This GH Kitchen Award-winning toaster offers millennial-chic design and a color range, but it’s also narrow enough to fit into even the tightest spaces. The Bella toaster fits two slices of bread and has six shade-control settings.
Funnels come in handy more than you realize. Pouring liquids, sugars, grains, and beyond into narrow containers or openings can be messy. To prevent a mess, our experts recommend a collapsible funnel set like this, available in various sizes for easy pouring.
When we tested egg cookers in the GH Kitchen Appliances Lab, Dash models stood out for their ease of use, letting you cook eggs to your preferred doneness with just one button.
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Kitchen Appliances Lab Director Nicole Papantoniou reaches for these easy-to-store magnetic measuring spoons at home when cooking. The dual-sided spoons come in a set of seven and include a lever for even measuring.
We’re huge fans of splatter covers in the Kitchen Lab and at home; they keep messes to a minimum when reheating dishes. The vented lid helps steam escape while keeping food splatters from getting all over the microwave interior.
While an egg separator isn’t a necessity, this cute chick makes separating yolks from the whites a little bit easier and, honestly, a little more fun as well.
A wet and soggy salad is less than desirable. To get clean yet crisp greens, removing excess water is essential. This OXO salad spinner is one of our favorites for its easy-to-push button and wide base, which help stabilize the spinner.
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Both GH consumer testers and Lab experts loved this 2026 Kitchen Award winner. The silicone stretch lids from Stasher fit over bowls and containers for a tight seal, helping keep food fresh. The lids received top scores during our leak evaluation.
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These mini mitts from KitchenAid were a top performer in our oven mitt testing. These small puppet-style mitts are easy to grab when quickly pulling items out of the oven, but be cautious when moving larger pots and pans, as they don’t provide arm protection.
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While pre-packaged microwave popcorn is convenient, you don’t get to control the ingredients (butters, chemicals, salts, etc.). Using a microwave popcorn maker like this collapsible one from Cuisinart allows you to make fresh popcorn without the clunky machines.
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A good colander makes straining easier. This Amazon best seller clips onto bowls and pots of various sizes—plus it has a small footprint compared to a full-sized colander, making storing simple.
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This pancake batter bottle is a favorite of Nutrition Lab Director Stefani Sassos, who reaches for it when cooking for her kiddos at home. With the Whiskware bottle, you can dispense the batter directly into the pan. It also includes a wire whisk on the inside to help achieve an evenly blended batter and comes with a lid so you can throw the unused batter in the fridge.
While putting a pizza box directly into the refrigerator might be tempting, there are better ways to store the triangular slices. Unlike most food storage containers, this collapsible model is designed specifically for pizza slices and comes with five dividers to keep toppings secure when stacking and storing.
In the GH Kitchen Appliances Lab, we’re always loading and unloading our dishwashers, but with multiple experts in the lab, a magnet like this one ensures we are all on the same page about whether the dishes are clean or dirty.
Whether for snacking or for grabbing ingredients for a dish, fishing in jars for pickles and olives can be annoying. With this jar, when you’re ready to eat, flip the container and the internal strainer separates the juice, so no more digging.
Grating cheese yourself is better than buying the pre-shredded stuff—it’s free of added ingredients and chemicals, but shredding yourself can be messy. This Joseph Joseph model has four different slicing and grating options and has a container with measurement markings to catch the food as you shred.
Herb scissors like these Amazon best sellers make prepping ingredients for meals easier. The scissors have five blades, making cutting herbs, lettuce, or veggies simple, especially if you’re intimidated by larger kitchen knives.
Spoon rests help keep the countertops clean, but that doesn’t mean they have to be boring. Our experts thought this ravioli-shaped rest was a cute way to add character and function to your kitchen.
We love these scissors here in the Kitchen Appliances Lab when testing pizza ovens. The pizza scissors from Dreamfarm make getting even and neat slices easier. The blade cuts right through both the toppings and the crust, and the scissors double as a serving utensil.
Since cooking can be complex, depending on what you’re making, struggling with opening a jar should be the least of your worries. This opener is a favorite of Papantoniou, who uses it in the Lab and at home. The opener can be used with a variety of lid sizes; it features stainless-steel teeth that grip the lid and an easy-to-grip handle for opening jars.
Raena Loper is the Fashion Commerce Editor at Oprah Daily, where she covers emerging fashion trends, style recommendations, and more. Raena is a graduate of Montclair State University, where she earned dual degrees in fashion studies along with gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. She was previously the Assistant Style Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, where she worked on Oprah’s Favorite Things and O List. During her 10+ years in the editorial industry, she worked as an Updates Editor and Product Analyst for Good Housekeeping and Forbes, where she tested everything from BBQ grills and air fryers to self-tanners and sunscreen. Follow Raena on Instagram @raenaloper
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