Aegir's Table

Kitchen gear for people who cook most nights and want fewer, better things.

Ægir, the sea-giant whose hall held the feasts of the gods.

Picks

Nonstick Owns the Cookware Chart, Cast Iron Owns the RatingsFour nonstick pans outrank the cast iron skillet at number four. That skillet has more ratings than all four combined, and a third of the chart is not cookware.Read →
Kitchen Gifts Worth GivingTwo kitchen scales, two oil sprayers and four thermometers sit in one top twenty. The duplication is the useful signal, and it points at three safe gifts.Read →
The Coffee Gear the Kitchen Chart Actually SellsFour of the top fourteen small appliances are coffee makers and three of them are Keurigs. One holds 3.9 stars, the lowest score anywhere on the chart.Read →
The Most-Reviewed Kitchen Appliance Is Nine Years OldThe Instant Pot Duo has 184,432 ratings, more than anything else on the small appliance chart. It ranks twentieth. That gap is the useful part.Read →
The Kitchen Storage Chart Is Mostly DrinkwareTen of the top twenty kitchen storage best-sellers are water bottles and tumblers. Exactly one is a food storage container. Here is what that means.Read →
Vacuum Sealing Food: Worth It or NotTwo vacuum sealer bag listings sit in Amazon's small appliance top fourteen and no sealer machine does. The consumable outsells the thing that uses it.Read →
Air Fryer vs Toaster Oven: What the Chart Actually SellsTwo air fryers sit in Amazon's small appliance top twenty and not one toaster oven. What that says, and which of the two belongs on your counter.Read →
The Kitchen Gadget Chart Has No Knife on ItNo knife anywhere in Amazon's kitchen gadget top twenty-five, and only one thin peeler. What is there instead is four ways to avoid using either.Read →
Four of the Top Nine Kitchen Gadgets Are DisposableStraws at two, air fryer liners at five and eight, parchment at nine. Amazon's kitchen gadget chart says the tool that finishes most cooking gets thrown away.Read →
The Kitchen Drawer, Not the CounterFive of the top six kitchen gadgets are scales and thermometers. The rest of the chart is the drawer: a can opener, shears, measures and one real gadget.Read →
The Kitchen Best-Seller List Is Bottles and Measuring ToolsNothing in the kitchen top ten cooks anything. It is drinkware and instruments — what people carry, and what tells them a number.Read →
Kitchen Essentials for a First ApartmentAmazon's kitchen best-seller list is not stand mixers. It is cheap, boring tools: what sits at the top, and which two of them change how you cook.Read →
The Lunch Gear That Survives a School YearFour lunch boxes and bottles sit in Amazon's kitchen top 25 — not because they are clever, but because they survive. What breaks, and what to buy instead.Read →
Meal Prep Containers That Seal: Glass vs PlasticGlass, plastic or silicone: most containers fail at the lid or the smell. What survives a dishwasher and a commute, and what stains and leaks.Read →
One Pan That Does Most of DinnerIf you cook most nights and own too many pans, these three do the work of the drawer: the skillet, the pot, and the sheet.Read →

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