| No Images? Click here  Gifts for the Cook Who Has Everything Everyone knows someone who seems to have every cooking tool and gadget in existence, and you might think that your best bet for buying them a good gift is either to go big and shell out a bunch of cash on something cooking-related or just go with something else, like a tie or a book. But we here at Serious Eats believe that even the cook who has everything deserves a thoughtful gift for their kitchen. Here are our recommendations.   A Supportive Floor Mat Obviously, your giftee spends a lot of time in the kitchen, and thus on their feet. To give their joints a break, treat them to a GelPro Floor Mat. With a 1/2-inch core of gel, it makes standing over a pot of risotto for an hour far more comfortable.  Better Ingredients So maybe your giftee really does have all the equipment they could ever need. In that case, we recommend buying them some delicious specialty ingredients. How about Stella's favorite Dutch-process cocoa powder, which will make every brownie and cup of hot chocolate taste luxuriously rich?  A Clean House Simply put, having a Dyson vacuum makes cleaning fun. Ask any Dyson owner and you'll see the glimmer in their eyes as they describe the sheer joy that comes with sucking away dust bunnies, cookie crumbs, excess flour—anything that could possibly get in the way of a clean home.  Pizza Anywhere If the person you're buying a gift for has a kitchen that's already overflowing with tools and equipment, try getting them something they can use elsewhere. Like this amazing portable pizza oven. Stick it in the trunk and bring it to the park for a Neopolitan-style picnic. It can heat to 930°F in just 10 minutes, which means they'll be producing gorgeous, chewy, crusty dough with bubbling cheese and just-singed sauce in no time.  SPONSORED The Cuisinart Air Fryer Toaster Oven This Cuisinart fryer has seven different functions, so not only will it crisp up your French fries, it’ll do a spectacular job of making your morning toast (up to six slices at a time), and it can even cook a 12-inch pizza. You can replace your old toaster oven, your old toaster, and even your stand-alone air fryer with this Cuisinart model, and home cooking will get a whole lot easier. 
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Gifts for the Cook Who Has Everything
The Best Immersion Circulators for Sous Vide Cooking
| No Images? Click here  The Best Immersion Circulators for Sous Vide Cooking Once a pricey technology for high-end chefs and science labs, immersion circulators have now fully penetrated the home market. We put 10 of the most popular ones to the test to see which is best for sous vide cooking at home. Here are the winners.   The Best Immersion Circulator: ChefSteps Joule Sous Vide The Joule is an impressive piece of sous vide machinery packed into a ridiculously lightweight and compact device. It has almost everything you could ask for in an at-home immersion circulator—it's accurate, it heats up water quickly and quietly, and it has a sleek design with innovative features. It's also 20% off today.  The Best Immersion Circulator With Onboard Display: Anova Precision Cooker Anova's Precision Cooker is our favorite immersion circulator that features a display with onboard controls. We love being able to set up and calibrate a sous vide water bath without being forced to use our phones, especially when we're working with messy ingredients.  The Best Affordable Immersion Circulator: Instant Pot Accu Slim Sous Vide Immersion Circulator Of the affordable immersion circulators that we tested, the Accu Slim performed the best. It's a bare-bones machine with a simple display interface—no bells and whistles, no paired app, no Bluetooth or WiFi connectivity—but that's what makes it appealing and such a great deal. It knows its lane and keeps to it, performing the essential task of an immersion circulator quite well: heating and circulating water at a precise temperature. 
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Monday, December 17, 2018
From Our Partner: Your New Caffeine Fix Is Here
   SPONSORED Cuisinart’s New Coffee Maker Is the Caffeine Corner Your Holiday Household Needs It’s no secret that the holidays are stressful, and there are all kinds of strategies to lean on when the going gets tough. Keep some unbaked cookie dough in the freezer for unexpected guests, and a few bottles of wine set aside and wrapped up for last-minute party-hopping. What you may have overlooked—until now, that is—is your caffeine fix. Whether you're filling your days with early-morning baking or late-night wrapping, 24 hours inevitably just doesn’t feel like enough time to get it all done. Now more than ever, you need a coffee maker that can go the distance. Enter the Coffee Center from Cuisinart. It comes with a 12-cup carafe, so it makes enough to serve a crowd, but it's also equipped with a single-serve brewer for when it’s just you. Either way, you can get that extra boost before the family comes knocking—your six-, eight-, or 10-ounce cup will brew before you’ve even decided what kind of milk to add.
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