Angie Parkinson

REVIEW The Breville Juice Fountain Plus is a powerful juicer that extracts plenty of liquids and leaves little pulp.

REVIEW The Breville Juice Fountain Compact produced a lot of juice, and we love its compact design and low price.

Review The Cuisinart Juice Extractor CJE-1000 can deliver a cup of fresh juice every day, or cater for a full-on juice-fast.

Review The bObsweep bObi struggles to navigate a room, but it might be a good choice for those with open spaces that only require light cleaning.

REVIEW The Nutri Ninja Blendmax Duo crushes ice to blended drink perfection and makes really smooth smoothies.

Review Very impressive for the price

The Dirt Devil Razor Vac is lightweight and maneuverable and has good suction that effectively sucks up debris of all kinds, including pet hair.

Review The Kenmore Intuition is a sleek, stylish upright vacuum that comes with several specialized accessories for cleaning up pet hair and hard-to-reach soil.

Review The Dyson Ball Animal 2 does not look or maneuver like other upright vacuum cleaners, but in this case different is good.

The Farberware FMO07ABTBKA was not perfect in our tests, but it was quite good and the price is nice. We found it for less than $70 on some sites. At only 0.7 cubic feet, this tied for being the smallest microwave we tested.

The Faberware FMO07ABTBKA compact microwave put in a solid, if not perfect, performance in our cooking tests, and is very affordable.

The Toshiba EM925A5A-BS wasn't the best, but it strikes a good balance between features that matter and a reasonable price. And it was practically perfect on some tests.

The Samsung MG14H3020CM has a sleek, mirror-like appearance to give your kitchen a modern look, but more importantly, it has some great features like sensor cooking and a grill button.

The Sharp SMC0710BB/BW was a bit unpredictable, but it was generally good during our tests. All of the microwaves we tested cooked foods successfully, this one just didn't cook quite as nicely every time as some of the others. When we used the potato button the outcome was just ok.

The stainless steel Panasonic NN-SD372 microwave oven is an attractive appliance that offers a unique look on your countertop.

For a small microwave, the GE JES1145SHSS packs in powerful performance. It's one of the best compact microwaves we tested, tying for the highest score on our tests.

The RCA RMW1414 compact microwave combines function and form in a shiny stainless steel package that tied for the best overall performance in our tests.

The GE JES1072SHSS is exactly what most people would picture in a modern countertop microwave—compact, stylish, and less than $100.