Not everyone has the biggest countertop and space to spare, and even if we did, you mightn’t want to share it with every extra device made for cooking.
As good as appliances can be, their ability to consume countertop space can be an enormous frustration. Your kitchen counter is meant to prepare food, and not necessarily house the gadgets that help you prepare it. And yet these days, there are so many gadgets that can be useful in this way.
Toaster. Kettle. Coffee maker. Air fryer. Portable cooktop. Blender. Juicer. Mixer. Food processor. And so on and so on. You can find a gadget that handles lots of little different things, or you can consider converging the concepts to bring it all together.
For instance, while a coffee machine isn’t technically a kettle, it may be used to heat water in much the…