December 13, 2025 • 12 mins
Who doesn't love food? Who doesn't love gifts? Why not combine the two? Neil has the perfect gift ideas for the food lovers in your life. Take a listen!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Look at this man talk about knocking on the door
of the holidays. December thirteenth. Woo, that goes fast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We're in the middle of the month.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Basically, you're like halfway through that advent calendar. Chocolates, little gummies,
little treats, tiny little toys, unless you get one of those.
Have you seen one of those whisky ones where it's
got these small bottles of whiskey for each day. I
wonder if anybody ever gets to Christmas. Okay, bad news, nobody,
(00:38):
nobody has gifts. Wow, you ruined Christmas? Dad did I did? I?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, that's a horrible thought. All of that sounds.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Horrible, but we're in the middle of it, and I'm
just in this like looking at all these really neat things,
and I thought, you know what, throughout the show, we're
gonna pepper through some great guests, but also my ideas
for giving. If you're looking for gift for somebody that
loves food and those types of things, then today's a
(01:16):
good show for you. I was hoping we could open
up the phones later to take people's ideas. I don't
know that we're gonna have time. I keep listening. We
got some pretty killer Zelman's news.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So my friend Anthony's coming on flash Sail, huge discount.
They're gonna want to listen. All right, let's dive into it.
I saw these things that were adorbs balls, if you will,
they are Have you ever heard of of mug buddies
(01:52):
or mug toppers?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It is that like, no, you know, it's not that.
It's not the thing you put in the in the
hot chocolate and then you put or the milk on it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But that's a legitimate guess.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Those are Those are the the hot chocolate balls.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay, yeah, I think that's right. I think that's right.
But now they come in like the shape of men
and women. You can pour it on the man and
women and then they turn into marshmallows. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, those are neat, but it wasn't that like last year.
I think those are big. They're still around now, but
I think those are what do they call them, like
chocolate bombs or something, because chocolate balls is.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
A rough marketing. Maybe not for you.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm just saying that Mario and I probably aren't the
cocoa bombs. Coco bombs that makes more sense cocoa bombs. Okay, No,
it's not that. Imagine this. Imagine like I don't know,
you get a Christmas tree sugar cookie, but it has
a slit on the bottom that's just wide enough to
(02:59):
go on the edge of your cocoa mug or your
coffee or tea or whatever. But the ones that I saw,
and you can even a cookie cutters, so you can
make your own sugar cookies or gingerbread or any of
these things. Cut them out and it will have that
little divot, that space at the base that goes on
the side of the mug. So you've got it right there.
You can dip it, just don't dip that part, dip
(03:21):
the top, otherwise the whole thing's it's not gonna Yeah,
it's not gonna stay if you eat the legs first.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Today's going to be a rough show. I can feel it.
Is it me or you? Okayla who brought the silly?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean no, you came in super silly. You've done
like four or five accents that you've been here.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I appreciated that, alrighty okay, So I'm the one.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The ones that I saw that I thought were super
cute and I saw them at World Market, which I love.
Cost Plus is amazing, is so amazing for uh stocking stuffers.
We'll get to that a little bit later, but really
one of those overlooked places. They have all kinds of
really great gifts from all over the world, but a
(04:08):
lot of food gifts in smaller packages, so even stocking stuffers,
they're great. I know they have them there. I've been
told who else had them? A Target sometimes has them,
Costco sometimes has them. But they are little gingerbread houses,
like maybe one and a half by one and a half,
(04:28):
but they have the little divot cut out to put
them on the side of the stop it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
How cute is that? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's so cute.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And then you can you can like, if you're like me,
maybe you go tsunami and then you shake the chocolate
and it lips up the side.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You malibou, that's fun.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, you know next we'll have a blast with these things.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, but you could also be like, gods are should
knock it into the But what basically what it comes
down to is you got a neat to eat treat
right there on the side of your mug. And I
thought that's a that's a really really cool idea. So
I saw those and I thought that was very cute.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
There's a bunch of wonderful gifts out there, a couple
of new things this year that I saw that. I'm
fascinated by some local stuff that, you know, I love
supporting local places, local artisans and things like that. If
you're going out and you're buying, you might as well
buy local when you can, especially handmade stuff, baked goods,
(05:38):
things like that. They're just to me that that's how we,
you know, keep love in town, you know, locally, Go
and spend your money locally. These little places that maybe
walked by a bunch of times on the boulevard and
don't think about, oh it looks cute. I'll go in
there sometimes, go in there, see what they have. See
(05:58):
if they have something that ticks you're fancy. Because tis
the season and now is the time to support one
another and give and give lovely fun things. We'll have
some of those lovely fun things coming up, so go
know where. It's The Fork Report. I'm Neil Savedra.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hey everybody, it's the Fork Report, all things food, beverage
and beyond.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I am your well fed host, Neil Savedra. How do
you do? Happy holidays to you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Today is the thirteenth, so I think Honakah starts tomorrow
eight crazy nights.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Last week you told everybody I started on the fourteenth, So.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's what I write.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, right, that's I just want to let everybody know
that's happening. It's the common joke that Jewish folks don't
even know when Hanakah is because it changes each year,
and so they're like, what, oh, get out that Manora.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Very nice. We got a very great guest for the
Jewish folk coming up on Doctor Wendy Show tomorrow Nightsfully
they tune in. It's a singles dating for Jewish community only,
so we have a specialist setting that up this year,
so hopefully they listen to celebration for Hannakhah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So it's like, uh, Jewish people looking for Jewish people.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it's called Matso Ball bring Jewish aingles together.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's Christmas Eve as in a ball that you could
go out to like a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's Jewish singles coming together. We're going to talk all
about it on Doctor Mondy tomorrow. So singing you're Jewish,
you want to listen, you'll get love this holiday season.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's great. Look at that?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
What was there is another one? There's a Christian singles
in there's a Jewish singles.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, now that I didn't know about the Christians one,
I would have gone when I was single.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
What is it? A fish and plenty of fish, plenty
of fish or something? I don't know, all right, I
don't know was Christians mingle? They probably got that. They
got a little something for everybody, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So we're talking about stocking stuffers, gifts, things for or
the people that love food in your life. John Booze
cutting boards. You see them everywhere, the boos They are fantastic.
If you can't find a local maker, and there are
(08:17):
you know a lot of really handy wood workers that
do make beautiful wood cutting boards, despite what you may think.
And a lot of people say, oh, this is better
and more clean and blah blah blah, and you have
to worry about this with wood. No, wood is incredibly
(08:38):
clean when utilized properly, and one of the best. It's good.
It's it's not as harsh on your knives. If you
use and clean and keep it, you know, the upkeep
on it up to date. They're fantastic. It just really there.
There still is nothing in comparison to that. So they
(09:01):
are not cheap but Wayfair you can go to Wayfair
dot com. I saw some really decent prices on them,
and that means, you know, one hundred and a half
somewhere in there but for an end cut board. But
they're really really nice airloom style. I mean, this thing,
you treat it well, it will be there forever. A
company I've mentioned on the show before meson m I
(09:24):
S e N. I'm a huge fan of their products.
I don't know that they're in any stores, so you'll
have to go to their website m I S e
n dot com. And they have tons of great products.
I have their knives. I have multiple sets of knives.
They are one of them. They are beautiful, they work
(09:44):
very very well. But they also have pots and pans
and the like. And one I wanted to bring to
your attention is a pre seasoned carbon steel pan. So
if you think of like a walk, these are often
these seasoned carbon steel They almost get blue when they
heat up they get they just have this really, the
(10:10):
way they heat up, the consistency, the coverage, all of that,
and when seasoned properly, the nonstick is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's Meson, M I, S E N dot Com. Look
for their.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Preseason carbon steel pan. It's it's gorgeous. Similar note hex Clad.
They're popping up in more and more store locations, but
you can go to their website as well. But hex
Clad is an amazing combination of some of the best
known styles of cookwear put into one so you get
(10:44):
the nonstick ability, you get the benefits of searing with
stainless steel and the like, and they put all this
technology in one pan. So any of their pants are
are beautiful. However, one I want to point you to
is new and it is their brand new pizza steel.
(11:05):
And the thing about their pizza steel, if you don't know,
a pizza steel is usually just a chunk of steel
about a quarter of an inch. Usually it's heavy as hell,
traditional ones, and you put them in the oven, you
heat them up, preheat them for fifteen to twenty minutes.
They get piping hot, and then you use a pizza
peel to put your pizza or your bread on top
(11:26):
and it bakes that way. The cool thing about the
hex Clad that I've not seen before is one it's
got the non stick. That's great, but you put it
in their cold at room taps so you can actually
make your pizza on top of it without using a
pizza peel, sliding it on there and running the risk
if you're not familiar with making an oblong pizza or
(11:49):
something weird like that. And then it heats up, and
it heats so quickly that you'll be able to get
a beautiful, beautiful leoparding that's that dark, those dark spots
on the bottom that show that you've just really really
got a good heat on the bottom of your pizza dough.
(12:12):
It just is a thing of beauty. So that's on
my list as well. We'll have more coming up later
in the show. We come back. Anthony from Zelman's coming
on to tell you about a great stocking stuff for
deal flash Sale.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So go nowhere. It's The Fork Report. I'm Neil Savadra
k I AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty
I'm happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Look at this man talk about knocking on the door
of the holidays. December thirteenth. Woo, that goes fast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We're in the middle of the month.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Basically, you're like halfway through that advent calendar. Chocolates, little gummies,
little treats, tiny little toys, unless you get one of those.
Have you seen one of those whisky ones where it's
got these small bottles of whiskey for each day. I
wonder if anybody ever gets to Christmas. Okay, bad news, nobody,
(00:38):
nobody has gifts. Wow, you ruined Christmas? Dad did I did? I?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, that's a horrible thought. All of that sounds.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Horrible, but we're in the middle of it, and I'm
just in this like looking at all these really neat things,
and I thought, you know what, throughout the show, we're
gonna pepper through some great guests, but also my ideas
for giving. If you're looking for gift for somebody that
loves food and those types of things, then today's a
(01:16):
good show for you. I was hoping we could open
up the phones later to take people's ideas. I don't
know that we're gonna have time. I keep listening. We
got some pretty killer Zelman's news.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So my friend Anthony's coming on flash Sail, huge discount.
They're gonna want to listen. All right, let's dive into it.
I saw these things that were adorbs balls, if you will,
they are Have you ever heard of of mug buddies
(01:52):
or mug toppers?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It is that like, no, you know, it's not that.
It's not the thing you put in the in the
hot chocolate and then you put or the milk on it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But that's a legitimate guess.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Those are Those are the the hot chocolate balls.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay, yeah, I think that's right. I think that's right.
But now they come in like the shape of men
and women. You can pour it on the man and
women and then they turn into marshmallows. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, those are neat, but it wasn't that like last year.
I think those are big. They're still around now, but
I think those are what do they call them, like
chocolate bombs or something, because chocolate balls is.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
A rough marketing. Maybe not for you.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm just saying that Mario and I probably aren't the
cocoa bombs. Coco bombs that makes more sense cocoa bombs. Okay, No,
it's not that. Imagine this. Imagine like I don't know,
you get a Christmas tree sugar cookie, but it has
a slit on the bottom that's just wide enough to
(02:59):
go on the edge of your cocoa mug or your
coffee or tea or whatever. But the ones that I saw,
and you can even a cookie cutters, so you can
make your own sugar cookies or gingerbread or any of
these things. Cut them out and it will have that
little divot, that space at the base that goes on
the side of the mug. So you've got it right there.
You can dip it, just don't dip that part, dip
(03:21):
the top, otherwise the whole thing's it's not gonna Yeah,
it's not gonna stay if you eat the legs first.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Today's going to be a rough show. I can feel it.
Is it me or you? Okayla who brought the silly?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean no, you came in super silly. You've done
like four or five accents that you've been here.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I appreciated that, alrighty okay, So I'm the one.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The ones that I saw that I thought were super
cute and I saw them at World Market, which I love.
Cost Plus is amazing, is so amazing for uh stocking stuffers.
We'll get to that a little bit later, but really
one of those overlooked places. They have all kinds of
really great gifts from all over the world, but a
(04:08):
lot of food gifts in smaller packages, so even stocking stuffers,
they're great. I know they have them there. I've been
told who else had them? A Target sometimes has them,
Costco sometimes has them. But they are little gingerbread houses,
like maybe one and a half by one and a half,
(04:28):
but they have the little divot cut out to put
them on the side of the stop it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
How cute is that? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's so cute.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And then you can you can like, if you're like me,
maybe you go tsunami and then you shake the chocolate
and it lips up the side.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You malibou, that's fun.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, you know next we'll have a blast with these things.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, but you could also be like, gods are should
knock it into the But what basically what it comes
down to is you got a neat to eat treat
right there on the side of your mug. And I
thought that's a that's a really really cool idea. So
I saw those and I thought that was very cute.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
There's a bunch of wonderful gifts out there, a couple
of new things this year that I saw that. I'm
fascinated by some local stuff that, you know, I love
supporting local places, local artisans and things like that. If
you're going out and you're buying, you might as well
buy local when you can, especially handmade stuff, baked goods,
(05:38):
things like that. They're just to me that that's how we,
you know, keep love in town, you know, locally, Go
and spend your money locally. These little places that maybe
walked by a bunch of times on the boulevard and
don't think about, oh it looks cute. I'll go in
there sometimes, go in there, see what they have. See
(05:58):
if they have something that ticks you're fancy. Because tis
the season and now is the time to support one
another and give and give lovely fun things. We'll have
some of those lovely fun things coming up, so go
know where. It's The Fork Report. I'm Neil Savedra.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hey everybody, it's the Fork Report, all things food, beverage
and beyond.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I am your well fed host, Neil Savedra. How do
you do? Happy holidays to you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Today is the thirteenth, so I think Honakah starts tomorrow
eight crazy nights.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Last week you told everybody I started on the fourteenth, So.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's what I write.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, right, that's I just want to let everybody know
that's happening. It's the common joke that Jewish folks don't
even know when Hanakah is because it changes each year,
and so they're like, what, oh, get out that Manora.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Very nice. We got a very great guest for the
Jewish folk coming up on Doctor Wendy Show tomorrow Nightsfully
they tune in. It's a singles dating for Jewish community only,
so we have a specialist setting that up this year,
so hopefully they listen to celebration for Hannakhah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So it's like, uh, Jewish people looking for Jewish people.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it's called Matso Ball bring Jewish aingles together.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's Christmas Eve as in a ball that you could
go out to like a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's Jewish singles coming together. We're going to talk all
about it on Doctor Mondy tomorrow. So singing you're Jewish,
you want to listen, you'll get love this holiday season.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's great. Look at that?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
What was there is another one? There's a Christian singles
in there's a Jewish singles.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, now that I didn't know about the Christians one,
I would have gone when I was single.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
What is it? A fish and plenty of fish, plenty
of fish or something? I don't know, all right, I
don't know was Christians mingle? They probably got that. They
got a little something for everybody, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So we're talking about stocking stuffers, gifts, things for or
the people that love food in your life. John Booze
cutting boards. You see them everywhere, the boos They are fantastic.
If you can't find a local maker, and there are
(08:17):
you know a lot of really handy wood workers that
do make beautiful wood cutting boards, despite what you may think.
And a lot of people say, oh, this is better
and more clean and blah blah blah, and you have
to worry about this with wood. No, wood is incredibly
(08:38):
clean when utilized properly, and one of the best. It's good.
It's it's not as harsh on your knives. If you
use and clean and keep it, you know, the upkeep
on it up to date. They're fantastic. It just really there.
There still is nothing in comparison to that. So they
(09:01):
are not cheap but Wayfair you can go to Wayfair
dot com. I saw some really decent prices on them,
and that means, you know, one hundred and a half
somewhere in there but for an end cut board. But
they're really really nice airloom style. I mean, this thing,
you treat it well, it will be there forever. A
company I've mentioned on the show before meson m I
(09:24):
S e N. I'm a huge fan of their products.
I don't know that they're in any stores, so you'll
have to go to their website m I S e
n dot com. And they have tons of great products.
I have their knives. I have multiple sets of knives.
They are one of them. They are beautiful, they work
(09:44):
very very well. But they also have pots and pans
and the like. And one I wanted to bring to
your attention is a pre seasoned carbon steel pan. So
if you think of like a walk, these are often
these seasoned carbon steel They almost get blue when they
heat up they get they just have this really, the
(10:10):
way they heat up, the consistency, the coverage, all of that,
and when seasoned properly, the nonstick is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's Meson, M I, S E N dot Com. Look
for their.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Preseason carbon steel pan. It's it's gorgeous. Similar note hex Clad.
They're popping up in more and more store locations, but
you can go to their website as well. But hex
Clad is an amazing combination of some of the best
known styles of cookwear put into one so you get
(10:44):
the nonstick ability, you get the benefits of searing with
stainless steel and the like, and they put all this
technology in one pan. So any of their pants are
are beautiful. However, one I want to point you to
is new and it is their brand new pizza steel.
(11:05):
And the thing about their pizza steel, if you don't know,
a pizza steel is usually just a chunk of steel
about a quarter of an inch. Usually it's heavy as hell,
traditional ones, and you put them in the oven, you
heat them up, preheat them for fifteen to twenty minutes.
They get piping hot, and then you use a pizza
peel to put your pizza or your bread on top
(11:26):
and it bakes that way. The cool thing about the
hex Clad that I've not seen before is one it's
got the non stick. That's great, but you put it
in their cold at room taps so you can actually
make your pizza on top of it without using a
pizza peel, sliding it on there and running the risk
if you're not familiar with making an oblong pizza or
(11:49):
something weird like that. And then it heats up, and
it heats so quickly that you'll be able to get
a beautiful, beautiful leoparding that's that dark, those dark spots
on the bottom that show that you've just really really
got a good heat on the bottom of your pizza dough.
(12:12):
It just is a thing of beauty. So that's on
my list as well. We'll have more coming up later
in the show. We come back. Anthony from Zelman's coming
on to tell you about a great stocking stuff for
deal flash Sale.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So go nowhere. It's The Fork Report. I'm Neil Savadra
k I AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty
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