Best Black Friday Kitchen Deals You Can Already Get

The Keurig K-Supreme is a scaled-down version of the Keurig K-Supreme Plus Smart, and we expect both to perform similarly. They are among the K-Cup creator’s top-of-the-line brewers showcasing the brand’s latest features. The baseline version now on sale offers four different brew sizes and an over-ice brew mode. Its early Black Friday price is the best it’s been all year.

This may be the best price we’ve seen all year on the CR Recommended, single-serve Nespresso Creatista Plus, but it still costs a pretty penny. In our tests, this coffee maker delivered each cup of coffee quickly and consistently. In addition to its pod coffee convenience, it comes with a milk frother for drinks like lattés and cappuccinos. Nespresso is a top-scoring brand for owner satisfaction in CR’s member surveys, which reflect how likely owners are to recommend their coffee maker to friends and family.

The Nespresso Vertuo Lattissima earns very good scores in our tests for first-cup speed, repeat cup speed, and convenience, and offers controls for brew size and strength, giving it a very good score for brewing range. This machine may be pricey, but it comes with a built-in milk frother and a 16-ounce carafe. Nespresso machines do require Nespresso capsules, which are more expensive than K-Cups, but considering owners’ satisfaction with their Nespresso machines, the cost may be worth it for the coffee connoisseur in your life. 

The Café Specialty Drip (C7CDAAS3PD3) offers WiFi connectivity, enabling control through Alexa and Google and making it a smart addition to a connected home. We found that this model was very good at brewing coffee for optimal taste, and it was also easy to clean. This is the best price we’ve seen on this coffee maker in the last several months.

For those who want the option to make espresso drinks and drip coffee in one machine, the DeLonghi All-in-One (COM532M) might be worth considering. It earns very good scores in our convenience and carafe handling evaluations, though its score for brew performance was just mediocre, and it took 10 minutes to brew a pot. The espresso side, paired with a milk frother, may be what makes this purchase worthwhile. This isn’t the lowest price we’ve seen on this model, but it still reflects substantial savings.

In our outside-the-lab evaluation, we found the KitchenAid Semi-Automatic Espresso Machine was impressively well-built, especially given its budget-friendly price. It may take some getting used to for beginners, but we found that it produced reliably good espresso shots. This model comes with numerous accessories, including a milk jug for steaming (the only model we evaluated that offered this). We’ve seen this machine at a lower price than this in the past, but it may be worth nabbing now if you’ve been considering an espresso machine for your home.

The CR Recommended All-Clad KZ750D immersion blender shows excellent overall performance in our tests, including very good results when blending frozen fruit and yogurt for smoothies. Plus, it aced our soup purée tests, in which we use a series of sieves to evaluate how smoothly the blender purees vegetables and water. It operates at variable speeds, including a turbo speed, and comes with a one-year warranty. We saw a better deal than this one last Black Friday, but this is still a significant discount.

The CR Recommended NutriBullet Ultra NB50500 personal blender could be a good choice for those who want to make smoothies to go. It comes with a 32-ounce cup, a 24-ounce cup, a 24-ounce handled cup, and two to-go lids. Plus, it’s dishwasher safe. This blender earns excellent scores in our tests for making icy drinks and purees, and for its durability.

Vitamix makes some of the most expensive blenders in our ratings, but its models offer features that you’re unlikely to find in most other brands’ machines. The Vitamix 5200 and other Vitamix models can make hot soup reaching 165° F, using heat created from the friction of the blender blades. It aces our durability tests, and receives excellent scores in our purée and icy drink tests. Vitamix is the only full-sized blender brand to receive top ratings for both predicted reliability and owner satisfaction. Plus, this is the best deal we’ve seen on this CR Recommended blender in well over a year.

A stand mixer like the KitchenAid Artisan Series KSM195PSBK is a prized possession on many bakers’ countertops, and this price makes it easier to add it to yours. It was $50 less during the last big sale, but if you want to get one ahead of Thanksgiving, it’s the only discount available for a new KitchenAid model that excels in CR’s tests. This stand mixer earns an excellent score for whipping time in whipped-cream tests and an excellent score in our mixing tests, where we observe how much a mixer labors when mixing thick chocolate-chip cookie dough. It comes with a stainless steel bowl with a handle, a whisk, and a dough hook. This model can also run attachments like a pasta maker or spiralizer, bought separately.

With more than 120 years in the business, Lodge knows a thing or two about cast iron. As a result, the CR Recommended Lodge Essential Enamel Cast Iron Dutch oven turns out bread that’s nicely browned and crispy, earning a very good rating in our bread-baking test, and it’s oven safe up to 500°F. Cooking evenness and speed of heating are also very good, cleanup is a breeze, and it’s dishwasher safe. This Dutch oven weighs 13 pounds and has a 7-inch cooking surface diameter. 

In CR’s tests, the Breville the Sous Chef 16 BFP810 received very good scores for shredding, grating, and chopping, and its slicing performance was excellent. It has a wide feed tube to handle larger chunks of food. Its accessories include a mini bowl insert with its own chopping blade, a dough blade, a french fry and Julienne disc, disc organizer, and cord storage. It comes with a 30-year motor warranty and a 2-year warranty on all other parts. This is the best deal we’ve seen on this food processor since last Black Friday.

Breville’s The Paradice 9 BFP638 aces CR’s tests for chopping, slicing, and shredding, though its grating isn’t as great. It does have a generous 9-cup capacity, though, which is handy if you tend to cook for a crowd. The 625-watt food processor comes with separate shredding, slicing, and dough blades. There’s a 30-year warranty on its motor and a two-year warranty on other parts.

The GE G8P1AASSPSS food processor could be a good option for those who frequently have large slicing and shredding jobs. It has a 12-cup capacity and excels at those tasks. It also receives a very good score for chopping, but does less well when grating and puréeing, the latter being a task better suited for a blender. This food processor comes with a dough blade, and separate discs for slicing, shredding, julienning, grating, and emulsifying. We’ve seen better deals than this in the past year, but if you’re looking for a gift for a home cook, and at a significant discount, this might be the right choice.

The 500-watt KitchenAid KFP1318BM food processor masters our tests for chopping and shredding, and it’s one of the lower-priced options with a fairly large claimed capacity of 13 cups. Of the big guys, it’s the lightest, weighing just 8.3 pounds (less than half the weight of some of the other models we’ve tested). That makes it a compelling choice if you plan to store it in a cabinet and lift it out for each use. One downside: The parts and motor are covered by just a one-year warranty. We’ve seen better deals on this food processor in the past year, but this discount of over 20 percent makes it a worthy purchase right now.