With fall calendars filling up and holiday hosting on the horizon, your kitchen’s about to get a workout, but that doesn’t mean meal prep has to be a workout for you.
Amazon’s best-seller list is full of work-saving new releases designed to make meals easy and quick to cook—and healthier and tastier to eat. We’ve found tools that help work more vegetables into your diet, cook meats perfectly every time, save you from your less-than-pro knife skills, and whittle clean-up time down to nothing. Best of all, these kitchen gadgets start at just $4. Read on for 13 picks shoppers love, and take your meal prep a few steps closer to effortless.
New Time-Saving Kitchen Tools on Amazon
- Mueller Nine-Blade Vegetable Chopper, $15 with coupon (was $33)
- Meater Pro XL Smart Meat Thermometer Probes, Set of Four, $350
- Riwome Titanium Cutting Board, $29
- Aopigavi Chicken Shredder, $12 with coupon (was $17)
- Aminor Corn Cob Stripper, $10
- Gorilla Grip Meat Chopper, $10 (was $13)
- Pomyter Garlic Press Rocker, $7
- Ofcte Stacking Trivet Set, $30
- Hoforife Two-in-One Oil Dispenser Bottle and Sprayer, $14 with coupon (orig. $15)
- Grilliance 27-Piece Grill Accessories Set, $24 with coupon (was $30)
- Homparty Five-Blade Electric Grater, $64 with coupon (was $100)
- Fauppt Fruit and Vegetable Corer, $4 with coupon (was $7)
- Setbaoo Magnetic Spice Rack, Set of Two, $15
Mueller Nine-Blade Vegetable Chopper
Think of all the fresh veggies we’d eat if prepping them weren’t such a chore. A chopper like this one can make short work of all that slicing and dicing, with even better results than you might achieve by hand. This one uses nine interchangeable blades to slice, dice, chop, grate, and julienne, and everything you cut corrals neatly in its attached bin. Scrolling its 18,000 five-star ratings, shoppers have said they’ll never go back to chopping by hand and confirmed this chopper outperforms others they’ve tried. “I wish everything in my kitchen worked this smoothly and was as easy to clean and store,” one shared.
Meater Pro XL Smart Meat Thermometer Probes, Set of Four
Is it done? I think so—but maybe another minute? This set of four smart thermometer probes from Meater can take the head-scratching guesswork out of cooking meats. Pop a probe into whatever you’re cooking (steaks on the grill, brisket in the smoker, a roast in the oven, even chicken you’re deep-frying) and leave it in as the meat cooks. The probe keeps tabs on the temperature the whole time, and when connected to Wi-Fi, the Meater app will ping you when it’s done. “This isn’t just a gadget,” one reviewer said. “It’s a game changer.”
Riwome Titanium Cutting Board
I try not to think about the germs that might be lurking in the crevices of my cutting boards. Whereas wood and plastic boards are full of hidey-holes for nasties, titanium cutting boards leave no place for germs and odors to hide. These use medical-grade titanium, makers say—the same material safe enough for use in surgical implants—that resists cuts and scratches from knives. Food residues vanish “with a simple rinse. It doesn’t even require a rag,” one shopper said, and “garlic and onion taste washes away after chopping with no residual smell at all.”
Aopigavi Chicken Shredder
Give those forks a rest. There’s a better way to shred chicken. This nifty tool is ideal for prepping barbecued meats, chicken salad, pork for tostadas—I’d even use it to blitz through hard-boiled eggs for egg salad. The heavy-duty spikes do the shredding for you as you twist it, and you’ll have chunks in a couple turns, or shreds in five. Shoppers say it’s “exactly what I’ve been looking for all these years” and that it’s “so easy to use and clean.” “My chicken salad now tastes better than ever, and I can make it in half the time.”
Read on for more of the newest kitchen tools on Amazon, then check out all the best-selling new releases other home cooks are snapping up.
Aminor Corn Cob Stripper
Gorilla Grip Meat Chopper
Pomyter Garlic Press Rocker
Ofcte Stacking Trivet Set
Hoforife Two-in-One Oil Dispenser Bottle and Sprayer
Grilliance 27-Piece Grill Accessories Set
Homparty Five-Blade Electric Grater
Fauppt Fruit and Vegetable Corer