Kitchen Essentials For The Man's Man

Cast iron is heavy, burly, and the most manly of the kitchen gear out there. Lodge's line of cast iron skillets is also one of the most affordable, with pans ranging in size from 8" to 15". The listing here also includes a silicone hot handle, in case a man gets forgetful, hasty, or needs to react fast, and forgets the handle of the cast iron skillet is just as heat-conductive as the rest of the pan.

As evidenced in the photo, you can cook all elements of a variety of delicious meals in this Master Pan divided skillet's segmented compartments. Like a bacon cheeseburger with a side of baked beans and...chicken kebabs? Mmmm, looks good. Or a pair of salmon fillets with wild rice and mixed vegetables. Mmmm...looks like I'd rather have Thai takeout.

The skillet is made of 100% die-cast aluminum with a heavy gauge bottom to distribute heat flow evenly. Its Bakelite handle is oven safe to 350 Degree F for 1 hour.

Dish Soap + Cast Iron Cookware = Very Bad Cleaning Method. But evidently, Chainmail + Cast Iron Cookware = World's Best Pot and Pan Scrubber. The CM Scrubber looks like a cross between a potholder and the second ugliest shoes ever made (Crocs still sittin' heinously at #1), but its lifetime guarantee suggests its funky appearance only makes it more powerful and capable of de-crust-and-crapping cast iron skillets and pots without compromising their seasoning.

This rack is so nice it will give you solid wood. German home goods store Buchholz Berlin uses real branches, each obviously unique unto itself, to form and finish the Masserast series of kitchen knife racks. Each branch's length and shape will vary slightly, but you will be able to choose between tree parts large enough to hold 3, 4, and 5 knives. Or any ferromagnetic implement you want to mount, as Buchholz embeds super-strong magnets into their racks for holding power.

Chifen Cheng's cast iron and wood kitchen knife has won multiple design awards from official contests and organizations, plus one enthusiastic and gentlemanly bow from me. I wish there were a video of the knife's walnut blade slicing vegetables, and its cast iron handle grinding spices like Cheng and collaborator Maison Milan say it can, because if this thing truly cuts like a knife, then I'm ready to make it feel so right in my own hand.

Kitchen Art's Ham Dogger takes a quarter pound of ground beef and shapes it into a meat tube reminiscent of America's second favorite pork product, proving once again that anyone who argues in favor of leaving well enough alone should shut the F up.

Know when else you can eat pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time? When pizza's on an IRONATE dish of intense heat conduction that needs just 3 minutes to cook it into a disc of pure crispy-chewy-cheesy-crust love. On your stovetop. Even the glass flattop electric and induction kinds. The IRONATE is a carbon steel piece of cookware that says it will get as hot as commercial pizza ovens in less than 10 minutes, and then cook your homemade pizza from scratch in another 3. All from a single burner on your kitchen range.