Accessories & supplies
Kitchen spares and accessories: the small things that decide the result
Twelve categories of parts and accessories, judged the same way as the appliances: by what they change, and whether the cheap option is already good enough. Most machines described as worn out come down to a flattened sealing ring, a coating that has gone or a blade assembly that has dulled — not the machine.
Browse by category
- Cooking thermometers The instrument that ends the argument 16 items
- Grill & waffle plates The part that wears, on a machine that does not 14 items
- Vacuum bags & rolls Embossed, smooth, and which sealer takes which 7 items
- Kitchen scales One gram, or five, and where the display is 15 items
- Pans & molds Inches, material, and how a recipe was written 13 items
- Trays & pizza stones Thermal mass, and the shelf it has to fit 14 items
- Seals & valves The ten-dollar part that decides a two-hundred-dollar machine 8 items
- Mixer attachments A hub standard, and what it is still worth in ten years 9 items
- Bowls & beaters A second bowl, and the flat one that scrapes 14 items
- Jars & blades A blunt blade, a leaking collar, a working motor 2 items
- Air fryer accessories Airflow, and what must not block it 2 items
- Raclette pans The part that goes missing between two winters 2 items
Start from the problem
Most people arrive here with a machine that has stopped doing its job. These are the commonest starting points, each with the category to compare and the page that explains the cause.
- A pressure cooker that will not come up to pressure Compare seals & valves · read cleaning a sealing groove
- Waffles or toasties that stick to the plates Compare grill & waffle plates · read coatings and what kills them
- Meat that is guessed rather than measured Compare cooking thermometers · read using a probe thermometer properly
- An attachment or bowl that has to fit an existing mixer Compare mixer attachments · read how to read a compatibility list
Before buying any replacement part, the parts that wear first sets out, family by family, what actually fails — and which repairs are worth making.