Linda Thomson

Mr. Coffee has been a staple in American households since the 1970s and has an extensive market of loyal customers, although coffee gourmets contend this lower-priced line makes weak coffee.

Review The affordable Hamilton Beach 49980A 2-Way Brewer is a programmable coffee maker that offers dual capabilities.

Editor’s Note: This product has been removed from our side-by-side comparison because it has been discontinued.

Editor’s Note: This product has been removed from our side-by-side comparison because it has been discontinued.

The Breville Smart Grill is made of sturdy stainless steel in a clamshell design with die-cast handles. While cooking with this indoor electric grill, you can keep the plates open or fold the sides together to form a press.

The Oster DuraCeramic Reversible Grill/Griddle is a multifunctional but messy option if you are looking for an indoor electric grill. The grease spatter from this unit traveled farther than any other in our indoor grill testing – an unfortunate 20 inches.

The Cuisinart Programmable Espresso Maker has a programmable button that allows you to customize your brew to your specific tastes. It is relatively inexpensive, easy to use, has one of the largest water reservoirs and the longest warranty period of all the machines we tested.

Editor’s Note: This product has been removed from our side-by-side comparison because it is no longer available.

Review The Mr. Coffee Cafe Barista BVMC-ECMP1000-RB is a good value coffee maker with a milk frother.

Review This dehydrator is perfect for people who either hunt or garden often, as it has so much space to dry food.

Review The Nesco Snackmaster Pro is easy to use, provides first-rate dehydration results and can be expanded to accommodate as many as 12 trays of food to dry.

Review The Cuisinart DHR-20 Food Dehydrator lets you dry a variety of foods including gourmet fruit leathers and yogurt roll-ups as well as other things like doggie treats and flowers for potpourri.

Review The Cabela's 80-Liter Commercial Food Dehydrator uses smart technology, a strong motor for its heater and powerful air circulation to dry food evenly and well.

Review If you're looking for sheer volume of dried food, the L'Equip 528 is the dehydrator you're looking for.

Review The Presto Dehydro Electric Food Dehydrator work well and is easy to store since its trays can be turned over to nestle into one another.

Review A great solo dehydrator, for anyone who is serious about removing moisture from food.

The Nordic Ware Egg Boiler lets you prepare soft- and hard-boiled eggs in your microwave in a compact, egg-shaped kitchen accessory. This egg cooker is dishwasher safe, so cleanup is simple. That said, we had less than stellar success making hard-cooked eggs with this kitchen appliance.

The Elite Cuisine EGC-007 Maxi-Matic cooks up to seven eggs at once and can make soft-, medium- or hard-boiled eggs, as well as an omelet or two poached eggs.

Editor’s Note: This product has been removed from our side-by-side comparison because it is no longer available.

The Chef’sChoice International Gourmet Egg Cooker 810 makes as many as seven eggs at one time, letting you cook them to different levels.

The Simple Taste Egg Cooker is simple to use and gives you eggs with very good taste, but our testing showed that even when we followed the included directions properly, we could not get hard-cooked eggs that were cooked completely through.

When we tested the Cuisinart Egg Central CEC-10, we ended up with perfectly cooked hard-boiled eggs with great texture and taste. The yolks were cooked completely and displayed a pale yellow color, and they were somewhat crumbly.

You can cook up to six eggs inside the compact Dash Rapid Egg Cooker. In our tests, the hard-cooked eggs had thoroughly cooked yolks and firm whites, and they tasted great. You can also use this economical machine to make scrambled eggs, omelets or poached eggs.

Review The affordable and popular Hamilton Beach 25500 electric egg cooker does a fine job cooking seven eggs to the level of doneness we looked for in hard-boiled eggs.