You already know that you can visit Ikea for all your furniture needs, but it also offers a surprisingly robust line of kitchenware you may not be aware of.
Ikea is one of the places you can go to if you have a bare house and want to get everything you need to furnish it from just one place. So, if you have an empty room for a kitchen, you can just use the Ikea design and planner tool to plan everything you want to put into it — from shelves and cabinets to countertops and appliances — before heading to your nearest store.
But while you’re used to seeing furniture and other home improvement items right on the Ikea Showroom, you might’ve missed the small items that the retailer still offers. These could be home improvement products that you’d typically look for elsewhere, like tools and paint, or smart home gadgets that let you control your home via your smartphone. So, we snooped around the Ikea catalog and picked out some Ikea kitchen gadgets that you might not have realized existed.
These tiny to medium-sized items would be useful around the kitchen, especially when you’re cooking and preparing food. So, whether you’re building or renovating your kitchen and are looking for tools to complete it or just casually browsing around the Ikea store, these are some of the kitchen gadgets you should look at and consider taking home with you.FANTAST meat thermometer and timer
Meat thermometers are crucial kitchen tools and are one of the simple electric gadgets that everyone needs in their kitchen, especially if you love cooking large meat portions. These gadgets help prevent undercooking, which can cause food poisoning, while also letting you monitor how well the meat has cooked, so that you do not overcook your chicken or steak and waste your ingredients. But aside from measuring temperature, the FANTAST meat thermometer can also serve as a timer, allowing you to track how long that turkey has been in the oven.
In fact, if you’re just cooking on a stove or grill, you can stick the probe inside the food to track its internal temperature while also using its timer function. And because the probe connects to the device via a heat-resistant cord, you can place the gadget securely on a flat surface away from the pot. That way, you don’t have to worry about the gadget falling into the food that you’re cooking or into the fire itself.
While you will need to find a place to store the probe with its long cable, the FANTAST itself will easily stick to your fridge door because of its magnetic rear. That way, you don’t have to go hunting around your kitchen when you finally need to use it, and it might even be useful for other timer-related stuff (like monitoring how much time your kid has left on their iPad while you’re washing the dishes).
