Great Gift Items Under $30 for the Cooking Enthusiast

Cooking enthusiasts are easy to shop for. There are so many items available to help them enjoy their passion. Here are just some of those items:

Mixing bowls.
Every cook needs mixing bowls. From steel to stoneware, materials vary. To be safe, how about purchasing your cooking lover a glass set. That is considered the most basic and will be appreciated.

Glass mixing bowls come in different sizes. Buy an assortment from small to large. Cooks will appreciate the variety and will definitely need each size at various times.

Pyrex is noted for their durable, reliable, and affordable kitchen items. They have a 3-piece glass mixing bowl set that retails around $10. Pyrex will last a long, long time (if taken care of). Buy them online at www.target.com.

Any department store, kitchen store, and thrift store will be selling glass-mixing bowls. You may find some in good condition at thrift stores, but be careful. Many times they are sold at thrift stores due to being used excessively. You don't want to buy your cooking lover a scraped and scratched set of mixing bowls.

Cutting Boards
Cutting boards are another essential item for the cooking enthusiast. They come in various sizes, shapes, and materials.

Buy a couple different sizes of cutting boards for your recipient. Variety is good.
Plus, if one small item needs to be diced, it is senseless to bring out the huge pizza-size cutting board.

Wooden cutting boards have a nostalgic feel about them. Plastic cutting boards need to be bleached.

A great set of plastic cutting boards is made by Kitchen. They are dishwasher safe and come in three sizes. Nice and convenient. They retail around $20.

Cooking Knives Set
What cooking enthusiast wouldn't love an assortment of cooking knives? You can't go wrong with buying cooking knives. They are considered a staple in the properly equipped kitchen.

Buy an assortment ranging from paring knife size (small) to cleaver size (large). This will give your cooking lover a variety and will definitely be welcomed.

Ecko is a popular reputable knife manufacturer. Their knives last for years and have provided many cooks with reliability.

Cooking Knife Sets usually come with a knive holder. Sets can be purchased at any department store, gourmet cooking store, kitchen store, or most retail outlets.

A basic set of Ecko cooking knives will retail at around $20.00.

Cooking Utensils
How nice would it be for your cooking enthusiast to open a gift containing a variety of smaller cooking accessories? Great, I would say. People who enjoy cooking can never have too many food peelers, hand can openers, spatulas, bottle openers, pastry brush, apple corers, gravy ladles, etc.

Williams Somona is known for producing high quality, durable kitchen items. Visit them online at www.williams-sonoma.com and purchase spatulas online at a great price. Their spatulas last for years and years.

Oneida, another popular manufacturer, makes some great kitchen utensils. Check them out at www.oneida.com.

Save yourself some time and buy an assortment of kitchen utensils already packaged together including a caddy. Sunbeam makes a 25-piece set that retails at around $20. It can be purchased at Target. Also, Target offers online shopping at www.target.com.

Simply go to your favorite department store's kitchen department. There will be an aisle full of hand held items that will have your cook lover's heart fluttering.

Gift Sets
Combine more than one item into a gift and give your cooking lover a special treat. A great gift combines a well-known, time-tested cookbook and a potholder.

Betty Crocker Cookbook with Potholder would be a double-whammy for your cooking enthusiast. Betty Crocker cookbooks are the introduction into cooking for many people throughout the ages. The recipes are taste-tested, colorfully displayed, and easy to read. The potholder is a bright red square with hanging handle. The Set retails around $20 and is sold at department stores, kitchen stores, and a variety of other retail outlets. It can be purchased online at Wal-Mart at www.walmart.com.

A potholder and an oven mitt make for another nice combination for a cooking lover.
The colors, shapes, and sizes vary.

Silicon Hotspot makes some potholders that retail around $7. Oven mitts retail around $20, also manufactured by Silicon. Both items are sold online at Target.

There you have it. The above-mentioned cooking items are just a sampling of the variety to choose from.