8 Kitchen Must-Haves To Make Your Breakfast Routine Quicker and More Efficient

Unless you’ve mastered the art of getting up extra early, mornings tend to be the most crazed part of the day—times 10 if you have kids. One minute you’re buried deep in your duvet fast asleep, the next it’s a mad dash to get yourself (and everyone else) ready before your to-do list takes over the next eight hours of your life. Often, breakfast is treated as an afterthought, if it’s even considered at all.

According to The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, nearly one-quarter of Americans skip breakfast. Here’s why that isn’t, well, great: “As a registered dietitian, I always recommend eating a well-balanced breakfast. It’s an opportunity to provide your body with nutrients you need at the start of the day and after you have gone many hours without any fuel,” registered dietitian Toby Amidor, RD, previously told Well+Good.

If you want your a.m. meal to hold you over until lunch, registered dietitian Melissa Rifkin, RD, says it should include protein, carbs, fiber, and healthy fats. “Protein and fat provide satiety while carbs—ideally complex carbohydrates—provide energy,” she says. Of course, in order to set yourself up for breakfast success, it helps to have some breakfast kitchen tools to make it easier. Need some inspiration? Rounded up here are eight breakfast kitchen must-haves that help cut down on the time it takes to get your morning meal ready.

Keep reading for 8 breakfast kitchen tools that make morning mealtime way easier.

1. Cuisinart Countdown 2-Slice Toaster

How are you going to make delicious avocado toast (one of the easiest, nutrient-rich breakfasts ever) without a toaster? This one has a whopping seven different toasting settings as well as a countdown telling you exactly how many seconds your bread has left until it’s ready.

2. Smeg 10-Inch Nonstick Frying Pan

You know what slows breakfast time down? Dishes. If you’re living the WFH life, dirty dishes from the morning can haunt you while you sit, trying to work in the next room. You don’t want to spend your precious time between Zoom calls scrubbing, right? That’s why nonstick pans are truly worth the investment. That way, cleaning up after making a quick veggie-loaded egg or tofu scramble only takes a minute.

3. Kalorik Stainless Steel Egg Cooker

Egg lovers, this one’s for you. Eggs are truly a nutritional goldmine, and if you hardboil a whole batch at the beginning of the week, you don’t have to do any breakfast cooking whatsoever in the mornings. An egg cooker like this one cooks a whole bunch at once and does it perfectly every time.

4. Benriner Super Mandoline Slicer with 4 Blades

If you want to work more fruit and veggies into your morning meal, whether by adding them to oatmeal or cooked with eggs or tofu in your nonstick frying pan, a mandoline will save you so much time. It literally cuts down the time it takes to get your produce into bite-size pieces.

5. Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker

You mean you don’t have an Instant Pot yet? This cooking tool isn’t just for dinner; you can make a whole lot of time-saving breakfasts ahead of time with it too, like breakfast casseroles, oatmeal, and French toast. If you’re waiting for a sign to finally order one, this is your sign.

6. Crate and Barrel Egg Bite Maker

If you love eggs, just not hard-boiled, this egg bite maker may be more your speed. Whisk some veggies and spices into the yolk, pour it into the maker, and you’re just minutes away from fluffy egg bites.

7. Black & Decker 4-Slice Toaster Oven

Similar to the Instant Pot, virtually everyone who has a toaster oven is obsessed with it, and there’s a reason for that: it’s compact and cooks a heck of a lot faster than a conventional oven. If you’re a breakfast sandwich lover, a toaster oven can seriously upgrade your mornings. Other breakfasts you can make with it: baked French toast, Italian-style eggs, and frittatas.

8. Ninja Fooji Cold and Hot Blender

Smoothies are the ultimate quick-and-healthy breakfast go-to. Just dump your ingredients in the blender, turn that baby on high for a minute, and voila!

Try this antioxidant-rich carrot cake smoothie recipe:

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