Kitchen & Dining 59 products

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

If you’ve ever tried to make shaved ice by brutalizing a bag of cubes with a blender, you already know the outcome is mostly noise and disappointment.

Admit it: you hydrate better when you have a straw.

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.

All the charm of the vintage theater experience, minus the sticky floors.

A good picnic shouldn’t require someone to stand guard over the potato salad.

Yes, Disney blenders. And why not? True Friends of Minnie don’t forfeit their loyalty come smoothie time.

This is the whimsical trio of insulated “jackets” that lets each can or bottle arrive to the party dressed to impress.

The only carving tool you need. And its buddy.

Your slush fund will be well-stocked with all the smoothies, slushies, frappes, and frozen cocktails you can drink.

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

Bring on your biggest towels, two at a time. Or your robe, blanket, socks, what-have-you. All shall be warmed in this 20-liter colossus.

Office workers everywhere have been trained to carry a giant water bottle everywhere. Maybe call this Plan B.

A dual-burner hotplate is a quiet reminder of the indomitability of the human spirit.

One extra heat source might not seem like much, but it might just save a meal.

Helping you achieve pasta-fection.

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

A good steak deserves better than being torn apart by a dull serrated afterthought.

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

At some point, your knives are nice enough that you have to start buying better steak.

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.)

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

Sometimes looking pretty is a very low priority.

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.

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

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

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

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

This one requires a bit of skill.

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

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

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

In kitchens where cutting boards pile up in cabinets and overcrowd dishwashers, a few earn their place on the counter.

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.

Somewhere between “I need a knife” and “why do I own three of the same one,” a starter set makes a lot of sense.

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

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

Handcast from high-quality aluminum using innovative methods, this is the saucepan made by the same 120-year-old, award-winning company that manufactures cookware named “AMT The World’s Best Pan” by the German Chef’s Association.

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

This storage-friendly sous vide device brings restaurant-level temperature control to home kitchens.

The pots stack. The pans also stack. The lids? There’s a rack for those. You’re going to love everything about this.

The space under your counters can only do so much. With a little sliding storage, though, it can do a whole lot more.

This comprehensive cookware set from Cuisinart is designed to deliver consistent performance across everyday cooking tasks.

This multifunctional prep tool streamlines food preparation by combining spinning, rinsing, and chopping into a single countertop-friendly system.

There’s nothing like matching cookware to make you feel like you’ve got it all together.

Don’t even talk to me until I’ve whirled my morning coffee in a high-speed vortex.