What is the best gift for cooks who have everything and love beef? It can be hard to find gifts for cooks since you’re looking for something practical and personal. This list of 14 ideas will help you get the perfect gift for your favorite carnivore.
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What is the best gift for cooks who have everything? It can be hard to find gifts for cooks since you’re looking for something practical and personal.
We’ve pulled together a handful of our favorite gifts for cooks. These ideas cover the gamut — from gifts for grillers to meat gifts for carnivores. Whether you’re looking for a gift for a cook that likes to cook beef or just eat it, we hope these ideas help!
Gifts for carnivores
Give a Cow. This may sound funny, but we’re serious. Every year we get orders from people that are giving a cow to family and friends that have “everything.” The great thing about this gift is it keeps giving for a long time — after all, a cow is a lot of beef! Shop for a quarter, half or whole cow.
Give a Digital Meat Thermometer. If you’re cooking meat of any kind, you need a pro-grade digital meat thermometer. It will improve how you cook more than any other kitchen tool. The Thermapen by Thermoworks is the absolute best. You can’t get it on Amazon, and they have great sales this time of year on their site. Get it here.
Give a Freezer Alarm. We can’t say enough good things about our freezer alarm. A freezer alarm helps protect food in your freezer and notifies you if the freezer is at the incorrect temperature. This gives you time to respond before the food in the freezer goes bad. Our freezer alarm comes with a smartphone app and WiFi connectivity, which allows us to constantly monitor the temperature of our freezer from anywhere at any time. It also sends alerts to our smartphones if the temperature reaches a dangerous level. This is the freezer alarm we have.
Gifts for cooks who have everything
Give a Steak Branding Iron. With a personalized branding iron, your steaks and hamburgers will have your official mark, along with amazing taste. We have a single initial branding iron, but you could also do a monogram or any other letter combination. Get it here.
Give a Cast Iron Skillet. If the person you’re shopping for is a home-chef, it’s very likely they already have a cast iron skillet. If not, they need one. The beauty of cooking with cast iron is that it heats evenly, which makes it perfect for searing a steak.
Give Mason Jars or Ice Cube Trays. Yes, we know this one may sound strange, but these make great stocking stuffers. Mason Jars and Ice Cube Trays are must-have kitchen tools when making, storing and freezing homemade beef bone broth.
Give Steak Knives. There are all different types of Steak Knives available, and you don’t have to spend a fortune to get a good set. One of the biggest things to ask yourself before purchasing is do you want a blade that’s straight or serrated. We prefer serrated, but it’s entirely a personal preference.
Give a Funny Beef T-Shirt. “I enjoy romantic walks through the meat dept.” and “body by Ribeye” are two of t-shirt slogans that have made us laugh recently. Everyone always needs another t-shirt, right?!
Gifts for Dads who cook
Give a BBQ Grill Tool Set. There are dozens of BBQ grill tool sets on the market. Since we primarily grill beef, we always look for long handled tongs and a long handled spatula. We aren’t fans using the fork that comes with some BBQ grill tool sets because when you pierce the beef with the fork, you’ll loose flavorful juices.
Give a Meatball and Slider Rack. Impress friends and use this rack to grill meatball and sliders. Lock the meatball and sliders into place so they don’t catch the grill rack.
Stuffed Burger Maker. Do you want to build a better burger? This is the ultimate 3-in-1 burger making tool for regular burgers, sliders and stuffed burgers.
Gifts for cooks who like campfires
Portable grill basket: A grill basket gives you a large grilling surface when you’re grilling over an open fire, like a campfire. Be sure to get one with a long handle and a lock so that you can flip the basket and cook both sides of the beef. We have this one.
Campfire grill grate: A campfire grill grate allows you to set a grill basket on something while meat is cooking on a campfire. We prefer a swivel grill grate like this.
Grilling gloves: Cooking over a bonfire can get hot quickly, especially when you’re flipping a grill basket. You don’t want to grill your hands too! We highly recommend gloves like this.
Stocking stuffers for everyone
Silicone Tools: You know how we feel about our Thermapen meat thermometer (we use it EVERY day), but we also love their silicone spatulas, brushes, and trivets. They’re all rated for temperatures up to 600°F, dishwasher safe, and built to last. They’re great stocking stuffers that you can only find on their website.
One more thing!
Do you want to learn more about beef? Below are a few popular blog posts and recipes from our site that you may like. If you want to get news from us weekly, sign-up for our e-newsletter and we’ll also email you a cheat sheet with 9-must-ask questions before buying beef directly from a farmer. Or, we have an entire ebook about beef that goes through purchasing and preparing beef from a cattle farmer’s perspective.
Popular blog posts on our site:
- Is It Done Yet? The Best Meat Thermometer
- Defrosting Meat: 4 Safe & Easy Ways
- Beef Liver Cubes: How to Hide Liver in Food
- How to Make Beef Bone Broth
- Understanding Cuts of Beef: What Comes with a Quarter Beef, Half Beef
- Slow Cooker Pepper Steak
- Prime Rib Roast with Garlic Herb Butter
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I LOVE your recipes!
And these are some pretty good Christmas gift ideas, too.
Thanks!