Mixing by hand can be a bit of a chore, leaving your arm sore and your meringue melty. A good hand mixer gives you the extra power you need to whip up your favorite frosting or a decadent cookie dough without breaking a sweat.After 20 hours spent whipping up four cakes, 16 dozen cookies, four batches of pizza dough, and several bowls of...

A successful trip begins with excellent luggage, and pieces in the Travelpro Platinum Elite line have been our favorite carry-on and our favorite checked suitcase for many years. No matter how you’re traveling, owning a great piece of luggage means you have one less thing to worry about.Dismiss

Your kid could end up sitting in the same convertible car seat for five years or more, so it’s arguably your most significant car seat purchase.We’ve evaluated more than 90 convertible seats since 2017. And after interviewing safety experts and enduring aching muscles from installing literal towers of car seats, we’ve concluded that the...

If you’re a bird stalker who is generous enough to leave out food, you typically only know when birds have visited because of the carnage left behind: the drained feeder, the mess of seed hulls, and an unimaginable amount of bird poop.Instead of camping out with a pair of binoculars to spy on your feathered friends, get an up-close view...

Grilling is a lot more pleasant—and your results are more professional—if you have a set of grill tools that work well. Unfortunately, a lot of them are flimsy, poorly designed, or gimmicky.But after spending many hours over open flames and hot coals, flipping hundreds of burgers and cooking dozens of chickens, we have some tried-and-true...

Growing up, my family absolutely loved the beach, whereas I mostly associated it with lugging a lot of gear and eating sand-filled sandwiches. Now that I have my own kids, and I see how much they enjoy collecting seashells, digging for creatures, and splashing in the waves, I’ve gained slightly more appreciation for sun and sand. We still...