The Chef's Press

The Chef’s Press is a stainless steel kitchen tool, designed by renowned San Francisco Chef Bruce

The Chef’s Press is a stainless steel kitchen tool, designed by renowned San Francisco Chef Bruce Hill, intended for both professional and home use that allows for venting and weight adjustability while pressing food to increase efficiency, ease, and taste while decreasing cook time. Great for grilling, baking, steaming, roasting, sauteing, brining
Handy for weighing down foods for marinating
Vented to release moisture
Presses can be stacked to create extra weight
Easy to arrange in overlapping patterns to cover larger surface areas
Submersible
Compact storage
Dishwasher safe
Available in 9oz or 13oz sizes (more coming soon!)

10/15/2026

With & without the press 🍍 Check out the difference!

Faster, more efficient cooking. Better taste. The kitchen tool you’re missing.

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10/12/2026

Early fall on toast. 🍐🍯

Sweet caramelized pears, creamy Brie, toasted walnuts, fresh thyme, and honey come together on crisp Chef-Pressed sourdough for the perfect balance of sweet, savory, creamy, and crunchy.

The Chef’s Press helps the pears caramelize evenly and gives the sourdough that deep golden crunch that makes every bite better. 🔥

✨ SAVE THE RECIPE ✨

CHEF-PRESSED BRIE TOAST WITH PEARS, WALNUTS & HONEY
Serves 4

Ingredients

For the Pears:
🍐 2 ripe but firm Bosc or Anjou pears
🧈 1 tbsp unsalted butter
🫒 1 tsp olive oil
🍯 1 tsp honey
🧂 Pinch of kosher salt
⚫ Freshly ground black pepper

For the Toast:
🍞 4 thick slices sourdough
🫒 1–2 tbsp olive oil
🧀 6 oz Brie, thinly sliced

For Finishing:
🌰 ¼ cup toasted walnuts, chopped
🍯 2 tbsp honey, plus more as desired
🌿 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves
🧂 Flaky sea salt
⚫ Freshly ground black pepper

Method
1️⃣ Caramelize the pears: Slice pears ¼-inch thick. Heat butter and olive oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Add pears, season, and top with The Chef’s Press®. Cook 2–3 minutes, flip, and cook another 1–2 minutes. Add honey for the final 30 seconds.
2️⃣ Press the toast: Brush sourdough with olive oil and cook under The Chef’s Press® for 2–3 minutes. Flip and cook another 1–2 minutes until golden and crisp.
3️⃣ Melt the Brie: Top toast with Brie, reduce heat to low, cover, and warm for 1–2 minutes until soft and melty.
4️⃣ Finish: Layer on the pears, then add walnuts, thyme, honey, flaky salt, and black pepper.

10/11/2026

🔥 Better contact. Better crust. Better sandwich.

Meet the 17 oz. Round Chef’s Press — built to help your food stay evenly against the cooking surface so you get crispier edges, deeper browning, and more even melting without flattening everything into submission.

Perfect for grilled cheese, paninis, burgers, proteins, and anything else that deserves a proper sear. Basically, it’s the kind of tool you reach for once… and then wonder how you cooked without it. 👨‍🍳

🔥 Shown here doing exactly what it does best: turning a good sandwich into a golden, crispy, melty situation.

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10/06/2026

Chicken paillard is all about fast cooking, even browning, and maximum contact with the pan — which makes The Chef’s Press a pretty perfect match. 🍗🔥

Once the chicken is pounded thin, the press helps keep the entire surface flat against the skillet so you get a more even sear, better caramelization, and quicker cooking without constantly fussing with it.

And that’s exactly why it earns a permanent spot in the kitchen: the same principle works for chicken, steak, vegetables, sandwiches, burgers, fish, and just about anything else that benefits from better surface contact.

One tool. A lot of very good dinners. 👨‍🍳

09/30/2026

Holiday shopping for the cooks in your life? Start early and give them something they’ll actually use. 🎁🔥

The Chef’s Press is a weight-adjustable cooking tool designed to improve contact with the cooking surface, help food cook more evenly, release excess moisture through its vented design, and speed up cooking time by 20–30%.

Whether you’re shopping for a professional chef, serious home cook, grill master, or the person who is always experimenting in the kitchen, there’s a Chef’s Press setup for them:

✔️ 8 oz.
✔️ 13 oz.
✔️ 7.5" 16 oz. round
✔️ 18 oz.
✔️ One-of-Each Set
✔️ Grill Set — one 8 oz. + two 13 oz.
✔️ Starter Set — two 8 oz. + one 13 oz.

Get ahead of the holiday rush and check a few names off your list now. 👨‍🍳

09/28/2026

Eggplant, but make it the main event. 🍆🔥

A hot grill + The Chef’s Press® gives these slices deeper char, better contact, and beautifully tender centers. Finish with creamy labneh, zhug, toasted pistachios, fresh mint, and lemon zest for a dish that’s smoky, bright, and anything but boring.

Save this one for your next veggie-forward dinner. 👨‍🍳

09/26/2026

A little pressure never hurt dinner. 😏🔥

Whether you’re chasing a better sear, crispier edges, or more even contact with the pan, The Chef’s Press® knows exactly when to apply the pressure.

No smashing. No forcing. Just better contact and better cooking.

Your dinner can handle it. 💪👨‍🍳

09/25/2026

Meet the 7.5” 16 oz. Round Chef’s Press® — our large-format press designed to fit beautifully in a 10” pan and give you broad, even contact across whatever you’re cooking.

It’s a workhorse for more than just searing, too. Use it to keep foods submerged while marinating, pickling, brining, or sous vide cooking.

And because the handles on the 8 oz., 13 oz., 18 oz., and 7.5” round presses are designed to the same dimensions, they can stack and work together when you need a little more weight.

Best uses:
✔️ Quesadillas
✔️ Bok choy
✔️ Mushrooms
✔️ Sugar snap peas
✔️ Seared vegetables
✔️ Marinating
✔️ Pickling + brining
✔️ Sous vide submerging

Made from stainless steel and dishwasher safe, because your tools should work hard without creating extra work afterward.

Add the 16 oz. Round Chef’s Press® to your kitchen lineup and put that surface area to work. 👨‍🍳

09/22/2026

Every order has a little extra care packed into it. 📦🔥

Here’s Chef Bruce hand-packing another batch of Chef’s Press orders before they head out the door — and it’s a good reminder that when you shop The Chef’s Press, you’re supporting a small business built by a chef, for cooks.

Every press purchased helps support the people, ideas, and hard work behind the brand, and we’re incredibly grateful for every single order that comes through.

Whether you’re adding to your own kitchen tool belt or gifting a press to the cook in your life, thank you for choosing to shop small. 👨‍🍳❤️

09/20/2026

Perfectly golden chicken, bright lemon, fresh herbs, and one very important kitchen tool. 🍋🔥

The secret to getting that gorgeous, even sear? The Chef’s Press keeps the chicken in consistent contact with the pan for better browning, more even cooking, and a beautifully golden crust — without needing to push down.

Save this one for your next weeknight dinner. 👇

CHEF-PRESSED LEMON HERB CHICKEN
Serves 4

Ingredients
🍗 2 large boneless chicken breasts
🫒 2 tbsp olive oil, divided
🍋 Zest of 1 lemon
🍋 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
🧄 2 garlic cloves, finely grated
🌿 1 tsp fresh rosemary, chopped
🌿 1 tsp fresh thyme, chopped
🌿 Fresh parsley, chopped
🧂 1 tsp kosher salt
⚫ ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
🍋 ½ lemon, for charring

Method

1️⃣ Season: Season chicken with salt and pepper.

2️⃣ Make the finishing marinade: Combine 1 tbsp olive oil, lemon zest, lemon juice, garlic, rosemary, thyme, parsley, salt, and pepper. Set aside.

3️⃣ Get pressing: Heat a cast-iron skillet over medium-high and add remaining olive oil. Add chicken and place The Chef’s Press on top. Cook 3–4 minutes until deeply golden.

4️⃣ Flip: Turn chicken, replace the presses, and cook another 2–3 minutes, or until the thickest part reaches 165°F.

5️⃣ Char the lemon: Place the cut lemon in the skillet, cut-side down. Top with an 8 oz. Chef’s Press and cook until lightly charred.

6️⃣ Finish: Rest chicken for 5 minutes, then spoon over the lemon-herb mixture and finish with a squeeze of charred lemon and fresh parsley.

Serve it whole or slice it for salads, grain bowls, sandwiches, and wraps. 🙌

👨‍🍳 Chef tip: Let the weight of The Chef’s Press do the work. No extra pushing required!

Address

San Francisco, CA

Website

http://www.thechefspress.com/

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