Gift Guide

The Best Last-Minute Gifts for the Kitchen

Stop panicking. Start Amazon Priming.

December 17, 2019

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You waited until the last minute to buy your holiday gifts, but that doesn't mean you're a cold-hearted Grinch with little regard for the feelings of your loved ones. It doesn't mean you're a fundamentally disorganized person. It doesn't mean you ruined Christmas. So stop panicking. Get it together and add these last-minute kitchen gifts to your cart. Everything will be just fine.

(Psst: looking for smaller, more stocking-friendly gifts?Check here.)

Mini coquettes they'd never buy themselves

Staub Mini ¼-Quart Cocottes, Set of 3

$59at Amazon

A boxed set of Ottolenghi hits

Essential Ottolenghi Boxed Set

Unless you’ve been living under a very large cast iron skillet these past few years, you know that Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbooks are the sort of thing that will make you look like dinner party royalty, even when you identify as more of a couch potato. Now, two of them,Plenty MoreandOttolenghi Simpleare boxed together in a beautiful, limited-edition set.

$27at Amazon

The key to homemade kimchi in 2020

Fermentation Crock

$38at Amazon

A fancy citrus juicer

Breville Citrus Juicer

For serious fans of lemonade or margaritas (or both!), this is a must-have for your kitchen counter. It makes juicing citrus a breeze, thanks to an ultra-quiet motor and a juice press arm that means the machine is doing way more work than you are. And it fits anything from key limes to hefty grapefruits.

$184at Amazon

A toaster oven that contains multitudes

Breville Smart Oven Compact Convection

$200at Amazon

$200at Breville

The best cookbook in the world

COOK90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals

Our editor David Tamarkin's cookbook, based on the Cook90 plan to make almost every meal you eat in a month yourself, teaches you to be a healthier, less wasteful, more economical cook. It's a completely comprehensive guide, with recipes and meal plans that will make cooking 90 meals in a month not just easy, but fun.

$19at Amazon

A new and improved wine glass

Riedel Veritas Chardonnay Wine Glasses, Set of 2

This more affordable wine glass was the runner up in our product test, but performed equally well with fuller white wines, making it a great option if you're looking for white wine glasses specifically.

~~$69~~$50at Amazon

An excellent coffee maker

Oxo On Barista Brain 9-Cup Coffee Maker

$210at Amazon

A fancy electric kettle for pour over

Fellow Stagg EKG Electric Pour-Over Kettle

$163at Amazon

$195at Nordstrom

$165at Fellow

A way to outsource kitchen sweeping

Roomba 675

$275at Amazon

A food processor

Breville Sous Chef 12-Cup Food Processor

$300at Amazon

$300at Williams Sonoma

$300at Breville