Having the right tool for the job is one thing, but having cool kitchen gadgets to do the job is just plain, outright fun. There are cool gadgets for everything from hot handle covers, timers, spoons that don’t touch the counters, and portable toasters just to name a few. Keeping your sense of humor while cooking is easy enough to do when you have toys for tools to work with.

For chopping, dicing and slicing there is a vegetable peeler that looks like a giant pencil sharpener, and you guessed it, the peels go in the container on the peeler. A measuring scoop that is a flat scoop to gather your chopped herbs or veggies into and it measures them at the same time. A rockin’ pizza cutter that resembles a pie portioning cutter that you place over your pizza and rock back and forth to cut your individual slices. Seafood scissors are hooked shaped scissors to cut through shrimp shells, crab shells, and lobster shells without harming the meat.

For cooking and baking timers take the cake. There is a mouse and cheese timer that has a piece of cheese under glass and the mouse on top. A vibrating timer if you need to leave the room slip this in your pocket to keep track of your brownie making. There are also burgers, French fries, bobble head, and blender timers just to name a few. For cookie baking there are jigsaw cut out cookie cutters that you can put the pieces together after baking. The portable toaster, that looks like a 3” spreader knife that can slide in your purse or briefcase and take out to toast a bagel by spreading the flat surface over the bagel and it actually works! For hot handles there are banana peel handle holders that you slip the peel over the handles and the silicon holder keeps your hands from burning.

Elevated spoons are spoons and ladles when placed on the counter are curved to not touch the counter. The spaghetti-spinning fork looks a lot like an electric toothbrush only with a fork on the end. This gadget is great for kids of all ages so they can be a professional spaghetti twirler with very little practice. These gadgets are cool and useful be assured that some brilliant minds surely designed some of these innovations. Cool kitchen gadgets can be a way to help keep everyone interested in what happens in the kitchen and maybe have a little extra help at dinnertime.