All week long we've been rounding up our favorite gifts for food-lovers and cooks in celebration of Birthday Week on The Kitchn. For our final gift guide this week, we decided to go all out and put together a list of ten extravagant kitchen tools and accessories for when money truly is no object. A fancy trash can in a stellar shade of green? A top of the line dishwasher? Why, thank you, sir. We'll just take those if you don't mind.
TOP ROW
• 1 Saeco Syntia Cappuccino Espresso Machine, $1,399 from Seattle Coffee Gear
• 2 Large Kahler Mano Storage Jar, Set of 5, $449.75 from All Modern
• 3 Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, $455 from Amazon
• 4 Mauviel M'Heritage 150 Copper 5-Piece Set , $649.95 from Sur La Table
• 5 Barrel of 16-Year Aged Balsamic, $400 from Zingerman's
BOTTOM ROW
• 6 VIPP 24 Kitchen Bin in Copenhagen Green, $469 from Design Public
• 7 Bosch 800 Series SHX98M09UC Dishwasher, $1,484 from AJ Madison
• 8 Oji Masanori Brass Tool Holder, $300 from Mjolk
• 9 Alabaster Shingles Food Pantry, $2,400 from Field Day
• 10 Espera Colander/Fruit Bowl, $320 from Rab Labs
What would be on your gift-giving-and-receiving list if money wasn't an object?
More Kitchen Gift Roundups
• Smart Food Gifts $10 and Under
• Useful, Beautiful Kitchen Gifts Under $25
• Kitchen Tools & Edible Gifts Under $100
• Cooking Tools to Last a Lifetime: Kitchen Gifts $100 and Up
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Probably a sous vide machine. A great way to guarantee meat is cooked properly.
I've had my eyes on the Hario Slow Drip Coffee Maker for a long while now. And don't get me started on espresso machines. Fortunately, where my eyes travel, my wallet has yet to follow.
You forgot one! I don't know how much it costs, but it HAS to be luxury priced.
http://www.scanomat.com/coffee-brewers/topbrewer
I know I've made it when I buy a $469 trash can.
I want a Vitamix...maybe hubby and I will make that our gift to each other for Christmas this year (luckily, he would enjoy it as much as I would).
Sure makes me glad my rental came with a Bosch dishwasher! I don't think it's that super fancy one, though...it leaked water all over my kitchen floor this morning! Guess I need the "AquaStop Leak Protection" that model advertises!
Great offerings here...but gotta say...anyone who would spend $469 on a trash can has more dollars than sense.
VITAMIX!!! worth every penny...
Thermomix!
Extravagant is not the word for it. Who picked these items out? And, why? Did someone have too much time on their hands and spent the afternoon googling this stuff.
Is this really your target audience? When you feature DIY projects and IKEA rooms, this cannot be your audience. Tell me you ran this as a joke.
But, please just buy and bury me in the VIPP 24 Kitchen Bin in Copenhagen Green, $469, with the one set of liners (included).
I feel like lately I've put up a lot of negative posts on AT, not sure if it's me or you... but, what the heck is that pantry? It looks straight out of pippi longstocking.
Sorry, if money were no obstacle, I'd have a chef worry about all of this for me, and maybe even live at the Ritz.
None of that stuff, I know that for sure...
Sorry, but I have simple tastes and would be happy with something durable and useful that just happens to be of moderate expense, like more Le Creuset cookware. And I would gladly give it as a gift, too.
If that trash can also transports the trash outside via 24th century technology, maybe I could find an extra $500 laying around.
I want that fruit bowl. But since this post is about gifts for other people (who would gift a trash can, a dishwasher, or a food pantry cabinet?), I'd say the keg of balsamic is probably the best for those who have everything. It's just way out there, and kind of sweet.
Actually,when you're gifting people who make a heck of a lot more than you do,it's best to go small and thoughtful rather than expensive and aspirational. You can look like you're trying too hard...quite easily.
Would a keg of balsamic (my fave) LAST for a week? We are a couple with 1 teenager and 2 cats.
I'll have what UrbanCricket is having. ;)
I love to have an espresso machine like that. It is luxury for me too because it costs too much and it is very beautiful. But there a lot of espresso machine sellers out there not just the Seattle Coffee Gear.