Kitchen Tools

Kitchen tools chosen for one reason: they take the effort out of a stubborn task. Cans that open themselves, apples peeled with a crank, shears that also crack nuts and open bottles. Less gripping, less twisting, less asking for help.

Everything here is picked for hands that have lost some strength: from arthritis, from age, from an injury that never quite healed. Nothing on this page needs a tight grip or a hard twist. If you are buying for a parent who has started handing you the jars, this is the shelf to look at.