Valentine's Day

From the slide-out rack to the intuitive controls, the Breville is an easy-to-use toaster oven with excellent performance. It quickly and evenly toasts bread and bakes frozen pizza and pot pies. The preset for cookies makes it simple to bake off nine treats in less than 15 minutes.

When fall and winter roll around, we start thinking about rich, comforting casseroles, which means that stoneware baking dishes like this one get pulled out, filled, and popped into the oven at least once a week. It's great-looking on the table and provides gentle, even cooking all around, for really nice, crisp edges on your lasagna.

Ah, martini glasses: so angular and sexy, so prone to making you look like a drunk as you struggle to keep a generously poured beverage within their confines. The traditional wide bowl, delicate stem, and sharply sloping sides are meant to enhance the botanical aromas of the gin, keep the drink frosty-cold, and provide a comfortable wall for a cocktail pick to lean against, respectively—but in practice, all those features feel like bugs for clumsy-fingered folk. So we sought out a design that wrapped up those attributes in a more user-friendly package, and discovered this lovely set of glasses. The broad mouth remains, but the conical shape has been softened and the stem fattened (which, if we're being honest, will make us all the more inclined to actually use that stem instead of clutching the bowl for dear life). Got no space for unitasking glassware? These double nicely as pretty dessert dishes.

A good digital scale is an essential tool for bakers or home charcuterie makers. The OXO Food Scale comes with an easy-to-clean, removable stainless steel weighing surface; great accuracy and precision; and a backlit pull-out display to make measuring easy, even for large or unwieldy items.