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Lesley Stockton is a senior staff writer reporting on all things cooking and entertaining for Wirecutter. Her expertise builds on a lifelong career in the culinary world—from a restaurant cook and caterer to a food editor at Martha Stewart. She is perfectly happy to leave all that behind to be a full-time kitchen-gear nerd.

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  • Four blenders, three filled with smoothie mixtures, standing in a row. Two glasses of fruit smoothie in between them.

    The Best Blender

    by Lesley Stockton

    After testing more than 25 blenders since 2012, we haven’t found a better one than the powerful, durable Vitamix 5200.

  • The bottles of our five favorite gins, displayed next to four gin-based cocktails.

    The Best Gins

    by Lesley Stockton

    We tasted 12 London Dry gins, mixing up martinis, Negronis, and gin and tonics to find our five favorites.

  • All three of our picks for best ice cream scoop next to their respective scoops of ice cream.

    The Best Ice Cream Scoop

    by Lesley Stockton and Abigail Bailey

    For perfectly round scoops with minimal hassle, you can’t beat the classic Zeroll scoop. It produces gorgeous scoops out of even the densest of desserts.

  • A person hold's a nonstick pan with a pancake in it. a plate of three additional pancakes is right next to the pan.

    The Best Nonstick Pan

    by Lesley Stockton

    We’ve cooked mounds of eggs and more in 27 nonstick pans since 2016, and we recommend the slick and durable Tramontina 10-Inch Professional Restaurant Fry Pan.