Dave Gershgorn/NYT Wirecutter Apple iPad (11th Generation, 128 GB) — Top PickWalmart deal price: $280 (deal on pink); street price: $300 What we like: Our top tablet pick for most people. Large 11-inch touchscreen, fast performance, a USB-C port, and plenty of color options. Great all-around tablet that can handle pretty much any task. 128…
Travel can be restorative and reinvigorating — a bridge to loved ones, a door to new places. It can also be draining and inconvenient. And sometimes the smallest issues with your travel gear can ruin a perfectly good trip. If you’ve spent the past few travel seasons dragging around the same banged-up carry-on suitcase with…
MEL: Let them have their opinions. Let them have their disappointment. Let them not understand my dreams. Let them not be as supportive as I would like them to be. Let them be a little cold to the person that I’m dating. Let them, let them, let them, let them, let them. You’re creating this…
With the nights getting longer and the days getting colder, ’tis the season to burrow into a warm, toasty bed. Our independent journalists have spent hundreds of hours this year testing the most supportive mattresses, the comfiest pillows, the softest sheets, the fluffiest comforters, and the best sleep accessories, from alarm clocks to sleep masks…
Sarah Kobos/NYT Wirecutter Any folding chair can provide you with extra seating that’s easy to store, but few are durable and comfortable enough to use for prolonged periods of time. After considering dozens of chairs and reading their reviews, we narrowed our search to chairs using the following criteria: Comfort: Folding chairs are notoriously uncomfortable,…
The Naked Wines club is different from most other wine clubs because you’re not locked in to a set number of automatic shipments. You have to manually order your wine each time you want it (a minimum of six bottles per order). In order to buy from the club, though, you still have to pay…
Marki Williams/NYT Wirecutter Top pick This easy-to-use juicer requires zero manual squeezing, making it the most accessible model we tried. It also yielded more juice than nearly every other model and includes two sizes of pulp strainer. The Vinci Hands-Free Electric Citrus Juicer produced more juice than most of the electric juicers we tested, including…
We’ve tested a total of 33 oven mitts, pot holders, and oven gloves made from a range of materials. Michael Hession/NYT Wirecutter We looked for pot holders and mitts with hanging loops for storage. Sarah Kobos/NYT Wirecutter We’ve tested a total of 33 oven mitts, pot holders, and oven gloves made from a range of…
All-purpose spatulas The Mercer Hell’s Handle Fish Turner was our top pick in the original publication of this guide. However, after long-term testing it over a couple of years, we’ve found that the wide handle isn’t as comfortable as the Victorinox’s. We do like the large version of the Mercer spatula for grilling, though. We…
Doug Mahoney/NYT Wirecutter Top pick Our 12 kid testers unanimously chose this snow tube as the best sled. It travels farther and faster than any other sled, and the pull strap makes it easy to haul back to the top of the hill. Over the past six years of sled testing, nearly every person who…