I love a good sale on cooking equipment or coffee gadgets, but there’s only one piece of kitchen gear that’s changed my life recently—and I don’t cook with it. Barring emergency kitchen purchases (like if your microwave quit), if you’re going to buy one thing off of Amazon’s Prime Day, I highly suggest you buy a kitchen vacuum. This Shark vacuum is my favorite new appliance, and it’s 31% off right now.
This shouldn’t shock you, but I cook every day. Obviously my profession has a lot to do with it (I never report on recipes I haven’t tried first), I do a lot of recipe development and tests in my kitchen, and that’s along with food my boyfriend and I cook ourselves on the daily. Aside from that, I have two cats shedding like the dickens this summer, and they like to hang out on the counters and look for cheese. This Brooklyn apartment’s kitchen has dealt with a lot. And it ain't pretty.
That is, until I got my Shark WandVac. It turns out that most of what keeps my kitchen looking dingy is the collection of crumbs, hair, and coffee grounds that seem to gather along every corner, crack, and edge. Big cleanups, like wiping down the stove and clearing the sink are easy to identify, but I hated how long it took to detail all the miniscule corners of the room. (Why are there crumbs in my silverware organizer?) The Shark makes that easy.
The first, and possibly most important, reason I love this tool is it’s cordless. I will undoubtedly knock jars and cups over or topple the pepper grinder if I have a wire to worry about. The Shark comes with a charging station for when the battery runs out, but I have to tell you that I don’t know when that will be. I’ve had it for about a month, I use it for two- or three-minute stints every few days, and I’ve only charged it that one time when I first got it.
Its narrow design allows me to navigate weird spots in the cabinets and reach around appliances. It’s small enough that I can keep it stashed on an easy-to-access low shelf so when I need it, I can just grab it and do a quick run of the countertops. Then I stash it again. It has great suction, it’s not too noisy, and it comes with accessories: a precision nozzle with an optional brush (which I love), and a wider nozzle attachment.
This vacuum retails for $129.99, but right now the rose gold is a bargain at 31% off. It makes cleaning the counters and that annoying lip around my stove much easier and a heck of a lot faster. And where cleaning is concerned, ease and speed are a recipe for success.