Best Holiday Deals on Home and Kitchen Products

If you’re looking for a pod coffee maker that’s versatile but not too fussy, the Keurig K-Elite is a strong option. It brews five cup sizes (and features a height-adjustable drip tray), has an iced coffee setting, a strong-brew button, and a hot-water button. In our tests, the first cup took a little while to brew, but subsequent cups went faster. It’s also pretty intuitive to operate and clean. Its large water reservoir means you can brew up to 8 cups before you need to refill it.

This Café coffee maker stands out for its sleek look and a thermal carafe that matches the rest of the machine. Plus, it has WiFi technology, which allows you to program it to brew coffee using your phone or even your voice if you have Alexa or Google Home. In our tests, it brewed well and was easy to use and clean, though our testers found that the carafe wasn’t the easiest to handle. But it has all of the handy features you’d expect from a good drip coffee maker and then some. Besides its programming capabilities, there’s auto-shutoff, a permanent cone-type filter, and a water filter.

Amazon is the only retailer still offering the Black Friday discount.

The Made In brand is a forerunner in direct-to-consumer cookware, and this 10-inch frying pan is no exception, earning excellent scores in cooking evenness. Not to mention you can use it on any range or cooktop, including induction. And as it is one of the most expensive pans we’ve tested, the holiday discount definitely makes it worth it. 

It was $30 less during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but this is still a nice discount for a high-end pan.

The Le Creuset Frying Pan excels at two crucial tasks for stainless steel frying: cooking evenness and handle temperature. In our tests, we cooked four eggs in the pan, and this model was very good at releasing multiple eggs. This set scores near the top for handle sturdiness as well.

This is on sale at several retailers but Sur La Table is the only one selling it for under $100.

The Tramontina Tri-Ply Clad is another affordable option if you’re looking to replace your current stainless steel frying pan. The top-rated model usually retails for just $40 and gets excellent marks for cooking evenness and handle temperature. It also gets a very good score for handle sturdiness in our test to gauge resistance to bending or breaking under increasing force. But unlike its other competitors, it’s the most difficult pan to clean, earning a poor rating in that category. 

An internet sensation, this Caraway ceramic-coated cookware set turned out to be a sensation in our tests, too, rising to the top of our ratings for nonstick sets. It comes with 14 pieces, but only half of them are pots or lids. The rest are various racks, hooks, trivets, and things you might not want or have space for. But if this is your first cookware set—and you have the storage space—why not? It excels in all four of our key cooking tests (cooking evenness, simmering, nonstick food release, and speed of heating), and the handles are sturdy and stay cool to the touch while you’re cooking.

At a little over 7 pounds, the Merten & Storck German Enameled Iron 1873 is the lightest Dutch oven in our tests. That’s because it’s made of enameled carbon steel instead of enameled cast iron, like the rest of the models we’ve tested. The advantage is that it’s easier to lift and heats up faster. In our tests, it bakes bread like a champ, earning an excellent score, and it’s a cinch to clean. Its performance in our simmering sauce and cooking evenness tests is on a par with most of the other Dutch ovens in our tests.

The price for this Dutch oven has varied a lot this year, but this is close to the lowest we’ve seen.

The nonstick cast-aluminum Swiss Diamond frying pan earns an excellent rating for cooking evenness, and our fried eggs didn’t stick. It also earns our top rating for durability, withstanding the punishment of our steel-wool abrasion test. The construction is sturdy, and the handle stays cool to the touch during cooking. But you won’t be able to use it on your induction cooktop.

The 10-piece Oxo Ceramic Professional nonstick set is all business, with no extras added to the count, just pots and lids. That said, its cooking evenness is top-notch, and it brings water to a boil in no time flat. Plus, our tests revealed that it’s very good at simmering sauces and releasing eggs fried in quick succession. We also found that the handles are super-sturdy and stay cool to the touch.

The Cuisinart N91-11 Smartnest set has six pans that can be stacked for storage. It’s an 11-piece set, including a lid organizer, which comes in handy for the four lids that fit multiple pans. The pans are consistent performers across our tests, earning top marks in cooking evenness and egg release. And the tests for simmering and bringing water to a boil are almost as good. The handles are sturdy and stay cool to the touch.

The eight-piece Fissler Original-Profi collection set earns a top mark for cooking evenness and aces our test for heating water quickly. The handles stay cool to the touch and are sturdy, so this set should serve you well for a long time. The pans do very well at releasing food but aren’t as impressive when it comes to sautéing or simmering. The set has a frying pan, three saucepans, a stockpot, and three lids.

This 10-piece KitchenAid stainless steel set, which features two frying pans, a sauté pan, a saucepan, and a stockpot, performed very well in our cooking tests. It was excellent at cooking food evenly and bringing water to a boil quickly. The one downside is the sturdiness of the handles, which was only fair.

This is about $35 more than the Cyber Monday price, but still a good discount.

This AGLucky icemaker is the third-highest-rated icemaker we’ve tested. It produces bullet ice and is among the most efficient in our tests. Its good score for speed is slightly slower than the winner from GE, and it’s slightly noisier than the winner and the runner-up. The company claims it can produce up to 26.5 pounds of ice per day. It has a self-cleaning function and, depending on where you purchase it, comes in up to five colorways (black, green, gray, red, and white). It measures 12.6 inches high, 8.7 inches wide, and 12.3 inches deep, making it countertop-friendly, and its tank capacity is comparable with the other models, except for the winner.

This is the biggest discount we’ve ever seen for this icemaker.

The capable, durable 1,500-watt NutriBullet Smart Touch NBF50420 does as superb a job as top-rated, full-sized blenders in making smoothies and puréeing. It’s a capable ice-crusher, as well. We judged it to be super-convenient in terms of cleaning, having clear controls and jar markings, and pouring ease. It’s also relatively lightweight, with a jar weighing 2.2 pounds, vs. the 3 pounds you’ll tend to find in other highly rated models. But it’s just so-so for predicted reliability and owner satisfaction.

The Bella Pro Series air fryer has a measured capacity of 3.4 quarts, which means it can easily feed a family of four. What’s more, it earns strong ratings across the board: It has user-friendly controls and easy-to-clean components—plus, it doesn’t make a racket while running. It has a warming feature, as well as programmed settings for cooking foods (including those designed especially for fries and wings). This air fryer comes with a 2-year warranty.

This is just $10 more than we saw for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

This 1,800-watt KitchenAid toaster oven turns out nice toast and does so in a decent amount of time. Its controls are easy to use and the inside is pretty seamless to clean. With a temperature range of 150° F to 450° F, it can handle a host of functions, including bake, broil, convection bake, air-fry, keep warm, bagel, reheat, and dehydrate. Our testers noted that the air-fryer function works particularly well, giving typical air-fryer foods the kind of crisp you’d expect from rapid convection cooking. But it gets just middling marks for baking.

The 6-quart Instant Pot Max is impressive, particularly when it comes to making rice and sautéing, receiving very good scores in those modes. But here’s our beef: Every time we made chili using dried beans in pressure-cook mode, a “Food Burn” message appeared as the cooker was reaching pressure. We had to stop, stir the chili, close the lid, and let it reach pressure again. Instant Pot says the food-burn alert is a safety mechanism that stops heating to prevent food from burning, but it adds that this warning can also occur when cooking very starchy foods that settle at the bottom of the pot. To test the sous-vide feature, we cooked chicken breasts for 3 hours; they were tender and delicious.

This 1,800-watt KitchenAid toaster oven turns out nice toast and does so in a decent amount of time. Its controls are easy to use and the inside is pretty seamless to clean. With a temperature range of 150° F to 450° F, it can handle a host of functions, including bake, broil, convection bake, air-fry, keep warm, bagel, reheat, and dehydrate. Our testers noted that the air-fryer function works particularly well, giving typical air-fryer foods the kind of crisp you’d expect from rapid convection cooking. But it gets just middling marks for baking.

The compact Hamilton Beach Professional All-Metal 63240 won’t hog counter space or take a big bite out of your budget. It’s equally good at whipping and kneading, earning excellent ratings, meaning it can handle both light and heavy tasks. And it’s almost as good at mixing things like cookie dough. Our testers found it fairly convenient to use and clean, and the noise it makes when running isn’t objectionable. The head of the mixer tilts, and it comes with a flat beater, dough hook, and wire whisk.

The less expensive KitchenAid Classic Series K45SSWH matches the performance of other KitchenAids in our ratings test for test, meaning it excels at mixing, kneading, and whipping, and it does it all quietly. The 10-speed mixer comes with a 5-quart stainless steel bowl (without a handle), a flat beater, a dough hook, and a wire whisk. It’s compatible with all KitchenAid attachments, so you can branch out from baking into making more savory foods, such as sausage and pasta. It weighs 21 pounds. Unlike some KitchenAids, this model comes only in white and black.

Another standout from KitchenAid, the KitchenAid Artisan KSM150PSER churns through our tests impressively, getting top marks on whipping heavy cream and mixing cookie dough, and doing a workmanlike job on kneading bread dough. It’s quiet and convenient, so you won’t have to struggle to take the beaters and other attachments in and out. The head tilts back, so account for clearance on your counter. It weighs 21 pounds and has a 5-quart stainless steel bowl with a handle for easy removal.

Made from stainless steel, this sheet pan from Fox Run earns excellent scores for cooking evenness and durability, resisting abrasion like a pro. It also earns a respectable score for speed of heating, which gauges how fast the pan heats up in an oven. But like the other uncoated pans, our testers found it harder to clean.

When those holiday appliances are working overtime, this stainless steel GE immersion blender might come in handy, especially at 64 percent off. With low and high speeds, the 500-watt blender can power through thick sauces, soups, yogurt, or even eggs for scrambling. It comes with an accessory kit that includes interchangeable attachments, like a whisk and a chopping cup.

There’s a lot to like about the RüK veggie dicer. It’s fairly stable and secure, thanks to rubber feet and a top that seals securely to the basin when you press down. It also includes extra inserts for different cuts, such as grating and julienne and mandoline cuts, along with the standard ½-inch and ¼-inch chopping blades and a garnish slicer. But perhaps the best part is that this dicer is dishwasher-safe and easy to disassemble.

The 1,200-watt Breville Sous Chef BFP800XL/A is a hefty 19 pounds and eats up counter space. But CR’s tests found that it pulls its weight in the kitchen as an impressive chopper, slicer, shredder, and preparer of puréed soup. In fact, it’s one of the best processors we’ve tested. It comes with an LCD display, large and small processing bowls (a 16-cup and 2.5-cup), disc and blade accessories, and an extra-wide feed chute that can help eliminate the tedious precutting of fruits and veggies. It’s available in brushed aluminum or black.

If you’re looking for a solid budget pick, this lightweight set from Amazon Basics could be just the right fit. This microfiber set earns good scores in our ratings for fit, strength, and wrinkling, but they really stand out when it comes to maintaining their fit, acing CR’s shrinkage tests.

In our lab tests, this Tuft & Needle mattress topper earned excellent scores for both support and convenience. The flippable topper consists of a 2-inch-thick slice of adaptive foam wrapped in a removable polyester cover. This model doesn’t have corner straps, though, so it might shift a bit on your mattress. The Tuft & Needle topper comes with a three-year limited warranty, and there’s a 30-day return policy.

This sale price beats what we’ve seen recently by about $50, and it’s only about $5 more than the low we saw last holiday season.

The JALL Wake Up Light Sunrise Alarm Clock came out on top in our evaluations from an ease-of-use standpoint. It has two independent alarms (so you can set them for different times depending on your routine), seven alarm tones (including “wind bells” and birds chirping), an FM radio, and a fall-asleep mode that simulates a sunset (though no white-noise option). It’s relatively easy to set up and use. According to the manufacturer, it emits a maximum light intensity of 240 lux. Tapping the snooze button will temporarily shut off both the light and the sound. (The advantage: You’re more likely to fall back asleep in the dark. The disadvantage? You’re more likely to fall back asleep in the dark.)

The portable Blue Pure 211i Max features an indicator light to alert you when you need to change or clean the filter. It also has a dirt sensor and four speeds. On its higher setting, it’s terrific at removing dust, pollen, and smoke, but expect a bit of noise. Try it on low and you’ll have more quiet while still experiencing top-notch results. This model is designed for use in a large space of 350 to 650 square feet and costs about $109 a year to maintain—just more than half that of the Pure 211+. It also weighs just 17 pounds, making it easy to move around. CR members found Blueair air purifiers highly reliable and were quite satisfied with their purchase.

The price has jumped up $35 since last week, but it’s still a nice discount.

The kid sister to the 211i Max, Blueair’s 411i Max has a similar design but it’s for a smaller space; CR recommends a medium-sized room or smaller. The portable air purifier is primarily filter-based and has three speeds, a filter indicator, and a dirt sensor. On its higher speed, it delivers pretty average results, and as with many air purifiers, it’s less effective on its lower speed. The model is easy to use and has a relatively low annual operating cost. Blueair came out on top for predicted reliability and owner satisfaction during CR’s first member survey.

This is $17 more than we’ve seen in recent weeks, but still worth a look.

If you’re looking for a softer mattress that offers support, the Nolah Natural may just fit the bill. It gets above-average ratings for people of all sleep styles and sizes, and it shines when it comes to durability. The only place it falls short is in stabilization, where it gets middling scores in CR’s tests.

This sale price is about $100 more than we saw for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but you’re still getting a decent discount, as this matches the typical sale price we see for minor holidays all year long.

Casper’s 11-inch flagship foam mattress earns the highest score in our back-sleeper support tests for every body size. And it’s only slightly less supportive for side sleepers. The Casper Original does a solid job in stabilization, too, so partners should have an easy time shifting positions without waking each other up. Made with synthetic foams, this mattress receives a score of 5 out of 10 on our firmness scale, which means it has a medium feel. Casper’s foam mattresses earn impressive ratings for comfort and owner satisfaction among CR members.

The price dropped for Black Friday, as we expected, and the price remains low even after Cyber Monday.

The Dyson Gen5 Detect excels at vacuuming bare floors and is very good at cleaning carpet and pet hair, and tidying up along the edges. It’s a bit noisy for a cordless, earning a so-so score on the noise test. Plastic combs on the brush roll prevent hair entanglement and the suction automatically adjusts to the dust in its path. The soft roller has a laser light to help you see dirt ahead. The powerhead has three height settings, which help it pick up larger objects, and there’s an on/off button instead of the typical Dyson trigger. In CR tests, one battery ran for about 71 minutes per charge on low and 8 minutes on the high setting.

If you’re after the maximum pickup that a robotic can offer, the Roomba s9+—iRobot’s top-of-the-line robotic vacuum—should be on your short list. It excels on our carpet and edge-cleaning tests, though it can scatter debris. Another selling point: Once the vacuum is docked, the debris from the bin is sucked into a disposable bag in the base. The Roomba S9+ is voice-controllable with Amazon Alexa integration and it has excellent data security, but data privacy leaves a bit to be desired. It still doesn’t clean rugs as thoroughly as a traditional vacuum cleaner, but if strong cleaning is one of your priorities in a robotic vacuum, you should consider this bot.

This model was just $499.99 during Prime Big Deal Days in October, but this is the best price we’ve found right now, matching what we saw for Black Friday.