Seventy-seven brand guides to the kitchen — from pro-style ranges and rice cookers to air fryers, blenders, small appliances and cutting boards.
Kitchen brands often sell a heritage that belongs to someone else. These guides separate the name from the owner and the factory.
Heritage names, new owners
The luxury range is a good example: Viking, La Cornue and AGA all belong to the US foodservice group Middleby, while Thermador and Gaggenau sit inside Bosch’s BSH. Wolf is the cooking brand of the family-owned Sub-Zero Group, and Bertazzoni is still family-controlled after six generations. Among small appliances, Oster belongs to Newell, Waring to Conair, and Instant continues under private-equity ownership after a 2023 Chapter 11.
Made where?
Origins vary as much as owners. Tiger says its premium rice cookers are made in Japan; Blendtec’s blenders are built in Utah; Epicurean boards are still made in Superior, Wisconsin, from the same paper-composite material as skate ramps; and many value brands — Gourmia, Chefman, Aroma — are American-owned and China-made, as their guides explain.
How to use these guides
Each guide covers who owns the name today, where the products are made — by the maker’s own account and, where it differs, by other sources — and the brand’s visual identity. A company’s description of itself is attributed to the company, and where a business has closed we say so plainly. The table at the end gathers the essentials.
Pro-style and luxury ranges
Luxury cooking appliances and the groups that own them.
- Viking — A 1987 Greenwood, Mississippi maker (Fred Carl Jr.), the first pro-grade home range, owned since 2013 by the US foodservice giant Middleby.
- Wolf — The residential cooking brand of Wisconsin’s family-owned Sub-Zero Group (with Sub-Zero refrigeration and Cove), its dual-fuel ranges known for their signature red knobs, US-made.
- Thermador — A 1916 US luxury cooking brand (the Freedom Induction Cooktop), German-owned since 1998 via BSH, which Bosch has wholly owned since 2015.
- Gaggenau — A Black Forest iron foundry chartered in 1683 that became, centuries later, the design-forward top of Bosch’s BSH appliance hierarchy (the Vario cooktops, EB 900 oven).
- La Cornue — A 1908 Paris maker (founded by a perfumer) of bespoke vaulted-oven Château ranges, now a Middleby brand it gained through the 2015 Aga Rangemaster deal.
- AGA — The cast-iron heat-storage cooker devised in 1922 by Nobel physicist Gustaf Dalén, made in Britain, now (via Aga Rangemaster) owned by the US giant Middleby.
- Bertazzoni — An 1882 Guastalla maker still family-controlled (via Bilancia Holding, six generations), whose sports-car-inspired enamel ranges are the round’s lone brand not owned by a giant.
Air fryers
Air-fryer brands from app-connected to value.
- Cosori — The VeSync-owned, app-connected air-fryer brand that popularized recipe-app cooking, once HK-listed and now private.
- Instant — The Instant Pot and Instant Vortex maker that went through Chapter 11 in 2023 and continues under new private-equity ownership.
- Dreo — The Waterdrop-owned, Amazon-era brand whose probe-guided ChefMaker brought chef-precision to the air fryer.
- Chefman — The self-funded American housewares brand (RJ Brands) that built a value air-fryer line, designed in New York and made in China.
- Gourmia — The American-owned, China-made value brand whose low-priced air fryers became Walmart-aisle bestsellers.
- Nuwave — The American direct-response brand, born of the NuWave Oven, that carried its infomercial heritage into air fryers.
- Typhur — The Chinese-founded, premium-positioned air-fryer brand (Shenzhen, with a San Jose office) behind the design-led Dome.
Blenders
Countertop and personal blenders.
- Blendtec — The Utah-built, commercial-grade blender maker of “Will It Blend?” fame, family-founded and now Wasatch-majority-owned.
- Nama — The design-led California DTC brand best known for hands-free cold-press juicers that expanded into blending.
- Oster — The Newell-owned American heritage name whose Osterizer beehive blender became a mid-century design icon.
- Waring — The Conair-owned name behind the pioneering Waring Blendor, invented by Frederick Osius and famously used in Salk’s polio research.
- Magic Bullet — The Capital Brands compact personal blender, sold by infomercial, that seeded the NutriBullet phenomenon.
- Beast — The design-forward personal blender from the NutriBullet founder, a separate California venture built around a fluted vessel.
- Cleanblend — The founder-owned San Diego brand offering high-power, Vitamix-class blending at a value price.
Rice cookers
Rice cookers from Osaka to San Diego.
- Tiger — The family-owned Osaka maker, born a vacuum-flask company in 1923, whose premium IH rice cookers are made in Japan.
- Aroma — The San Diego housewares brand whose affordable, China-made rice cookers became an American mass-market bestseller.
- Yum Asia — The British brand that brings genuine ceramic-bowl IH, fuzzy-logic rice cookers, with English menus, to Western kitchens.
- Buffalo — The Taiwanese “ox-head” cookware brand, known for fully-stainless rice cookers, popular across Asian kitchens.
- Midea — The public Chinese appliance giant, a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate that also owns Toshiba’s home-appliance business.
- Imusa — The Colombian-origin, French-owned cookware brand that stocks Latin kitchens with affordable rice cookers and staples.
- Dash — The StoreBound brand whose compact, candy-coloured rice cookers and mini appliances sell design and fun over premium tech.
Smart kitchen
Connected cookers, ovens and thermometers.
- Anova — The San Francisco sous-vide leader, owned by Electrolux, whose precision cookers and steam oven run on an app.
- Brava — The US smart countertop oven that cooks with visible-light lamps, from a venture-backed company whose parent could not be confirmed.
- Tovala — The Chicago independent whose smart oven scans a meal-kit code and cooks it, on a razor-and-blade model.
- Suvie — The Cambridge independent whose countertop kitchen robot refrigerates food and then cooks it on schedule.
- Meater — The wireless smart meat thermometer by Apption Labs, now owned by pellet-grill maker Traeger.
- Combustion — The Seattle independent, founded by Chris Young, whose eight-sensor predictive thermometer forecasts doneness.
- June — The San Francisco smart oven that recognises food with a built-in camera, now a brand of the (privately held) Weber.
Cutting boards
Butcher-block and cutting-board makers.
- John Boos — The 1887 blacksmith’s butcher block, whose first “Boos Block” was a three-legged sycamore slab, now a maple-block giant, PE-owned.
- The Boardsmith — The end-grain workshop that outlived its founder, David Smith (d.2020), now handmaking blocks in Frisco, Texas under John Loftis.
- Larch Wood — The Nova Scotia flooring maker turned end-grain-larch craftshop, handmaking golden-grained tamarack boards in East Margaree.
- Hasegawa — The Japanese “wood-core” synthetic board (a wooden core sealed in a knife-gentle surface) that has been the restaurant standard since 1992.
- Teakhaus — A brand of the publicly-listed Mexican forestry company Proteak, its FSC teak grown on Latin-American plantations and its boards made in Vietnam.
- Epicurean — The paper-composite cutting board spun out of a Wisconsin skatepark-ramp builder, still made in Superior from the same material as skate ramps.
- Material Kitchen — The NYC design-DTC brand whose viral reBoard is a recycled-plastic-and-sugarcane composite, with a separate USDA-biobased board made in Finland.
Small appliances, part 1
Magimix, Bodum, Hurom, Cuisinart, De’Longhi, Bruno and Bamix.
- Magimix — The French brand’s made-in-France food processor, with honest caveats.
- Bodum — The Danish brand’s democratic-design French press, with honest caveats.
- Hurom — The Korean brand’s slow-juicer specialism, with honest caveats.
- Cuisinart — The US brand’s democratising food processor, with honest caveats.
- De’Longhi — The Italian brand’s retro-modern espresso machine, with honest caveats.
- Bruno — The Japanese brand’s compact, retro-pastel hot plate, with honest caveats.
- Bamix — The Swiss brand’s made-to-last immersion blender, with honest caveats.
Small appliances, part 2
Gaggia, Kenwood, Kuvings, Hamilton Beach, Ritter, Récolte and Solis.
- Gaggia — The Italian brand’s crema-espresso heritage machine, with honest caveats.
- Kenwood — The British brand’s stand-mixer heritage, with honest caveats.
- Kuvings — The Korean brand’s wide-mouth slow juicer, with honest caveats.
- Hamilton Beach — The American brand’s drink-mixer workhorse, with honest caveats.
- Ritter — The German brand’s made-in-Germany food slicer, with honest caveats.
- Récolte — The Japanese brand’s compact, pastel press-sand-maker, with honest caveats.
- Solis — The Swiss brand’s designed-in-Switzerland espresso machine, with honest caveats.
Small appliances, part 3
Russell Hobbs, NutriBullet, Ariete, Turmix, Vitantonio, Princess and Krups.
- Russell Hobbs — The British brand’s automatic-kettle heritage, with honest caveats.
- NutriBullet — The American brand’s nutrient-extraction blender, with honest caveats.
- Ariete — The Italian brand’s retro-pastel Vintage range, with honest caveats.
- Turmix — The Swiss brand’s blender heritage, with honest caveats.
- Vitantonio — The Japanese brand’s interchangeable-plate waffle baker, with honest caveats.
- Princess — The Dutch brand’s fun-cooking range, with honest caveats.
- Krups — The German brand’s scale-then-coffee heritage, with honest caveats.
Small appliances, part 4
Tefal, Wilfa, Taurus, Graef, Cuckoo, Koenig and Toffy.
- Tefal — The French brand that invented the non-stick pan, with honest caveats.
- Wilfa — The Norwegian brand’s specialty-coffee brewer, with honest caveats.
- Taurus — The Spanish brand’s hand-blender heritage, with honest caveats.
- Graef — The German brand’s made-in-Germany slicer, with honest caveats.
- Cuckoo — The Korean brand’s pressure rice cooker, with honest caveats.
- Koenig — The Swiss brand’s electric-grill invention, with honest caveats.
- Toffy — The Japanese brand’s retro, dusty-pastel appliances, with honest caveats.
Small appliances, part 5
Moulinex, Gastroback, Tatung, Prestige, Joyoung, Karaca and Arno.
- Moulinex — The French brand’s food-mill heritage, with honest caveats.
- Gastroback — The German brand’s premium design range, with honest caveats.
- Tatung — The Taiwanese brand’s iconic electric pot, with honest caveats.
- Prestige — The Indian brand’s pressure-cooker heritage, with honest caveats.
- Joyoung — The Chinese brand’s soymilk-maker invention, with honest caveats.
- Karaca — The Turkish brand’s coffee-culture appliance, with honest caveats.
- Arno — The Brazilian brand’s blender heritage, with honest caveats.
At a glance: who owns the name and where it is made
Taken from each guide’s fact panel, as of October 2026. Ownership and production change; follow the link for sources and detail.
| Brand | Origin | Owner | Where made |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGA | UK (1922) | Middleby (2015) | UK |
| Anova | USA (San Francisco) | Electrolux | See guide |
| Ariete | 1964 (Tuscany) | See guide | See guide |
| Arno | 1944 (São Paulo) | See guide | See guide |
| Aroma | See guide | See guide | USA |
| Bamix | 1950 (Switzerland) | See guide | See guide |
| Beast | See guide | See guide | USA |
| Bertazzoni | Italy (1882) | Family (Bilancia) | Italy |
| Blendtec | See guide | See guide | USA |
| Bodum | 1944 (Copenhagen) | See guide | See guide |
| Brava | USA | Unconfirmed | See guide |
| Bruno | 2012 (Tokyo) | See guide | See guide |
| Buffalo | Taiwan | See guide | See guide |
| Chefman | See guide | See guide | USA |
| Cleanblend | See guide | See guide | USA |
| Combustion | USA (Seattle) | See guide | See guide |
| Cosori | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Cuckoo | 1978 (Korea) | See guide | See guide |
| Cuisinart | 1971 (US) | See guide | See guide |
| Dash | See guide | See guide | USA |
| De’Longhi | 1902 (Treviso) | See guide | See guide |
| Dreo | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Epicurean | USA (2003) | Independent | Wisconsin |
| Gaggenau | Germany (1683) | BSH / Bosch | Germany |
| Gaggia | 1947 (Milan) | See guide | See guide |
| Gastroback | 1989 (Hollenstedt) | See guide | See guide |
| Gourmia | See guide | See guide | USA |
| Graef | 1920 (Arnsberg) | See guide | See guide |
| Hamilton Beach | 1910 (Racine) | See guide | See guide |
| Hasegawa | Japan (1992) | Independent | Japan |
| Hurom | 1974 (Gimhae) | See guide | See guide |
| Imusa | Colombia | See guide | See guide |
| Instant | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| John Boos | USA (1887) | PE (One Mezzanine) | Illinois, USA |
| Joyoung | 1994 (Jinan) | See guide | See guide |
| June | USA (San Francisco) | Weber | See guide |
| Karaca | 1973 (Istanbul) | See guide | See guide |
| Kenwood | 1947 (Woking) | See guide | See guide |
| Koenig | 1954 (Zürich) | See guide | See guide |
| Krups | 1846 (Solingen) | See guide | See guide |
| Kuvings | 2007 (Korea) | See guide | See guide |
| La Cornue | France (1908) | Middleby | France |
| Larch Wood | Canada (2003) | Independent | Nova Scotia |
| Magic Bullet | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Magimix | 1971 (France) | See guide | See guide |
| Material Kitchen | USA (2017) | Independent (VC) | Reported |
| Meater | See guide | Traeger | See guide |
| Midea | See guide | See guide | China |
| Moulinex | 1932 (France) | See guide | See guide |
| Nama | See guide | See guide | USA |
| NutriBullet | 2012 (LA) | See guide | See guide |
| Nuwave | 1990s | See guide | USA |
| Oster | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Prestige | 1959 (India) | See guide | See guide |
| Princess | 1994 (Breda) | See guide | See guide |
| Ritter | 1905 (Munich) | See guide | See guide |
| Russell Hobbs | 1952 (UK) | See guide | See guide |
| Récolte | 2009 (Tokyo) | See guide | See guide |
| Solis | 1908 (Zurich) | See guide | See guide |
| Suvie | USA (Cambridge MA) | See guide | See guide |
| Tatung | 1918 (Taipei) | See guide | See guide |
| Taurus | 1962 (Oliana) | See guide | See guide |
| Teakhaus | Proteak (Mexico) | Proteak (public) | Vietnam |
| Tefal | 1956 (France) | See guide | See guide |
| The Boardsmith | USA (2005) | LoneStar Artisans | Texas, USA |
| Thermador | USA (1916) | BSH / Bosch | US + Europe |
| Tiger | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Toffy | 2016 (Tokyo) | See guide | See guide |
| Tovala | USA (Chicago) | Private | See guide |
| Turmix | 1933 (Zürich) | See guide | See guide |
| Typhur | China (Shenzhen) | See guide | See guide |
| Viking | USA (1987) | Middleby (2013) | Mississippi |
| Vitantonio | 1999 (Japan) | See guide | See guide |
| Waring | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Wilfa | 1948 (Oslo) | See guide | See guide |
| Wolf | USA (2000) | Sub-Zero Group | USA |
| Yum Asia | See guide | See guide | UK |
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Viking ranges?
Middleby, the US foodservice group, has owned Viking since 2013, according to our guide.
Are Tiger rice cookers made in Japan?
Tiger, a family-owned Osaka maker, says its premium IH rice cookers are made in Japan.
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