Brands
Who makes what, and what each one is good at
Most brands here are excellent at one thing and ordinary at the rest. These pages say which is which, what a range costs to keep running once its seals and plates start wearing, and where the same factory sells the same appliance under three badges.
- KitchenAid United States · Whirlpool The stand mixer the attachment hub was built around — and a range sold by color as much as by motor 8 reviews
- Ninja United States · SharkNinja Presets, a dough blade and a ceramic pot — the maker that names every function, and rarely its temperature 7 reviews
- Hamilton Beach United States · Glen Allen, Virginia The budget brand that publishes the useful number — a sealed bowl, a flour capacity, a convection fan 6 reviews
- BLACK+DECKER United States Cheap, small and honest about it — and the toaster oven that publishes its preheat and its clearance 4 reviews
- Breville Australia Premium build and smart controls — and fewer published figures than the price suggests 3 reviews
- Philips Netherlands Five products across five families — the maker that tells you what fits, never what it draws 5 reviews
- Tefal France The maker that publishes the number you can check 2 reviews
- WMF Germany Materials and millimeters, rather than watts 1 review
- Braun Germany Two appliances, and both are about controlling the result rather than reaching it 2 reviews
- Rommelsbacher Germany The only maker here that publishes the dimension nobody else does — twice, in two families 2 reviews
- Krups Germany Two products, and both are sold on how long they last 2 reviews
- Midea China The maker that publishes the pressure — and prints the warning others leave out 2 reviews
- ProfiCook Germany Publishes what the machine will actually do — in pounds of dough, and in hours 2 reviews
- Cecotec Spain · Valencia The cheapest option in both its families in Europe — and honest about what fits in it 2 reviews
- Klarstein Germany Sells scale — and publishes its own power figure two different ways 2 reviews
- Ufesa Spain Publishes more than its category norm — including the awkward parts 2 reviews
- Emerio Sweden The rare maker that names what its products cannot do 2 reviews