Gadgets & Storage reviews

2 productswe've bought, tested and scored by hand.

Single-Use Kitchen Gadgets: The Drawer of Regret

The avocado slicer, the strawberry huller, the banana keeper, the egg cuber — each solves a problem a knife already solved, then bills you again in drawer space forever. A tiny handful of single-taskers earn their keep. The rest are impulse purchases wearing aprons.

Vacuum Sealers: A Tool With a Specific Owner

★★★★★★★★★★3.5

For bulk buyers, hunters, batch cooks and sous vide households, a vacuum sealer pays for itself in rescued freezer food. For everyone else it's a bulky machine with an ongoing bag habit, solving a problem that wrap and good containers mostly solve for free.