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Our favorite workhorse appliances, blades, and containers to buy on a budget without sacrificing quality.

Make the perfect donut, serve up juicy onion rings, or crisp some tasty chicken tenders.

Sous vide can sound scary, but it doesn't have to be. Let these user-friendly products help you out in your next sous vide adventure.

As SAVEUR's test kitchen director, I play with more tools than your average cook: skillets, knives, and little gadgets galore. Some are better than others. A few are worth hoarding. These are some of the best tools I've worked with.

This restaurant essential can be tricky to handle, but is one of the best gadgets for your kitchen.

The best gifts often come in small packages, from useful kitchen gadgets to pocket-size treats, load up on these food-inspired stocking stuffers for the holidays in 2018.

You can't walk through a kitchen store anymore without seeing silicone gadgets everywhere. Sometimes its use seems purely gratuitous, but silicone happens to be a great material for colanders. Continue...

Chef Homaro Cantu has more patents than he can remember and, at his Chicago-based gastronomy temple, Moto, a collection of gadgets better suited for a laboratory than a kitchen. Naturally, a chef that pushes culinary and scientific boundaries has a pantry stocked with all sorts of rarities that lend to experimentation. "I've never heard of half of this shit before I get it," pastry chef Ben Roche says of his and Cantu's ingredient-buying philosophy. Here, the two chefs take us on a tour of what's hiding inside Moto's kitchen.

I can't help but think of Grandpa Munster when I wield my new Emsa Perfect Beaker Measuring Cup. This cone-shaped gadget, made of lightweight but sturdy plastic, measures in cups, ounces, tablespoons, teaspoons, milliliters and cubic centimeters, and pints. Continue...

Top Chef and James Beard Award winner Stephanie Izard on Epcot, Inspector Gadget, and soup dumplings.

Useful gadgets for your turkey day preparations.

Lots of cooking tools and appliances come through our test kitchen; some of them wind up gathering dust in a corner, while others quickly become beloved kitchen additions. These are the items that made it to the top of our editors' and contributors' wish lists this year.

These are the gadgets and gear we rely on day in, day out, and that have stood the test of time in a busy kitchen. How many do you have?

Our favorite espresso machines and grinders, at every price point.

All the appliance and gadgets you need to know about before your start building your dream outdoor kitchen this summer

From SAVEUR Issue #153 It looks a bit like R2-D2, and it's just as smart. With its multitude of settings and thermal sensors, this computerized rice cooker turns out perfect grains, no matter the variety: fluffy jasmine, tender basmati, toothsome brown rice. Adjusting its own temperature and cook time, soaking and steaming and keeping the cooked rice warm, it's our kitchen's most fail-safe gadget.

This Texan chef sparked an evolutionary leap for Southwestern cuisine.

We always have so much fun with our friends at Popular Science--they love to stop by the SAVEUR office to chat about food almost as much as we relish the chance to pick their brains about the latest in gadgets and tech news. To celebrate our mutual interests, we're teaming up to bring you Food Tech Week: all this week on popsci.com and saveur.com, we'll be bringing you delicious, cutting-edge stories and videos about the culinary side of the future. To kick off the collaboration, PopSci is giving readers a chance to bring their kitchens slightly closer to the science labs they always wished they could be with a Sous Vide Supreme Giveaway. Find out how to enter »

These six items will add some color and practicality to your kitchen, courtesy of the land of pho, fish sauce, and banh mi.

SAVEUR has compiled a list of key ingredients and equipment inspired by 2018's featured books.

Give the gift of kitchen tools for your favorite cook. The SAVEUR Test Kitchen thinks that you will love these kitchen tools as much as we do.

The best beans, newest gadgets, most instructive books, and more.

A farm kitchen in British Columbia reflects a life of self-reliance.

by Helen Rosner Among the many culinary wonders to be found inside Nathan Myhrvold's Kitchen Lab - a warehouse space in an industrial park just outside Seattle that's filled with toys ranging from a weapons-grade laser to a 50-G centrifuge - one of the most striking is the hood over the cooktop. It's a standard piece of kitchen equipment, but here it's a behemoth, 14 feet from end to end. Myhrvold picked up the hood at a scrap auction four years ago for a relatively paltry $600; his team spent nearly a month scrubbing off the rust before installing it, gleaming, as the visual centerpiece of the lab. Where two massive pieces of metal join in a vertical seam at the center, Myhrvold has affixed a little plaque bearing a quote from Thomas Edison: "Hell, there are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something." Keep reading »

The weirdest kitchen tools on the internet make your cooking life easier—and more strange.