Lucky you, your significant other knows their way around a kitchen — and loves cooking (almost) as much as they love you. For the Valentine who has all the kitchen necessities, but it always looking for a few ways to get fancy for a weeknight dinner, these gifts will amp up their kitchen collection, and help make every dining in night, date night.
W&P’s Spice Grinder
Fresh spices are the key to amp up any dish from great to amazing. This stylish grinder doubles as a piece of art on a countertop, thanks to W&P’s chic design. And yes, this hand grinder works well on all types of spices and herbs. $30, wandpdesign.com
Our Place Always Pan
Your sweetheart may already have their preferred set of cookware, but nothing says love like a gorgeous new piece. This special Lunar New Year collection also works perfectly for Valentine’s Day and includes a 10” diameter pan with ceramic nonstick coating, plus a custom nesting wooden steamer, bamboo cooking chopsticks, and a modular lid. $175, fromourplace.com
A Custom Cookbook
Anyone can write down a recipe and solidify the dish as family canon, but serious home cooks need something a little fancier to document their creations. Honey and Hive creations makes professional-quality cookbooks from personal recipes, photos and stories you want to include, laid out with many gorgeous templates. The book itself is beautiful, and the keepsake is truly romantic. Starts at $200 for hardcover book, honeyandhivecreations.com
Specialty Pasta
Even the best fresh pasta whiz appreciates imported pasta excellence. Mad Rose Specialty Foods has curated and imported Giampiero Bea’s Umbrian pastas crafted from Senatore Capelli ancient grain flour, and bundled them with the Armato family’s sweet-meets-tart semi-dried cherry tomatoes, plus ultra flavourful oregano. As if you needed a reason to cuddle up on a cold night, here it is. Buon Appetito! $64, madrosefoods.com
Cut and Store Garlic House
Any garlic lover is overly familiar with the problem of not being able to remove garlic scents from a cutting board. So frustrating! Luckily, this garlic keeper has the problem solved: A wooden top allows cooks to smash and chop garlic right on top of it, and then use the garlic-scented wood as a cover for the ventilated stoneware ceramic garlic house. $68, uncommongoods.com
Handled Heart Cutters
Let your chef put a little bit of their heart in every baked creation, and beyond, with this set of nesting heart cutters. These dishwasher safe, stainless steel cutters work on doughs or cooked foods, to give an extra heart-shaped detail thats almost too cute. $14.95, kingarthurflour.com
Marram Dip-Dyed Market Bag
A dedicated cook is likely an avid, if not ambitious shopper, and needs a bag at the ready to carry ingredients when they catch their eye. This lightweight shopping bag is ideal for the farmers market, or to carry in another bag or pocket for when recipe inspiration suddenly hits. $24, anthropologie.com
