Gift Recommendations For Christmas

We Foodgeeks don't believe in filling our kitchens with needless gadgetry, so here are the 10 items that we all agree are the essential items you or your loved one must have in your kitchen!

Colour Grip 12-inch Cutting Board - $8.95 Nothing is worse than having a cutting board slide around on the counter while you're working atop it. Be safe and secure with this no-slip cutting board.

Microplane Fine Grater - $13.95 Grate Parmaggiano-Reggiano cheese and zest limes and lemons with ease!

LamsonSharp 3"x6" Chef's Fish Spatula - $24.99 Flipping fish will no longer be a hassle with this excellent fish spatula from LamsonSharp.

Silpat Jelly Roll Liner 11"x17" - $21.99 Your cookies will never stick to the cookie sheet again. Do you need another reason?

Escali Primo 11-lb. Capacity Digital Scale - $24.95 Weigh out your ingredients for more precise measurements and better baking results.

Cuisinart Immersion Blender - $29.95 Blend soups and make smoothies in nearly any container with this handy tool!

Krups GX4100 Electric Coffee and Spice Grinder - $30.00 Grind whole spices so that you can create fresh aromatics for your dishes. It works for coffee too, but make sure you only use either coffee OR spices, because you don't want your coffee to taste like cloves!

Metrokane Citrus Power Professional Juicer - $92.80 When someone hands you a glass of juice freshly squeezed from 5 oranges and they say it only took 2 minutes, well, it doesn't get much better than that!

Cuisinart DLC-2009CHB Prep 9-Cup Food Processor - $128.24 You could argue that a true foodgeek doesn't need both an immersion blender and a food processor. Well, that's a bunch of hooey. Both will get tremendous use co-existing in the same kitchen.

Shun Classic 10-Inch Chef's Knife - $134.95 No matter how many knives you have, this will quickly become one of your new favorites!