Independent buying guides
For small kitchens where every appliance has to justify its footprint and its wattage. Each guide answers one buying question, shows the running cost per use and the formula behind it, and dates its sources.
| Guides published | 3 | Each one answers a single buying question. |
|---|---|---|
| Calculators | 3 | Formula, units and assumptions shown on the page. |
| Sources cited | 6 | Each with the date the link was checked. |
| Photographs | 7 | Free-licence images, photographer credited. |
The decisions that actually change what you end up with.
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Photo: Alpha from Melbourne, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The method that changes the result.
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Photo: othree · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Energy, consumables and the cost of a year of use.
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Photo: Donovan Govan. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Intervals, parts and what they cost.
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Photo: Donovan Govan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Filters, pods, pads and their real intervals.
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Photo: Sima shimony · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fixing it before you replace it.
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Photo: Teemeah · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Each guide answers one buying question and shows the figures behind the answer.
How to choose
Bowl capacity, the lower liquid line, the footprint and the parts list: the four numbers that decide whether a food processor gets used or stored.
Photo: Warren Layton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Running costs
Electricity is pennies a year. The machine spread over the uses you get from it is the real number, and it swings by a factor of ten on how often you use it.
Photo: Donovan Govan. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Maintenance
Bowls crack, handles snap at the lug and lids stop latching. The cleaning routine and the three habits that decide whether a machine reaches year ten.
Photo: Sima shimony · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Every figure in a guide is taken from a named source, with the date it was checked. Where a number is an assumption or an example, it says so in the same sentence.
We do not run paid product tests, we do not publish reader reviews, and we do not claim to have handled every product mentioned. Where a claim needs a lab or a long-term test we do not have, the guide says that plainly.
Photographs are free-licence images from Wikimedia Commons or Openverse, credited to the photographer with the licence named. Charts are drawn from the figures printed in the same guide.
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Each calculator shows its formula, units and assumptions. Nothing is estimated for you in secret.
Ingredient cost, consumable cost and machine cost in one figure per serving.
cost per serving = ingredient per serving + consumable per serving + (machine price - resale) / (servings per day x 365 x years)
Annual electricity cost from rated power, hours of use and your own tariff.
annual cost = power (W) / 1000 x hours per day x days per year x price per kWh, plus standby power (W) / 1000 x standby hours x days x price per kWh
What a cross-border order really costs once shipping, duty and tax are added.
landed cost = (item price + shipping) + duty + tax, where duty = item price x duty rate, and tax = (item price + shipping + duty) x tax rate