Kitchen Appliances

This site contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on qualifying purchases. Nobody tells you that a pressure cooker almost never dies at the heating element. I fix small appliances, and the machines that come to me with a pressure cooker badge on them have died, in order of frequency, at a lost silicone […]

This site contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on qualifying purchases. Three quarts is not a size. It is an argument about how a household actually eats, and it took me an embarrassing number of dinners to understand it. The CARORI 3QT at the center of this comparison is a compact 8-function electric

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you buy through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. “So which one do I actually buy.” That is the whole conversation about these two cookers, asked in my kitchen by a friend standing between the RIO on the left

This site contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on qualifying purchases. The return happened on a Tuesday, and I remember it because of what the customer said at the counter, which was not that the machine failed. The machine worked. She said, and I wrote this down because returns clerks hear everything twice,

This site contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on qualifying purchases. People ask me what a used multicooker is worth and they always expect the answer to track the feature list. It does not. I move open-box and secondhand kitchen gear, and the money follows size and completeness, in that order, with the

This site contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on qualifying purchases. The Duo Plus sat in its box in my hallway for eleven days before I opened it, which tells you something about how I buy small appliances now. I buy them with my own money, I read the one-star reviews first, and

The Duo came back to the returns desk with the instruction booklet still in its plastic, the cord still factory-twisted, and a note from the customer in careful handwriting that said, and I remember the wording because I kept the note, “too many buttons for a Tuesday.” I processed returns at a home goods retailer