Kitchen & Dining 60 products

Available only from Hammacher Schlemmer, this is the countertop pizza oven designed by an Italian company that specializes in gourmet kitchenwares.

Chances are that the sharpest knife in the drawer didn’t get that way by accident.

Four sensors watch the temperature and send alerts to your phone, so you’re free to go watch the game, socialize, or get caught up in a fierce cornhole battle.

Whatever vexations the day throws at you, you can shrug them off if you know hot towels are waiting at the end of it.

Helping you achieve pasta-fection.

Three really good knives will take you surprisingly far in life.

A good knife set changes how cooking feels, usually somewhere around the second onion.

A fully stocked knife block has a way of making the kitchen feel impressive before you’ve even started cooking. (After that, it’s up to you.)

Some chef’s knives feel like tools. Others feel like they expect you to develop better knife skills immediately.

Sometimes looking pretty is a very low priority.

At a certain point, you’re just running up the score.

The kind of steak knives that make people pick them up before dinner just to look at them more closely. (We’re sure they’ll enjoy the food, too.)

There are people who will absolutely notice the difference between good steak knives and bad ones. Frustratingly, they’re usually right.

Most kitchens eventually develop a “good knife” hierarchy. Others go with a dream team.

A good, sharp blade is a reminder that it’s the knife that’s supposed to do the cutting, not you.

If you live the type of life where you need to travel with your chef’s knives, you should probably write a book about it.

The best precision tools tend to look a little dramatic. It’s nice to know that someone cared.

It won’t revive a bad loaf of bread, but it will let a good one slice up with the dignity it deserves.

Good boning knives don’t fight anatomy. They cooperate with it (and make it look easy).

This one requires a bit of skill.

Sometimes it’s the small, quiet ones that you have to watch out for.

You’re going to feel cool every time you grab one.

Some storage blocks are made to help your kitchen knives disappear. Others are more of a display piece.

At some point a knife set stops looking purely functional and starts looking a little ceremonial.

A great knife block takes a stand. Don’t even reach for that drawer—everything you need is right here.

It’s a real Goldilocks situation. Or it would be, if “just right” meant a restrained set of exactly eight knives with everything you need and nothing you don’t.

A knife for everything. And a label so you actually use the right one.

A proper kitchen will have all sorts of knives. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t one that you reach for more than the rest.

Simmer hearty stews and warming sauces in the pan that earned its title through unmatched heat distribution.

This smoke capturing kitchen hood is the answer to smoky kitchens and stubborn cooking odors.

A knife block that doesn’t hide the knives or itself.