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    Tips and Tools to Make Cooking Easier as You Age

    For quicker, safer cooking, try these ideas

    Whether you’re someone who loves cooking or someone who sees it as a necessary hassle, changes associated with aging—poorer eyesight, stiffer hands, easier fatigue—can make the task more difficult.

    But you can overcome those challenges with a few simple strategies and some well-designed tools.

    More cooking tips

    Try these tips from Dana Keester and Paul Ritchey, senior test project leaders with Consumer Reports’ consumer experience and usability research team (and CR’s in-house ergonomics experts), and see how much easier and more pleasant creating your meals can be.

    To see each tip, click on or hover your cursor over the black dots on the illustration below (or tap on a mobile device). 

    Click on dots to learn more.

    Illustration: Chris Philpot

    Editor’s Note: A version of this article also appeared in the October 2023 issue of Consumer Reports On Health.


    Catherine Roberts

    Catherine Roberts is a health and science journalist at Consumer Reports. She has been at CR since 2016, covering infectious diseases, bugs and bug sprays, consumer medical devices like hearing aids and blood pressure monitors, health privacy, and more. As a civilian, her passions include bike rides, horror films and fiction, and research rabbit holes. Follow her on X: @catharob.