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The best home appliance brands in the 2021/22 Finder Retail Awards
We reveal Australia's favourite home appliance brands for 2021/22
The Finder Retail Awards recognises Australia's favourite brands across a huge number of categories. We survey thousands of real Australians to understand how they feel about their recent product purchases, and use that information to reward the most popular brands.
These are the best brands for home appliances in the 2021/22 Awards.
Best rated robot vacuum cleaner brand: LG
LG came recommended by 100% of customers surveyed when it comes to its robot vacuum cleaners. LG also received great scores in all categories, allowing them to take the win.
When it comes to washing machines, Bosch is hard to beat. In addition to receiving a 100% recommendation rating, Bosch scored well on all metrics receiving particularly high scores for features and functions, and washing performance.
In a back-to-back win, Haier has been named Australia's best rated clothes dryer brand. Performance and reliability and value for money were among the features that make customers love Haier's clothes dryer. The brand also received a respectable 97% recommendation rating.
LG topped the scoreboard for cooling performance, features and functions, and design whilst also receiving impressive scores across all other metrics. LG also comes recommended as the refrigerator brand of choice by a whopping 98% of its customers that were surveyed.
When it comes to kick starting your day the right coffee machine can make all the difference. Delonghi scored well across the board as well as receiving a 97% recommendation rating, showing why its customers love Delonghi.
Russell Hobbs proved unbeatable when it comes to Australia's best rated kettle brand. In addition to receiving solid scores across all metrics, 95% of its customers would recommend Russell Hobbs' kettles.
As multi category winners in this year's awards, Samsung claimed the title for Best Rated Microwave brand. Samsung scored particularly well cooking performance and ease of use whilst receiving admirable scores across the remaining metrics.
A quality appliance is the key to any good slice of toast and Aussies have made it clear that they love to make their brekky with Breville. This brand proved to be an all-rounder, receiving excellent scores across all metrics, as well as a 93% recommendation rating from its customers.
Consistently rating well for ease of use, performance, and value for money, Australians have rated Kmart as the best blender brand for this year's award.
100% of surveyed Australians who had purchased an ALDI food processor would recommend the brand, which helped ALDI secure this year's best food processor Finder Award. They also rated well for ease of cleaning, safety and value for money.
Nothing beats a nice and warm toasted sandwich for lunch, and no other brand could beat Breville as the best sandwich maker brand. Recommended by 100% of surveyed Aussies, Breville topped the rankings for durability, ease of cleaning and performance.
Australians have recommended Breville as the best slow cooker brand in this year's Finder Awards, rating its products highly for cooking performance and value for money.
Finalists
Sunbeam
Russell Hobbs
See Finder's picks for the best slow cookers in Australia
Best rated smoke alarm brand: Google Nest
To help keep your home safe, Australians recommend Google Nest as the best smoke alarm brand. It rated well for value for money, design and ease of use, and was recommended by 97% of survey respondents.
Finalists
Fire Pro
Quell
Best rated stand mixer brand: KitchenAid
Whether it's snacks for the kids or cakes for yourself, KitchenAid has been ranked as the number one stand mixer brand in this year's Finder Awards. Easy to use with excellent performance scores, 97% of Aussies recommend a KitchenAid stand mixer.
Best rated split system air conditioner brand: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Whether you want to stay cool in Summer or keep warm in Winter, Australians rate Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as the number one brand in split system air conditioners in this year's Finder Awards. All surveyed Australians recommended the brand.
For the freshest water, Australians have rated Home Master as the best rated Water Filter brand in Australia. Home Master topped the results for Cleaning and maintenance and value for money, and was recommended by 97% of surveyed Australians.
To keep warm this winter, consider a heater from Omega Altise. The brand has taken out the Finder Award for best heater brand this year, with high ratings for safety, value for money and features and functions.
According to surveyed Australians, the best juicer brand is Optimum Appliances. With high scores for value for money and overall performance, it takes out this year's Finder Award.
Philips is the brand to take the pressure out of pressure cooking, winning the Finder Award for best pressure cooker brand in this year's Finder Awards. It was the clear leader in cooking performance scores.
Tefal has won the Finder Award for best deep fryer brand this year. Recommended by 100% of surveyed Aussies, Tefal topped the charts for ease of use and value for money.
For fresh, delicious ice cream, consider an ice cream maker from Yonanas. The brand has won the Finder award for best Ice Cream Maker brand for the second year in a row, rating highly for value for money and recommended by 100% of users.
Recommended by 100% of surveyed users, Crock-Pot has taken out this year's Finder Award for best multi cooker brand. Its products rated highly across all areas, but topped the list for cooking performance and features and function.
Finalists
Sunbeam
Breville
Best rated BBQ brand: Ziegler & Brown
Ziegler & Brown has won this year's Finder Award for best BBQ brand in Australia. With the highest cooking preformance result of any brand, and strong scores across the board, it's not a surprise it was recommended by 94% of surveyed Aussies.
Finalists
Coolabah (ALDI)
DeLonghi
How we chose the winners
The 2021/22 Finder Retail Awards recognise brand sentiment from customer feedback on different retail product categories. Finder worked with data and insights company, Dynata to conduct thousands of customer interviews around their product purchasing history and satisfaction with their purchased products.
Disclaimer: Please refer to our methodology for more information on how we scored and judged Finder Retail Awards candidates. While we endeavour to assess the majority of product providers in the market, this is not always possible and it may be that not every brand in the market was included for judging.
Nick Broughall is a global group publisher across shopping, travel, tech, streaming and reviews at Finder. An award-winning journalist with over 15 years' experience writing about technology, Nick has edited leading tech publications, including Gizmodo, TechRadar and T3 Magazine, as well as contributing to CNET, the Sydney Morning Herald, Lifehacker, news.com.au and many more. In 2016 he was awarded the Best Reviewer title at the 14th Annual IT Journalism Awards and has been a finalist for Best Reviewer, Best Consumer Technology Journalist and Best News Journalist on multiple occasions. Nick has a Bachelor of Media and finds joy in solving problems with technology.
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