20 Best Gifts for Men, Manly Men, and Manly Man Men (2026)

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Bourdain’s Favorite KnifeGlobal 8-Inch Classic Chef’s KnifeRead more $116 $105 (9% off)

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Lasers for Measuring EverythingMileseey S50 Green-Laser Distance MeasureRead more $130

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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 October 2026: We've added a toiletry bag from SPC/LST, a pressure washer, a head shaver, and a giant flashlight; removed a couple sold-out options; and ensured up-to-date links and prices.

A Cannon for Pepper
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Pepper Cannon
$200
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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
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Global
8-Inch Classic Chef’s Knife
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$150
Williams Sonoma
$150
Crate & Barrel
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
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Mileseey
S50 Green-Laser Distance Measure
$130
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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 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?
A Tactical Toiletry Bag
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SPC/LST
System Kit
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A Real Man (™) is always mission-ready, whether he’s rappelling off a cliff or heading into the hotel bathroom to brush his teeth. That’s why he needs a multipurpose pouch made of water-resistant 600D Cordura Re/Cor. The military-inspired System Kit from SPC/LST features two sections that can snap together (one zips flat and has three internal pockets, while the other zips only on the top and has just one zippered pocket), along with a 20-mm side strap with a clip in case you need to attach it to your pack, truck, or parachute. —Kat Merck

The Manliest Grill Gloves
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Hell Hands
$100
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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
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Tactical Pant
$128
Huckberry
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
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RTIC
45QT Ultra-Tough Cooler
$239
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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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Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors
Delivery Steaks
$38
Pat LaFrieda (NY Strip)
$48
Pat LaFrieda (Ribeye)
$42
Pat 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
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Flint and Tinder
Lined Waxed Trucker Jacket
$328
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$371
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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.
A T-Shirt for the Strong and Stout
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Crew Neck T-Shirt
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True Classic
$35
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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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Duke Cannon Supply Co.
Best Damn Beard Oil
$37
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$23
Duke 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
For Powerful Coffee
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KBGV Select Coffee Maker
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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 Pressure Washer
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Kärcher
K2600 E Electric Pressure Washer
$380
Home Depot
Cleaning something outside? Garden hoses are for girlie men. You need 2,600 pounds per square inch of water pressure dispensed from a tank on wheels. This model even comes in nature's natural warning colors: black and yellow, like a wasp. The 35-foot cord ensures you'll be able to cover plenty of territory, which is important because this Home Depot–exclusive set includes a FOAM CANNON for cleaning your F350 Super Duty, side-by-side, or wakeboard boat. It looks considerably less impressive in person than it sounds, and the foam produced plays fast and loose with the definition, but still: FOAM CANNON. —Kat Merck
A Man-Powered Espresso Maker
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Flair
Espresso Maker Classic
$159
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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.

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Matthew Korfhage was a staff writer on WIRED’s Reviews team, where he focused on coffee, home, and home office technology. He also covered food, drink, business, technology, and culture for more than a decade at USA Today Network, The Virginian-Pilot, and his hometown newspaper in Portland, Oregon. His reporting has ... Read MoreProduct Writer & ReviewerTopicsbuying guides Shopping gifts holidays household gift guides