THE BEST Kitchen

This simple countdown timer automatically can count down a pre-set amount of time. Simply place the time you want to count face up, and its alarm will go off when time’s up. Available in 5/15/30/60 minute, 1/5/10/15 minute, and 1/3/5/7 minute versions.

Delivery pizza stays crispy longer when you slice it at home, so next time you order, get it uncut, and slice up your pepperoni and mushroom with this fun pizza wheel that looks like a turntable and a vinyl record on its platter.

As much as we love the look and utility of wooden cutting boards, they can cause cross-contamination no matter how hard you scrub. These flexible, biodegradable bamboo sheets can be disposed of after usage. They also have a self-stick backing to keep them from sliding.

While not as manly looking as Bear Paws, the ShredMachine looks like a much neater way to shred meats without burning your hands. Simply place meat on the base, turn the handles a few times, and you’re done. It’s perfect for pulled pork sammies, chicken salads, and more.

You’re gonna need a smaller serving. AviCeramics makes beautiful serving stoneware plates that use an open shark’s mouth for condiments. Use it to hold sushi, wings, veggies and more. AviCeramics also makes a matching stoneware spoon that looks like a diver’s dismembered leg.

An array of food storage shelves and racks. The main component is a slideout shelf for hanging Ziploc bags and similarly-sized bags that attaches to fridge shelves or doors. There are also a pair of molds that make it easy to partition and shape items to be frozen.

Designed by CTRLZAK for Seletti, this bone china tableware is an irreverent take on fine dining. Each cup, bowl, etc. starts as two separate pieces that were then split in two and then fused with mismatched halves.

Scout Equipment’s slide-out kitchen for pickup trucks, vans and SUVs. Each unit is made-to-order and custom-built, and consists of a 3-tier birch and aluminum drawer, a 12v DC faucet, collapsible sink, water tank, utensil and knife set and a power outlet.

Designed by Kram/Weisshaar for SapienStone, the Smart Slab is a discreetly high-tech table. Underneath its ceramic tabletop are inductive cooking, cooling and heating elements that let you cook and eat on the same surface, as well as keep food warm or cold.

Flatev is a compact home tortilla maker that works like Keurig coffee machines. It uses recyclable single serve pods that contain flavored dough or corn mix and turns those into a 5″ to 6″ tortilla in just a minute. The drawer at the bottom keeps multiple tortillas warm.

Kitchenware maker That!’s upcoming ice tray has a cooling gel within its silicone body. Leave it in the freezer for about 8h and you can use it to make ice or other frozen treats within 10min, even if you leave it out of the fridge.

An easy to use, affordable and portable alternative to conventional wood-fired ovens. Within 10 minutes, the Uuni 2S heats up to 900ºF – enough to bake pizza in 90 seconds. It’s fueled with wood pellets and comes with a stone baking board that distributes heat evenly.

Biēm has a heating element that can turn even chilled sticks of butter into a sprayable liquid within seconds, so you can easily apply it on cooking pans, popcorn, etc. It heats up only when you pick it up, so it won’t melt the entire stick.

Create your own fresh ground flours, cereals and meals from whole natural grains with this tabletop kitchen appliance. This beechwood electric grain mill can hold up to 2 pounds of grain, and can mill up to 6oz per minute.

Pizzacraft’s stovetop pizza oven heats up to 600ºF in as fast as 15 minutes and bakes up to a 12″ pizza in as little as 6 minutes. It has a built-in thermometer, a moisture-vent and a mineral surface that evenly distributes heat.

OptiScoop acts like a syringe for powdered drinks. Its narrow form lets it fit into water bottles and small pouches. It has holes at the back that let air out so you can pack it with up to 100g of powder. Each pack contains a 20ml scoop, a 30ml scoop and a pouch.

…or a baked calzone? Food Steez demonstrates a relatively simple way to make pizza using a waffle iron. All you need is some pizza dough and your choice of top – er, filling. And a million voices moaned, “Eh, it’s easier to order.”

Funded on Kickstarter, the MasterPan is an aluminum skillet with five compartments so you can cook an entire meal at once. It has two layers of Xylan Plus nonstick coating for easy cleaning, and its handle is heat resistant up to ~350ºF (180ºC).

Panasonic challenged us to cook something delicious in their FlashXpress Toaster Oven. We decided to make a schmancy rack of lamb, and the countertop infrared oven cooked it perfectly. Don’t dare try this in your microwave.

A kitchen in a box. Camp Champ transforms from a 27″x 21″x 22″ box into a fully equipped kitchen in seconds. It has a gas stove, a grill, a coffee maker, pots, pans, knives, crockery for six people and more.

This special dual-blade serrated knife solves a truly first world problem – slicing two perfectly even, thick pieces of bread to just the right depth to keep guts of your sandwich from falling out. To sweeten the deal, its price is now just ~$20.

John Rambo and Danny Trejo’s bbq sidekick. Slam Design’s spatula looks just like the brutal knife but is actually meant for flipping burgers. It also has built-in bottle openers. Buy it from Firebox and they’ll throw in a bandana.

From the makers of the Kitchen Safe comes the kSafe, which helps curb bad habits in more ways. You can set it to open on a timer (up to 100 days), only on certain times, after you visit a certain location or after doing physical activity.

Former NASA employee Mark Rober has a patent for a microwave with an infrared camera and an LCD display on its door. The idea is for users to see when food is fully heated. Show your support for the project by simply signing the petition here.

Designed by Yegor Zghun for Art Lebedev Studios, this cheeky kitchen organizer transforms random kitchen tools and utensils into the world’s largest Swiss Army knife. Giant toothpick and useless tweezers not included.

Next time you want to serve up a big bowl of primordial soup, we can think of no better way to present it than with this blue-green soup ladle made in the form of the elusive Loch Ness Monster, complete with tiny feet to stand on.