Amazon Kitchen Gadgets: My 15 Faves!

Sharing my 15 favorite Amazon kitchen gadgets – the tools & gadgets I have and love!

I love decorating my kitchen but cooking in it… not my favorite thing! I love any kitchen tool or gadget that gets me out of the kitchen faster (or at least makes cooking a little bit more fun). Today I’ve gathered together my 15 favorite Amazon kitchen gadgets and am sharing them with you! Ready to see? (post includes affiliate links; full disclosure statement available {here})

1. Breakfast Sandwich Maker

I bought {this breakfast sandwich maker} for Jeff about two years ago because he’s always been a breakfast sandwich fanatic. It was a HUGE hit and something he’s used several times a week ever since. His go-to is pretty simple – an English muffin with egg, sprinkled cheddar cheese, and sometimes bacon or sausage. It’s a breeze to clean and I love that it’s super small for easy storage.

I also recently bought {this mini maker} for my daughter to use in her apartment – it’s a highly rated mini griddle that’s perfect for single-serving eggs and pancakes. Be sure to check out my post on my other must-have small kitchen appliances for more favorites!

2. Food Huggers

This is my one of my more recent Amazon kitchen gadget obsessions! I love {these reusable food huggers} that come as a set of five. They’re made for keeping cut fruit and veggies fresh without needing plastic wrap or a larger food storage container that takes up space in the fridge. We use them mostly for lemons, limes, apples, onions, and bananas:

And the largest size fits perfectly around our drinking glasses to create a food storage container when all of ours are being used or in the dishwasher.

3. Hedgehog Measuring Cups

Those of you who have followed my blog for a while know that I am a little over the top about my animal decor (I just can’t pass up a good brass pig – lol!) and that trend follows me into the kitchen too. I’ve had {these darling measuring cups} for a few years now and love them – they simply make cooking a little more fun:

They nest within each other for easy storage and are adorable enough to have on display in glass cabinets or open shelving.

The glass canisters behind them are available on Amazon too – I have {this set of two 1-gallon jars} for sugar and flour and one of {these half gallon jar} for cookies.

4. Microfiber Swiffer-esque Mop

While it’s not exactly an Amazon kitchen gadget, I couldn’t do a post on favorite Amazon finds for our kitchen without talking about the microfiber mop that I love for cleaning our Hallmark wood floors. It’s similar to a Swiffer except the head is bigger, it swivels better, the microfiber cleaning cloths can be washed and reused, and it has a handle extension piece to make it long enough to reach high spots (like cobwebs in our kitchen skylight). We have a built-in vacuum in our kitchen island (one of my favorite kitchen remodel ideas) and I just glide this mop around my kitchen floor and push it over to our island vacuum where it sucks it right in:

My exact mop was discontinued but {this super similar mop} has almost identical specs and equally glowing reviews. You can also find the long soft brass appliance pulls on our kitchen island on Amazon {here} and the same pulls in shorter lengths that I have on our other cabinets {here}.

5. Clip-On Strainer

You might have heard me talk about {this clip-on strainer} before because I’ve had it for years and love it. It clips onto the side of pots and pans for easy straining of water from pasta and grease from hamburger meat:

It fits all of my pots and pans from big to small and it’s dishwasher friendly (and takes up a lot less space than a colander). If I could only keep a single kitchen gadget, it would be this one! It makes a great stocking stuffer too!

6. Odor Absorber Bar

I cook with a lot of onions and love them in my food but don’t love the residual stink they leave on my hands. I’ve been using {this stainless steel odor absorber bar} for years – you rub it on your hands like you would a bar of soap and it works so well to remove that onion smell!

The comments on the Amazon listing are pretty entertaining to see all of the smelly stuff that others have had luck using it on too 😳.

7. Guac-Lock

We are guacamole fanatics in our house and eat it with chips or on Mexican food or burgers almost weekly. It’s always such a bummer to make or buy guacamole and grab it from the fridge the next day to eat more of it and find it all brown and gross. This guac-lock found {here} is a smart little Amazon kitchen gadget that presses all the air out and keeps it fresh for days:

I’ve tried other tricks to keep it from browning like adding the avocado pit to it, sealing the top with plastic wrap, and sprinkling on lemon juice but the guac-lock is the best way to keep guac fresh of all the ways I’ve tried. I wish they would make a mini version too because my only issue with our guac lock is that if you have just a small amount of guac left, it’s not enough to fill the guac lock up.

8. Electric Can Opener

Our can opener had gotten so dull that opening cans with it had become a challenge. When looking at replacement options, I decided to try {this electric can opener} – I Love it! It doesn’t take up much more room than a regular can opener in your kitchen drawer and it works so well!

Instead of cutting the can on the top of the can, it cuts right under the top rim so (1) the lid doesn’t fall into the can when using the opener and (2) you can actually place the lid back on if it’s something you want to keep in the refrigerator for the next day or so like canned dog food that you might use more of at the next meal:

It’s also great for those who are getting older and have difficulty using a manual can opener due to arthritis.

9. Can Organizer

I love having an organized pantry and have a whole post on pantry organization ideas. Of all of my pantry organizers, one of my favorites is our can rack organizer found {here}:

It holds a ton of cans in a small amount of space and makes them super easy to access. Along with canned food it can be used for soda cans too!

10 & 11. Ice Cream Maker & Scoop

Have you ever tried making your own ice cream? It’s fun and so much easier than you’d think! We have {this ice cream maker} which makes the yummiest stuff without having to mess around with ice and salt. You simply add your ice cream ingredients to the bowl (which you freeze first), turn it on to mix for about 20 minute, throw it back in the freezer for a bit and it’s done.  This Amazon kitchen gadget comes with several recipes to get you started (mint chocolate chip is a family fave) but I love experimenting with new combinations of add-ins too:

I also highly recommend {this ice cream scoop} – don’t ask my why it works so well because it’s pretty basic but I got it after seeing the thousands of rave reviews and it’s definitely the best one we’ve had, especially when you’re trying to scoop ice cream that’s rock hard. It comes in several color options including the mint color we have:

And it’s dishwasher safe which is a bonus.

12. Herb Scissors

Whether it’s cutting green onion for a stir fry dish, cilantro for guacamole, or parsley for a chicken dish, {these herb scissors} make cutting herbs a breeze:

I love that they come with a cover for safe storage in your kitchen drawers as well as a little comb to get out any herbs that get stuck in them.

13. Pizza Cutter

14. Water Bottle Cleaning Set

Our new dishwasher has a bottle jet feature that I love because I can throw our shorter water bottles in with the dishes for cleaning but I still have to hand wash the tall ones and the straws. {This water bottle cleaning set} is a must-have for doing it! It’s a set of three cleaning tools that includes a long handled brush that gets to the bottom of even the tallest water bottles:

but it’s the two other tools that make it stand out! It has a long skinny brush for getting inside of water bottle straws:

and a short curved brush for thoroughly cleaning the tops. They come with a snap-on ring that you can use to hang them for storage but I keep mine in {this can organizer} with my other brushes and my extra sponges and dish towels stored on top:

15. Magnetic Measuring Spoons

Let’s wrap up my faves with one that seems like it would be really boring but you gotta trust me on this one – {these magnetic measuring spoons} are awesome! I hate keeping measuring spoons on the ring but I also hate how they scatter in my drawer when they’re not attached to each other. Having magnetic spoons that stick together neatly in my drawer when I’m not using them but also separately neatly from one another when I need one is the best:

And there’s a spoon on each end so basically you get two sets of spoons in one. I also love that the spoon on one end is slim enough to fit into spice jars.