Kitchen appliances

Small kitchen appliances are the kind of things you use on repeat, so if they’re annoying, you’ll feel it fast. We put appliances like air fryers, microwaves, and toasters through their paces in our own kitchens to see how they'll actually perform when you’re just trying to get food on the table. That means cooking real meals, testing different settings, and figuring out what’s intuitive versus what requires pulling up the manual every time.

After enough use, the differences become pretty obvious. We pay attention to things like consistency, ease of cleaning, and whether something genuinely saves you time or just takes up counter space. The goal is simple: find the appliances you’ll reach for all the time. See more about how we test kitchen and home products.