6 Best Gift Ideas for a Cook or Chef

If you’re shopping for someone who makes multi-step creations with their stand mixer, they may need more mixing bowls. A practical yet stylish gift, additional bowls will allow them to tackle complex and challenging recipes without the hassle of needing to transfer ingredients or wash their bowl while in the middle of meal prep or cooking. 

Check out a few mixing bowl options for tilt-head or bowl-lift stand mixers.

5-quart mixing bowls for tilt-head stand mixers are available in a variety of materials including stainless steel, glass and ceramic. Furthermore, you can select from an array of colours, patterns and finishes. This is a great gift idea for a chef with an old stand mixer as it will give them the chance to update its look.

Bowl-lift mixing bowls give the gift of creating more with different sizes such as a Stainless Steel 7 Quart Bowl-Lift Mixer Bowl, the largest non-commercial bowl available.

Before purchase, we recommend always reviewing the product details to confirm compatibility with their stand mixer model and that they have the right accessories to fit. This guide to stand mixer bowls will give you a ton of helpful tips so you can choose the right gift.

Need more help deciding on which bowl, attachment or accessory is the perfect gift for your creative cook? Look no further than our Stand Mixer Attachment & Accessories Buying Guide.

If you’re on the hunt for gifts for an antsy home cook who can’t stand still, then a cordless appliance from KitchenAid brand could be the thoughtful choice. Shop cordless choppers, hand mixers and hand blenders that all run on a rechargeable lithium ion battery and provide optimal runtime and performance without an annoying cord.

The KitchenAid® Cordless Variable Speed Hand Blender with Chopper & Whisk Attachment could be a good choice for anyone with limited counter or storage space or someone with a kitchen island that doesn’t have a power outlet. With this gift, your favourite home chef can easily blend Creamy Cauliflower Soup right in the pot. 

The space-saving, compact design of the Cordless 5 Cup Food Chopper can mix, chop, puree and whip a wide variety of dishes without tethering someone to an outlet. Get this, multi-tasking cooks can chop up to 40 onions on a full charge¹.

1 Based on onion size of 90 - 110 grams

The Cordless 7 Speed Hand Mixer is power without the cord. Home cooks can choose from 7 speeds to stir, whip and mix. They can even create up to 200 cookies on a full charge². Yes, you read that right, 200 cookies! Learn more about the benefits of cordless appliances.

2 Based on 4 batches of chocolate chip cookies.

Another gift option for cooks who are into culinary experimentation or tend to cook multiple recipes at once is a countertop oven. With innovative features that encourage trying new techniques, a countertop oven can make any recipe feel manageable. 

Home cooks can bake a Chai Spiced Carrot Cake in a 13x9 pan while their entrée cooks in their full-size oven. They can also try air frying, dehydrating and more with a KitchenAid®  countertop oven. Hard to argue that this is not a fantastic gift.

The KitchenAid® Dual Convection Countertop Oven offers home cooks 12 preset cooking functions and a built-in temperature probe for additional control throughout the cooking process. The Dual Convect Bake setting cooks ingredients up to 20% faster³.

3 Based on 3.6 lbs weight

What home cook wouldn’t love creating amazing meals in a KitchenAid® Countertop Oven with Air Fry. They can pretend to have their own chip truck and make crispy fries with this appliance’s No-Flip Air Fry Basket and 360° Air Fry System. Or they can make a plethora of delicious fried foods without using a heavy amount of oil that traditional frying typically requires.

Any healthy chef will tell you that healthy cooking requires a lot of prep, usually in the form of chopping, shredding and slicing. A food processor is an amazing sous chef that can prepare ingredients for a creamy Garlic Cashew Dip or help knead whole grain dough or slice crunchy vegetables for a rustic Ratatouille. A range of sizes and capabilities are available, including these two picks.

The KitchenAid® 9 Cup Food Processor is the ideal gift for anyone with the desire and passion to make dishes with natural ingredients. It comes with a variety of discs and blades and the 9 cup work bowl is dishwasher-safe and easy to assemble. Its compact design, equipped with in-bowl accessory storage, means you can simply put it away in a cabinet or on a shelf when you don’t need it. 

The 3.5 Cup Food Chopper is another thoughtful gesture for healthy home cooks. This food chopper is compact and lightweight. It comes with a multipurpose stainless steel blade and a drizzle basin for the easy incorporation of liquids while in operation.