Cooking impressive meals is a big ask. Luckily you don't have to enrol in a six month culinary course to make your life and meals easier, throw a little money at the problem and you've just bought yourself back a lot of time and stress.
Vegetable chopper
Dicing vegetables is one of the most miserable experiences you can endure, so while a gadget just to chop them for you may seem extravagant, think of it as cheap therapy. This machine offers a selection of blades for slicing and dicing different shapes and makes previously time consuming tasks - like slicing up onions and tomatoes for salsa - laughably easy. Ha!
£16.99 Amazon
Vitamix
Instead of cluttering your cupboards with an individual food processor, ice cream machine and blender, Vitamix makes does it all in one easy to clean machine. From frozen margaritas to ice cream to tomato soup to sourdough bread to peanut butter to pasta sauce, yep, it does it all.
£625, Selfridges
Citrus fruit squeezer
An appliance just to do the squeezing your God given hands were made for? Yes, indulge us for a minute. This clever contraption manages to get every last drop from the lime or lemon with minimal effort and catches the pips that you always end up fishing out the bottom of the dressing jar. This is literally happiness for less than £10.
£9.99, Amazon
Heated butter knife
What's that expression about going through things like a knife through hot butter? Well this is a similar idea except the knife is providing the heat. Make your morning toast spread a smooth affair without having to force fridge temperature butter across the bread. Yes, you could keep your butter outside the fridge, but this knife also cuts through ice and is the closest you can get to buying a lightsaber.
£19.99, Amazon
Hot water dispenser
If you can't afford to get one of those instant boiling hot water taps fitted into your kitchen because you're not a character on Entourage, this is basically the same thing. This dispenser gives you boiling water in 40 seconds meaning you no longer have to wait around by the kettle like a fool.
£54, Amazon
Microplane grater
It's difficult to explain the superior grating experience this will give you, except maybe to liken the amount of parmesan that will shower your pasta to the snowfall during the Beast from the East earlier this year.
£12, Amazon
Wine Aerator
If you're spending money on a half-decent bottle of wine you should really be opening it a few hours in advance and letting the wine breathe in a decanter. In reality after dashing through the door 40 minutes before your guests are due you're still furiously spooning hummus out the tub when they arrive. Enter this aerator which pouring red wine through will allow the wine to open up rapidly and release its full flavour.
£8.95, Amazon
Electric barbecue
As we are enjoying our 539th day of uninterrupted sunshine you probably have a pressing urge to barbecue everything from your toast to your cereal. If you don't have the outdoor space for a barbecue or if you hate the faff of firing it up, this portable electric grill is perfect for grilling vegetables, steaks or fish. Thanks to the water-filled drip tray it gives the smoky flavour of a barbecue without the actual smoke.
£40.99, Amazon
