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. Appliance Slider Mats
Do you have to pick up your coffee maker to get it out from under the cabinets so you can lift up the lid to fill it? Or do you have a blender or mixer that you need to wrestle with to bring it to the front of your countertop? {These appliance slider mats} that come in a pack of 3 are the best! Simply place your small appliance on top of the mat, trace around the base, and cut the mat to fit. With the mat under your appliance (where you can’t even see it)…
your small appliance will glide back and forth on your countertop with ease! In addition to using one under our coffee maker, I also have one under a heavy planter that I have to slide forward on my countertop to water and it works beautifully for that too!
2. Breakfast Sandwich Maker
I bought {this breakfast sandwich maker} for Jeff a few 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!
3. 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.
4. Meat Chopper
This meat chopper (found {here}) is one of the simplest kitchen gadgets but so helpful! I had a similar one from Pampered Chef for years that finally bit the dust but I actually like this one better and it’s cheaper. It works so much easier and faster than a spatula for breaking up ground beef or turkey, especially if it’s not 100% unthawed when you go to cook it.
I use it for smashing up my avocados for guacamole too! And it’s dishwasher friendly so super easy to clean.
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
We had an ancient hand-me-down pizza cutter for years that finally bit the dust and if I had known how good the one we replaced it with was going to be, I would have thrown that old sucker out long ago. I love {this pizza cutter} not because the blade is large and sharp so it cuts well:
but my favorite thing about it is that there is a plastic blade guard that you can cover the blade with before putting it in your kitchen drawer. With my old pizza cutter, I used to wrap aluminum foil around the blade because I was worried about cutting myself when reaching in to grab one of my kitchen tools. The cutter also disassembles quickly for easy cleaning and is dishwasher safe. Definitely high on my list of favorite Amazon kitchen gadgets!
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.
That wraps up my 15 favorite Amazon kitchen gadgets! If you missed it, be sure to check out my favorite cool gadgets on Amazon for gadgets that I use outside of the kitchen. And don’t miss my 15 favorite Amazon home decor finds too.
Do you have a favorite kitchen gadget or tool that wasn’t on my list? Please share in the comments!
