THE BEST Kitchen

Tell Rosarita to please pack her knives and leave, because daddy’s coming with some thick and manly cotton oven mitts from Blue Q. Those with the high level grill (or saucier) capabilities will appreciate them – because women aren’t the only ones who cook at home.

Heatworks’ Tetra is a dishwasher that sits right on your kitchen counter. You simply place half a gallon of water in it and it does the rest. Its racks can be replaced to hold different types of tableware. It can even clean other objects and steam food. Drops 12/2018 for $299.

Need to defrost meat fast? Sure, you can use the microwave, but that partially cooks food, and can encourage bacteria. The Yeti Touch claims to safely defrost rock-solid meats in half the time of air thawing by using a conductive plate that draws the cold away from foods.

The Roto-Caddy Swivel Organizer is a small and stackable lazy susan style gadget. It makes it easier to organize and maximize storage of cans, bottles and other small items in your pantry, shelf, fridge and more.

This fun placemat makes it look like your cutlery and plate are warping the space around them. A great gift for illusion, science or science fiction buffs. Available exclusively through Museum of Modern Art’s store. It comes in blue or white.

Assassinate your asiago and conquer your cheddar with this set of stainless steel and beechwood implements of kitchen warfare. You’ll get two tiny battle axes and a spear to battle your brie, a wood shield chopping board, along with a display holder for your arsenal.

Feastform cooking tools are made of Grade 5 titanium alloy, which means they’re lightweight, flexible and highly resistant to rust. The Technora fiber handle wrap is also durable and resistant to moisture and chemicals. Available as a spatula or a pair of nesting tongs.

Have Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt, or a wampa hold your snacks with ThinkGeek’s exclusive and officially licensed Star Wars snack bowls. They’re made of ceramic and can hold up to 3 cups each. They should’ve gone all out and made Sarlacc and Rathtar bowls as well.

Artist Boris Bally collects used discarded street signs from the United States and turns them into chairs, tables, dinnerware and decorative pieces. His material of choice ensures that each product is durable and unique.

Are you tired of the plain old tile behind your kitchen sink? Then look no further than All Things LED’s slick setup, which can display video along the walls under cabinets, providing both a source of accent light, and a cool display worthy of a sports arena.

A clever device which screws into the top of lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits, letting you spray the juice inside onto salads, drinks, and other foods. Set comes with two sizes of food-safe plastic sprayers.

Brooklyn outfit American Heirloom makes this series of sustainably-forested bamboo plywood cutting boards in the shapes of all 50 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Washington DC. We wonder if you collected them all if you could make a giant puzzle of the U.S.

A kegerator for growlers. The Growler Chill keeps up to three different 60oz growlers chilled and pressurized right on your counter. It also has a “virginator” that lets you purge oxygen out of the growler before you put it in.

A couple of years back, we spotted Nostalgia Electrics’ awesome 3-in-1 breakfast machine, which is great, but only if you’re eating solo. This version has a much bigger non-stick grill, can toast 4 slices at once, and has a 4-cup coffee maker. Available in aqua or red.

Bacon is one of the most delicious foods on the planet, but it’s difficult to cook properly and without making a mess. This kitchen gadget perfectly cooks up to six strips of bacon on a non-stick grille, keeping it from shriveling up, and catching all the grease in a tidy drip tray.

For those of us incapable of keeping house plants alive, there’s always the trusty cactus. But if you can’t even handle that, there’s always these coasters that look like a cactus, but require no care and feeding. Includes 6 cork coasters, a slotted lid, and a terracotta pot.

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.