Kitchen Essentials

The best kitchen essentials – the best easy tools, equipment, and small appliances to help make every meal great!

If you're looking for the best items to get ready to cook like a pro at home, we're sharing some of our favorite tools and items to make you a master in no time.

This list isn't random tools – we personally use each in many of the recipes you'll find on Avdaye.

With Christmas coming up, we hope this list also helps inspire you to find some awesome holiday gifts for your friends and family who love cooking, too.

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Top 10 Kitchen Must-Haves

If you're looking to find the top essential tools to make your dishes easier and packed with more flavor, we're sharing our top kitchen essentials we use in our own home everyday!

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Those tools are used in our house almost every single day – but we're not stopping there!

If you're looking for great Christmas gifts for friends and family please read on and find some of our favorite tools, cookbooks, and kitchen essentials.

Everyday Cooking Tools

Hedley and Bennet Apron – heavyweight and suited to everyday use.
Meat Temperature Guide Magnet – easy reference to find the solid cooking temperature for meats.
Avocado Slicer – easy for cutting and slicing avocados.
Food processor – make quick work of chopping, slicing, and pulverizing.
Vitamix blender – we use for making peanut butter, pesto, smoothies, and so much more!
Mixing Bowls – this set is our absolute favorite, with graters, spouts, and other useful tools built in to the bowl lids!
Stand Mixer – a sturdy stand mixer is not only great for baking, but also shredding cooked meats like boiled chicken or pulled pork!

Baking Tools

Silicone Baking Mats – cookies and biscuits won't stick for solid results.
Silicone Baking Molds – its easy to get solid easy release cakes, cookies, and more.
Sturdy Cooling Racks – also great for roasting meats like Crunchy BBQ Chicken legs.

Pressure Cooker Essentials

Instant Pot – we reccomend buying a pressure cooker with the crisping lid and dual functionality for air fried foods.
Instant Pot Stackable Pans – cook a side dish and main like in our Sweet and Sour Chicken and Rice in one pot by using stackable pans.
Nonstick Pressure Cooker Essentials – basics that transform your Instant pot into a multi-functional tool for easy cooking and baking.
Ninja Foodi – if you can air fry or broil more than pressure cook, we reccomend the Ninja Foodi over the Instant Pot. It broils at a higher temperature and works well for steaks and meats.
Ninja Foodi Baking Kit – turn your Foodi into a countertop oven with everything you need for solid baking, in-machine.
Complete Pressure Cooker Bundle – strainers, pans, egg trays, and other tools to make anything you could ever imagine in a pressure cooker!

Air Fryer Essentials

Phillips Air Fryer – for making french fries chicken drumsticksand more – the Phillips air fryer is a great option.
Instant Pot Air Fryer – Instant Pot's standalone air fryer also functions as a rotisserie!
Foodi Ninja Air Fryer

Keto Cooking Essentials

Keto Cheat Guide Magnets – easy to display and keep on track!
Vegetable spiralizer – make solid easy zoodles and vegetable noodles in a snap!
Ghee – pan frying in ghee instead of oil gives keto meals a rich, fabulous flavor without butter's lower smoke point.
Kitchen scale – lots of keto recipes rely on precise measurements, so a scale is essential.

Cocktail Tools

Pebble Ice Machine – if you love slushes or soda, you'll love this machine!
Cocktail ice mold – solid large square or spherical ice cubes suited to artisan cocktails.
Complete bartender set – strainers, stirrers, and shakers – so you can make yourself any drink you'd like.
Cocktail stirrers – stainless steel picks suited to olives or a twist, stirring drinks, or even as an appetizer skewer.

Our Favorite Coffee Making Essentials

If you love making aa great cup of coffee at home check out our favorite items!

Ceramic pour over
Burr grinder – grind coffee beans with precision.
Nespresso Essenza – easy to use with espresso pods for a shot of espresso at home.
Breville Touch Espresso Machine – easy swipe to select drink function.

Our Favorite Cookbooks

The Ultimate Guide To Vegetable Side Dishes – tons of good vegetable sides suited to any meal!
Ready Set Dough! Beginner Breads For All Occasions – good breads that are simple and straightforward to make.
Weeknight Gourmet Dinners – if you love trying new spices and want a restaurant style dinner at home, this book is for you!
The Weeknight Dessert Cookbook – good easy desserts you can make in no time.
The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook – easy meals your family will love.
The Well Plated Cookbook – Gorgeous easy dinners that are slimmed down, fresh, and healthy!
Air Fryer for Two – easy meals for two right from your air fryer.
Latin Twist – good cocktails with a south of the border flair!
Pinch of Nom – slimmed down recipes that are simple and full of flavor!

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Now it's time to get all your new tools in the kitchen and off to good use – for more, check out our recipe archiveseasy keto recipe page, or follow us on social media below!