With help from Pryde’s, 10 handy kitchen gadgets you never knew existed

When John and Connie Perucca started Pryde’s Old Westport in 1968, they carried more patio furniture than kitchen products. That has certainly changed over the last four decades. Sometime in the 1980s, kitchen gadgets became among the hottest sellers at the Westport shop. And while the Peruccas sold the business to their daughter, Louise Meyers, a decade ago, the gadgets have remained.

Today, says Meyers, the store carries at least 30,000 kitchen gadgets. Here are 10 of the most random.