🍳 Home & Kitchen
Appliances, cookware, cleaning. Every product here was bought, used and scored by our team in the UK before it made the list.
Guides and stories
Which espresso machine makes a flat white in 3 minutes? 6 tested before the school run
Seventy-five days, 214 flat whites and a nine-year-old on the stopwatch. Only one of these six machines got a proper flat white into my hand in under three minutes on every school morning.
Which wireless meat thermometer keeps its signal? 5 tested from barbecue to sofa
Thirty-one cooks, two brick walls and one very patient collie. Only one of the five never dropped the signal between the barbecue and the sofa, and it hit the target within 1°C every time.
Roborock Saros 20 review: can a robot hoover cope with a 1930s semi?
Five thresholds, a step down onto quarry tiles and a spaniel who herds anything that moves. After 44 days, Clive knows where the Saros 20 earns its money.
Meaco Arete One 20L review: a damp Lancashire terrace, a cellar and a lot of washing
Black mould behind the wardrobe, a cellar that smells of wet coats, washing on every radiator. Keith logged seven months with a popular quiet dehumidifier.
Ninja Double Stack XL review: does the tall air fryer beat the wide one?
It takes 13.5 cm less worktop than the Ninja we already rated. Tracey ran both through the summer holidays to see what going upwards costs you.
Shark PowerDetect Clean & Empty review: can a £320 Shark keep up with a moulting spaniel?
Same house, same spaniel, same sand test we gave the £750 Dyson. Our old repair engineer on what the self-emptying Shark does better, and where it cuts corners.
Is the Nespresso Vertuo Pop a good gift? Five weeks, two kitchens and 143 pods
My mum wanted proper coffee without a steam wand. So the little £99 Vertuo Pop spent five weeks in two kitchens, used 143 pods and got one very honest verdict.
Dyson V16 Piston Animal review: is £750 worth it with a dog that moults?
33 days, a springer spaniel who moults all year and a 1930s house full of skirting boards. Our old repair engineer on where the V16 earns its price and where it doesn't.
Ninja Foodi MAX Dual Zone AF400UK review: a month of teas for two hungry lads
54 cooks in 31 days, from fish fingers to a Sunday chicken. Tracey found out why half her street owns this air fryer, and the two things that drove her up the wall.
De'Longhi Magnifica Evo review: did it end my £40-a-month coffee habit?
I was spending over £40 a month on coffees on my office days. So we logged 276 cups from De'Longhi's best-selling bean-to-cup to see if it could stop that.
Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl review: can it replace the ice cream van?
The van stopped coming down our road three summers ago. So a retired repair engineer spent six weeks and 49 tubs finding out if Ninja's soft serve machine can fill the gap.
Kärcher WV 6 Plus review: 11 windows, a stopwatch and a spaniel's nose prints
The window cleaner comes every fourth Thursday and it rains on the Friday. So Clive timed a £70 window vac against his old bucket and squeegee, pane by pane.
Thermomix TM7 review: what £1,349 buys a working mum in Leeds
It's sold at demos, not in shops, and it costs more than my first car. Tracey cooked 47 recipes in 40 days to see how much time the TM7 really hands back.