Up Your Game With These Kitchen Tools

Technological Advancements Are Your Friend When It Comes to Old-School Recipes

We live in a golden era of cooking and making drinks. While there are many shortcuts available, from meals in a bag to subscription services, there are also a variety of gadgets that help you step up your game while cooking yourself. Here are just a few examples of such.

Egg Perfect Timer

Want perfect hard boiled, soft boiled, or medium boiled eggs? Take the guesswork out with the Egg Perfect Timer. It changes color as the eggs reach the desired level of doneness, making it easy to cook eggs how you like them, whether you’re going for deviled, ramen, or just jammy egg to go with your bacon and toast.

Meater

From tomahawk steak to pork shoulder to beer can chicken, Meater puts you in control of your grill or smoke. Connected to your phone via BlueTooth, it takes into consideration the type of meat you’re cooking, ambient temperature, and latent cooking to deliver perfection every time you use it.

Shun Kitchen Knives

When you’re in the kitchen, you need a solid blade, even if you’re not caught up in a real-life game of Clue. You want precision, easy cutting, and to not have to fight to avoid taking off a fingertip. Whatever the reason you have for cutting, Shun has you covered. Hand-crafted in Japan, Shun blades stay sharp and are built to last.

Elevated Craft Shakers

Traditional cocktail shakers are fine, if you don’t mind getting frozen fingers and potentially a frozen shaker with a lid that’s hard to remove. This is where Elevated Craft comes in. Built with a durable insulated housing and featuring an integrated measuring system, Elevated Craft shakers get your libations cold without getting your fingers frosty in the process.

Sip While You Work (or While You Order Things With Which to Work)

There’s an apocryphal story, which likely hangs around the border of truth, about how the Hemingway Daiquiri came to be. That story says that Hemingway stopped into the El Floridita and was served a daiquiri, but was displeased with the amount of sugar and rum, suggesting the former be 86ed and the latter doubled.

We don’t recommend you try a daiquiri made solely of rum and lime juice, which seems more like a lazy Lemon Drop than a proper cocktail.

We do, however, recommend you try the drink that evolved from that story, the Hemingway Daiquiri. Featuring the white rum and lime juice of the purported original iteration, this version adds maraschino liqueur and grapefruit juice to round out things out. Refreshing, easy on the palate, and dangerously sippable, it’s a perfect complement to whatever it is your slicing and cooking. (And if you don’t have the preferred coupe glass on hand, be creative, like with the spinning bourbon glass from Sempli, which can also be used for bourbon when it’s time for an after-dinner pour.)