It doesn’t matter how old you are: Smores are the absolute bomb. But if you’re anything like us, you seldom get to make them because you’re never near a campfire. That’s where some of the best smores kits can help turn just another night indoors into an evening of sweetness and childhood reminiscence.
The best s’mores kits will have everything you need to get your toasted marshmallow on indoors without burning the place down. That typically includes some kind of indoor-safe heating element as well as some kind of skewer or fork. Some kits include the raw ingredients too, but most don’t because it’s fairly easy to pick up the graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows at just about any grocery store.
But in the interest of trying to make the next few months indoors as fun as possible, we’ve rounded up some of the best smores kits below. Every one of them, if not able to fully replicate the campfire experience, will at least give you some warm marshmallows and warm memories of days spent outside with a tasty s’more at the end of the night.
1. Uncommon Goods Indoor S’mores Fire Pit
BEST OVERALL
We’ll be damned if this isn’t the sexiest, best s’mores kit we’ve ever laid eyes upon. The Uncommon Goods Indoor S’mores Fire Pit has exactly what we want in a s’mores kit: a live fire pit that’s easy to use, a clean and modern design for our millennial sensibilities, six stainless steel skewers and a glass votive to hold extra or dirty skewers.
It couldn’t be simpler to use either. You just fill the concrete fire pit with five ounces of 70% isopropyl alcohol or vodka and light it up. That’s literally it and the fire will burn for 50 minutes, without making any kind of soot or mess. Being able to use isopropyl alcohol and vodka is also super convenient because they’re much cheaper than the canned fuels you’ll need for other smores kits.
So you want a classy s’mores kit but you agree paying more than $100 for most things is absurd. You might enjoy the Chicago Metallic S’mores Maker. The roasting chimney and the serving tray are made from a lovely ceramic, which can easily stand up to any heat from the fire for safe use indoors or outdoors. But thankfully you get a complete set for your money here. You’ll get a metal grill top for the chimney to help keep the fire even, a metal burner and top to actually hold the fuel and fire, a snuffer to quickly put the fire out and of course four stainless steel roasting forks.
It was a tough battle between the Chicago Metallic S’mores Maker and the Sterno Family Fun S’mores Maker for runner-up, but in the end, design won out in favor of the Chicago S’mores Maker. That being said, the Sterno S’mores Maker is one of the best smore kits for its price. The kit is super basic, consisting of a tray with two s’mores stations, a roasting screen, two stainless steel roasting forks and one can of fuel, but it 100% works. You just place the fuel in the center of the tray, light it up, pop the screen over it and you’re good to start toasting and roasting.
4. Nostalgia Indoor Electric Stainless Steel S’mores Maker
BEST ELECTRIC S’MORES KIT
While we’re firmly in the camp of actual fire or bust when it comes to making s’mores, an electric s’mores maker costs a lot less in both the short term and the long term and is just a lot more convenient than any kits involving real flames. The Nostalgia Indoor Electric Stainless Steel S’mores Maker plugs into the wall and starts heating with the flip of a switch for no-fuss indoor s’mores. This smores kit also comes with a serving tray with four compartments for ingredients and two roasting forks.
This electric smores maker is simple to set up and use on your tabletop. Power it up, wait 3 minutes, and start roasting to get the most perfect marshmallows. The safe s’mores maker comes in a hazelnut shape and features a lid, four compartment trays, and four roasting forks.
Any time you’re dealing with live fire or heating elements, you run the small risk of burning yourself or your possessions. But you eliminate that risk if you make s’mores in the microwave. That’s exactly what this neat little tool, the Progressive Prep Solutions Microwave S’mores Maker, will help you do.
It works in the opposite direction of normal s’mores making: You pour water into the reservoir to help with the melting process, assemble the s’mores, stick them under the little hands and throw them in the microwave. The arms press down on the s’mores as they soften and boom, in under 30 seconds, you’ve got two tasty s’mores in a quarter of the time and for a quarter of the effort for traditional roasted s’mores.
Make s’mores year ’round with this Sharper Image Electric S’mores Maker. The electric heater warms marshmallows and comes with four forks and four tray compartments to hold graham crackers, chocolate marshmallows, and more.
You’d think we’d covered all the best s’mores kits by now, but there’s one other great tool for making s’mores: The S’more to Love Six S’more Maker. It’s basically a metal rack with six slots for s’mores that locks closed. That means you can basically use it to cook s’mores with any cooking appliance except a microwave. You can stick the whole thing over a campfire, set it inside a grill or even pop the rack into the oven for batch s’mores-making made simple.
The Hershey’s Smores Kit comes with all of the food items needed to make s’mores at home. It comes with graham crackers, chocolate Hershey’s bars, and marshmallows that can be placed in the microwave or outdoor bonfire.
This delicious Astor S’mores Kit features four different individually wrapped chocolate flavors, including milk chocolate, dark chocolate, milk toffee, and dark chocolate sea salt. Graham crackers and marshmallows are also included. The only thing you need is a bonfire or microwave to get things melted and ready to eat.
This little caddy is just the thing you need to carry all of your necessities, making it the best option to create your very own DIY smores kit. It features a removable tray with compartments that can hold chocolate bars, graham crackers and marshmallows and there’s also a carrying handle that makes it perfect for storage and carrying from one location to the other.
If you’re able to get outside and make a campfire (you lucky dog, you) then the only thing you’re going to need is a great set of forks or wooden skewers. The Ajmyonsp Marshmallow Roasting Sticks are more than serviceable to safely toast marshmallows. The stainless steel forks use wooden handles to make sure you don’t burn your fingers and they telescope up to 32 inches to ensure your hands never get too close to the flame.
Camps would never have enough forks to go around for s’mores night, which is why we’re willing to bet you mostly used wooden sticks for s’mores making growing up. Not only can you get a ton of them on the cheap but they’re biodegradable so you can chuck them in the woods when you’re finished instead of trying to hand-scrub burnt marshmallow off metal forks.
Live fire, especially indoors, needs a safe, contained fuel source. That’s where fuel cans, like the Lot45 6 Hour Fuel Cans pack of six, come in handy. These cans will burn for six hours and you can always put the top back on to kill the fire and save the fuel for another time. If you’re picking up one of the best s’mores kits, make sure to pick up some of the best fuel too if the kit doesn’t come with it.
