Cooking gifts?

[ItchySeveredFoot]

If you like cooking what would you like as a gift? Or what was your best gift? Budget less than £30 so I'm struggling.

Decent bottle of olive oil.

Nice chocolate, although that would probably be eating rather than cooking!

A good knife
Truffle oil
Cookbook of favourite chef
Chilli sauces
Chopping board
Voucher for Nisbets?

A few from my husband (who is a chef!)

What sort of cooking do they like?

I will echo a good knife, and point out T K Maxx often have excellent bargains in terms of knives.

Depending on taste perhaps something cuisine specific (balti dishes, pizza stone, nice BBQ skewers, etc).

Cooking class perhaps?

Again good knives. A cookbook of something I don’t cook very often, something new to try. Voucher for a shop that sells ingredients I use a lot, cookery class for something new.

What I would hate (if that’s useful) is some sort of cooking kit - everything to make your own sponge cake type of thing.

It depends on the recipient really. I cook every day for the family, which I enjoy but struggle to find different things, so a recipe book with new ideas would be great for me.

Related to knives, I’d really love a proper knife sharpener. I’d also really like an electric meat grinder so I could make my own sausage. My OH bought me a hand crank one and it really didn’t work but that’s because it has a plastic body instead of metal.

Last year I got my OH a curry subscription from The Spicery and the really enjoyed it.

There’s always a couple of new celebrity recipe books out for Christmas.

A really good virgin olive oil and a balsamic vinegar.

M&S and Waitrose have some good ones.

Felicity Cloake, Guardian Food Writer has just released her new book which is on my list, she's a great writer.

www.amazon.co.uk/Completely-Perfect-Essential-Recipes-Every/dp/0241367875/ref=la_B005PZZTSI_1_1?s=books&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1541155285&sr=1-1

A bottle of really good balsamic vinegar
A nice pie dish and a pie bird plus some baking beans
One of those old fashioned big mixing bowls filled with fun cupcake cases, sprinkles etc plus a Le Creuset spatula
Local cheese and chutneys plus crackers

A whetstone
Really good olive oil
A chunky wooden chopping board
Decent measuring spoons
Selection of really good quality spices
A really nice oven dish, something that can cook in and go to the table

I’d love any of these!

A foodie magazine subscription
A decent knife
Flavoured oils
A cookbook

None of those spice racks or mug cake things you see in shops at this time of year.

I need several gifts for food loving people and last night came up with what I think is a great cookbook so I’m going to get several more copies of this. I’d bought myself “ Together “ which is a collection of fantastic recipes and stories from women affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. They opened a kitchen so that they could cook for their families and meet together. The book is to help fund this. The recipes are fantastic, it is a really heartwarming and useful book. And is £10 - a bargain !

I love cookery books. Last Christmas I got a lovely ladle, a knife and a mixed bag of cake decorating stuff from TKMaxx. I didn't use all of it but it was a brilliant fun present.

@Sahara123 I’m planning to buy that for myself in a couple of weeks actually. The sample recipes look good and both vegetarian OH and I can eat them.

A mandoline or microplane? A lovely salad bowl?

How about some home made meat/veg spice rubs in Ikea jars? Only takes about half an hour to make, has a nice home made touch and you can put them in a gift box or basket to make them look pretty. Lots of recipes online. Would probably only cost max 15 if you made 4.

Depends what they like to cook.

Wok and chopsticks
A good cookbook
Spices or even fresh herb plants
Fancy cookie cutters

I wouldn’t buy knives as I’m quite fussy about which ones I like (and the ones I like are not in budget)