The Best Gadget Gifts for Home Chefs

The GE Café Specialty Drip Coffee Maker works with Alexa and Google Home so all they have to do is call out their coffee order. It works with the SmartHQ app so they can schedule brewing strength, size, and temperature. While the coffee maker's looks are notable, so is the cup of coffee it makes; the machine is one of the few that is Gold Cup Certified for taste by the Specialty Coffee Association.

Help them escape the grind of grinding by hand. Urban Noon's Electric Salt and Pepper Grinder Set lets them salt and pepper at the push of a button. The grinders have built-in lights and can adjust for coarseness.

Air frying is just convection cooking by a more trendy name. But that doesn't make it any less convenient or delicious. The Cosori Smart 5.8-Quart Air Fryer cooks up crunchy potatoes, bakes pies, and even turns reheated pizza back into its original delicious form.

If they're just getting started cooking or love to cook at home but don't have time to shop for ingredients, get them a HelloFresh subscription. While they get everything they'll need to prepare a delicious meal, there's still the satisfaction of prepping and measuring and they can adjust ingredients according to their taste. There are six types of plans (Meat & Veggies, Veggie, Family Friendly, Fit & Wholesome, Quick and Easy, and Pescatarian) to choose from. And HelloFresh is our Editors' Choice meal-kit delivery service.

They can have a soft serve (or fro-yo, sorbet, or sherbet) bar at home with the Cuisinart Mix-it-in Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker. It takes just 20 minutes to freeze and has dispensers for three mix-ins or toppings.

No one has to worry that their hands are too full of kitchen scraps to open a garbage can when the SimpleHuman Dual Compartment Rectangular Sensor Can responds to verbal requests. It has one compartment for trash and one for recyclables.

Making baby food is a harder enterprise than just cooking up some meat, fruit, and veg and throwing them in a blender. The EVLA Baby Food Maker blends, steams, reheats, and defrosts to simplify the process. It's also self-cleaning, which is something busy parents can also appreciate.

"The good ice" comes at a price, but it's worth it for a neverending supply of delectable cocktails and even just elevated glasses of water with the GE Profile Opal 2.0 Nugget Ice Maker.

Sous vide is the process of sealing food in plastic and submerging it in hot water until it reaches the perfect temperature. It keeps all the juices in the food and makes overcooking virtually impossible. On the surface, it sounds fancy and complicated, but the Anova Precision Cooker makes it simple.

Lego those Eggos with the Waffle Wow Building Brick Electric Waffle Maker. It makes delicious building bricks of different sizes that will stack up to be the most fun breakfast they've had.

Whether or not they embarked on the early-pandemic sourdough craze, they'll appreciate the ease with which they can churn out a fresh loaf of bread every morning with this Hamilton Beach breadmaker. It has programmed cycles for artisan, gluten-free, French, whole-grain, sweet, quick, and express breads and even cakes and jams.

The Cinder Grill looks like your average electric grill, but it's closer to a sous vide system in execution. The grill is capable of heating up to very precise temperatures like an immersion circulator, heating foods to the ideal internal state. After the food is cooked, the grill can reach searing temperatures of over 500 degrees, producing the crisp texture that sous vide alone can't provide.

The new cookbooks are phones and tablets and though they don't need to be propped open, they do need to be propped up. Two cutting boards have cutting-edge solutions (grooves): the Pottery Barn Handmade Reclaimed Oak Cutting Board & Smartphone Holder (for phones) and Teakhaus Edge-Grain Smart Cutting Board (for tablets).

Fresh vegetables and herbs are always at hand with the Rise Gardens Personal Rise Garden.

Zojirushi is known for making the best rice cookers and the Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker is one of the best of the best. It makes perfect rice every time and has settings for white rice, sushi rice, mixed rice, sweet rice, brown rice, and porridge, as well as quick cooking. It also can be used to steam other dishes.

No mixology classes are required with the Barsys Smart Coaster System. Set a glass atop it and the accompanying app gives step-by-step instructions and weighs ingredients.

A Google Nest Hub Max is the perfect kitchen companion. Take calls hands-free, watch cooking tutorials on YouTube, and listen to playlists while you cook.

There is truly nothing like fresh pasta. But making it from scratch can be a pain. Not so with the Philips Smart Pasta Maker Plus, which weighs all the ingredients, mixes them, kneads the dough, and extrudes pasta in less than 10 minutes.

Waffles are delicious but can be difficult to make. Getting the cooking time right is tricky, but the Breville Smart Waffle makes adjustments automatically based on moisture content and what's been added in. Plus it has settings to make classic, Belgian, chocolate, and buttermilk waffles. There's a two-waffle model and a four-waffle model.

They can measure and convert ingredients midair with the Fradel Digital Kitchen Food Scale with Bowl.

The Yummly Smart Thermometer allows for preset programming and remote monitoring of meat, fish, and poultry.