give me a box of mac & cheese and some pop tarts, and i'll be all set.

for the kitchen, you can purchase specific pieces of equipment to store spice bottles, cook meatloaf, make shell-less hard cooked eggs, slice those eggs, bake brownies you don't have to slice, drain tuna cans, open jars, stopper jars, melt chocolate, store your storage containers, serve heated chips & dip, and ever more wide ranging plethora of slicers and dicers and choppers and cookers and bakers and servers and storers. there are cups and bowls that are guarenteed not to spill and tools of all sorts with catchplates and catchpans and catchbowls, and if a foodstuff does somehow evade its container, there are all manner of wiper-uppers.

i own a special tool for opening cans. how else you gonna open cans? hammer and nail? and a special tool for uncorking wine. but really, you'd be surprised to find how much you can do with a cheap paring knife, a wooden spoon, a good pair of $3.50 scissors, and a set of revereware. when we moved in here over 20 years ago, my BFF from senior high gave me a cutting board i have used continually and in fact used just this morning. it's small, plastic, an absurd shade of pink, and so far hasn't demonstrated any special skills, but when food prep is not a hobby, you don't really need a skilled cutting board.