Gift Ideas for Chefs and Food Lovers

With the holiday season in full swing and Christmas quickly approaching, it’s time to explore some great gift ideas for the Chefs, home cooks, and food lovers in general. There are so many holiday gifts which cater to those individuals in your gift circle. These gifts can range from simple salt and pepper shakers to a spice grinder, cutting boards, to even next level gifts like a new non-stick cookware set or a pizza oven that can create amazing handcrafted pizzas.

Home Chefs will especially appreciate a stocking stuffer which caters to their fortes in different cuisines like homestyle American, Italian, French or Japanese. So, try and gear your cooking gifts to high-quality items fitting these needs. For example, coffee lovers will absolutely appreciate some of the best gifts they could receive, like a new espresso machine.

A perfect gift for food lovers, or a foodie as they are commonly referred to as, can make wonderful holiday memories for you as the gift giver and your gift recipient. With the fantastic kitchen gadgets that we will explore, you will see items that rival those found at retailers without causing you to splurge at a store like Breville, Williams Sonoma, Sur La Table or get an item like a Le Creuset dutch oven.

Let’s take a look at our gift guide and recommendations for purchasing that great gift for your loved ones.

Recommendations When Buying

1. Know your audience or the person you are giving your to and what high quality items they may want or need for their Kitchen.

2. Check out online some test kitchens or model kitchens to get additional ideas for your giftee.

3. Don’t necessarily feel the need to splurge on high end items as we previously mentioned. Check out simpler things like a new pestle, which can be used to pound meats and chicken to even them more prior to cooking.

4. Food gifts for wine lovers like a cheese board or a charcuterie board which can layout different cheeses and veggies to compliment a nice high end bottle of wine.

5. Check your food gift to ensure that it is dishwasher safe. You will want your giftee to have the option to either hand wash the item or feel comfortable in placing it in the dishwasher.

6. For health food lovers in your gift circle, you may want to center your gift around their dietary restrictions. So, possibly a spice rack which can include condiments packs, a bottle of often used sea salt, a section for hot sauce or even a nice glass dispensing bottle for health extra virgin olive oil to drizzle over veggies, or other healthier food related items.

7. How about a gift to Food52 which is an online community where people can share their recipes which are then used in their proprietary test kitchen to ensure high quality taste. Food lovers with an extensive or even small library of recipes that they would like to showcase and share will surely appreciate this. There are even great recipes for high end dishes often found at restaurants such as ooni and even chocolate and white truffle. These recipes also make for a good read as your giftee grows their food cooking prowess.

8. Some of your more skilled chefs may appreciate a nice sous vide cooker. Sous vide is a cooking technique which heats your food with water not air in a vacuum sealed bag. With proper sous vide cooking, you can have your food heat evenly without the worry of overcooking.

Gift Ideas

Now that we have explored some of the first steps to approach when buying food gifts, we can now turn to some of the great gift ideas that we have for you.

• One of the first items we like for your giftee would be a new Deco Gear Pizza Oven.

  • A fantastic portable outdoor pizza oven offers a great compliment to someone’s bbq.

  • No more relying on your outdated countertop pizza oven, griddle or even a cast iron pan, these ovens can heat up to 960 degrees and can be easily placed.

  • Prepare high quality artisan style Pizzas, made in these indoor, outdoor and portable pizza ovens.

  • These pizza ovens grill also include a variety of accessories. These includes a pizza stone, pizza peel, grill rack, and a drip tray. All of these included in the pizza oven bundles make gift buying much easier as you don’t have to buy the accessories separately.

• A wonderful holiday gift would be a cookware gift set. We found just the one for you; the Deco Chef 12-Piece Stainless Steel Cookware, Tri-Ply Base For Even And Consistent Cooking, Riveted Handles. What makes this cookware set such a great gift, and why should you purchase it?

  • To begin with, this is a 12 piece Stainless Steel gift set which has an absolutely amazing price point.

  • Triple layered stainless steel and aluminum core construction, evenly distributes heat throughout the pots and pans, while preventing hot spots in your food.

  • Heat resistant handles and knobs make for safe and easy usage of the cookware set.

  • The inner polish surface doesn’t discolor and even more importantly won’t change the taste of your cooked food as many cookware sets do.

  • Dishwasher safe for easy cleaning without requiring hand washing of the cookware.

  • The Deco Gear Cookware set Includes the following: a 1.5-qt covered saucepan, 3-qt covered saucepan, 3.5-qt covered sauté pan, 8-qt covered stockpot, 8-inch skillet, 10-inch skillet and 8-inch steamer with lid. So all your cookware needs are met.

• Another gift idea would be a wonderful Chef’s knife set. With stainless steel construction over carbon steel which is more prone to rust albeit stronger, their are still many great sets to get.

  • These kitchen knife sets from Deco can include all the necessary knives any at home chef or professional may want without breaking the bank.

  • The 16 piece Deco Kitchen knife set even includes the following: a 6.5" Cleaver Knife for chopping meat fillets and cutting through chicken bones, a 8” all performing Chef Knife, a 8" Bread Knife which is excellent at cutting through even hard crusts, a 8" Slicing Knife for cooked meats, a 5" Utility Knife for foods smaller than a needing a chef’s knife, a 3.5” Paring Knife, a 4.5" Serrated Steak Knife Set of six.

  • In addition, these great knife sets may come with an Acacia Pine Wood Storage Block to keep your knife set more organized and safely tucked away on your countertop.

  • Kitchen Shears with Wood Grain Handles are more in line in the Kitchen than regular scissors. Kitchen shears are made with stronger handles and a notch that slices through tough joints of meat.

  • Bamboo cutting boards are superior to other hardwood boards. The included cutting board is made from bamboo which is great for chefs as stronger and less porous. They also absorb very little moisture, don't groove from knife using as easily, and are resistant to bacteria.

  • Finally no knife set would be complete without a good set of knife sharpeners. With the Deco knife bundle you get this included. So you can keep your knives sharp and improve cutting.

• Want to make your giftees home cooking experience easier and better? We highly recommend getting an air fryer. Air fryers are great as these can range in size up to 24 quart or higher capacity. Air fryers also allow you to toast, roast, bake, grill, and fry using less fat and oil for a much healthier eating experience. An air fryer will cut down your cooking time, allow for evenly cooked foods and you can pretty much use it for any of the items you would cook in your conventional oven or countertop toaster oven.

  • Just as with convection ovens, air fryers will heat up air within the heating chamber and a fan will circulate hot air evenly in the cooking chamber. This cooks your food evenly and doesn’t have those hot or cold spots in your food that you may associate with quick heating like a microwave.

  • The main difference between an air fryer and a convection oven is the cooking chamber is much smaller on an air fryer. That means your air fryer is reaching the exact temperature you set it at much more quickly. An air fryer can rapidly cook your food offering no comparison with the timeframe it takes to cook those foods in a convection oven.

Feast Away

Wow, so the holiday time is the right time for food lovers. As we have seen there are a plethora of gift ideas and items that would appeal to any chef or home cook. With Christmas right around the corner, don’t hesitate and grab one of these fantastic gifts which are sure to spice up your giftee’s holiday. Then, just wait until your gift recipient gets to show off their own cooking abilities to you with a gift that you got for them.