Independent reviews
From everyday tech and home products to lifestyle and specialist gear, each review focuses on practical use, strengths, limitations, and who the product suits.
Kitchen Gadgets
A designer cheese grater, warped cutlery, a cast iron nutcracker and an exploded fruit bowl go under the spotlight to see which ones earn a place in a real kitchen.
Kitchen Gadgets
A citrus squeezer that looks like an alien, a kettle that sings, a mozzarella bowl, and a leaf-to-cup matcha maker go under the spotlight.
Kitchen Gadgets
Three professional-style kitchen gadgets put through real use, with honest verdicts on results, safety, and value.
Kitchen Gadgets
Three pro-level kitchen machines that promise to automate dumpling wrappers, fresh nut oils and perfectly crimped bao buns. Here is how they performed.
Kitchen Equipment
Three heavy-duty professional kitchen machines put through real prep work: what they do well, who they suit, and what they cost.
Kitchen Gadgets
A countertop blast chiller, a high-output juice extractor and a heavy-duty veg prep machine, tested and compared for serious home cooks.
Kitchen Gadgets
Three commercial kitchen gadgets face a hands-on trial: a wire cheese slicer built for the counter, a 350-slices-per-hour toaster, and an air-powered can crusher.
Kitchen Knives
The core knives and maintenance tools worth bringing to a professional kitchen, featuring a 240mm gyuto and an affordable 10-inch bread knife.
Food & Drinks
A rich chocolate hazelnut ice cream that stays creamy straight from the freezer, with balanced sweetness and one small wish: a darker chocolate punch.
Kitchen Knives
A lightweight, nimble handmade chef's knife in AEB-L stainless steel with a distinctive profile. Here is how it performed across everyday kitchen tasks.
Knife Reviews
A four-inch folding knife in S35VN stainless steel with a titanium handle, designed as the one blade you take camping.
Kitchen Knives
Hand-forged blades from legendary blacksmiths like Takeda, Fujiwara, and Hinoura sell out fast. Here is why they are so hard to find and how to improve your odds of getting one.
Kitchen Knives
Five standout Japanese knives, including rare one-of-a-kind pieces, with prices, steels, and who each blade really suits.
Food & Kitchen
From butter and caster sugar to caviar and pistachio cream, we compare eight real ingredients with their imposters to see which ones are worth buying.
Food & Drink
Eight everyday ingredients, four head-to-head taste tests, and a clear guide to spotting the imposter on the supermarket shelf.
Baking Tools
Stainless steel baking rings in five sizes that make layered cakes, mousses, and even savory dishes easier to build and present.
Kitchen Tools
These upside-down squeeze bottles use gravity to keep sauces and condiments ready to dispense, with a translucent body and a silicone valve for controlled release.
Kitchen Appliances
A premium touchscreen toaster with InstaGLO heating that toasts roughly twice as fast as a standard model, plus its $80 panini press accessory. Strong heating, questionable smarts.
Kitchen Tools
A razor-sharp Swiss-made peeler with a high carbon steel blade that handles carrots, citrus, delicate shallots, and a surprising range of kitchen tasks.
Kitchen Knives
A handcrafted 75mm Japanese-style petty knife from a full-time knife maker, tested entirely in hand on produce from cherry tomatoes to radishes.
Kitchen Knives
From the ATS-314 Fukaku Ryu to the new Bond Ten sujihikis, a closer look at five Ryusen knife lineups and who each one suits.
Kitchen Appliances
We put the Sage Pizzaiolo through a full kitchen test, from chilled supermarket pizzas to sourdough Margheritas cooked on the wood fire setting.
Kitchen Knives
A ginsan stainless gyuto that sharpens easily, holds a keen edge, and shrugs off imperfect maintenance better than most Japanese knives.
Cookbooks
A first look at Salt Sugar MSG by Calvin Ang and Phoebe Melnik, with two recipes cooked from cover to cover and honest notes on what worked.
Kitchen Appliances
We spent two weeks living with Samsung's Family Hub SpaceMax smart fridge freezer, testing the touchscreen, food tracking, Bixby assistant and built-in recipes to see if the premium price holds up.
Kitchen Knives
We compare three 165mm santoku knives across shallots, carrots, and mushrooms to see whether a higher price really buys better cutting performance.
Kitchen Knives
A practical look at the Fujimoto Hammertone Santoku, Haruyuki Zampa Gyuto, and Tojiro DP Santoku, plus guidance on choosing your first Japanese knife shape.
Kitchen Gear
A Canadian-made denim apron built for chefs, makers, and stylists, with deep customization, multiple sizes, and durability that holds up over years of kitchen work.
Food and Drink
Three Indian Shark Tank food brands put to a first-taste test: Gladful protein cookies, Wicked Gud brown rice noodles, and Malaki ginger drink, with honest scores for each.
Food & Drink Reviews
Four food brands from Shark Tank India put to a real taste test: a strong cold coffee, jackfruit BBQ, frozen momos, and a Gujarati tamarind date twister.