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Kitchen gear is one of the most useful and personal types of gifts you can buy a friend or loved one. And even better, you may even get to enjoy the dividends of coffee, sweet treats, and other goodies when you next see them (in a socially distanced scenario, of course). Get the right Christmas gift for home cooks and you'll be reaping the rewards throughout the year.
But if you're not much of a foodie or baker, where do you start? Thankfully we at TechRadar are here to help you bring smiles to the enthusiastic chefs in your life, from sleek, stylish coffee machines that make a delicious cup o' Joe, to mixers that can handle doughs and cake mixes with ease.
Of course, if you want to thrill the foodie in your life with good-quality kit, you'll need to pay for the privilege. The gift ideas below aren't cheap, but you can trust that they will stand the test of time many cakes, meals, and healthy mixed drinks down the line.
So read on to find the very best festive home cook gifts, and you just might get the choicest hunk of festive meat and pudding on Christmas day.
KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer
Saves time on baking
If you know someone who loves baking, but doesn't have Herculean muscles (or enough time) to mix plenty of bowls of sugar and butter all the time, a stand mixer is the present to get. It does your mixing for you, so you can spend more time rummaging through your cupboards to try and find that waylaid spice jar.
KitchenAid makes some of the most premium stand mixers out right now, so they make for great gifts as they'll last for a long time and provide great results. They're also pretty sleek-looking devices, so will fit in with your kitchen decor.
Nutricook Smart Pot Prime by Nutribullet
A slow cooker and pressure cooker in one
Smart Pots give you loads of versatility and flexibility in the kitchen, as they're a combination of slow and pressure cookers, letting you set up a meal to cook over the course of a day or just crack out a dish in no time.
This electric pressure cooker tops our list of the best Instant Pot, pressure and slow cookers, so you know you're getting a high-quality gadget here. Make sure you're only gifting it to someone who's sure to invite you round for dinner in future, though.
Nespresso Vertuo Plus
Sleek coffee system
Most people don't have room in their kitchen (or budget) for huge coffee machines, so here's a smaller coffee dispenser instead, the Nespress Vertuo Plus. It uses Nespresso's pods to deliver you coffee in an easy, quick and painless way, although it perhaps won't be as fresh-tasting as ground coffee.
The real reason you'd want a Nespresso Vertuo Plus is how dainty it is, so it'll easily fit into a kitchen. Forget that massive espresso machine that'll take up half the surface area of your house, this can be slotted in wherever's convenient.
Philips Juicer
A healthy gift
Why not buy a healthy Christmas gift, in the form of a machine that turns whatever you put in it to juice? Juice is the best way to have your five a day, anyway.
This Philips Juicer doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the other gadgets on this list, but it'll do exactly what you want it to: make juice. You can put a range of objects in it, from oranges and apples to harder things like pomegranate seeds and nuts, and still get a smooth blend.
NutriBullet Pro 900W
A juice-making machine - literally
NutriBullets are popular juicing machines, that can blend whatever you throw in them (well, things you'd want juiced at least), without breaking a sweat. You can easily use them to make a quick healthy smoothie or paste with a range of different ingredients.
This is a blender, not a food processor, so you might not have success trying to make guacamole or falafel mix in here. But for people who want to easily create a healthy drink while they're on the go, this is a great gift.
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