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1. An easy-to-grip OXO veggie brush, because no one really likes dealing with the dirt on produce. But it'll be much more satisfying with this baby that can seriously turn your spuds into ~studs~.
2. Goo Gone's kitchen degreaser, which, well, gets the goo gone! Which is good, because from your stove to your microwave to your counters and shelves, your cooking routine leaves a lot of surfaces gooey (same — no shame).
3. A marvelous sink cleaner that can polish all sorts of sink surfaces, from porcelain to acrylic to granite, and help eliminate stains and scuffs you had been getting the ~sinking~ feeling you were just gonna have to live with.
4. Reusable beeswax and organic cotton cling wrap in cute prints that'll do an un-bee-lievably great job covering all your containers while also reducing plastic waste — making it a truly ~buzz~worthy kitchen solution.
5. Super-slim and convenient ice packs for anyone who regularly packs lunchboxes or coolers to the brim and needs to save as much space as possible while still keeping everything (*extremely Nick Jonas voice*) 🎶 top to the bottom just cool. 🎶
6. A clean/dirty dishwasher magnet, because you might wonder why over 1,000 people left positive reviews for a magnet, but you'll understand when it saves you from having ANOTHER fight with your SO or roommate for throwing their icky cereal bowl in with the dishes you JUST. FREAKING. WASHED.
Promising review: "This holds really well to the door of the dishwasher and I couldn't be more pleased with it. It's very simple and no-frills, but it does the job and didn't cost a lot. It makes our lives much easier not having to worry if the dishes are clean, and it saves water that way!" —brooke
Get it from Amazon for $5.
7. A genius slicing tool that'll allow you to hold tricky foods like cherry tomatoes, shrimp, bread, meat, and bagels steady without putting your fingers in harm's way. It'll also seriously reduce your chopping time when you're prepping a salad!
It's BPA-free and dishwasher safe.
Promising review: "Where has this been all my life? I love this gadget! It’s so simple. Trust me...if you cut tomatoes in half, just do it!! It’s so easy to use. You do need to pretty much fill it up; you can’t just put three or four tomatoes in. Also, don’t press too hard, just lightly rest your hand on top and use a VERY sharp knife for best results. If your knife is dull this will not work! And if you cut raw chicken breasts in half, buy two, because you can use one for that as well!! Just make sure you label it 'raw chicken' and only use it for that." —Leah
Get it from Amazon for $12.95 (available in seven colors).
8. The ChopStir, designed to (you guessed it) both chop and stir whatever you've got cooking, as well as ~crush~ the job of crushing ingredients. It's made from heat-resistant nylon, is dishwasher safe, and won't damage nonstick surfaces!
9. Keurig cleaning cups that can be used with any Keurig single-cup machine and will keep your homemade brews tasting their best, eliminating any residue from old batches that's been making them taste like the crappy cup of coffee Buddy buys Jovie in Elf.
10. A handy dandy measurement conversion magnet, because keeping these basics conveniently in sight is muchhhh better than having to Google them every five minutes.
This Denver-based shop also sells magnetic charts for other useful adulting info, like laundry direction symbols!
Promising review: "Lovely hand written note came with the magnet. Magnet is exactly as described and a handy addition to my kitchen!" —Carla
Get it from MagnetRabbit on Etsy for $6.50+ (available in seven colors).
11. A simple-yet-brilliant lid organizer with adjustable dividers so you can finally, finally, FINALLY find the lid that actually fits the container you're using, instead of giving up and going with plastic wrap instead.
12. Debbie Meyer GreenBags here to save you major waste and $$$. They can keep your produce fresher much longer and be reused eight to 10 times!!!
The reviewer comparison above is what two bananas — one kept in the bag and one not — looked like after four or five days!
Promising review: "I am a big warehouse shopper and in the past often couldn’t eat all those berries or all that lettuce before they went bad. So I followed the directions and made sure the produce was dry (lettuce, spinach, asparagus, and blueberries). For the lettuce and asparagus, saw a little condensation in the bag, so put a paper towel in the bag where moisture was accumulating. Two weeks later, the berries were almost as fresh as day one. Lettuce was still crisp and crunchy and only a few pieces of spinach were starting to wilt. Asparagus were crisp as well. I would definitely recommend and will continue to try with other fruits and vegetables." —BAS
Get a pack of 20 (eight medium, eight large, and four extra-large) from Amazon for $9.99.
13. A Cerama Bryte cooktop cleaning kit, which has everything you need to ensure that those stains on your smooth-top range will be ~cooked~ — just ask the over 2,000 folks who've left a ~range~ of praise.
It comes with a bottle of cleaner, a scraper, and a cleaning pad.
Promising review: "Works amazing! I hadn't thoroughly scrubbed my glass cooktop in years, only wiped it down with random multi cleaners that never seemed to do much. Then a friend recommended this product...AMAZING! The included scrubbers and scrapers really make the difference. As others have said, it will leave your cooktop shiny and new. Even marks that had been on there for years came almost completely off — 98% better. The key is to use very little product. Let it dry to a haze and wipe with a clean dry cotton towel (just like waxing a car). If you aren't getting a mirrored finish, it's because you've used too much product and not enough elbow grease to polish it off." —B. Swartwood
Get it from Amazon for $11.49.
14. An amazing stainless-steel bar that over 2,000 reviewers swear by for getting all kinds of kitchen smells off their hands. You use it just like you would a bar of real soap, and odor molecules bind with the steel molecules to leave your hands stink-free!
It never needs to be replaced, and some people even say it works under their arms for busting B.O.! Check out BuzzFeed's full write-up on this bar.
Promising review: "Nobody likes smelly hands from working in the kitchen, and I have a volunteer job that involves working with animals that eat mouse and quail. There is nothing like the smell of mouse on your hand when you're trying to eat lunch. I originally got one of these because it's safe to use in a zoo facility since it's just steel, not something involving harsh chemicals that could harm the animals. It's been working very well. Once I had success, I bought more for people who often cook with garlic, onions, meat, etc. I highly recommend this product!" —CamilleElise
Get it from Amazon for $7.99+ (available in four styles).
15. A flexible clip-on strainer so your basic pots can moonlight as colanders and, more importantly, you won't have to deal with the ~draining~ task of rinsing an actual colander.
16. A beyond clever microwavable popcorn lid you can ~pop~ right over the bowl of kernels to melt your butter as you go. No more unevenly distributed butter for you!
It is BPA-free and dishwasher-safe and can also be used for steaming veggies! It's available at Lockwood, a queer- and woman-owned, Queens, NY-based gift shop that has everything from cute home goods to fab accessories to beauty and wellness goodies to stationery!
Get it from Lockwood for $13.95.
17. A hand-sized dish squeegee so clever and cheap, you're honestly gonna be mad at yourself for all of the times you actually touched icky, wet food that was left on your plate (or wasted paper towels on countertop spills).
It's BPA-free and dishwasher-safe! Plus, one side is curved so it works on bowls as well as plates. I have this and particularly like it for scraping off things that get stuck to the side of a pot after boiling and melted cheese from plates.
Promising review: "This product is AMAZING. We live in a studio apartment, with a small kitchenette. Our sink likes to spray everywhere, and we don't have a garbage disposal. This product is not only is fantastic at scraping food off of our plates (so it doesn't go down the drain), but it helps to squeegee the countertop when water has sprayed everywhere!!" —Elizabeth
Get it from Amazon for $6.99.
18. A genius butter dish and grip set that'll put your butter knife out of business. Just pop the stick straight onto the grip and spread away for hassle-free pan greasing or spreading right on toast without waiting for the butter to thaw.
It's dishwasher-safe and from a Miami-based small business!
Promising review: "Absolutely perfect. It holds a whole stick of butter and the butter stays in place — unlike some of the other products on the market that are supposed to serve the same purpose." —Michelle
Get it from TheMagnetack on Etsy for $10.95.
19. This little piggy who just wants to help keep your cooking tools right where you need them and prevent them from making a mess of your counter. Plus, he promises not to ~hog~ all the food you're cooking up.
20. A convenient four-slot spoon rest that's a serious upgrade to the basic one you've been using, because who actually uses just one utensil when cooking?? This baby was designed with all your drippy spoons, spatulas, and tongs in mind.
21. Glisten Disposal Care foaming cleaner, which'll not only stop your garbage disposal from smelling like something died down there, but also look dang cool doing it.
All you gotta do is run some hot water, pop one of the packets in your disposer, let it foam, then wait for the foam to fully disappear. Then, kiss all the ickiness that's been living down there goodbye!
Promising review: "WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE???! Holy cow, I didn't realize how easy and quick it was to clean a garbage disposal until I bought this product! Typically, I'd just use vinegar and baking soda down the drain and call it good. I didn't know that there was an actual disposal cleaning product available until I stumbled across it through a BuzzFeed article. I had to try it. The instructions are very simple. It literally takes five minutes and some hot water and VOILA! you have a clean, no-longer-stinky garbage disposal. Any time I got a whiff of an odor, all I did was drop one of these packs in the disposal and the smell was GONE! Plus, the blue foam bubbling in the sink was amusing to watch. Worth every penny!!" —VadersGirl
Get two bags of four packets each from Amazon for $9.90.
22. A super-useful washable, reusable, biodegradable towel made to do (and excel at) one very specific job. Namely, absorb all the grease from your bacon with less waste than just using a paper towel.
Just use it to blot bacon like you would a normal paper towel, then soak it in hot water and degreasing dish soap and toss it in the washer to be used again. This genius creation is from a Colorado-based small biz that makes fabric alternatives to all sorts of disposable household products.
Promising review: "Best thing ever. We try to be as sustainable as we can. I hated buying paper towels for bacon grease because we would always use them for everything else because they were there. Now that I have this fancy little towel, we no longer buy paper towels and I am beyond happy. It also cleans very well!" —Kelly Rooney
Get it from Green City Living on Amazon Handmade for $13.50.
23. A downright genius bag holder for those moments when you feel like you'd need one or two additional limbs to stop meal prep from being such a mess. Over 3,000 reviewers share that struggle and rely on these to help.
Promising review: "I prep my meals a month at a time and these make it much more convenient. These are especially helpful with raw meat, as I can use two hands while prepping the food and don't have to worry about keeping one clean to open the bag. I've also used them to portion out servings and ounces of meat when placed on a scale. They're not made of anything incredibly strong, but they're sturdy enough for full Ziploc bags of food." —Julie M
Get a set of two from Amazon for $11.99.
24. Natural, cleansing, and odor-eliminating Bottle Bright tablets to make one of your least favorite chores — cleaning out your gross water bottle or travel mug — unbelievably easy, not to mention eliminate coffee and tea stains in there you thought were permanent.
They've got 4,000 5-star reviews, and several reviewers also recommend this for stainless steel coffee pots! All you have to do is fill your bottle with warm water, drop a single tablet in, and let it fizz the gunk away. The tablet dissolves completely, so once you dump out the water, you can use your bottle again right away! Check out BuzzFeed's full write-up on Bottle Bright.
Promising review: "Can I give Bottle Bright 10 stars? This is a MIRACLE product. I saw it on Shark Tank last week and was really surprised that Lori was the only one that made them an offer (the other Sharks must not use Contigo travel mugs). I immediately ordered it to try and save my Contigo mug that I thought was too far gone. One 10 minute go-round with this product in warm water cleaned the dark brown layer of crud off the bottom of the mug, revealing perfect, shiny, good-as-new stainless steel underneath! I'd tried everything to get that off, but the shape of the bottle made it nearly impossible to scrub. With this product, it rinsed right off like it was nothing. I decided to try one more tablet with hot water and leave it overnight to get the stains off the sides of the bottle. This morning when I rinsed it out, I was absolutely blown away by how perfect it looks. I almost didn't want to put more coffee in it! Also, as the product was sitting and doing its thing in the water, there was no odor whatsoever, and there is absolutely no residual taste. I don't know how they did it, but this incredible product is a MUST-HAVE if you have a mug that you find impossible to clean!" —Erica C.
Get a pack of 12 tablets from Amazon for $8.
25. Easy-Off Professional Fume-Free Max Oven Cleaner, a lemon-scented miracle that'll dissolve baked-on stains and grease you thought would be there till the year 3021.
26. A BPA-free drain protector featuring a whimsical animal friend here to collect all the chunks of stuff you really don't want going down your drain (and really don't want to clean up by hand, either).
Promising review: "This is a cute piece that works perfectly in my sink, and dare I say it adds a bit of happy to the chore of washing dishes. I hand wash most of the time, and this keeps small items like silverware from falling in the disposal while they wait for a rinse. It's mostly plastic, but good quality and easy to clean." —Kim Ballard
Get it from Amazon for $3.99+ (available in six designs).
27. A game-changing wine gadget that's a stopper, pourer, aerator, filter, and recorker all in one and a must-have addition for anyone who drinks wine. It's leak-proof, able to help keep wine tasting fresh longer, and under $10, so wine not?
28. A ~sweet~ little clay bear who's more than just a cute face. Add water to him, and he'll soften brown sugar you'd thought had hardened past use.
29. Amazing dishwasher cleaning tablets that are septic-safe, made for busting mineral buildup and odors, and beloved by over 4,500 (!!!) reviewers.
Just pop one in for a full cycle and let it work its magic. Plus, you only need to use it once a month, so a single, $6 six-pack will last you a while!
Promising review: "Worked very well! We’ve lived in our home a while, and small remedies haven’t done much to help clean the dishwasher. I finally decided to give a cleaner a try, and this one worked exceptionally well. The pics above are after one use of two packs (as per instructions for a particularly dirty washer). I'll definitely be getting more when I run out to help maintain a cleaner dishwasher!" —chocobeanie
Get a pack of six tablets from Amazon for $5.99 (or $5.69 with the Subscribe & Save option).
30. A special "bib" for your splashy faucet, because *everyone* drips water at least a bit when they wash their hands or dishes; you're not doing it wrong. Even if you don't live in an NYC apartment with a very strange water pressure-to-sink basin ratio like I do — but especially then.
31. A 3-in-1 avocado tool that's a splitter, de-pitter, and slicer all at once, because the only bad part about eating avocados is actually trying to get all that goodness out of the skin without making a mess.
I have this and use it all the time. TBH, most times I only use the splitter knife, but it's worth it to me even just to not have to break out a super sharp knife every time I want to eat an avocado (which is often).
Promising review: "This tool is awesome. It's easy to cut open the fruit. The pit remover works well — just push onto the pit and give it a twist, and the pit pops right out. The best part is the slicer. It makes beautiful slices for a great presentation (see attached photo of slices...okay, one side came out perfectly, and I kind of messed up the other side). The tool can then be used to scrape any remaining fruit out of the skin. Really happy I bought this tool!" —NPR MAN
Get it from Amazon for $10.29.
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