13 Fun Additions to Your Thanksgiving Celebration

With the Mighty Carver, you can go from carving up the neighbors on Halloween to carving up the turkey on Thanksgiving without even taking a beat to swap tools! Really!

No, not really. The Mighty Carver is a chainsaw in looks alone. In function it is an electric carving knife for your turkeys and roasts that creator Kimberly Burney fashioned after a power tool for a very deliberate, and I think pretty good reason: she hoped it would entice the men in her family, who loved trimming limbs and cutting up logs in the yard, to volunteer when she asked who wants to carve the turkey.

The Puking Kitty Gravy Boat is bllleeeccchhh! for the 2021 holiday season! I think we can all agree that no cat owner's Thanksgiving feast would be complete without a kitty hacking up a furball or, like, a piece of dead mouse in the corner. But if you can't get your cat to cooperate, or you don't have a cat, the Puking Kitty Gravy Boat will keep the spirit alive, and the emulsified meat fat flowing, all dinner long.

Dash says its Masha-ed potatoes are the doggone fluffiest. And smoothest. And creamiest. The rotor-cone technology behind this mashing machine purees foods ranging from potatoes and yams to guacamole and hummus in under a minute.

The Masha 2X looks more or less like an immersion blender to me, but more focused in its abilities. Its attachment cones have a larger blade and more vents for pureed foods to pass through so they don't clog up the blade, or break down foods unevenly.

A Split Decision Pie Pan is genius for Thanksgiving, because Thanksgiving pie is always a split decision in my house. My wife, She-Ra: Princess of Power, invariably wants some Frankenstein abomination like Blueberry Lemon Cheddar Streusel, and I, true to good taste and America, want Apple. With a lattice crust, dammit.

Don't already have fat pants? Sure, sweats will do, but this alternative, this pair of expandable pants designed with human garbage disposals like me in mind, may be preferable for donning to Thanksgiving dinner, especially at homes you've been asked to leave in the past for unbuttoning your pants at the table.

Betabrand, in collaboration with San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino, created the Gluttony Pants, two khaki straight legs, a pocketed ass, and an induglence-themed waistband depicting the life cycle of a glutton from birth to final, death-dealing esophageal insertion. They're capped with 3 spaced button closures representing the 3 gradations of Culinary Swino: Piglet; Sow; and Boar.

Do I want a silicone bristled basting brush that can also scoop up juicy drippin's, drizzle them onto my dish, and then rest on my cutting board without spreading their remnants all over it? Fo shizzle my Brizzle.

The Brizzle stand-up scoop, baste, and drizzle brush is Dreamfarm's latest creative kitchen tool that makes common cooking tasks just a little easier and more intuitive. In addition to its 100 non-stick, heat-safe to 500F silicone bristles, the Brizzle has a 1-tablespoon scoop on its head, the latter of which bends 90 degrees to give the former access to your basting liquid without tilting your pan or roaster.

A merger of my two favorite things in life - ice cream and stuffing my face - Baskin Robbins' Thanksgiving Turkey Cake is back. Its return wasn't guaranteed. No, the layers of Mint Chocolate Chip and fudgy partitions shaped like everyone's favorite seasonal fowl required the assistance of "popular demand" for its reappearance on the market this year.

That's Baskin Robbins' story anyway. The truth is that "popular demand" mostly constituted me writing them daily letters and emails, and occasionally Fed Exing frozen turkeys stuffed with Mocha Almond Fudge. I think the coup de grace was the live bird covered in buttercream and gel icing I let loose in their corporate offices.

And now, turkey-molded ice cream for everyone!

Floaters can be good - boats, tank rafts with water cannons - and floaters can be bad - poo in the pool, turkey in the brine. The Briner is a 22-quart bucket that pretty much looks like any other 22-quart bucket, except that it secures food in place under the surface of the liquid so it doesn't bob around partially submerged, and end up partially brined.

The Briner's guts consist of a food-grade plastic hold-down plate and a series of notches for plate placement just above the meat or fish you're brining. When the process is complete, you can also use the plate to keep your food penned in while you drain the brining juice in the sink.