Milk Street Garlic Pro
Garlic Pros are estimated to ship this Fall
There are few foods more annoying to prepare than garlic. It’s a pain to peel, tricky to slice and grating can be as risky to your fingers as the garlic clove. And garlic presses are an utter nuisance to clean, much less extract all the flavor that give garlic its reputation as an aromatic powerhouse. Introducing the Milk Street Garlic Pro, a one-stop solution for easy garlic prep. The intuitive design functions like a mini mandoline but is much safer, thanks to the hopper that keeps your fingers safe and sound. Simply choose the cutting attachment for sliced, pressed or grated garlic; load the garlic cloves into the large, grippy hopper then press down and slide back and forth to effortlessly process the garlic. The odor-proof polycarbonate base holds over a whole head of prepared garlic, which can be transferred to the mixing bowl or skillet without ever having to touch it. The sturdy steel, silicone and polycarbonate construction is precisely built for long-term durability. The three snap-in blade attachments lock securely into the bottom of the lid, so you’ll never lose them in the bottom of your utility drawer.
Aldo Armato Semi Sun-Dried Cherry Tomatoes in Oil
The Armato family has been producing fine Italian products, from olive oil and condiments to preserved vegetables and pastas, at their mill in Liguria, Italy, for five generations. And their Semi Sun-Dried Cherry Tomatoes are a revelation in sweet-tart flavor and satisfying texture. Harvested in Italy at the peak of summer, these cherry tomatoes are semi sun-dried. The process requires removing them from all heat before fully drying out, so each tomato can stay plump, supple and juicy—unlike the tougher, shriveled varieties in the grocery store. They are packed in the Armato family’s fruity, high-quality olive oil. Chop or leave whole to use as a topping for focaccia, mixed into pasta, added to sandwiches, blended in pesto, turned into aioli, stirred into ricotta or incorporated into eggs and omelets. And don’t forget to use the oil they are packed in—infused with the sweet, mildly acidic and salty flavor of the cherry tomatoes, it’s perfect for a vinaigrette or for dipping bread.
Aldo Armato Peperoncino- Dried Red Pepper Flakes
The Armato family has been producing fine Italian products, from olive oil and condiments to preserved vegetables and pastas, at their mill in Liguria, Italy, for five generations. And these dried red pepper flakes are in a league of their own—full of flavor and potency that most grocery store versions lack. Fruity and packed with heat (beware to those wary of some spice), each high quality chili pepper used is sourced from Calabria. All peppers are washed and dried in the sun, then blended gently into rustic pieces. Use these flavorful flakes anywhere you want to add a hit of elevated heat, from scrambled eggs, pizza and noodles to vinaigrettes, beans and marinades.
Handmade Deruta Italy Rooster Pitcher—1 Liter
Beloved for its vibrant colors and intricate patterns—and characterized by detailed motifs inspired by nature, mythology and historical events—Deruta ceramics is a style of pottery with roots tracing back to the 12th century. Thanks to an abundance of clay and skilled artisans, the town of Deruta, located in the Umbria region of Italy, remains a hub for ceramic production. Unlike most ceramic styles, Deruta uses maiolica, a tin-glazed earthenware that is fired twice in the kiln—once with a base glaze, then again with the painted finish. This allows the artist to be detailed in the painting of each piece, a traditional method that has been passed down from generation to generation. In business since 1965, the master craftsmen at Mod Ceramics have been individually crafting and hand-painting every piece of Deruta ceramics that goes out the door. The Handmade Deruta Italy Rooster Pitcher is no different—and it is perhaps the most iconic work of Deruta ceramics. A whimsical piece in the shape of a rooster, it’s available in two different color variations: Classic, a design showcasing the beautiful Chianti countryside, or Galleto, a design inspired by roosters, an Umbrian symbol of good luck. Made in both a .5 liter or 1 liter capacity, it’s perfect for wine, water or any other beverage. And it also makes a wonderful gift or vase. Sturdy and well-made to avoid chipping, it will last a lifetime. Each piece is made to order, signed and dated before shipping.
Handmade Deruta Butter Dish
Beloved for its vibrant colors and intricate patterns—and characterized by detailed motifs inspired by nature, mythology and historical events—Deruta ceramics is a style of pottery with roots tracing back to the 12th century. Thanks to an abundance of clay and skilled artisans, the town of Deruta, located in the Umbria region of Italy, remains a hub for ceramic production. Unlike most ceramic styles, Deruta uses maiolica, a tin-glazed earthenware that is fired twice in the kiln—once with a base glaze, then again with the painted finish. This allows the artist to be detailed in the painting of each piece, a traditional method that has been passed down from generation to generation. In business since 1965, the master craftsmen at Mod Ceramics have been individually creating and hand-painting every piece of Deruta ceramics that goes out the door. The Handmade Deruta Butter Dish is no different. It’s available in four different color variations: Classic, a design showcasing the beautiful Chianti countryside; the sunny Mediterranean Alcantara design; Galleto, a design highlighting roosters, an Umbrian symbol of good luck or Umbria, a design inspired by the famous colors of Umbria and its blooming landscape. Perfect for storing butter to be kept on the table or the counter, it’s sturdy and made to avoid chipping so it can last a lifetime. Each piece is made to order, signed and dated before shipping.
Handmade Deruta Olive Oil Bottle
Beloved for its vibrant colors and intricate patterns—and characterized by detailed motifs inspired by nature, mythology and historical events—Deruta ceramics is a style of pottery with roots tracing back to the 12th century. Thanks to an abundance of clay and skilled artisans, the town of Deruta, located in the Umbria region of Italy, remains a hub for ceramic production. Unlike most ceramic styles, Deruta uses maiolica, a tin-glazed earthenware that is fired twice in the kiln—once with a base glaze, then again with the painted finish. This allows the artist to be detailed in the painting of each piece, a traditional method that has been passed down from generation to generation. In business since 1965, the master craftsmen at Mod Ceramics have been individually creating and hand-painting every piece of Deruta ceramics that goes out the door. The Handmade Deruta Olive Oil Bottle is no different. It’s available in three different color variations: the sunny Mediterranean Alcantara design; Galleto, a design highlighting roosters, an Umbrian symbol of good luck or Capri, a design inspired by the bright citrus fruits that flourish in Southern Italy. Perfect for storing olive oil on the table or the counter and equipped with a removable stainless steel pour spout, it’s sturdy and made to avoid chipping so it can last a lifetime. Each piece is made to order, signed and dated before shipping.
Milk Street 365 Cookbook
Cook with confidence every day! Dig into 365 essential recipes and tons of foundational resources—from the James Beard Award winning team at Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street.This is Milk Street’s new and comprehensive guide to today’s recipe repertoire, full of fresh flavors and simple yet game-changing techniques. This is everyday cooking you actually want to cook every day.
Milk Street 365 is both inspiration and reference for the contemporary kitchen, with recipes that will change the way you cook at home from soups, stews and salads to flatbreads, pizzas and noodles. Dishes include:
- Velvety Turkish Scrambled Eggs with Yogurt
- Vietnamese Pork and Scallion Omelette
- Butter Beans in Tomato Sauce with Dill and Feta
- Thai Green Curry Chicken and Vegetables
- Taiwanese Five-Spice Pork with Rice
- Garlic-Rosemary Burgers with Taleggio Sauce
- Cheese-Crisped Pinto Bean Quesadillas
Plus deep dives into ingredients, pantry basics, and foundational techniques that every cook should master.
You’ll learn better ways to roast chicken (hint: flat birds crisp better, and seasonings stay in place when slid under the skin) and discover bold finishes for chops and steaks (think a slather of cilantro-lime sauce or a smear of miso butter).
Here, fundamental recipes and their nearly endless variations are paired with lessons on the art and science of good cooking. Sidebars and charts deliver valuable guidance about the tools, ingredients and techniques that comprise the modern kitchen.
It’s a 360-degree approach for all 365 days of the year.
Page Count: 640 pages
Dave's Cold Brewed Coffee Syrup
Dave’s Coffee Syrup is for so much more than coffee milk, Rhode Island’s sweet, creamy official state beverage. Dave’s syrup starts with Brazilian coffee beans—roasted specifically for use in the syrup—before the nutty, smoky ground beans are cold-brewed for 18 hours. This coffee is boiled with pure cane sugar and agave nectar for a complex, dimensional sweetness, until coffee syrup is born. Our testers noticed that this syrup tastes the way coffee smells—sweet and toasty—with none of the bitter or tannic notes of a brewed cup. While coffee milk is a classic and refreshing way to enjoy the taste of this syrup, we also love it in cocktails, batters, as a binder for granola, as a glaze for meat or roasted vegetables, brushed on to pastries and dessert and so much more. The full-bodied, chocolatey notes of coffee shine through in every application.
Tojiro Stainless Steel Chinese-Style Cleaver
Every kitchen should have a Chinese-style cleaver, whose tall, heavy-duty blade and forward-heavy balance do most of the work for you when chopping big batches of vegetables and mincing meats or herbs. We found an excellent model from Japanese producer Toryumon that, unlike most flat-bellied cleavers, has a slightly curved edge similar to a European-style chef’s knife, so American home cooks will find it easier to use. Roughly 7 inches long and 3.5 inches tall, the blade is smaller and more approachable than other models and ideal for those with smaller hands.
Milk Street Cleaver
Every cook needs a big, burly knife for the tough stuff. A big chuck roast to turn into stew meat? A soccer-ball sized cabbage to shred for coleslaw? Chicken legs need splitting? Tasks like these make most knives feel puny and insignificant.
Sometimes, you just need a big knife for kitchen tasks, but they often feel heavy, clumsy and downright unsafe in the hand. Often, the blades are ultra-thick—for only brutish, heavy-duty tasks—or are designed with unique blade shapes, which require a learning curve to master. Or, they have stubby handles barely long enough to grip.
Enter the Milk Street Cleaver, an all-purpose knife designed to work equally well for vegetables and butchering big cuts of meat. At 7 inches long, 3 inches tall and less than half a pound, this tool is an inch shorter than the average cleaver for a lighter, more nimble experience. However, it maintains full height for shielding fingers during chopping and using as a bench scraper to scoop up and transfer prepped foods to the pot. And, at only 2 millimeters thick at the spine, this cleaver is as thin as possible to maintain stiffness, yet slices with little force.
Unlike most cleavers that feature a basic rectangular blade design, the Milk Street Cleaver boasts some distinctive design points. The blade arcs inward at the heel to allow for multiple grips, while keeping your fingers guarded and preserving the length of the blade. To feel and function like a smaller knife, the cutaway heel lets you choke up close and tight on the blade. Or slide your hand back on the handle for more clearance, leverage and power.
The blade’s edge differs as well. Compared to the typical cleaver’s perfectly straight blade edges, the Milk Street Cleaver gently curves tip to heel for a natural slicing and chopping motion. It’ll feel the same in use as your chef’s knife—but safer while requiring less effort!
The blade’s unique embossed file pattern creates a nonstick surface—air gets trapped between the food being cut and the blade, preventing foods from clinging. Food falls right off. And a full-sized, ergonomic handle, far longer than the stubby handles on most traditional Chinese-style cleavers, helps creates a neutral midpoint balance that feels more natural than the forward-leaning heft of most cleavers.
Megachef Premium Oyster Flavored Sauce
Megachef Oyster Sauce is made with premium oysters that are harvested off the Gulf of Thailand and smoked over hardwood for a deeper flavor and smoky, grilled aroma. We love its complex yet clean flavor: robust and savory, slightly briny and almost sweet. Although it's prepared by cooking down oysters until their juices caramelize, this sauce does not taste like oysters; rather, it has a molasses-like richness and sweet, savory and umami flavor that's slightly similar to soy sauce. Megachef's version has no added artificial flavors or colors—in contrast, even high-quality brands tend to augment their oyster sauce with ingredients like MSG and caramel coloring, resulting in an artificial taste.
While oyster sauce is mostly used as an ingredient for marinades, stir-fries or flavoring rice or noodle dishes, Megachef's Oyster Sauce is also delicious on its own as a condiment—the sauce's smoother consistency compared to other brands is perfect for dipping or drizzling over dishes.
Benriner Mandoline Slicer
A mandoline vegetable slicer by Japanese company Benriner is standard equipment in most Japanese homes and restaurant kitchens around the world. We prefer this tool’s simplicity, durability and efficacy over other more complicated models. It comes with three interchangeable blades: The fixed straight blade—which is also removable and replaceable, ensuring long-term durability—creates slices ranging from .5 mm to 5 mm. Use the dial on the underside of the mandoline to fine-tune and adjust the thickness of your slices. You can also screw in one of other two blades, which allow you to julienne or finely shred your vegetables. We especially love that the finger guard, which extends across the width of the entire blade, is easy to handle and keeps a firm grip on ingredients while slicing. Additionally, a non-skid base, safety handle and notches in the mandoline will keep the device steady whether you lay it across a bowl or prop it against a countertop.
Milk Street Kitchin-to™ Knife
Standard chef’s knives are big and heavy because they evolved from Middle Ages daggers, which were designed for defense. It stabs fine, but how well does it handle standard kitchen tasks such as chopping and slicing? Our solution was to look toward Japan, where knives are based on the design of the featherweight samurai sword. Japanese knives are thinner and designed for the task at hand. Based on these lighter, safer knives and our own cooking experience, we developed an all-new modern chef’s knife that’s remarkably easy to use. It’s the Milk Street Kitchin-to, part Chinese cleaver and part vegetable knife. It can handle small jobs such as slicing garlic but also makes heavy-duty jobs a breeze. With the Kitchin-to, you let the knife do the work!
Aux Co. Ltd. Otona No Teppan Iron Plate with Lid and Trivet—Small
Translating loosely to “grilling on an iron plate,” teppanyaki is a beloved Japanese style of cuisine that is hard to replicate at home. Relying on simple, fresh ingredients—like vegetables, meat, seafood and noodles—with minimal seasonings, cooking is dependent on a large, flat grill that heats to high temperatures. Thankfully, the expert artisans from Japan’s Tsubame-Sanjo, an area renowned for its superior metal craftsmanship, created an extra-thick iron pan to recreate teppanyaki cooking in your own kitchen. Naturally nonstick and able to heat up to very high temperatures, this beautiful plate with easy-to-grip handles comes equipped with a matching lid and a natural wooden trivet. For the most traditional cooking, begin your food on the stove before covering it and transferring the plate to the wooden serving trivet to finish cooking. Metal insets keep the wood from scorching, so you can bring food from the stove to the table with complete ease. The large model is big enough to serve three to four people and comes with two handles for easy carrying. The smaller model will serve one to two people and comes with a single handle.
Aux Co. Ltd. Otona No Teppan Iron Plate with Lid and Trivet—Large
Translating loosely to “grilling on an iron plate,” teppanyaki is a beloved Japanese style of cuisine that is hard to replicate at home. Relying on simple, fresh ingredients—like vegetables, meat, seafood and noodles—with minimal seasonings, cooking is dependent on a large, flat grill that heats to high temperatures. Thankfully, the expert artisans from Japan’s Tsubame-Sanjo, an area renowned for its superior metal craftsmanship, created an extra-thick iron pan to recreate teppanyaki cooking in your own kitchen. Naturally nonstick and able to heat up to very high temperatures, this beautiful plate with easy-to-grip handles comes equipped with a matching lid and a natural wooden trivet. For the most traditional cooking, begin your food on the stove before covering it and transferring the plate to the wooden serving trivet to finish cooking. Metal insets keep the wood from scorching, so you can bring food from the stove to the table with complete ease. The large model is big enough to serve three to four people and comes with two handles for easy carrying. The smaller model will serve one to two people and comes with a single handle.
Genicook Measuring Cups
Lightweight and incredibly durable, Genicook’s Measuring Cup Set is our key to accurately portioning out both dry goods and liquids. Made from borosilicate glass, the same material as science beakers, these high temperature-resistant cups are less likely to crack, chip or scratch. And they’re naturally odor– and stain–resistant. Tall and equipped with sturdy handles, each cup stores away easily (unlike some wide-mouthed options on the market), while high walls keep ingredients contained—even when whisking or stirring. The V-shaped spouts on all three sides make for smoother, more comfortable pouring without any splatter, and the featherlight weight makes for easy pouring without any hand fatigue from heft. Use these cups for anything that needs to be measured—it works for dry goods and liquids! Unlike other liquid measuring cups that fan out, yielding inaccurate dry good measurements, we tested these cups with multiple flours and grains to verify that they produce the exact same results as a measuring cup made for dry goods. The set features 1-cup, 2-cup and 4-cup capacities or get the 4-cup (Large) by itself.
Like Family California Meyer Lemon Oil
Most citrus-infused olive oils taste fake, because they are—manufacturers pack olive oil with aromatic chemicals and call it a day. Not so with Like Family’s California Meyer Lemon Olive Oil. The family-owned company starts with young, fruit-forward arbequina olives harvested in California and presses them with whole Meyer lemons from their own orchard. This “co-milling” creates a beautifully lemony finish: The bright, sweet notes of Meyer lemon, so much more floral than the standard lemon, play perfectly off of earthy, fruity arbequina olives. And the finished product has the telltale velvety mouthful of a great Californian extra virgin olive oil.
Our current stock is from the limited December 2023 harvest. We drizzle this on roasted veggies and grilled fish, as well as Parmesan-rich or seafood-based pastas. Emulsify it into vinaigrettes, add to hummus or marinades for feta and other cheeses, finish salads or even add it to your baking.
Like Family California Lime Oil
Most citrus-infused olive oils taste fake, because they are—manufacturers pack olive oil with aromatic chemicals and call it a day. Not so with Like Family’s California Lime Olive Oil. The family-owned company starts with young, fruit-forward arbequina olives harvested in California and presses them with whole limes, a rare and powerful combination. This “co-milling” creates a beautiful finish: The zesty, tart notes of California lime are even more concentrated and complex against the backdrop of earthy, fruity arbequina olives. And the finished product has the telltale velvety mouthful of a great Californian extra virgin olive oil.
Our current stock is from the limited December 2023 harvest. We drizzle this zippy, electric green oil into herb sauces, on soup, grilled fish and crudo, salads, grains, roasted veggies, avocado toast, corn on the cob, shrimp, Thai curry and more.