This is the Top Searched Kitchen Gadget in Massachusetts

ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS – We spend so much time in the kitchen, we deserve some fun gizmos and gadgets to help us craft creative culinary masterpieces. Even the most seasoned cook has a favorite way to make their top or best recipes, and they surely have some short cuts made possible by their kitchen gadgets.

The kitchen is the workhouse of the home. For the most part, people are used to spending copious amounts of time in the kitchen. From food prep to meal planning, cooking dinner to cleaning up after a long day, we spend lots of time in the kitchen, which is to say that the tools we cook with get a lot of use.

Ask any seasoned cook – it’s likely they have a favorite type of tool or appliance to use when they’re cooking or prepping meals. Actually, ask anyone who has ever made a meal before. Some people prefer using a toaster oven to a conventional oven. Others like a deep fryer versus an air fryer. In the age of instant gratification, it’s amazing to be able to throw something in the air fryer and have deliciously fried and crispy mozzarella sticks in five minutes.

Some people prefer their traditional crock pot to an instant pot -- whereas some folks use their instant pot religiously. Put it this way, there’s an entire section of different websites dedicated to using instant pots.

Preferences matter, so the team at Empire Today cooked up a way to figure out the favorite kitchen gadgets of cooks all over the country. By using Google trends search data, they were able to determine which states are looking for different kitchen gadgets as well as which gadgets were favored by different regions. The widespread favorite turned out to be the immersion blender. Despite the fact that there are a bunch of different gizmos and gadgets out there to make cooking easier, the immersion blender is a longtime favorite of culinary wizards everywhere.

It also turns out that the immersion blender was the top searched item in the Bay State. Updating your kitchen tools? This is what you and the rest of the North Shore should add to your kitchen.

You can see the full results here.