“The absolute best pepper mill I've ever used. Yes it's heavy, yes it's expensive, yes it could easily double as a weapon during a home invasion if needed — but it is an absolute must-have for anyone who loves flavor.”
A heavyweight, splurge-grade pepper mill — built like equipment, for serious flavor people.
“Rikon makes great Y-peelers that are so inexpensive that they are often sold in 3 packs.”
A sharp, inexpensive Y-peeler often sold in three-packs, with a heavy-duty Titan version for tougher jobs.
“Now, this little crab holds my cooking spoon in place or keeps my pot lid in place.”
A crab-shaped silicone gadget that holds a cooking spoon or props a pot lid to vent steam, under twenty dollars.
“Always with my supervision, my kindergartner will slice fruit or chop nuts with his special green knife.”
A child-safe knife that lets a supervised kid graduate from washing produce to slicing fruit and chopping nuts.
“I love their pots. Right size. Right weight. Right shape. Cadillac.”
Italian-made cookware with the right size, weight, and shape, easy to scrub and built to last.
“Incredible little ladle. Sounds weird, but for anyone who makes lots of soups, sauces, and whatnot, this thing solves a huge kitchen irritation – the different colored lip of the scoop is flexible allowing you to get in all of the nooks and crannies of any pot you're using.”
A flexible-lipped soup ladle that gets into pot corners other ladles miss — small fix, big quality-of-life win.
“The last jar of peanut butter I finished got super clean before I recycled it!”
A tiny scraping spatula-spoon that gets jars genuinely clean down to the last bit.
“The FireKylin rice paddle stands on its end (no sticky mess anywhere!) and it's made of silicone.”
A nine-dollar silicone rice paddle that stands on its end so it never makes a sticky mess on the counter.
“Part of his history study of course put him on eating knives and eating daggers from the middle ages.”
A historically faithful medieval knife-and-pricker eating set, hand-recreated with classic methods.
“I took an axe, a saw, a Leatherman, which is like a multi-tools, it's a knife and pliers and stuff.”
The do-everything multi-tool he chose for Alone: pliers, a knife, and more in a pocketable package built to last.