The Choice JournalHow we choose

Kitchen & Table guides

Cookware, crockery, kitchen kit, recipe boxes and food by post. Most of these products last years, so we look hard at guarantees, at what dishwashers do to them, and at the gap between the photography and what turns up in the box.

4 guides

How we choose

We read the product pages, the size guides, the delivery and returns small print, and a few hundred customer reviews, lowest-rated first. Then we pick. We do not test products ourselves and we never pretend to.

Read how we choose
  • Every pick checked on the brand's UK site, with the month we read it
  • A real weakness for every product, not just the ones we liked less
  • No scores out of ten: each pick earns an award, and a reason
  • Commission never decides what makes the list