85 Black Friday Kitchen Deals BA Editors Are Shopping (2024)

This Zojirushi rice cooker has settings for keep warm, extended keep warm, and reheat—so you can have perfectly cooked rice pretty much whenever you want it. It has a 5.5-cup capacity, and can also be used as a steamer. Plus, it comes with a retractable power cord so it won’t get tangled if you need to store it in a cabinet.

This 6-cup Zojirushi rice cooker boasts “Fuzzy technology,” a feature that automatically detects the moisture levels in your rice to ensue that it comes out perfect in 30 minutes or less, every time. It also has a hoast of other settings for things like porridge and steamed eggs, and the inner pot has a nontoxic, nonstick coating for easy cleanup.

Vitamix makes the best blenders on the market, and one of our favorite models—the 5200—is on sale right now. While you’re not going to get the high-tech presets you might with other Vitamix models, the 5200 is great for anyone in the market for an easy-to-use but super powerful and high-quality blender at an unbeatable price thanks to this early Black Friday deal.

If you need a blender with a smaller profile, then the Vitamix Explorian’s for you. This model provides the same blending power as Vitamix 5200, but is a bit more compact. It’s also priced a lower, making a more affordable Vitamix blender—a price tag that’s discounted even more this Black Friday. If you’re curious about other sales from our favorite blender maker, then be sure to shop our round-up of the best Vitamix sales.

Cuisinart is another brand name that’s practically synonymous with its best-selling product; this time, I’m talking about food processors. The brand introduced the first food processor to the American market in 1973, and it’s held the hearts of many home cooks ever since. The brand’s 14-cup model has been a favorite in the BA test kitchen for years, and it’s on sale for $50 off right now—just in time for all of your holiday entertaining prep work. Make pie or biscuit dough, chop onions and garlic in a flash, and blend creamy dips to tide over your guests while that turkey takes its sweet time in the oven.

If you’ve ever found yourself racing to beat the clock during a marathon meal-prep session, you’d probably get a lot of use out of a food processor. This pro model from Breville has a generous 16-cup capacity and comes equipped for you to slice, chop, shred, and even knead dough, so it’s got you covered no matter how ambitious your project is.

If Vitamix reigns supreme in the blender space, then KitchenAid takes the cake for stand mixers. This Artisan Series tilt-head stand mixer powerfully whips, kneads, and whisks anything you put it up against, and the bowl is slightly tapered at the bottom so all ingredients are in contact with sides and get more evenly mixed. It’s the best of the best—making this one early Black Friday appliance deal you don’t want to miss. If you’re a KitchenAid stan, check out even more deals from the brand.

Omega’s horizontal juicers range in size and price, and you get more power and functionality the more you spend. But even the more compact models like this NC900HDC will wow you out of the box. In addition to being a powerful masticating juicer, you can use it to make nut butters and fruit and veggie purees. It also functions as a coffee grinder and food processor. Bonus: It’s easy to clean compared to other juicers.

This Black Friday, don’t just settle for any old basket-style air fryer—treat yourself to sleek, splurgey model that vaguely looks like an alien probe. The Typhur Dome is our favorite air fryer upgrade. It’s fast, powerful, offers a wide temperature range to make a multitude of things, and is super big with over 150 square inches of cooking surface area. It doesn’t need any preheating and will cook food faster than a lot of the other models we tested.

The Instant Vortex is currently our favorite bucket-style air fryer. It’s simultaneously slim but spacious, with room for up to two pounds of french fries. It’s also exceptionally quiet and lightweight. Bonus: The basket and tray are dishwasher safe.

The Wolf Gourmet Elite is basically a mini convection oven. It’s got the same advanced temperature control and probe thermometer you can expect out of a regular Wolf oven, and it’s also a lot bigger than the average countertop oven—all qualities that make it one of our favorite toaster ovens. It even uses convection cooking, so it can double as an air fryer. That size does unfortunately make it heavier than other toaster ovens and it’s also pretty pricey, but sales on Amazon and Williams Sonoma can at least help take the edge off of that cost.

For those in shopping for an air fryer toaster oven, you can’t get much better than the Breville Smart Oven. It’s the most versatile air fryer we tested and includes a variety of easy-to-use extra features that elevate the cooking experience, but don’t feel like overkill. It can bake, broil, roast, slow-cook, dehydrate, and, air-fry, and fit food as big as a whole chicken.

If you simply haven’t got the budget or counter space for a whole Vitamix blender, then an immersion blender might be the way to go. These are basically handheld blenders you can store in a drawer or cabinet, and take out whenever you need. Vitamix makes their own immersion blender (which you can also find on sale), but our editors prefer the All-Clad immersion blender. It features a high-speed Turbo button, and the blade is positioned a little higher than on other immersion blenders—meaning it better sucks even the chunkiest of vegetables into its vortex.

A handheld immersion blender can do anything a pitcher blender can do, especially if you get a really powerful model like this one from Vitamix. It’s perfect for making soups and sauces because you can blend right in the pot, and it’s much better for small-batch items like salad dressings too. It’s a great option for anyone who’s short on space and even when it’s not on sale, much more affordable than Vitamix’s pitcher blenders.

Is the Ninja Creami an ice cream maker? Not exactly. In order to use the Ninja Creami you need to freeze all your contents ahead of time and then use it to blend them up. It’s sort of like a consumer version of the Pacojet, if that means anything to you. If it doesn’t, just know that it’s the thing for making sorbets and smoothie bowls.

BA staffer Alma Avalle is a big fan of this $20 dollar egg cooker. The UFO-shaped tool can cook up to six eggs at a time, and is extremely simple to use. All you do is put water into the reservoir and click the on button and wait for the appliance to sing its little song. The level of doneness is determined by the amount of water you put into the machine. Less water=jammy center, more water=firm, golden yolk.

The Instant Pot “craze” might be over, but we still love having the opportunity to have pulled pork and brisket at a moment’s notice. If you’re just getting into the world of electric pressure cookers, this 10-in-1 model has all the features you’ll need and more. Yeah, it can slow cook and pressure cook, but it can also make yogurt and bake bread.

It’s the Instant Pot, but fun-sized! The 3-quart capacity is perfect for small apartments and for solo cooking. Also, if you are already a serious IP-head, this could serve as a sidekick to the larger version for more complex meals.

The Philips soda maker can put out bubbly, spicy water with the best of them, and it has a slicker look than most. But unlike some of the other beautiful countertop soda makers (looking at you Aarke) the Philips is actually quite affordable.

There is simply no better personal blender than this smoothie master from Zwilling. It’s incredibly powerful and produced better results than any other personal blender during our tests.

The Café Specialty Coffee Maker is a machine for hard-core coffee connoisseurs who want to optimize their brew to the highest level. What does that really mean? You can change both the temperature and the brew strength of your coffee to make it exactly customized to your preferences. Choose between Light, Medium, Dark, Bold, or “Gold” brew, which Café has identified as the best option for most people. Speaking of gold, the Café has received the Golden Cup from the Specialty Coffee Association.

Breville is one of the top brands when it comes to espresso makers. They make one of our absolute favorite budget models, the Bambino Plus. While the Bambino isn’t currently on sale, you can get the much more high-tech model, the Barista Express Impress, for $100 off at Williams Sonoma. Or, if you’re the type who’d let a robot run your home if you could, spring for one of Breville’s techiest offerings to date and go with the Oracle Touch. It’s been a game-changer for commerce editor Carina Finn and is on sale in a gorgeous blue color for over $300 off on Amazon right now.

Before the Fellow Aiden and Ratio coffee machines knocked it out of the top position, Technivorm’s Moccamaster long reigned as the best drip coffee maker—and it still is a really great coffee maker. It’s super simple to use and makes a tasty cup of coffee. It does take up counter space and doesn’t look as sleek as the Ratio, but it’s a high-quality, durable model you can rely on for many mornings to come. Right now, save on this model with a 10-pot glass carafe/pot.

The Nespresso Vertuo is the best pod coffee maker you can buy—period—and it makes great espresso-style shots too. It’s part of Nespresso’s newer Vertuoline and all of the machines in this line can read a bar code on the (recyclable!) capsule and brew the perfect cup (or shot) for each specific size and style. All at the push of a single button.

Fellow is one of our favorite brands for all things coffee gear, and their pour over maker is no exception. The double walled glass carafe will keep your coffee hot for much longer than single-walled options like a Chemex, and thoughtful design features like a gasket that helps secure the dripper to the carafe make it a joy to use. With a two-serving capacity, it’s an ideal pick for households of two or people who need a boatload of caffeine in the morning.

This super-sleek Espro P7 French press features two superfine micro mesh filters, which makes for some of the absolute smoothest coffee we’ve ever had from a French press. It has a 32-ounce capacity, so you can make enough coffee for a small crowd, and the metal keeps your coffee warmer for longer.

With the Hamilton Beach FlexBrew Coffee Maker, flexibility is key: you can brew a single cup using a pod or coffee grounds, or prepare up to 12 cups with ground coffee. The machine features five single-serve sizes to choose from, and its 56-ounce water reservoir can brew seven single servings without needing to be refilled. Its standout feature is speed—brew a single cup in just 90 seconds, or pre-program your morning brew to start when you wake up.

If you want to add a little frothed milk to your morning coffee, a handheld milk frother is a quick and easy (and super affordable) way to do it. Bonus: You can also use this to quickly dissolve powders into liquids and even to emulsify small bathes of salad dressing.

This electric gooseneck kettle came out on top in our testing thanks to its its smooth, precise, consistent pour and impressive functionality including automatic temperature hold and the fact that you can set it the single degree from 104ºF–212ºF. There’s also a built-in brew timer and a clock.

If you don’t do pour-overs at home, you don’t need a gooseneck-style spout. This clear kettle from OXO is our top-tested standard-style spout kettle and we love it because it heats quickly and automatically holds the target temperature for 30 minutes. Like pricier kettles, you can set this one to the single degree from 104ºF–212ºF using a knob too. The simple control panel features a real-time temperature display and instructions and suggested temps are printed on the electric base (underneath where the kettle itself sits).

If you don’t do pour overs at home but still want a stylish electric kettle with lots of features, this cute, compact standard-spout kettle from Fellow lets you set the temperature to the exact degree with a haptic knob and automatically holds the target temperature for an hour.

And if you DO do pour overs at home, but don’t have a Fellow budget (even when it’s on sale) this model from OXO is one is our gooseneck kettle budget pick. And right now it’s even more budget friendly because you’ll save 25% with Amazon’s Black Friday deal.

We generally recommend getting one or two of three types of cutting boards—a plastic cutting board, a wood board, or a rubber board. If you’re looking for the best plastic cutting board, then lucky you—our favorite pick is on sale right now thanks to the Material early Black Friday sale. The board is made of renewable sugarcane and recycled plastic, and features smart design features like a small corner hole to push diced onions through and silicone corners that help prevent slipping (hence the name “grippy”). The board can show signs of wear and scratching over prolonged use, still the silicone corners keep it virtually stuck in place and the stylish colors it’s available in mean you won’t hate leaving it out on the counter. It’s discounted now during Material’s Kinder Kitchens Sale, which allows shoppers to pay it forward this holiday season and give a donation from their discount to One Love Community Fridge.

Anyone in need of some extra food storage containers should absolutely take advantage of this 41% off the staff favorite Stasher bags. They’re made of silicone and will help you reduce the amount of single-use plastics in your life—plus they’re dishwasher-, freezer-, and microwave-safe. Use them to freeze individual portions of hearty winter soups and stews, store prepped veggies in the fridge, or bring a stash of granola to the office for when that afternoon slump sinks in.

If you need a food scale and have visions of making your kitchen feel as techy and sleek as an Apple store, then we’d recommend buying the Zwilling Enfinigy kitchen scale. The glass surface makes it easy to wipe down and it’ll look super stylish on your countertop. It is a bit of a splurge for small appliance like a kitchen sale—but lucky for you, you can snag it on sale right now from not one, but two different retailers.

Not all salad spinners are created equally and if you’re going to invest in one, or upgrade your old hand-me-down, it’s worth spending a little more on this Oxo model with a stainless steel bowl that doubles as a salad serving bowl. We also love that there’s a lock on the pump so it can be stored in the pushed-down position.

Good tongs are indispensable—great for ensuring your pasta gets evenly coated in that sauce you just made or picking up hot pieces of steak to flip over as you sear it in your pan. If yours have seen better days, or they’re just not very good, use this Black Friday sale as an opportunity to score an extra- affordable set from OXO.

Believe it or not, whisks come in all shapes and sizes in order to excel at different tasks . The French whisk is long and narrow, as opposed to the more conventional balloon whisk. This makes it ideal for getting into the corners of pots and pans. Use this whisk for anything you might need to beat over heat, like roux, bechamel, and other classic sauces.

If you’re looking for a classic, simple charcoal grill, the ubiquitous Weber Kettle grill is a tried and true classic. It’s got plenty of room to make high-heat and indirect-heat zones and a top damper for easy temperature control, so you can multitask while grilling.

A sales event like Black Friday also presents the perfect opportunity to shop for more indulgent, luxury appliances you want to treat yourself to—like, say, an portable pizza oven to make pies wherever and whenever. Test kitchen editor Kendra Vaculin loved the Ooni Fyra 12, saying it actually feels lightweight, was super easy to use, and makes tasty, high-quality pizza right in the comfort of your backyard.

This Solo Stove is great for people who love spending evenings and nights with friends around a bonfire. It’s a smokeless fire pit that’s super easy to clean, and that you can even take on the go.

This super-strong grill brush is something you want to bust out for deep cleans because the wire bristles and scraper combo will clean your grill grates like nothing else. (Just don’t use anything with metal bristles for your everyday, in-between cleans.)