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Top 10 Hottest Kitchen Tools
Silicon spatulas, mandolines and more items not to cook without.
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Apple Peeler
Bamboo Cutting Board
Cake Decorating Set
Mandoline
Microplane Grater
Most foodies can’t help but collect an impressive array of gadgets. But with purse strings pulled tighter these days, people are picking fewer, more specialized items. Top choices include silicon spatulas, mandolines, and thermometers, according to the Allrecipes.com 2011 Measuring Cup Report.
So what should you have in your kitchen drawers? As reports are finding more and more men entering (or re-entering) the kitchen, their tool of choice is the meat thermometer, while women preferred colorful silicon spatula sets, which ended up being the #1 most wished for item on Amazon.com U.S.
Top 10 Kitchen Gadgets
Here are the other Top 10 Kitchen Gadgets that you won’t want to live or cook without

- Silicon Spatula Set
- Digital Meat Thermometer
- Microplane Grater
- Mandoline
- Kitchen Scale
- Salad Spinner
- Cake Decorating Set
- Bamboo Cutting Boards
- Candy Thermometer
- Apple Peeler
Other popular small kitchen appliances most wished for or bought on Amazon in the U.S. and U.K. include:
A handheld mini blender (starting at about $30/£19), the top “most wished for” and best-selling small appliance on Amazon U.S.
Slow cookers (starting at about $45/£28) are the second-most wished for item and the third best-selling.
The mini food processor (starting at about $9.50/£6) is the top best-seller, as well as the most gifted product and second-most wished for on Amazon U.K.—Denise Shoukas
Denise Shoukas is a regular
foodspring.com contributor and is the
author of foodspring’s food forager blog.



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