Our Favorite Gifts for the Baker

What Your Pastry Wizard Wants No Images? Click here   Our Favorite Gifts for Your Very Own Pastry Wizard​ We've got way more than a baker's dozen of gift suggestions for you, but here, we'll take the opportunity to highlight some of our favorites.   BraveTart, the Book!​ Filled with fascinating histories that honor the American tradition of dessert-making, along with tons of irresistible recipes you won't find on Serious Eats, BraveTart, by our very own Stella Parks, is literally the best gift for bakers (providing they don't already have it). Anodized Aluminum Cake Pans These cake pans are extra deep, which makes them perfect for messy baking projects that tend to bubble up in the oven, like sticky buns. A Good Food Processor​ Food processors are incredibly useful for cooks generally speaking, but for bakers especially, they can be absolute necessities—some techniques, like the one Stella uses to create highly stable fruit-flavored whipped cream, won't work without one.    A Cast Iron Combo Cooker This piece of equipment is for the committed bread baker. Thanks to the superlative heat-retention powers of cast iron, this cooker gets extremely hot and stays that way. Meanwhile, the tight-fitting lid creates a little sauna for the bread, trapping in steam to help produce a crackly crust.   Piping Tips While piping tips are often considered exclusively for pastry projects, these tips are large enough to be put to a variety of non-baking uses, like filling up deviled eggs and packing buttery baked potato flesh back into its jacket. Of course, your giftee will find plenty of dessert-related purposes for these, too: dispensing whipped cream, piping cupcake frosting, portioning out chocolate mousse, you name it.   See the Rest Right Here     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Gifts for the Cook Who Has Everything

Stumped? We Can Help! 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.   See the Rest Right Here     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

The Best Immersion Circulators for Sous Vide Cooking

Our Brand New Review 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. Read the Rest of the Review Right Here     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe