These 6 Cooking Essentials Make Perfect Gifts for the Home Cook

A woman cooks food in her home. This story goes over gift ideas for the person who likes to cook in your home.
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Do you know someone who spends all their free time in the kitchen, experimenting with new recipes and whipping up elaborate dishes? Or maybe you’re a hardworking home cook, getting hot meals ready for your family week after week. Gift that culinary enthusiast (or yourself!) one of these six tools to spruce up their home kitchen.

Whether you’re looking for cooking lessons, cookware or kitchen gadgets, there’s something here for everyone.

6 Cooking Gifts for the Home Chef

Novice cooks and advanced chefs alike will enjoy the items on this list.

1. Pay What You Want: Cooking Lessons For Beginners

Learn kitchen fundamentals, healthy cooking tips and lifelong skills with this four-course cooking class bundle. The nine hours of content cover handling kitchen equipment, cooking for a paleo diet, navigating raw food recipes and mastering the art of cooking eggs. Plus, you can pay whatever price you want for it.

2. Yedi 9-in-1 Pressure Cooker

Perfect for comforting and healthy weeknight meals, the Yedi 9-in-1 Pressure Cooker will have dinner on the table in minutes. Plus, it’s one of Oprah’s Favorite Things for 2019. Regularly $99, you can snag one for $89.99.

3. Gourmia® Air Fryer Oven

This space-saving air fryer and oven combo is ideal for heating up quick, healthy and crispy foods like french fries, toast, pizza and veggies. Get it for $89.99.

4. Altomino Handmade Chef Knife

Chop, cut, and slice with precision and speed with this hand-forged steel knife that you can use in your kitchen, or while camping. Regularly $179, it’s on sale for $76.99 for a limited time — that’s over 50% off.

5. Pizza Making Course

In this one-hour course, professional chef Tim Cunningham will teach you how to make delicious homemade pizza. You’ll never need to buy frozen crusts again once you learn these techniques for pizza dough using sourdough and commercial yeast. The course is valued at $200, but you can get it for $13.99.

6. Heat Resistant BBQ Gloves

Keep your skin safe from burns while you’re cooking pizza or firing up the grill. These flexible and comfortable heat resistant gloves also make for a good stocking stuffer. They usually cost $49, but you can save nearly 70% and get them for $15.99 for a limited time.