There’s a reason pour-over is the preferred brewing method at high-end cafés: It’s a simple way to make coffee with intricate flavors that you might not get from a machine. For the best results, start with a good dripper. After brewing more than 150 cups, we found the Kalita Wave 185 Dripper to be the most consistent and easy to master. If you want to brew a truly great cup, we also recommend a grinder, kettle, and scale.
Rolling up to a café with a laptop and portable monitor lets the whole room know you’re a busy professional who needs to get work done. But aside from impressing the half-caff crowd, portable monitors are a useful way to add another screen to your laptop, especially when you’re on the go. We recommend the Asus ZenScreen MB16ACV, a quality 1080p monitor that can also work over USB-A if your laptop doesn’t have a USB-C port.
Cooking is always easier when you’re organized, especially in a small kitchen. To help you make better use of tight quarters, we spoke with organizing experts and chefs, and tested 40 shelves, racks, magnets, and other space-saving options. Below are the tips and tools you need to optimize every inch of a tiny kitchen.
In our many years of testing, the Chef'sChoice Trizor XV has proved to be the absolute best tool we’ve ever found for keeping kitchen knives in their ideal state: razor-sharp.
Call it the Sunscreen Paradox Factor: You might think a big SPF number on your sunscreen bottle gives you more protection. But it might just be upping your chances of experiencing sun damage.
Even if you’re not a secret agent and you don’t think you have anything to hide, you need a paper shredder.
Garbage and recycling bins full of bank statements and credit card offers are treasure troves for identity thieves. Your best defense: a paper shredder, which chomps through sensitive documents and spits them out as confetti.
As a member of the Wirecutter Deals team who comes from a long line of coupon clippers and bargain hunters, I’m not a splurger by nature. (In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s against my DNA to pay full price for anything.) But I’m particularly stingy when it comes to products I consider basics, like dish soap, condiments—even medication.
So of course, I balked at the hefty $25 price tag on Fresh’s Sugar Lip Treatments. I distinctly remember reading about their benefits in Wirecutter’s guide and thinking to myself, “Yeah, but who on earth would spend more than three bucks on a lip balm?”
Turns out, it’s me.
