Kitchen Gadgets, Cooking Tools, and Food Prep Accessories - 300+ little problem-solvers for the jobs your knife hates.
Every kitchen gadget in this collection exists because somebody, somewhere, got fed up. Fed up peeling garlic. Fed up crying over onions. Fed up chasing diced tomatoes off the edge of the cutting board four trips at a time.
This is the biggest collection in our store - over 300 tools - so consider this page your field guide. The rule we buy by: a gadget has to do its one job brilliantly, or it doesn't get shelf space.
There's a tool for that! (No, really. There is.)
- The gateway gadget: Norpro's stainless bench scraper. Chop, then scoop EVERYTHING to the pot in one slide. Once you own one, you'll wonder how you cooked without it.
- Onion criers and garlic haters: onion goggles are exactly what they sound like (and yes, they work, and yes, you'll look fantastic). Pair with a garlic peeler and dinner prep stops being an emotional event.
- One-job wonders that earn their keep: the 6-in-1 multi opener for every stubborn jar, bottle, and safety seal in the house, and the old-fashioned nut chopper your grandma had (still undefeated).
- Small kitchen? Collapsible everything: Progressive's collapsible mini colander and berry colander flatten to about an inch. Full-size function, junk-drawer footprint.
- Serious slicers: the PL8 professional mandoline turns potatoes into paper-thin perfection (guard included, fingers spared).
- Guac lovers, this one hurts to need: the Fresh Guacamole Keeper presses air out so your guac stays GREEN overnight instead of going brown by halftime.
Brands with a screw loose (in the best way): OXO, Dreamfarm, and friends.
We stock a lot of OXO Good Grips because comfortable handles never go out of style, and a lot of Dreamfarm because the Australians keep inventing things like self-leveling measuring spoons that we didn't know we needed until we tried them. Kooi Housewares is a real kitchen store in Muskegon, Michigan - every gadget on this page got picked up, squeezed, and argued about by actual staff before it got ordered.