Scotts of Stow has a really lovely and easy to use website, offering thousands of unusual, attractive and innovative products for kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom and garden. Most of their products can't be found on the high street (although you may well have seen their catalogue). Personally we think that the website is much nicer to browse round than the catalogue, with the further advantage that you can alter the size of the text. The current delivery area is UK only.

A same day despatch online cook shop offering a wide range of high quality items, including chopping boards, every kitchen utensil you can think of, pan racks and trolleys and clever storage solutions, plus bar accessories and everything for baking. Electrical equipment by Dualit, KitchenAid, Magimix and Krups. A great deal of care has gone into this website with lots of information and clear pictures. Well worth a browse.

If you know you like the brand, and you’d like to choose from the complete range (rather than the edited range you’ll find on some other websites) then you should visit this site. Dualit are surely the best known manufacturers of high quality toasters, and they also sell kettles, hand mixers, coffee grinders and scales, all to the highest specifications. You can buy spare parts and accessories for all their equipment on this website as well which are usually hard to find elsewhere.

Small Island Trader is an excellent company offering not only china and glass from a wide range of designers and manufacturers but also an excellent selection of kitchen equipment from juicers and steamers to copper and Le Creuset pots and pans, Sabatier knives, baking trays and the Eva Solo range of kitchen and living products. Needless to say they can't carry everything they offer in stock and delivery time is very much dependent on what you order. Allow at least 28 days.

An A - Z of high quality kitchen equipment, with professional quality cookware, kettles, knives, pasta makers, toasters, pancake pans, workstations and bread making machines being just a few from brands such as Cuisinart, Gaggia and Magimix. You can also take a look through their home interiors section for candles, rugs, floor cushions and planters. The pictures are very clear although you do have to click on a basic list first to get there.

You've probably already heard of this marvelous colourful, fun and innovative kitchen collection. There's a huge range on offer, regularly updated, with something for just about every occasion and every room in the house. You’ll find every kind of kitchen utensil plus boards and storage solutions, foils, cleaning products and waste bags and a whole host of other useful, and original products. There are lots of ideas for eating outside and picnics as well, plus foodie gifts at Christmas. Have a browse!

You can always be certain of finding just about everything here for the kitchen, from simple elegant cutlery and crockery, glasswear and general kitchen equipment to that cappucino maker you've always wanted. You can also be sure that (barring disasters) it'll be delivered when promised and the price will be good.

Heals, famous for its store in Tottencourt, is well known for its contemporary designs. On their website you'll find a wide selection of ideas for the kitchen, including small appliances, kitchen tools and gadgets, knives, untensils and storage, plus unusual and well priced tablewear and glass. Some excellent gift ideas here as well. They only dispatch to the UK and you normally have to wait between one to two weeks for your order to arrive dependant on availability.

There are a lot of kitchen equipment shops online offering you every tool and gadget you can think of but this one is particularly well designed and easy to use. Here you'll find an excellent range of pots, pans, bakeware and other kitchen equipment plus some unusual tableware including an Eastern dining section with chopsticks, mats, tableware and accessories. They also offer recipe suggestions, household hints and tips and decorative ideas for the table.

David Mellor, Royal Designer for Industry, has an international reputation as designer, manufacturer and shopkeeper. Born in Sheffield, he has always specialised in metalwork and has often been described as 'the cutlery king'. On his website you'll find a selection of his modern stainless steel cutlery, plus contemporary high quality glass and tableware, kitchen tools and equipment. They're happy to ship to you anywhere in the World and offer express delivery and a gift wrap service.

Here’s another excellent retailer offering everything for the kitchen beautifully displayed, including knives, pots and pans, bar tools, glasses and serving dishes, picnic equipment, housekeeping items and a gift selection. You’ll also find a small but very high quality range of electrical appliances, with Dualit toasters and kettles and KitchenAid mixers just a couple of the items you can order to be shipped to anywhere in the world.

A vast selection of products is available on the attractively designed site which promises to dispatch just about all of its products to you anywhere in the World. Coffee makers, butchers blocks, knives, recipe books, saucepans and basic kitchenware are just a few of the items available. In their country kitchen department you’ll find old fashioned enamelware, farmhouse crockery and traditional style kettles to sit on your Aga.

This famous London based cookery equipment site offers over 5000 items from hand painted tablewear including decorated and coloured pottery from France, a really comprehensive range of kitchen essentials including knives, boards and bakeware plus Italian products (parmesan graters and ravioli trays) copper bowls and pans, children's baking sets, wedding gift service, knife sharpening and copper retinning. This has always been and still remains one of the best kitchen and dining shops around.

If you know someone who has an Aga and likes cooking then this would be a great place to find them the latest Aga cookery book or some of the latest Aga textiles. If it's someone you know very well you could even give them the whistling kettle and you can be sure it would be used. There are other excellent products here such as high qualtity wood chopping boards, bowls, chefs knives and Kitchen Aid blenders.

Essential for any cooking enthusiast is a set of really good quality sharp knives and you'll definitely find them here. You can buy individual knives and sets by Global, Henckels, Sabatier, Haiku and Wusthof (and more), professional knife sharpeners and OXO 'good grip' tools. You will pay quite a lot for a really good set of knives and knife block but they will last you for years and be worth every penny. These are excellent gifts for real cooks.

For a really well designed online cook store that doesn't try and bombard you with products but offers an excellent choice have a browse here. There are some quite unusual brands alonside selections from the ranges by Nigella Lawson, AGA, Bialetti and La Creuset and everything from bakeware and kitchen tools to pots, pans and small appliances.

An online retailer, of the novel, clever, innovative and somtimes silly for everywhere in your home and including designers such as Nigella Lawson, Eva Solo, Sebastian Conran and Oliver Hemming. You'll find such ideas as the Armadillo breadbin, tipsy tray and Oliver Hemming Nio teapot here plus wacky (their description) products such as the collapsible funnel and male chopsticks. If I'm making this website out to be the place for last resort gifts it's not, the selection of attractive and useful products is huge and they offer free delivery to the UK.

You’ll find some quite different products on this website, such as the ZapCap bottle opener, Escali Cibo nutritional scale and CaddyO bottle chiller alongside their designer kitchen and tableware with collections from Eva Solo, Cuisinox Elysee, Le Creuset, Mauviel, Couzon and Jura. This is not the normal kitchen and cookware selection so have a look round, you're certain to find something very different and some great gifts for the enthusiastic cook.