Top-Shelf Advice
Retailers respond to: "What is your best-selling
kitchen tool?"
By Barbara Wujcik
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"Kuhn Rikon paring knives are our best-seller. They come in
all these great colors — color is
the watchword today — they are offered in pink, lime green,
yellow and blue. They are really
popular, a lot of fun. They are a nice quality for the price
with plastic handles and plastic covers.
People are buying them to toss into a picnic basket to cut cheese
and fruit. They are also convenient
to put in a lunch bag.. Microplane graters are still up there
as well, still very popular."
Suzanne Lane, owner of Gray Goose Cookery in Mystic, Connecticut
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"The Microplane graters are still the top seller. Everyone can use it — at every level of
cooking ability. Customers buy one for themselves as well as for friends and relatives."
Geri Riekhof, sales associate at The Bay Leaf in Lawrence, Kansas
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"There are so many cute, fun gadgets that we
offer. We have about three-fifths of our store devoted to kitchen,
tabletop, gourmet foods and coffee and tea roasting. Right now
our best seller is silicone snap-on lids, which we have in two
sizes. Onion goggles to use when cutting onions are also a big
seller.
“A series of kitchen tools [from MSC International], like small
egg pans with an egg-shaped face on the handle, are very popular.
There’s also a whisk that they call a Whiskie and the Wedgie Egg
Slicer. For the holidays, the egg faces are wearing Santa hats
and those go fast. We have a lot of fun, crazy things that are
great for kitchen, wedding showers, housewarmings, etc"
Sharon Pugh, owner of sideways inc. in Plymouth, Michigan
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"Porcelain-covered salt pigs that are 6-in. or
7-in. high are our current best sellers. The Rosle garlic press
is also very popular."
January Hodgson, owner of Savor Specialty Foods, in Atlanta, Georgia
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"Fusion Brands silicone poach pods, set of two, are our best seller. They retail for $9.95, a
good price. We get them through Harold Import Co. We have them in the front and we frequently
sell out."
Willa L. Breese, owner of Kitchen Outfitters Ltd., in Acton, Massachusetts
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