber, cabbage, beet, turnip, rutabaga, radish, potato, sweet potato, squash, and much *much* more!
13. A sushi-making kit that uses an innovative frame help you precisely layer your fillings, a rolling mat to help you mold a log, and a cutter to slice it into perfect sushi bites filled with whatever flavors you're in the mood for.
14. Some furikake rice seasoning to elevate your rice dishes or really...anything you wanna sprinkle it on! This stuff is jam packed with umami-rich seaweed and roasted sesame seeds, and it goes great on avo toast, veggies, fish, sushi rolls, and almost anything else you can think of.
15. A sous vide cooker that'll help you prepare perfectly cooked chicken, fish, vegetables, eggs, beef, lamb, pork, and more with ease by circulating water at the precise temp needed to make over- and under-cooking a thing of the past!
16. A pack of delicious pre-prepared seasoned beans for those nights when you need one more side dish to fill out a meal, but don't have the time or ingredients to start from scratch. Just throw these in the microwave for 60 seconds, and BAM — your dinner just got an upgrade in the flavor department.
17. A jar of Sichuan Chili Crisp from Fly By Jing you'll wanna use on EVERYTHING for instant restaurant-quality flavor. Seriously. It's hot and tingly without being overwhelmingly spicy, and its bold flavor is so delicious, you won't be able to get enough. This sauce is mind blowing on everything from noodles and eggs, to pizza and even ice cream! *Plus*, it's vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, and made without preservatives or artificial flavors.
18. A handy dumpling maker here to simplify making homemade pot stickers, pierogis, empanadas, and turnovers if you haven't quite mastered making them by hand yet. Not to worry! All you have to do is lay the dough overtop, add your filling, and flip up one side so this ingenious accessory can do the cutting, sealing, and crimping for you! Pro skill levels very much not required.
19. A pizza stone you can throw right on the grill or in the oven to make a perfect round or square pie at home! Plus, if you somehow get tired of 'za, you can use this stone to make pita bread, roasted veggies, English muffins, crispy chicken, crusty bread, and a whole lot more!
20. An air fryer to cook perfectly crisped french fries, veggies, chicken wings, and more in less than 20 minutes — no oil required!
21. A silicone donut pan so you can make custom donuts and bagels in a variety of fun flavors.
22. An easy-to-use pot that lets you steam meat and veggies while your rice cooks below. You can also use it to make oatmeal, chili, and soup! If you're not trying to spend a whole lot on a fancier cooker, but still wanna expand your menu, this thing is a great start.
23. Some amazing hot sauces from Hot N Saucy that mix flavors like garlic, beet, and sweet potato with just the right amount of heat to make you feel like you've entered hot sauce heaven. Add them to dishes that need a little extra zing to break up the monotony.
24. An authentic Japanese barbecue sauce that's good on basically everything! It's made from delicious, clean ingredients, without any additives, preservatives, or flavoring, and is inspired by the sauce the founder's grandmother used to make!
25. An online cooking class from Todo Verde that'll help you master plant-based Mexican dishes with authentic flavor!
26. A trio of delicious jams that are ~jam~ packed with flavor to make your morning toast a lot tastier. This set includes raspberry redcurrant geranium jam, cherry rosehip hibiscus jam, and lavender blackberry rhubarb jam, and all I've got to say is — YUM.
27. And finally, a copy of The Flavor Bible, full of helpful tips from leading chefs that'll strengthen your knowledge on how to season and combine ingredients, textures, and temperatures so you can feel more confident about experimenting with less fear of accidentally ruining all of your hard work all because of one pinch too many.
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