All reviews
Every product we have reviewed, ordered by most recent.
Cooking & Home
Lodge has been casting skillets in Tennessee since 1896. The pre-seasoned surface improves every time you cook: which is the opposite of how most kitchen gear works. A true buy-it-for-life…
Everyday Carry
Saddleback Leather offers a 100-year guarantee on their products. They say it plainly: "They'll fight over it when you're dead." The Slim…
Clothing
Filson has been making oiled canvas in Seattle since 1897, originally for salmon fishermen and loggers in the Pacific Northwest. The Tin…
Outdoor & Travel
Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke, not the push stroke. That makes them faster and more accurate than…
Cooking & Home
Pendleton has been making wool blankets in the United States since 1863. The National Park series began in…
Outdoor & Travel
The Z-Lite Sol is closed-cell foam in an accordion fold format. There is no air inside. It cannot puncture.…
Writing & Office
The Staedtler Mars plastic is the standard eraser at drawing schools and architecture firms worldwide. It…
Cooking & Home
Copper conducts heat five times better than cast iron. A good copper pan responds to a flame change within…
Writing & Office
The Rotring 600 has been the tool of architects, designers and anyone who wants to write or draw with…
Tools
The Bahco 8069 is a 250mm adjustable wrench made in Enköping, Sweden. Hardened jaws, smooth adjustment, and…
Writing & Office
The Pilot G2 is the best-selling pen in the world. Not because it is the cheapest, but because it writes…
Outdoor & Travel
The Deuter Futura 32 has a 3cm ventilation gap between your back and the bag. After two hours of hiking, your…
Tools
A tape measure is a tape measure, you might think. Until you try to measure alone and the blade sags after…
Cooking & Home
The AeroPress is made of polypropylene, weighs 230 grams, and has one replaceable part: the rubber plunger…
Tools
A good screwdriver sounds like a small thing. But work with one all day and you notice exactly what the…
Clothing
Carhartt made its first duck canvas trousers for railroad workers in 1889. The B01 Double Front has barely…
Tools
The Knipex Cobra has been the standard tool of plumbers and installers for decades. Not because there are no…
Everyday Carry
Zippo has been making the same lighter in Bradford, Pennsylvania since 1932. If it ever breaks (which rarely…
Tools
The Estwing is forged from a single piece of steel, head to handle. No loose handle to break, no connection…
Everyday Carry
The Seiko 5 Sports runs on a mechanical movement that never needs a battery. It winds itself from the…
Outdoor & Travel
Every Gransfors Bruk axe is hand-forged in Sweden and stamped with the initials of the smith who made it.…
Cooking & Home
Most toasters last three to five years and end up in landfill. The Dualit has been made in Crawley, West…
Outdoor & Travel
George Stephen invented the kettle grill in 1952 because he was tired of open grills that burned everything…