Cookware

In the premium coffee-obsessed world, the Aeropress has proven itself a beloved tool. It's never been the best-looking piece of kit, though. That changes with the Aeropress Premium, a more upscale press made from all glass and metal.

In an effort to prove convenience doesn't have to come at the cost of sturdiness and longevity, startup SimpleReal has taken to Kickstarter with a stainless steel solution for camp cooking that collapses into a thin disc for transport.

With its lightweight, collapsible Grill and Fire Safe, Wolf and Grizzly offers some of the most portable campfire cooking gear out there. Now it adds a full Cook System that combines those favorites with the cookware campers need to prepare a meal.

The Singapore-based designers behind the Ember Stove aren’t ones to complicate things, taking to Kickstarter with a compact two-piece cooking solution designed to slide into your pocket and fire up with just a handful of twigs.

Whether your loved ones are culinary artists looking for some exciting new toys to play with, or well-meaning amateurs who could use some high-tech help, New Atlas rounds up some of the best giftable gadgets for the kitchen.

The result of a collaboration between Breville and PolyScience, the Control Freak is an induction cooker that lets you dial in a temperature and maintain it for perfect poaching, blanching, boiling and broiling every time.

With its latest sous vide cooker, Anova has added Wi-Fi to its precision cooker device, enabling the user to cook remotely and have meals ready and waiting when they return home. We recently had the chance to try it out for ourselves.​

Cooking can be hard. The team at Pantelligent are aiming to make the process a little easier, though, by allowing users to connect their "smart" frying pan to a smartphone to monitor temperature and cook time ... taking the guesswork out of pan cooking.

The colander (strainer) is unlikely to be top of many people's list of things that need reinventing. That said, a folding, lightweight take on the utensil called the Rmdlo seems to have captured people's imaginations, having exceeded its Kickstarter campaign target with time left to run.

A Japanese dentist by the name of Hideki Watanabe has invented a self-stirring saucepan called the Kuru-Kuru Nabe (Round-Round Pot).

The Freedom Induction Cooktop will heat cookware placed anywhere on its surface, and will adapt its active area to the shape and size of that cookware's footprint.

Kanz Outdoors' Field Kitchen is a single unit that combines much of what is needed for cooking on camping trips.