The kitchen gadgets you didn’t know you needed in 2024

If a gadget can cut down time spent in the kitchen or at least make that time a little more exciting, we want to know about it. And once we do, we feel it’s only fair to pass this intel on, especially if it can be of assistance and bring flavour to your cooking.
We’ve found some weird, wacky, and most importantly, useful kitchen gadgets you didn’t know you needed.
Bon appétit.
NOTE: Prices are accurate at time of publishing.
Can’t find the right measuring spoon for your recipe? Instead, make all your measurements on the Joseph Joseph Measure-Up Measuring Spoon. The slide on the handle adjusts the volume of the spoon and its measurement capacity from 1mL to 15mL for wet ingredients and from 1/4tbs to 1tbsp for dry ingredients.
This bag sealer is a rechargeable device, so you’ll be able to use it for years to come. It uses heat to seal bags, but also has a mini blade that can cut them open, plus a magnet for easy storage on the fridge.
This tiny dispenser helps keep your olive oil even. Use the top to squeeze oil onto your food or into your pan, and the small brush to spread it out.
Separating egg whites and yolks has never been easier. Simply break an egg into this adorable separator, which is painted to look like a tiny cartoon chick. The beak opening is only wide enough to allow the whites to flow out, leaving you the yolk inside. 
Save yourself from burning your fingers when your toast gets stuck with these super cute duck toast tongs. Made with a yellow silicone beak that is heat resistant up to 250°C, you can safely remove your bread from the toaster and save breakfast.
The Chef’n StemGem destems strawberries and other soft fruits quickly and without using knives to prevent any accidental cuts. Just push the button, give it a twist and out comes the centre.
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Now $20.97 on Amazon, you can easily transfer your ingredients from board to pot with the Joseph Joseph Chop2Pot Folding Chopping Board. When you’ve chopped everything up, the sides fold up to make it easier to pour and prevent the ingredients from slipping off. 
The FoodCycler from Breville is a small kitchen compost bin that dries, cools and grinds up to 2L of food waste into as little as 340mL of ‘EcoChips’. These can then be disposed of or used in your garden to make the most of your scraps. It is built with a carbon filtration system to prevent any bad smells with one buyer saying it’s a “fantastic machine, super quiet and odourless. Best way to compost your waste.”
Omelettes are notoriously easy to make but hard to perfect – it takes practice and a refined flipping technique. Save time by making yours in the microwave with this nifty Tupperware container. Designed in a shape that allows the microwave to reach the food most efficiently, it also has small holes for ventilation in its lid. Breakfast just got a whole lot easier and faster.
This gadget is a four-in-one, able to be used as a salad spinner, a colander, a steamer and a strainer all in one. Spin-dry your salads, wash fruit and veg, and drain your pasta with the one device. With a 12-cup capacity, it can hold plenty of ingredients at once. Buy yours now on Amazon for $38.
Love bread but hate crumbs? This board is the answer. A crusty loaf can make a lot of mess when it’s cut, but this bread board comes with a crumb tray. It’s so simple, and so useful. It’s now on Amazon for $126.66 and we’re obsessed.
Named as one of Time Magazine’s best innovations of 2023, the Fluicer squeezes your lemon completely flat to squeeze every last drop of juice out. It has a built-in pip catcher to catch any seeds as well as help funnel the juice into the bowl or glass. This Fluicer is specifically for lemons, but you can also buy a Fluicer for limes and oranges.
The Souper Cube Freezer Tray is the perfect kitchen utensil for the ultimate meal prepper. This silicone freezer tray separates large quantities of soup, broth and gravy to freeze and reheat when ready. To help with your meal planning, each segment has inner measurement lines so you know how much you’re freezing.
Cutting vegetables is an arduous task that usually takes longer than it should. Anything that quickens the task is definitely worth the dollars. The Vegetable Super Dicer from Tupperware has three interchangeable grids for slicing and dicing, giving you options for how you like to cut. Simply pop the veggies on the grid and close the press to give yourself perfectly diced food.
This dishwasher-safe corn peeler from cookware brand OXO has a Y-shaped design and shark-jaw style blade that digs under the kernels to cleanly remove them all from the cob in their entirety. 
Just add water to the Hyperchiller’s chambers and freeze. Once frozen, pour in your freshly made coffee, swirl it around for 60 seconds, pour it into a glass with ice, and voilà, you’ve made your own iced coffee. But this nifty chiller isn’t just limited to icing your coffees.
Its patented design prevents your drink from diluting with the ice surrounded by two layers of stainless steel. It’s also dishwasher safe making for a quick clean up.
Never miss out on that last swipe of Nutella, Vegemite or peanut butter again with these mini jar scrapers. Made from flexible silicone, these spatulas can scrape every side of any jar or bottle and then evenly spread it on your food. In this current cost-of-living crisis, this will be the best $16 you’ve ever spent.
Designed for semi-firm cheeses like gouda, edam and havarti, this stainless steel cheese slicer will make sure every slice is evenly cut and ready for the perfect bite. Now 50 per cent off, it might not seem like much, but this is a highly underrated kitchen gadget, that deserves its place in every cutlery drawer.
One for the composters, this caddy can hold up to four litres of food waste. Once it’s full, you can add it to the compost or dispose of it how you see fit. It’s currently on sale on Amazon for 40 per cent off!
Keeping all your snacks together and organised while saving space in the pantry, the Mind Reader Supreme 2-Tiered Lazy Suzan rotates 360 degrees to access all your favourite treats. It measures 35.5cm tall, with the top tier 29.8cm wide and the bottom tier 36.2cm wide. 
If you’re the tea drinker in your home filled with coffee lovers, then this OTOTO Tea Bag House Dispenser is the perfect kitchen treat for you. It stands 10cm tall and 8.7cm wide and will be a fun addition to your kitchen counter.
Avoid the mess as you food prep for the week ahead with these Ziplock bag holders with adjustable heights for different-sized bags.
I don’t think we’ll ever stop raving about this simple-to-use popcorn popper. This one made by Ecolution is designed for the microwave. All you need to do is measure your kernels in the lid, pour them into the popper, put it in the microwave, wait three minutes and then enjoy your perfect movie treat. Made from temperature-resistant glass, it’s safe to use again and again in the microwave, and can even melt butter over the kernels while they pop. 
For the perfect-sized pancakes, look no further than the OXO Good Grips Precision Batter Dispenser. Simply fill the dispenser with your batter and squeeze the handle to make evenly shaped pancakes. It also makes clean-up easier thanks to its shut-off valve to prevent the batter from dripping.
This bagel cutter can create an even and smooth slice down the middle of your bagel, roll or muffin. While the blade is sharp and looks a little intimidating, it is built with an acrylic shield to protect your fingers as you slice.
The Chilly Mama Refrigerator Deodoriser naturally deodorises any interesting smells in your fridge without the need for any chemicals. It helps absorb any excess moisture and mold spores that may attempt to develop. Just add baking soda to Mama, keep her in your fridge and voilà. The Cool Mama is also BPA-free, food safe and impact-resistant to avoid any accidental bumps or knocks over.
Want Mama to clean your microwave too? You can also buy the Angry Mama Microwave Cleaner here.  
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These dishwasher-friendly silicone colanders may be small but they’re a big help when prepping your meals. Measuring 75mm in diameter, you can use these colanders to empty the juices and liquids from canned foods, like beetroot, corn and beans, and make tea with fresh tea leaves.
Whether you’re using it as the perfect tool for a cheeseboard or making a cheesy snack, this cutting board will evenly cut your cheese and look elegant doing so. Made with marble, it uses a stainless steel wire to slice through all types of cheese – hard and soft.
Perhaps the most useful gadget for summer, this watermelon cutter will take the mess out of slicing everyone’s favourite hot-weather fruit. Shaped similarly to a windmill, this cutter slices several small cubes.
Have all your kitchen wraps in one place with your own dispenser. Made from bamboo, this has its own cutter for every kind of wrap you’ll need in the kitchen with three slots labelled for cling wrap, foil and baking paper.
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This fun tool has started to go viral on TikTok and other social media platforms – and for good reason, too. While designed for chicken, you can also quickly shred pork and beef for your favourite meals. Simply place the meal in the shredder and twist the handles back and forth – job done!
Best used for snipping herbs, these high-tech scissors feature five finely balanced blades, which equal 10 knife chops. This is perfect for serious home cooks and those who love a herb garden.
Make perfectly rounded meatballs with this meatball maker. Made strong and durable, you can trust this one will have a long service life. And not only is it strong, it’s useful. If you’re not into meatballs, you can use the tool to serve perfectly rounded ice cream scoops, create cake pops and other baked treats, little balls of fruit, or rice balls to supplement a fancy dinner.
Small but mighty, the Chef’n corn cob stripper removes all the kernels from a corn cob in one motion, while keeping your fingers safe from knives and preventing any accidental cuts. 
With the help of this garlic chopper, you can crush as many cloves as you want to add to your food. Just rock the crusher back and forth.
Perfect for a carb-lover, this bread maker lets you choose from 13 baking presets for different types of loaves including basic, French, gluten-free, yeast-free, whole wheat and sweet. It also comes with a built-in fruit and nut dispenser to add some extra flavour and texture.
Looking for a quick way to get slicing in the kitchen? This is the utensil for you. No longer will you have to deal with your round fruits and veggies rolling away from you. Or your slice sizes not staying consistent.
As summer approaches, you don’t want to be caught without ice. This Kogan Ice Cube Maker can make 12kg of ice every 24 hours. Whether it’s for a party, or just for adding to your cold drinks as the weather heats up, you’ll be relieved to have so much ice on hand. It’s also a self-cleaning machine, so you won’t have to worry about clearing it out each time.
Making butter isn’t as hard as you once thought. Just place whipping or double cream into the churner, turn the handle and within 10 minutes you’ll have your own creamy butter.
Save space in your fridge all while still keeping your cans of soft drink or beer nice and cool in the summer heat. This can dispenser has two tiers that can store up to 12 cans neatly and help make the fridge more organised. 
This 3-in-1 butter knife can make your breakfast routine an aesthetically pleasing one. Made from stainless steel, one edge has holes to scrape the butter into small curls for even spreading on the bread. The tip of the knife has one large hole for a larger curl while the other edge is serrated to cut both the butter and the bread.
It can be hard work managing messy utensils while cooking. Add in a stovetop lid that’s both overheated and covered in condensation, and the bench space will begin to get a little crowded. This lid holder and spoon rest come in a twin set, so you’ll have plenty of help keeping your space orderly.
It’s easy to over or undercook your food when you’re busy multitasking and preparing a meal in the kitchen. Using the Anova Culinary Precision Cooker Nano Sous Vide Stick, you will be able to cook chicken, beef, fish, vegetables and more just the way you like it.
It works by circulating the water at your set temperature to cook your food to perfection, and comes highly recommended by serious foodies. Just attach the sous vide to your saucepan or pot, add your foods into a sealed bag, set your time and temperature controls on the stick or via the Anova app and watch the sous vide stick work its magic. You’ll also gain access to thousands of recipes on the app to help you become a pro home chef.
Designed to help build better habits, this kitchen safe has a time lock mechanism that can be set for a whopping 10 days. If you want to lock treats away from the kids, or just yourself. This container has no override, and will literally keep you from indulging in whatever it is you want to avoid. Recommended for junk food, and strangely, phones as well – you’ll be able to curb any cravings/addictions with this handy safe.
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