The 15 Best Small Appliances for Cooking at Home

Slow cookers take the effort out of stews, soups, meat dishes, and so much more. This 6-qt. cooker is fit for family dinners as well as potlucks. The super-tight sealed lid allows you to transport it with ease.

Whether you're cooking white rice, sushi rice, brown rice, or porridge, this cooker has a setting that's just right. It even includes a microcomputer to keep the cooking temperature and time on point.

This large food processor powers through whole fruits and veggies, nuts, and cheese. Its size makes it ideal for soup and sauces.

This hand blender (aka an immersion blender or stick blender) relies on a single stainless steel blade to purée, emulsify, and whip up food. Plus, it eliminates the need to pull out another appliance.

Choose between four recipes and seven noodle shapes to prepare perfect pasta at home — all in less than 20 minutes.

Turn out up to 10 pancakes and a dozen eggs with this top-rated griddle. Its cast-iron surface (which can be tilted to drain grease) makes it excellent for meat. 

This sleek toaster not only comes with seven settings to toast bread to perfection; it also regulates the heat so that you're not left with toast that's burnt on one side and barely thawed on the other. 

Food scales help you measure ingredients even more accurately than measuring cups. Consider it handy for baking and essential for fermenting veggies.

This efficient can opener also works its magic on jars, pop-top cans, bottle caps, twist-off caps, and plastic packages.

Bake fresh bread like a pro with this compact machine. It includes settings for white, French, whole wheat, sweet, gluten-free, and artisan bread, so you can really customize your loaf. You can even use it to make jam and compotes. 

Grilling indoors means you're no longer at the mercy of the weather. This countertop grill emits next to no smoke. Plus, cleaning its nonstick grill slats and dishwasher-safe drip tray couldn't be easier. 

This game-changing Instant Pot doesn't just cook food up to 70 percent faster. It's also programmed with settings for sous vide, baking, and preparing everything from rice to ribs. 

Your waffles will reach their crisp-but-fluffy potential with this machine's nonstick grids, rotating handle, and browning control dial. Breakfast at its most convenient. 

This powerful stand mixer takes baking to the next level. Available in 20+ colors, it also looks gorgeous on a countertop.

This top-rated model is large enough to air fry food for the whole family — like up to 3 pounds of crispy, oil-free French fries. Just add its nonstick basket to the dishwasher come cleanup time.