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Our Favorite Gifts of 2025

In a holiday shopping rut? Shop our favorite gifts of 2025 for everyone on your list, including foodies, comfort seekers, and more.

Shown Clockwise: East Fork The Mug 4-Pack, Laguiole Cheese Knife Set, Printworks Backgammon Game Set. A Vida Portuguesa Ceramic Cabbage Bowl, and Flamingo Estate Personalized Heritage Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Yes, Chef! A Breakdown of the Best Kitchen Gear on 'The Bear.'

Experts at Consumer Reports rate and review the high-end kitchen equipment used on the FX show “The Bear.”

A tense kitchen scene from The Bear featuring Liza Colón-Zayas, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Jeremy Allen White. Ayo Edebiri's character gestures emphatically while speaking, as the others look on closely in a modern, restaurant-kitchen interior.

A Pro Chef's Tips for Planning a Perfect, Stress-Free Holiday Meal

Chef Emily Brubaker, champion of NBC's Yes, Chef!, explains how to plan a perfect, stress-free holiday meal.

Emily Brubaker, winner of Yes Chef on NBC cooking in a kitchen environment.

32 Best Gifts for People Who Love to Eat and Cook

Have a chef or culinary enthusiast on your holiday gift list? We have ideas for the best gifts for home chefs and foodies.

Shown: Clockwise: Crate and Barrel French Kitchen Marble Mortar and Pestle, Illustration of Gingerbread people and a house, Our Place Perfect Pot, Sinnsally Garlic Peeler, and KitchenAid Bowl Lift KSM70 Stand Mixers

Are Cheese Boards Healthy?

Flavorful and low-cal cheeses paired with fresh veggies are key to building a healthy cheese board.

Cheese board with blue, Parmesan, mozzarella, feta, goat cheeses and various fruits and vegetables.

My Favorite Kitchen Tools for One-Handed Use

If you need one-handed kitchen tools to make cooking easier, check out recommendations for a salad spinner, knife, pepper grinder, cutting board, and more.

Clockwise from top left: One-handed cutting board, the writer Chloé Valentine using the Swedish Steak Knife, and the Spoonula.

Best Gifts Under $75

These are some of Consumer Reports' top-rated gifts for under $75, including weighted blankets, insulated cups, headphones, and more.

GE G8H1AASSPSS blender, Apple AirTag, Stanley The Flowstate Quencher H2.0 Tumbler, Google Nest Audio

The Best Cutting Board Oil, Tested by Our Experts

We intentionally tried to ruin cutting boards by putting them in the dishwasher and oven to find the ones that keep our boards in good condition.

Thirteen Chefs Food Grade Mineral Oil, Boos Block Board Cream and Mystery Oil with Brush set, Clapham's Beeswax, and Howard Cutting Board Oil on wooden cutting board with light brown background

5 Best Bread Knives, Tested By Our Experts

We 10 tested bread knives from Shun, Wüsthof, and other brands by slicing sourdough, challah, tomatoes, and more bread in our lab.

Shun Classic 9” Bread Knife, Wüsthof Classic 10-Inch Bread Knife, Mercer Culinary Millennia Wavy Edge Wide Bread Knife

Our Favorite Gifts to Bring to a Holiday Party

If you're looking for gifts for those who love to host, we have you covered with creative ideas for the holiday entertainer on your gift list.

Ichendorf Milano Fantasia Cactus Tumblers, Hawkins New York Simple Cocktail Shaker, Williams Sonoma Beehive Cheese Gift Crate, Sabre Bistrot Vintage Solid Serving Set

Best Indoor Pizza Ovens

For this review of the best indoor pizza ovens, CR baked 14 pizzas in countertop pizza ovens to find out which made the tastiest Neapolitan-style pies and more.

Ooni indoor pizza oven with homemade pizza

5 Best Cutting Boards for Your Kitchen, Tested by Our Experts

Consumer Reports tried bamboo, maple, plastic, and teak cutting boards to find the best cutting boards for your kitchen.

knife on Totally Bamboo Cutting Board with chopped basil

5 Recipes From Black Chefs to Celebrate Juneteenth

Black chefs share small-appliance recipes for wings, mac and cheese, vegan ribs, red beans and rice, and fried fish to celebrate Juneteenth.

10 Kitchen Tools That Changed the Way This Chef Cooks

Consumer Reports' resident chef, Paul Hope, gives us the lowdown on the cookware and gadgets he can’t live without.

Breville countertop toaster oven, ThermoPro Digital Meat Thermometer, Vitamix 5200 Blender, Instant Vortex Plus Air Fryer, Microplane Classic Zester Grater with lemon, Le Creuset Traditional Round, Global Knives 8" Chef's Knife, and OXO Good Grips 12-Inch Stainless-Steel Locking Tongs

8 Holiday Foods With Surprising Health Benefits

Not all favorite holiday foods are nutritional landmines. Consumer Reports dishes on classic dishes that are good for you.

shrimp cocktail, cranberry sauce, mixed nuts

The Safer Way to Slice an Entire Cucumber

The latest TikTok food craze is all about slicing a cucumber using a mandoline. Here's how to do it safely with our top picks.

Dash Safe Slice Mandoline and cucumber slices

5 Best Single-Use Kitchen Tools, Tested by Our Experts

CR evaluated whether single-use gadgets such as a garlic press, apple peeler, and more to find out if these single-purpose kitchen tools are worth buying.

Is Watermelon Good for You?

Watermelon is good for you, providing many health and nutrition benefits, including the powerful antioxidant lycopene, Consumer Reports says.

sliced triangles of watermelon on a cutting board with a whole watermelon next to it

How to Eat Cheese in a Healthy Way

Cheese is packed with protein and calcium, though it is high in fat and calories. Consumer Reports explains how to eat cheese in a healthy way.

Is Okra Good for You?

Okra's health benefits are numerous, Consumer Reports says in this look at whether okra is good for you.

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