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A Cannon for PepperMännkitchen Pepper CannonRead more$200Amazon
Bourdain’s Favorite KnifeGlobal 8-Inch Classic Chef’s KnifeRead more$150 $100 (33% off)
Crate & Barrel
Lasers for Measuring EverythingMileseey S50 Green-Laser Distance MeasureRead more$130Amazon
The Manliest Grill GlovesBig Green Egg Hell HandsRead more$100
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There are gifts for men. And then there are manly men gifts. Countless gift guides for the men in your life offer up the same neckties and tool sets and tasteful leather belts. And don't get us wrong: We're classy people, too. We like only the finest T-shirt a Savile Row tailor recommends, and anything themed for whiskey.
But this is a guide to the manliest gifts made for man men, menly objects ranging from the most classic of man totems to the most ridiculously hypermasculinized. Welcome to the red-hot tropics of the manosphere. Mere regular soap will not do when soap with the word “men” on it also exists. No mere shaving for us, when shaving can be aggressive. Enjoy.
For more men-themed gifts for man-themed men, check out our Gifts for Outdoorsy People, our Gifts for Dads Who Don't Need Anything, and Gifts for Golfers.
Updated June 2026: We've added the Mileseey S50 Green-Beam Laser, the Big Green Egg Hell Hands, the Global 8-Inch Chef's Knife, the Grown Ass Men Last Call Shampoo Bar, and the Flair manual espresso maker. We also updated prices and product information, and removed discontinued or out-of-stock products.
A Cannon for Pepper
Courtesy of MännkitchenSave to wishlistSave to wishlistMännkitchen
Pepper Cannon
$200Amazon
$200MÄNNKITCHEN
Shaking isn't manly. Grinding is manly. Cannons are manly. Grinding so dominantly that your pepper grinder can plausibly be called a cannon is manly. So is deftly tooled precision of any kind. But Männkitchen’s Pepper Cannon isn't an expensive gimmick for the insecure. Its stainless steel burrs will grind peppercorns to the exact right size, among 50 settings, and this will end up mattering to anybody who spends a lot of time seasoning meat or building a rub. The all-metal construction will last decades. And it'll grind your pepper so fast it'll feel like the Dust Bowl got spicy.
Bourdain’s Favorite Knife
- Photograph: Molly Higgins
Global
8-Inch Classic Chef’s Knife
$150 $100 (33% off)Crate & Barrel
$120Amazon
$150Williams Sonoma
Every man needs a good knife. Probably two. One for his pocket. One for the kitchen. If you're going to get a good knife, why not Anthony Bourdain's? Maybe it's me, but I pretty much don't know a dude who doesn't have a tattered copy of Kitchen Confidential somewhere in his house. This Global 8-inch chef's knife is Bourdain's knife, the one he recommended to starting chefs. The one he recommended as a baseline good chef's knife for those at home. It is Japanese-made stainless steel, ice-hardened, lightweight. Seamless from its handle to its convex edge. The Global chef knife is economy itself. It is a knife that most chefs own eventually. Maybe the man in your life would also do with a good knife.
Lasers for Measuring Everything
Photograph: Matthew KorfhageSave to wishlistSave to wishlistMileseey
S50 Green-Laser Distance Measure
$130Amazon
You know what men like? Knowing how long something is, or how far away it is. Know what they (I) don't like? Stretching out a dinky tape measure that keeps shimmying or bending or snapping back into the roll. The solution to everything is always lasers. Lasers can do anything. Just ask Elon Musk.
Anyway, just point this Mileseey S50 at anything, press the button, set your starting measuring point, and it'll tell you how far away it is. (It measures to the 1/32 of an inch, but I wouldn't trust it past 1/16 of an inch.) Get a tripod for it, and you can also do point-to-point measurements from a distance. I've measured windows for fittings. Door jambs. Most of the rooms and spaces in my house. I've barely used tape for four months. Why use tape when you can use lasers? Mileseey says the green laser light on this S50 is more visible than red light during the daytime. Maybe this is true. There are also a whole lot of trigonometric functions I haven't figured out, and the included instructions are only half helpful. But mostly I just want to know: How big is that thing? How far away?
The Manliest Grill Gloves
- Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
- Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
- Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
Big Green Egg
Hell Hands
$100Big Green Egg
Nothing is manlier than overkill. Lots of grill gloves can take a little heat, and save you from a hospital visit on a grill day. But can they take you to the gates of hell? These Hell Hands grill gloves from Big Green Egg are rated up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit. They're made with thick cowhide that goes most of the way up to your elbows—and look like something you'd wear for the zombie apocalypse. The pads are made with thick, puncture-resistant Armortex fabric and stitched with Kevlar.
I don't know if this makes these gloves bulletproof. But what I do know is that I have placed my palm flat onto a scalding 500-degree cast-iron pan while wearing one of these Hell Hands. I barely felt warmth, let alone heat. These gloves are monsters. But note that these gloves are thick enough that your hands will feel more like mittens than hands. You'll need to use manly finger strength to flex them.
The Most Tactical Pants
Courtesy of Ten ThousandSave to wishlistSave to wishlistTen Thousand
Tactical Pant
$128Huckberry
These pants are the most tactical pants of all pants, according to WIRED reviewer Scott Gilbertson. Cargo pants look like a baggy bouquet of pockets. But these pants? They are for men of action. They are stretch canvas, svelte, sturdy. They have pockets inside other pockets, pockets that remove traces of being pockets. If you're the sort of guy who wants to look good, without looking like you want to look good, these pants are your pants.
An “Ultra-Tough” Cooler
Courtesy of RTICSave to wishlistSave to wishlistRTIC
45QT Ultra-Tough Cooler
$239Amazon
You might wonder whether black is the most natural color for a cooler, given its propensity for absorbing heat. OK, and? Suck it up, and embrace the steely, Vader-esque manliness of this Ultra-Tough cooler from RTIC. It's roto-molded, natch, but it's also filled with 2.8 inches of foam. I have tested the 45-quart version while tailgating in temps where the cooler was actually helping keep our seltzers from exploding.
The Ultra-Tough is a beast to carry by yourself (the manly way, the way John Wayne would carry a cooler) because it weighs almost 30 pounds empty. This means it's about 55 pounds with a 24-pack of Bud Light, and 60 pounds if you toss in a 5-pound bag of ice from the store. But the foam handles mounted on free-swinging ropes make it manageable. In terms of build quality, this RTIC cooler is actually a little more solid than the Yeti size 65 that I previously owned, especially when it comes to the leak-free screw-in drain plug. —Martin Cizmar
Beef in a Box
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Courtesy of Pat LafriedaSave to wishlistSave to wishlistPat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors
Delivery Steaks
$33Pat LaFrieda (NY Strip)
$42Pat LaFrieda (Ribeye)
$36Pat LaFrieda (T-Bone)
Pat LaFrieda is a New York butcher. His dad was a butcher, and his dad's dad was a butcher, and so was the dad before that. The first butcher became a butcher after he got in a fistfight outside a butcher shop. This is Naples, Italy, we're talking about, where you sell meat or you are the meat. (We made this proverb up, but it seems right.) Anyway, this is not just good but actually great beef in a box. Pat LaFrieda beef is the beef served at some of the most famous restaurants in New York. It will also come in the mail, wherever you are: fresh, never frozen. And then it goes on the fire. According to WIRED meat delivery guide boss Scott Gilbertson, smart people wait for that super-fresh beef with a catcher's mitt, then cook it right up. Beef this good, you don't make it wait.
The Manliest Jacket
- Photograph: Scott Gilbertson
- Courtesy of Huckberry
Flint and Tinder
Lined Waxed Trucker Jacket
$328Huckberry
Waxed canvas is a manly fabric. A working man's fabric. It sheds water like a senator sheds consequences. But unlike politicians, this jacket builds character over time. It becomes itself. It'll build your character, too—or at least make you into one. After all, this is the jacket Pedro Pascal wore in The Last of Us, worn and rubbed down until it became shades darker. Because this is what silent, manly men wear, and wardrobe people know this. And sure, this Flint and Tinder trucker's jacket doesn't breathe quite as well as boring, unwaxed cotton. It resists everything except compliments.
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A T-Shirt for the Strong and Stout
- Courtesy of True Classic
- Courtesy of True Classic
True Classic
Crew Neck T-Shirt
$35True Classic
$35Amazon
An American man gathers bulk over time. It is the burden he carries, like the weight of responsibility or the consequence of bacon. Anyway, this shirt is made for the stout at heart (and maybe middle) but strong of arm. It hugs the biceps and chest, showing off raw power. But unlike a lot of T-shirts, it doesn't blouse out like a 1950s nightshirt. It's a man's shirt. For men who are a lot of man. A reliable white T-shirt, and a black T-shirt, are needed by pretty much all men.
For Super Soft Brillo Beards
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Photograph: Eric RavenscraftSave to wishlistSave to wishlistDuke Cannon Supply Co.
Best Damn Beard Oil
$37Amazon (With Beard Balm)
$23Duke Cannon Supply Co.
If you put words Amazon doesn’t like in a product’s name, that immediately makes it more manly. To wit, there’s Duke Cannon’s Best Damn Beard Oil, for scratchy facial hair. This beard oil helps prevent ingrown hairs and makes facial hair feel softer to the touch. Though, please note, the bottle says explicitly that it’s “not for clowns,” so don’t buy this for any Pagliaccis in your life. —Eric Ravenscraft
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For Powerful Coffee
- Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
- Courtesy of Moccamaster
Moccamaster
KBGV Select Coffee Maker
$369 $329 (11% off)Amazon
Just look at that name: Moccamaster. This is a coffeemaker that drinks and breathes pure power and precision. The Technivorm Moccamaster is burly, yet precise. It makes old-school drip coffee, better than that fancy Starbucks stuff. But what the manly man in your life should truly love about the Moccamaster is that it’s real hand-tooled craftsmanship. It is perhaps the world’s only high-end coffee maker that looks like a power tool made by DeWalt, and it is just as sturdy.
It’s been handmade since 1968 in the Netherlands, a country where their idea of a party is often just blowing things up. The precision-made Moccamaster will keep your coffee within a four-degree range for optimum brewing. And its parts can be replaced or repaired, just like the engine of an old car. Judging from others’ experience, it’ll probably last you decades. What a machine. Moccamaster.
A Personal Whiskey Barrel
Photograph: Matthew KorfhageSave to wishlistSave to wishlistMarcellin
Charred American White Oak Mini Aging Barrel
$55Bespoke Post
Does a man wait for whiskey to be born? Or does he age his own, impatiently? After you cure the barrel for a few days with boiling hot water, you can pour country moonshine into this charred oak mini-barrel, and it will age quickly into country whiskey—your own special cask of whiskey, aged to your tastes.
Just note that a small barrel imparts flavors way faster than a big barrel, because of the ratio of surface area to volume. (Math, bro.) So within even a month you can add a whole lot of oakiness to a spirit, including gin or vodka or tequila—but getting the complex caramels and vanilla and all that will still require patience, and months. But whatever arrives from this barrel, it will be yours. It will be a special spirit you made in the garage. I know no whiskey manlier than the whiskey you made in your garage.
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A Man-Powered Espresso Maker
- Photograph: Brad Bourque
- Photograph: Brad Bourque
Flair
Espresso Maker Classic
$159Amazon
Are you still using electricity to make espresso? Pressing buttons? Go off-grid. Pump your own instead. The Flair is a man-powered espresso machine, with a large lever that lets you self-generate the 9 bars of pressure needed to make good espresso. There's a chamber for your grounds. There's a chamber on top of that for hot water. Fill them up, and pull down on the handle—using a pressure gauge for a guide like the gauge on a High Striker carnival strongman game. Thick, crema-topped espresso will result. Want to double up on muscle? Here's my favorite hand grinder, the Kingrinder K6 ($109), for perfect espresso powder.
A Sharp Blade for Shaving
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Photograph: Matthew KorfhageSave to wishlistSave to wishlistLeaf
Single-Edge Razor
$79 $59 (25% off)Amazon
$79Leaf
Shaving ain't manly shaving unless it's sharp on your neck. A Leaf Thorn single-blade safety razor (8/10, WIRED Recommends) offers what they call in the barber trade an “aggressive” shave, the kind of risk that breeds reward. The reward is skin that's baby-smooth. It is the skin of competence and elegant aggressiveness. Of men who know from shaving. It's the shave you expect George Clooney might exact in O, Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Best Hottest Heat
Photograph: Matthew KorfhageSave to wishlistSave to wishlistFlatiron Pepper Co.
Premium Pepper Flakes
$39 $34 (13% off)Amazon
$13Amazon (Four Pepper Blend)
$13Amazon (Hatch Valley Green)
Who needs tepid pizza peppers when you can have Carolina Reaper pizza peppers, ghost pepper chili shake, and peppers named for scorpions? Whether outrageous heat or merely big flavor, these pepper flake mixes from Flatiron Pepper Co. are multiple orders of magnitude more amped than basic red pepper bits—running the gamut from an “I Can't Feel My Face” capsaicin dare to a full-throated Hatch-habanero chili mix whose intensity arrives mostly as flavor. Barbecue sauce and hot sauce are a merely basic manosphere obsession. Nuclear-level chili flakes is god-tier. These turn pizza into bragging rights, and salad into pain. It's a gift made for every brother-in-law you've got. The four-pepper blend with habanero, ghost, jalapeno, and chile de arbol has so much flavor and heat it makes your tired pizza shake cower in shame.
A Manly Shampoo Bar
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Courtesy of Grown Ass ManSave to wishlistSave to wishlistGrown Ass Man
Last Call Shampoo Bar
$10Grown Ass Man
My wife found this in a store and bought it for me a joke because it says "manly man smell like tree" on the box, which, I mean, you have to buy that. Sometimes a thing that seems like joke turns out not to be. Like this guide. The Last Call Shampoo bar is the same way—there's a jokey element here and it's fun, but it's also a great bar of soap. Or shampoo. Or whatever you want it to be, really.
I'm what you might call a minimalist when it comes to all things grooming-related. I have a beard; I have never put anything on it. If I've ever used conditioner in my hair, it was by accident. You get the idea. I don't see why I should need a bar of shampoo and a bar of soap, so to me, this thing is everything in one neat little package that lasts quite a while, doesn't have any plastic packaging, and is even cheaper than most shampoo bars I've seen. Try it, you'll like it. And you'll smell like a fresh, clean tree. —Scott Gilbertson
For Carrying Stupid Heavy Loads. Because You Can
- Photograph: Scott Gilbertson
- Photograph: Scott Gilbertson
- Courtesy of GoRuck
GoRuck
GR1
$395GoRuck
$335Huckberry (21L version)
The GoRuck GR1 is an incredibly comfortable pack, but don't hold that against it. Throw in a 30 lb Ruck Plate ($89), and somewhere around the 100-mile mark in your ruck, you should begin to sweat blood. The GR1 is a bomb-proof pack, possibly literally, but that's probably classified. The outside of the pack is made of 1,000-denier Cordura (for comparison, most of the outdoor industry gets by with 210, maybe 500 if a company is trying to man up). Here's what we know: if the GR1 is manly enough for former SEALs and Green Berets, it's manly enough for the man you're giving a gift. —Scott Gilbertson
A Manly Shave Bowl Set
Courtesy of SupplySave to wishlistSave to wishlistSupply
Perfect Shave Set
$59Supply
Manly men do things the hard way, then spend even more time telling you why the hard way is the best way. They don't go squirting premade shaving foam on themselves, if they can lather their own foam. Foam that smells like sandalwood and cedar. Foam that repels moths. A brush and marble shave bowl—heavy, sturdy, and handsome—is a classic man-thing from another time. Lathering this bowl with shave soap is like performing an ancient man-ritual, channeling the spirits of the Greatest Generation. After years of spurning spray foam that smells like bad gin, this ritual is now mine too. Note that Supply's shave soap is dense and utilitarian. But for a really, really extravagant lather? Try this shave bar from Leaf ($18).
For Trimming Your Hedge
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Courtesy of AmazonSave to wishlistSave to wishlistBALLS
V3 Archibald Electric Razor
$69Amazon
$69Balls
Some companies try to be subtle when marketing products aimed at grooming your junk, with euphemisms like “Look your best, all over.” Then there's BALLS. Cofounded by Matt Edge and Tyler Ball (what are the odds?), this company makes electric razors like the Archibald trimmer ($69) specifically aimed at trimming hair in hard-to-trim places.
What makes this different from a typical razor? It’s completely waterproof, so you can even use it in the shower. It also has a small LED under the razor, so you can better see what you’re doing down where the sun doesn’t shine. Beyond that, the razor performs pretty well in terms of shaving without nicking sensitive skin, which would be enough to recommend it without all the bells and whistles. —Eric Ravenscraft
For the Bedroom
Courtesy of Gun OilSave to wishlistSave to wishlistGun Oil
Lube
$21Amazon
It's a bottle of lube in the shape of a bullet. How much more manly can you get? Indeed, the company's YouTube channel leans heavily into advising men doing manly things, like laying pipe and cooking sausages. Thankfully, this lube is quite viscous and even made it into our Best Lubes guide. —Eric Ravenscraft
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Matthew Korfhage is a staff writer and reviewer on WIRED's Gear team, where he focuses on home and kitchen devices that range from air fryers and coffee machines to space heaters, water filters, and beard trimmers. Before joining WIRED in 2024, he covered food, drink, business, culture, and technology for ... Read MoreProduct Writer & ReviewerTopicsbuying guidesShoppinggiftsholidayshouseholdgift guidesThe Best Wireless Chargers to Refuel Your Phone (or Watch)Stop fumbling for cables in the dark. These WIRED-tested stands and pads will take the hassle out of refueling your phone, wireless earbuds, and watch.Simon HillThe Best Running Shoes for Outpacing All Your TroublesWe logged thousands of test miles to bring you the best running shoes for every pace, ability, and running goal.Kieran AlgerQuell the Heat With Our Favorite Window Air ConditionersThese are the AC units we’ve trusted to cool our homes for months, if not years.Matthew KorfhageAll the Best Vacuum Cleaners We’ve Ever TriedLooking for all our top recommended vacuums? Here are our favorites in every style we’ve tested, from stick vacs to robot vacuums. Nena Farrell The Best Drip Coffee Makers Now Rival Café Pour-OverThe old-fashioned drip coffee maker has come a long way. These impressive machines can turn your barista into a stranger.Matthew KorfhageThe Best Duffel Bags for Commuters and Chronic OverpackersNeed to schlep some stuff? These field-tested duffels can handle your baggage.Louryn StrampeThe Best 3-in-1 Apple Wireless Chargers For Charging All Your DevicesI tried all the top models to find the best 3-in-1 Apple charging stations, pads, and more. Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.Simon HillThe Best E-Readers for Every Kind of ReaderThese WIRED-tested ebook readers let you take your library anywhere. Nena Farrell The Best Meal Kits of 2026, Tested by a Former Restaurant CriticHere are the best meal kits in 2026, including Martha Stewart’s delivery box, a GLP-1–supportive plan, and a budget-friendly option.Matthew KorfhageGet Wired With the Best USB-C Cables for Your Phone, Tablet, and LaptopUnravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.Simon HillThe Best Kindles to Take Your Library AnywhereI’ve tried every single Kindle. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up. Nena Farrell After Testing Dozens, These Are the Outdoor Security Cameras I RecommendThese weatherproof outdoor security cams keep a watchful eye on your property while you get on with life. Our list includes battery-powered cameras that need no subscription.Simon Hill
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