I’m a home cook, not a professional chef and not a laboratory. I started KitchenwareCompare because most kitchen equipment coverage sits at one of two unhelpful extremes: lab tests using equipment nobody buys, or affiliate pages that recommend whatever pays best without ever saying how the decision was reached.
The aim here is narrower and, I hope, more useful: work out which gear actually performs, lasts, and is worth the money — and show the reasoning, so you can disagree with it. The site covers air fryers, espresso machines, cast iron, flat top grills, stand mixers, knives, juicers, food processors and more.
How I review kitchen equipment
I do not own or test the products reviewed on this site. There is no test kitchen here. Saying that plainly costs nothing, because it is what every page has to work within anyway, and a reader who knows the basis of a recommendation can judge it properly.
What each guide is actually built from:
- Verified-purchase reviews, read in volume. Not the star average — the specific complaint that keeps recurring across thousands of buyers. A 4.5-star product with the same failure reported five hundred times tells you something a rating never will.
- Manufacturer specifications, read for what matters. Wattage, RPM, capacity and materials are only useful once you know which of them decides the job you actually want done.
- Prices, ratings and stock checked directly on the listing, with the date stated on the page. Prices move; a guide that hides when it last looked is not much use.
- Independent testing, cited and linked. Where a lab or publication has genuinely tested something, I name them and link to it, rather than absorbing their findings into my own voice.
- An explicit note on what could not be established. If there is no independent test behind a widely-repeated number, the page says so instead of repeating it as fact.
There is a fuller account on the How We Review page.
What this approach can and cannot tell you
It is good at the things that decide most purchases: whether a product’s known failure modes will affect the way you cook, whether a specification is load-bearing or marketing, whether the cheaper model gives up anything you would actually miss, and whether the price in front of you is a good one.
It cannot tell you how a knife feels in your hand or how loud a machine is across a kitchen. Where that is the deciding factor, the honest answer is to say so and point you at someone who has held it — which is why independent testing gets cited here rather than quietly borrowed.
Independence
I don’t accept payment for positive reviews, placements, or inclusion in a guide. Affiliate links fund the site and are disclosed on every page that carries them, but they don’t influence what gets recommended. Where a cheaper product is the better buy, it is named as the better buy. Full detail on the affiliate disclosure page.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections and product suggestions are welcome via the contact page. Corrections especially — if a price is wrong, a product has been discontinued, or a claim on this site does not hold up, I want to know.
Glenn is the founder of Kitchenware Compare and has spent years researching, testing, and reviewing kitchen appliances, cookware, and gadgets. A lifelong home cook raised in a family that treated every meal as an occasion, Glenn started this site to cut through the noise of conflicting product reviews and give readers honest, practical guidance. When he is not testing the latest air fryer or digging into the specs of a new espresso machine, he can usually be found experimenting with new recipes or hunting for the perfect cast iron skillet at a flea market.