Cooking appliancesOct 29, 2026
Your 2026 roadmap to misen: knives, pans, and the kickstarter brand's second decade
Official homepage: https://misen.com Kitchen stores usually begin with a founding myth about craftsmanship. Misen began with a roommate. Founder Omar Rada loaned a friend his favorite pan; the friend lost it; Rada went to replace it and discovered that a single good skillet cost more than his groceries for a month. The name he chose — Misen, from mise en place, the French doctrine of having everything in its place — announced the thesis before a single product existed: quality tools should not be a luxury, and the middleman markup was the enemy. In 2015 he launched a single chef's knife on Kickstarter, raised over a million dollars from home cooks tired of choosing between cheap junk and boutique pricing, and spent the following decade building one o …