The Best Play Kitchen Accessories

JaxoJoy 122-Piece Deluxe Pretend Play Food Assortment

Feast Your Eyes

This set of play kitchen accessories comes with just about every food you can imagine.

Best Overall

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With enough pretend food to last through a pretend apocalypse, this enormous bundle from JaxoJoy takes the cake — literally. Aside from a variety of pastries, donuts, and cookies, this assortment also contains much more. From dairy and meat to fruit and vegetables, it’s hard to imagine the food in this set boring your kid. Not that it’s limited to strictly food, though; this package also comes with condiments, spices, bottles, and cans. The plastic that these pieces are made of is BPA-free, and because of the plastic construction, they’re easy to clean. If you’re looking for variety, this is your ticket.

Pros:

• Excellent cost value
• Great for multi-children homes, as the enormous variety means they won’t have to quarrel over whose turn it is to play with the food
• Made of BPA-free plastic

Cons:

• While we appreciate the sheer variety, this is an example of quantity over quality

Cute Stone Pretend Play Kitchen Sink and Stove

Dish Out the Fun

If you're looking for an interactive set that'll stimulate your kid's imagination, this is the one to check out.

Most Interactive

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Few sets manage to capture a child’s interest and hold it, and even fewer can do so while also teaching life skills. Enter this clever bundle from Cute Stone. With its sink, stove, dish rack, pots, pans, utensils, and all the rest, your child will have a fully stocked kitchen. But that’s not what’s special about this one. Thanks to the interactive features, your child can role-play in a realistic way, learning the general basics of how the components of a kitchen operate, in theory. Equal parts practical and fun, this is a bundle that’ll make both parents and children happy.

Pros:

• You can “wash” dishes, “steam” food (safely, of course), “cut” food into pieces
• Mimicks realistic actions so that your child understands the ins and outs of a real kitchen
• Excellent combination of imaginative stimulation and practical development

Cons:

• Requires 6 AA batteries

Byonebye Pretend Play Cooking  Accessories (35 Pcs)

Fine Dining on a Budget

This set comes with everything your child needs to serve up pretend meals to the family — and all at an excellent price.

Best Value

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Raising a little chef at home? If your mini-me is keen on cooking the whole family pretend meals, this set from Byonebye is a solid option. Stocked with pots, pans, cooking utensils, and produce, this set opens up the culinary possibilities to your young one. The included food consists mostly of vegetables and fruits, so this may help reinforce healthy ideas about food from a young age. Your kid will have to consider how these raw vegetables might be transformed into yummy dishes. Aside from the obvious benefit of this creative act, it may also make your child curious to try some of those healthy foods in real life.

Pros:

• Excellent value
• Chef’s hat, apron, and oven mitts included (and they’re very cute, too)
• Good variety of vegetables and fruit

Cons:

• Toys are not the most durable

Cute Stone 40-Piece Play Kitchen Set

A Bundle of Joy

This set of play kitchen accessories comes with it all, including a shopping basket, so your toddler can feel just like you.

Best with Shopping Basket

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Let’s face it: when it comes time to play, most kids would prefer the real version of something rather than an imitation. That’s all about to change with this set of play kitchen accessories. The pieces are just so realistic, and as such, your little one is sure to love them.

This set of play kitchen accessories comes with a few larger items, including a cooktop, a frying pan, a pressure pot, a teapot, and a knife block complete with a collection of (totally safe) plastic knives. It also has a utensil rack filled with spoons and spatulas and a basket full of plastic food. But perhaps best of all is the included shopping basket. Your kid can use it to pretend they’re shopping for groceries, and when playtime’s over, you can use it to store some of the accessories, too.

Pros:

• The food items are designed in two pieces with velcro in between, so your child can pretend to chop them up before “cooking”
• The egg “cracks open” to reveal a hardboiled egg inside, and a fried egg is included as well, so your little one can cook up eggs however they’d like
• Some of the larger items are interactive (the tea kettle can be filled with water and the cooktop has working lights and sounds)

Cons:

• This has a slightly higher price point when compared to other sets of play kitchen accessories, though the endless play opportunities are worth it to many

Temi Kitchen and Pretend Food Playset

Need a Kitchen? This Set's for You

If you need a kitchen and accessories to go with it, this all-in-one purchase is the way to go.

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Play kitchen accessories are amazing, but the downside is that once you buy them, there’s one more thing you’ll need: a kitchen. This set comes with both the accessories and the kitchen, giving your child everything they need to have the best time from the very start.

The play kitchen comes in pink or red, and it has many interactive features such as an opening double oven, an electronic cooktop with light-up flames and turnable knobs, and lots of shelves and hooks for storage.

Pros:

• The foods work well with the interactive kitchen. For example, the pot lids steam up when cooked on the stove, and some foods change colors when they get cold
• You can make the sink actually work with the built-in water circulation system
• The accessories include place settings, too, so your little chef can serve up pretend meals for the family

Cons:

• This kitchen requires three AA batteries that are not included in your purchase

Frequently Asked Questions

How much “food” does my child need to have fun in the play kitchen?

It’s less about quantity here and more about quality. If you choose the set your child likes best, they’re sure to have fun. Maybe that means they’ll get tons of food items, or maybe that means they’ll get a few extremely interactive pieces. Either way, endless hours of play are sure to be in store.

What’s the best way to keep all of these play kitchen accessories organized?

This is an understandable concern, as these sets do come with a lot of small pieces, but organizing a play kitchen is easier than it sounds. Simply organize the items in the kitchen itself (on the counters, on the hooks, or in the compartments) or place a basket next to the kitchen to throw everything in until it’s time to play again.