Christy Naujalis

The Cuisinart Smart Stick hand blender purées potato soup, blends frozen strawberry smoothies, blends fluffy crêpe batter, and is capable of so much more. Its heavy duty 200-watt motor has the flexibility you need to blend frozen bananas or big pieces of broccoli and potatoes. Additionally, the Cuisinart immersion blender froths milk for lattes just as the frothers on espresso machines.

The Aroma Rice Cooker and Food Steamer ARC-838TC cooks up to 16 cups of your favorite rice flawlessly. It can cook rice while steaming meat and fresh vegetables simultaneously for nutritious hassle-free dinners. This particular rice steamer produces wonderful stews and soups, too and is our selection for best rice cooker.

The Hamilton Beach Set N Forget 33967 earned the highest reviews from Consumer Reports in their slow cooker review of October 2008. Having its distinctive temperature probe and grip tight gasket lid, the 6-quart Hamilton Beach slow cooker is an outstanding device. It features three heating modes: manual, program, and warming and heats for up to 14 hours. This appliance is our choice for best slow cooker.

The Presto pressure cooker saves your precious time by reducing recipe cooking time by two-thirds. Pressure cooking also seals in and preserves essential nutrients, unlike conventional cooking. Utilized as a canner, the Presto pressure canner saves fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, and chicken safely and without utilizing limited freezer space.

This EdgeCraft Chefs Choice food slicer is a heavy-duty, high-powered slicer made for home use. It slices through meats, cheeses, vegetables, fruit, and soft loaves of bread in moments. For dishes specifying uniformity in ingredient size, it slices through fruit and veggies quickly and uniformly. This meat and vegetable slicer produces ultra-thin deli slices or more substantial 5/8" thick slices. It adapts for vertical slicing and also for 30° gravity-fed cutting.

GelPro kitchen floor mats are constructed to make you feel more comfortable in your kitchen. This chef mat has shock-absorbing gel, that supports your feet and provides comforting relief to feet, joints, and lower back. If you enjoy cooking, but struggle with discomfort and fatigue, this anti-fatigue floor mat could help.

Using the Sodastream Penguin carbonated water maker, you can transform common tap water into refreshing sparkling water or club soda in seconds. This home soda water maker is fun and easy to use, and at the same time, promotes saving our planet. By making bubbly beverages at home and not purchasing them at the market, you actively lower your carbon footprint.

Make crispy shrimp, southern fried chicken, french fries, spicy hot wings, and more with this Presto deep fryer. Featuring two stainless steel baskets, you can deep fry up to 12 cups of food to crispy golden in this Presto fryer.

If you are a fan of classic Brussels-style Belgian waffles, you should read about this Waring Pro waffle maker. It makes thick 7″ round waffles that are delectably fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside. What's even better is that it produces two waffles at a time. Its rotating functionality means even heating on both surfaces of each waffle.

With 22 quarts of volume, this Hamilton Beach roaster oven nearly doubles the cooking capacity of most home kitchens. Just like conventional ranges, this portable oven roasts, bakes, simmers, and steams - a desirable addition to any kitchen for hectic holiday entertaining. Whenever you need the room of a second range or need to bake at two different temperatures simultaneously, this electric roaster is ideal.