Best Celebrity Cookware
You can't judge a pan by its Hollywood affiliation—but you can judge it based on CR's lab tests. Here, top performers from Drew Barrymore, Ayesha Curry, Martha Stewart, and more.
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Celebrities used to just entertain us. Now they’d like to boil our pasta, toast our bread, and blend our smoothies—with the cookware and appliances they sell.
The trend took off with George Foreman in the 1990s, when the heavyweight champ launched his Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine, better known as the George Foreman Grill. The countertop cooker drove millions in sales and, decades later, remains a strong seller.
A long line of luminaries followed Foreman into the kitchen to get their own slice of the cookware, bakeware, and small-appliance market, which in the U.S. was valued at more than $13 billion per year in 2024, according to the International Housewares Association. Whether all these celebrities have a passion for cooking and cookware is anyone’s guess. But one thing’s for sure: There’s a lot of money to be made.
In the past five years alone, at least 25 stars have debuted a kitchen line. These celebs often partner with large, established kitchenware companies that make products for familiar brands. Ayesha Curry and Rachael Ray, for instance, have cookware lines manufactured by Meyer, which also creates products for Farberware and KitchenAid. Another heavy hitter is Gibson Homewares, which manufactures items for Martha Stewart, along with Oster and Sur La Table.
Here’s a look at celebrity cookware brands we’ve tested in our labs. Keep in mind that some lines include dozens—or even hundreds—of products, and we haven’t evaluated every one of them. But among those we’ve tested, we definitely spotted some serious talent. Here are the top products we’ve found.
Drew Barrymore
In 2021, long after she won hearts in rom-coms like “50 First Dates,” Drew Barrymore branched out with a home line, partnering with Walmart on the kitchenware collection Beautiful by Drew Barrymore. Today, her stand mixer and electric griddle are bestsellers in Walmart’s home category.
Courtesy of Beautiful by Drew Courtesy of Beautiful by Drew
Another winner is the Beautiful by Drew Barrymore Ceramic Non-Stick Fry Pan. Eggs slide easily off the surface, and the handle stays cool enough to touch without a pot holder. It’s oven-safe to 500° F. And get this—it’s only $20.
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci isn’t a chef, but he played one in the movie “Big Night.” A passionate cook, he’s now a legit expert, thanks to his TV shows, cookbooks, and food memoirs.
Photo: Courtesy of William Sonoma Photo: Courtesy of William Sonoma
He has leveraged his appeal into a partnership with GreenPan. He launched a line of cookware with it for Williams Sonoma in 2023.
Sculptural handles, rich colors, and the promise of better nonstick performance distinguish Tucci’s pots and pans. “Stanley worked with the head of design for months to design the collection,” a GreenPan spokesperson says.
There’s another important distinction: While many of GreenPan’s products are made in China, Tucci for GreenPan is produced in Northern Italy. And because Tucci loves cooking for a crowd, some of his cookware is larger than comparable GreenPan products—the better to throw together a big batch of spaghetti alle vongole.
Tucci’s ceramic nonstick frying pan—sold in a set of two (an 8-inch and a 10-inch)—is a top scorer in our lab tests. Keep one, gift one?
If you want to go full Tucci—and you’re willing to make a sizable investment—the GreenPan Stanley Tucci Ceramic Nonstick Cookware Set ($850) is among our highest-scoring in its category, and its pieces are oven-safe up to 600° F. But, Mamma mia, the price! Something to consider: CR’s top-rated ceramic nonstick cookware set, by Figment, comes in at just $180, less than a quarter of the cost.
Martha Stewart
The queen of home and lifestyle published her first book, “Entertaining,” in 1982, and debuted a magazine and TV show in the ’90s. Stewart launched her initial cookware collection with Macy’s in 2007, and today her pots, pans, and other kitchenware are sold widely.
Photo: Courtesy of Martha Stewart Photo: Courtesy of Martha Stewart
A number of CR staffers still fondly recall the line of inexpensive sheets and towels she sold at Kmart in the late 1990s. (Stewart says that she still uses hers in her Maine home and that they remain in perfect condition.)
Although she once described herself to Oprah Winfrey as a “maniacal perfectionist,” not all Martha Stewart products CR has tested have met her high bar. For example, a goose down pillow and cotton sheets got only middling scores, but Stewart recently started working with a new manufacturer, and her forthcoming bedding line may better reflect her exacting standards.
In terms of cookware, Martha’s Lockton Premium Nonstick Cookware Set impressed in our tests. For just $68, you get two frypans, a Dutch oven, a saucepan, and a sauté pan.
Ayesha Curry
This lifestyle entrepreneur (and wife of the NBA superstar Steph Curry) grew up in a big Jamaican family, where she says there was always something cooking. She landed a Food Network series, “Ayesha’s Home Kitchen,” in 2016 and developed a kitchen line with Meyer the following year. “I was very hands-on during the entire process—every decision,” from colors to creating the shape of the handles and lips on the pots, Curry told CR in 2018.
Photo: Alanna Hale Photo: Alanna Hale
Curry also sells tableware, clothes, and home decor, and has partnered with companies including Home Chef and Pottery Barn. She has written two cookbooks, “The Seasoned Life” and “The Full Plate,” and champions children’s causes. Some product packaging states that her kitchenware helps support No Kid Hungry, a nonprofit that aims to end hunger in the U.S.
CR has tested several of Curry’s products, including a hard-anodized nonstick set, a porcelain enamel nonstick set, an enamel frying pan, and a Dutch oven, which performed especially well in our labs.
Another slam dunk from Curry, this 10-piece Hard-Anodized Nonstick Cookware set has an appealingly low price and received a perfect score for evenness of cooking. Glass lids let you keep an eye on the action.
Tabitha Brown
An entrepreneur, author, and social media star, Brown says her interest in cooking began when she got married in 2003. It deepened a decade or so later when she took up a plant-based diet to address health issues. Her breakthrough came in 2017, when she was an aspiring actress working as an Uber driver. One day, she grabbed a TTLA (tempeh bacon, tomato, lettuce, and avocado) sandwich from Whole Foods and posted an enthusiastic review from her car. The video went viral, and the next thing she knew, Whole Foods tapped her as a brand ambassador.
Photo: Courtesy of Target Photo: Courtesy of Target
In the years that followed, Brown shared vegan advice on TikTok; wrote “Cooking From the Spirit,” a plant-based recipe book, and hosted the Food Network competition “It’s CompliPlated.” She also partnered with McCormick on a line of spices and seasonings.
In 2022, she introduced Tabitha Brown for Target, a line that includes cookware, bakeware, home decor, and accessories. Some of her items bring a cheery pop of color to a kitchen. Brown had a hand in creating the line and even sent the air fryer back for retooling, telling the development team, “No, it’s not ready yet, it’s still too loud!” Her attention to that particular detail paid off: The air fryer did very well in CR’s tests, especially in our evaluations of noise level.
Bobby Flay
When a chef has a show on Food Network called “Beat Bobby Flay,” you know he’s a force to be reckoned with. Since graduating from cooking school in the early 1980s, Flay has opened scores of restaurants, appeared on dozens of Food Network shows, and written 18 cookbooks. He also started a cat food company named after his own cat, Nacho; became the chef-in-residence for Misfits Market; and landed a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Photo: Mark Weinberg Photo: Mark Weinberg
For all his accomplishments, Flay tends to keep it simple with family-style food when entertaining. He has applied that practicality to Bobby Flay by GreenPan, a line of cookware and cutlery that launched in 2024, noting that he worked with the company to create items “packed with all the must-haves that I expect when cooking.” GreenPan calls the cutlery “ultra-sharp” and the cookware “ultra-tough”—terms equally befitting Flay himself.
If you’re in need of a tough pair of Hard Anodized Pans, Flay’s sells for a great price and landed an excellent score in our thorough lab tests.
In fact, the whole 10-piece set in the Flay-GreenPan collab is impressive. An all-around top performer, it sells for $342. Although some of the handles don’t stay quite as cool as the best in our tests, and they could be sturdier.
Rachael Ray
One of the best-known TV chefs around, Rachael Ray has ventured into furniture and pet food, but lately she’s got a lot of eggs in one basket: kitchenware. She grew up in a restaurant family and had a segment on a New York TV station when the Food Network tapped her to host programs that ultimately included “30 Minute Meals.”
Photo: Courtesy of Rachel Ray Photo: Courtesy of Rachel Ray
She had a food magazine for 14 years, her syndicated show ran for 17 seasons, and she’s written 25-plus cookbooks. Sales from Rachael Ray Cookware benefit her nonprofit Yum-o, which encourages kids and their families to develop a healthy relationship with food and cooking.
“Rachael understands how much home cooks juggle,” a spokesperson says. Signature products are solution-oriented. Her Lazy Tools line comes with built-in rests, and her oval pasta pot lets you boil long noodles without needing to break them. (“I drew that design on the back of a napkin!” she once told CR.)
The Rachael Ray Cucina Nonstick Cookware Set, an aluminum set with a great price and notably sturdy handles, performed well in our tests, and it’s available in a rainbow of rich colors.
Ree Drummond
Since 2007, Drummond has been dishing out recipes as The Pioneer Woman, a title that references her Oklahoma life with her cattle rancher husband. She published her first cookbook in 2009 and went on to release eight more. Since 2011, she has starred in her own Food Network show.
Photo: Courtesy of Ree Drummond Photo: Courtesy of Ree Drummond
In 2015, Drummond launched The Pioneer Woman Collection with Walmart, which has grown to include more than 550 items—cookware, clothing, furniture, and more. The products are so popular—and sometimes so difficult to find—that there are Facebook groups dedicated to them.
Drummond is known for feeding large groups, including her family of seven, plus ranch hands, and some of her kitchenware is generously sized. She gave her line a refresh in 2025, and we don’t yet have test results for those products. This new iteration of a Pioneer Woman air fryer that got high ratings for ease of use and noise level in CR’s testing is priced well, at $80, and comes in a pretty speckled turquoise.
Editor’s Note: A version of this article also appeared in the January/February 2026 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
*CR does not yet have test results for this model.
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