Best Black Friday Kitchen Deals You Can Already Get

The CR Recommended Typhur Dome AF03 is a large-capacity air fryer with pre-programmed settings, including a dehydrating mode, and WiFi connectivity, allowing you to control it with your smartphone. It has a digital display and dishwasher-safe parts. It’s also one of the quietest air fryers in our tests, and it aces our ease of cleaning tests, which we conduct after air-frying chicken nuggets and french fries. There have been deals just as good on this air fryer in the past year, but if you’ve missed them and need a big air fryer, now may be the right time to buy.

The Chefman RJ38-2T is not only CR Recommended, but it also carries CR’s Green Choice designation, meaning it has less of an environmental impact than other air fryers, based on its design, energy usage, and other factors. This air fryer receives excellent scores for its ease of cleaning and noise, and a very good score for ease of use, which reflects how easy it is to set your desired time and temperature.

The Cuisinart AIR-200 is a large air fryer with very good scores in CR’s tests for ease of cleaning, convenience, and noise. It has a window and an interior light, allowing you to keep an eye on your food without pulling out the drawer and losing heat. There’s also a toss reminder to help you ensure that your food is evenly cooked. This air fryer comes with a three-year warranty, which is more generous than you’d get with many other models.

We found the Gourmia GAF686 Digital’s controls are exceptionally easy to use, plus it receives very good scores for ease of cleaning and noise. It has a digital display, dishwasher-safe parts, and pre-programmed settings. But it’s worth noting that this model may run hot (when we set it to 350° F, we measured the temperature at 365° F). We’ve seen this air fryer at a lower price in the recent past, but this is still a good deal.

The CR Recommended Instant Vortex Plus 140-3089-01 air fryer earns an excellent score in our evaluation of its controls and receives very good scores for ease of cleaning and noise. We measured its capacity to be 5.2 quarts, meaning it can hold enough to feed a family. It has pre-programmed settings, a cooking window and light, plus an “odor erase” feature that could be handy if you plan to air fry onion rings or other potentially smelly foods. We’ve seen this air fryer at a slightly lower price in the recent past, but if you want a large air fryer now, it may still be a worthy deal.

The Keurig K-Supreme is a scaled-down version of the Keurig K-Supreme Plus Smart, and we expect both to perform similarly. They are among the K-Cup creator’s top-of-the-line brewers showcasing the brand’s latest features. The baseline version now on sale offers four different brew sizes and an over-ice brew mode. Its early Black Friday price is the best it’s been all year.

This may be the best price we’ve seen all year on the CR Recommended, single-serve Nespresso Creatista Plus, but it still costs a pretty penny. In our tests, this coffee maker delivered each cup of coffee quickly and consistently. In addition to its pod coffee convenience, it comes with a milk frother for drinks like lattés and cappuccinos. Nespresso is a top-scoring brand for owner satisfaction in CR’s member surveys, which reflect how likely owners are to recommend their coffee maker to friends and family.

The Nespresso Vertuo Lattissima earns very good scores in our tests for first-cup speed, repeat cup speed, and convenience, and offers controls for brew size and strength, giving it a very good score for brewing range. This machine may be pricey, but it comes with a built-in milk frother and a 16-ounce carafe. Nespresso machines do require Nespresso capsules, which are more expensive than K-Cups, but considering owners’ satisfaction with their Nespresso machines, the cost may be worth it for the coffee connoisseur in your life. 

The Café Specialty Drip (C7CDAAS3PD3) offers WiFi connectivity, enabling control through Alexa and Google and making it a smart addition to a connected home. We found that this model was very good at brewing coffee for optimal taste, and it was also easy to clean. This is the best price we’ve seen on this coffee maker in the last several months.

The CR Recommended Cuisinart PerfecTemp 14 Cup Programmable DCC-3200 is an excellent overall choice based on CR’s tests, and its brew performance, an indicator of taste, was stellar. We also found it convenient to use, and the carafe was easy to hold and pour from. What’s more, Cuisinart, as a coffee maker brand, showed excellent owner satisfaction in CR’s member surveys (meaning owners of this brand’s machines are likely to recommend their model to friends and family), as well as a very good score for predicted reliability (which reflects the likelihood that an owner will experience a problem with their machine in their first four years of ownership). A $30 discount isn’t too shabby either.

The Technivorm Moccamaster KBT(79112) is an unconventional-looking drip coffee maker that has a thermal carafe and takes a cone-type filter. And you can expect good flavor for your beans from this machine, considering that, in our tests, it earns a very good score for brew performance (a coffee maker’s ability to brew coffee between 195° F and 205° F for five or six minutes, resulting in optimal taste). It earns mediocre scores for convenience and carafe handling, yet Technivorm is a rare brand of coffee maker that receives excellent scores for predicted reliability and owner satisfaction in CR’s member surveys. Plus, at nearly half price, this is the best deal we’ve ever seen on this model.

For those who want the option to make espresso drinks and drip coffee in one machine, the DeLonghi All-in-One (COM532M) might be worth considering. It earns very good scores in our convenience and carafe handling evaluations, though its score for brew performance was just mediocre, and it took 10 minutes to brew a pot. The espresso side, paired with a milk frother, may be what makes this purchase worthwhile. This isn’t the lowest price we’ve seen on this model, but it still reflects substantial savings.

It may come as a surprise, but the Mr. Coffee Compact Espresso machine beat out all the other budget espresso machines in a recent evaluation outside of CR’s labs. A team of evaluators found it easy to use, and it produced smooth espresso shots and good-quality foamed milk using its built-in steam wand. It was so simple and intuitive, according to our panel, that even an espresso-making novice had no trouble producing a shot. We even found that this model made better-tasting shots than more expensive models.

In our outside-the-lab evaluation, we found the KitchenAid Semi-Automatic Espresso Machine was impressively well-built, especially given its budget-friendly price. It may take some getting used to for beginners, but we found that it produced reliably good espresso shots. This model comes with numerous accessories, including a milk jug for steaming (the only model we evaluated that offered this). We’ve seen this machine at a lower price than this in the past, but it may be worth nabbing now if you’ve been considering an espresso machine for your home.

The CR Recommended All-Clad KZ750D immersion blender shows excellent overall performance in our tests, including very good results when blending frozen fruit and yogurt for smoothies. Plus, it aced our soup purée tests, in which we use a series of sieves to evaluate how smoothly the blender purees vegetables and water. It operates at variable speeds, including a turbo speed, and comes with a one-year warranty. We saw a better deal than this one last Black Friday, but this is still a significant discount.

The GE G8H1AASSPSS immersion blender was excellent at pureeing ingredients for soup in our tests. We grated cheese using the included chopper attachment and saw very good results in that test as well. (It was mediocre, though, at blending yogurt and frozen peaches and strawberries for smoothies.) This two-speed immersion blender also comes with a whisk, which could be handy for whipping cream.

The CR Recommended NutriBullet Ultra NB50500 personal blender could be a good choice for those who want to make smoothies to go. It comes with a 32-ounce cup, a 24-ounce cup, a 24-ounce handled cup, and two to-go lids. Plus, it’s dishwasher-safe. This blender earns excellent scores in our tests for making icy drinks and purees, and for its durability.

Vitamix makes some of the most expensive blenders in our ratings, but its models offer features that you’re unlikely to find in most other brands’ machines. The Vitamix 5200 and other Vitamix models can make hot soup reaching 165° F, using heat created from the friction of the blender blades. It aces our durability tests and receives excellent scores in our purée and icy drink tests. Vitamix is the only full-sized blender brand to receive top ratings for both predicted reliability and owner satisfaction. Plus, this is the best deal we’ve seen on this CR Recommended blender in well over a year.

Boiling water with an electric kettle can be quicker than boiling water on the stove, and if you’ve been considering buying one, now’s your chance to get a great, no-frills model at a significant discount. The Amazon Basics Stainless Steel Electric Kettle earns an excellent Overall Score in CR’s tests. It can boil up to four cups, and it earned very good scores in our time to boil, time to cool, and convenience evaluations. 

A stand mixer like the KitchenAid Artisan Series KSM195PSBK is a prized possession on many bakers’ countertops, and this price makes it easier to add it to yours. It was $50 less during the last big sale, but if you want to get one ahead of Thanksgiving, it’s the only discount available for a new KitchenAid model that excels in CR’s tests. This stand mixer earns an excellent score for whipping time in whipped-cream tests and an excellent score in our mixing tests, where we observe how much a mixer labors when mixing thick chocolate-chip cookie dough. It comes with a stainless steel bowl with a handle, a whisk, and a dough hook. This model can also run attachments like a pasta maker or spiralizer, bought separately.

With more than 120 years in the business, Lodge knows a thing or two about cast iron. As a result, the CR Recommended Lodge Essential Enamel Cast Iron Dutch oven turns out bread that’s nicely browned and crispy, earning a very good rating in our bread-baking test, and it’s oven safe up to 500°F. Cooking evenness and speed of heating are also very good, cleanup is a breeze, and it’s dishwasher safe. This Dutch oven weighs 13 pounds and has a 7-inch cooking surface diameter. 

The Our Place Always Pan 2.0 is one of the top-rated nonstick frying pans in CR’s tests. We find that it cooks evenly, and its handle is sturdy and is cool enough to the touch that you won’t need a potholder every time you reach for it. Its nonstick food release is very good, and it earns a very good score in our nonstick durability test. (In this test, we intentionally scrub the nonstick surface with 2,000 strokes of steel wool and evaluate the outcome by frying eggs on the abraded surface.) This pan is induction-compatible, the manufacturer says it’s oven safe to 450° F, and it’s on sale for about 25 percent off for Black Friday. 

For such a budget-friendly option, it may initially come as a surprise that the Blue Diamond Classic Diamond-Infused Ceramic set is among the best-performing nonstick cookware sets in CR’s ratings. It excels in most of our tests, including nonstick food release, cooking evenness, and speed of heating. It also shows very good performance for nonstick durability. Like many lower-priced cookware sets and frying pans, this set did less well in our handle sturdiness tests, in which we apply pressure to the handle until it bends, loosens, or breaks. At its original price of $109.99, this set earned CR’s Smart Buy designation, so at its sale price, it’s an even smarter buy.

Stainless steel cookware can be a trusty and safer alternative to cookware made with PTFE and other PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, aka forever chemicals), and the Cuisinart Contour 13-piece cookware set is one example of a stainless set that cleans up easily, earning an excellent score in our ease of cleaning tests. It also earns excellent scores for speed of heating and cooking evenness. Another handy feature is the etched measurement markings on the inside of the pots. A discount of more than $100 off its original price makes this quite a deal.

In CR’s tests, the Breville the Sous Chef 16 BFP810 received very good scores for shredding, grating, and chopping, and its slicing performance was excellent. It has a wide feed tube to handle larger chunks of food. Its accessories include a mini bowl insert with its own chopping blade, a dough blade, a french fry and Julienne disc, disc organizer, and cord storage. It comes with a 30-year motor warranty and a 2-year warranty on all other parts. This is the best deal we’ve seen on this food processor since last Black Friday.

Breville’s The Paradice 9 BFP638 aces CR’s tests for chopping, slicing, and shredding, though its grating isn’t as great. It does have a generous 9-cup capacity, though, which is handy if you tend to cook for a crowd. The 625-watt food processor comes with separate shredding, slicing, and dough blades. There’s a 30-year warranty on its motor and a two-year warranty on other parts.

The GE G8P1AASSPSS food processor could be a good option for those who frequently have large slicing and shredding jobs. It has a 12-cup capacity and excels at those tasks. It also receives a very good score for chopping, but does less well when grating and puréeing, the latter being a task better suited for a blender. This food processor comes with a dough blade, and separate discs for slicing, shredding, julienning, grating, and emulsifying. We’ve seen better deals than this in the past year, but if you’re looking for a gift for a home cook, and at a significant discount, this might be the right choice.

The 500-watt KitchenAid KFP1318BM food processor masters our tests for chopping and shredding, and it’s one of the lower-priced options with a fairly large claimed capacity of 13 cups. Of the big guys, it’s the lightest, weighing just 8.3 pounds (less than half the weight of some of the other models we’ve tested). That makes it a compelling choice if you plan to store it in a cabinet and lift it out for each use. One downside: The parts and motor are covered by just a one-year warranty. We’ve seen better deals on this food processor in the past year, but this discount of over 20 percent makes it a worthy purchase right now.

The Zojirushi NP-GBC05 Induction Heating System rice cooker may be pricey, but in CR’s tests, it receives an excellent score for convenience and a very good score for its controls. It also receives a very good score for how well it cooks one cup and three cups of rice. This rice cooker is the only one in our ratings that employs an induction heating system that turns the pot itself into a heating element, surrounding the rice with heat instead of relying on heat radiating from the bottom like most other rice cookers.

The CR Recommended Cuisinart CPT-435 Countdown Metal 4-Slice toaster is similar to the Cuisinart CPT-415 Countdown Metal 2-Slice that we’ve tested in our labs, and we expect it to perform virtually the same. In our tests, the 2-slice toaster receives an excellent score for color range. You can also expect even browning whether you’re making one slice or a full batch, and it’ll get the job done quickly, based on our test results. We find it easy to use, but like many toasters we test, it earned a mediocre score for ease of cleaning.

The Hamilton Beach Gourmet 22996 2-Slice toaster is a relatively simple and straightforward toaster compared to some of the more souped-up models we’ve tested, but it does an excellent job all around in our toaster tests. You can expect a single slice and a full batch to come out evenly browned, and because of its color range performance, you can expect it to achieve your desired toast color, whether that’s very light or very dark. This toaster earns CR’s Green Choice designation because it has a lower environmental impact than other toasters in our ratings.