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...

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...

What a uniquely modern pleasure it is to keep a whole pizza on hand, ready to be brought to life at a moment’s notice.But frozen pizza can be pretty polarizing. For some, it’s a welcome blast from the past, catapulting you back to childhood or college days when it was the easiest thing to cook for yourself. For others, it’s a pale imitation...

Ask Wirecutter, an advice column written by Annemarie Conte, explores the best approaches to buying, using, and maintaining stuff.Dear Wirecutter,I’m moving into a house with a modern HVAC system, and my husband claims that means we’ll no longer need my beloved Coway Mighty air purifier. Is this true? How do I know when I need to use an...

We’re not sure what’s worse: seeing an actual mouse in your home, or just finding their poop in your cupboards. Either way, if there’s a mouse in your walls, you want to get rid of it asap. After more than 25 hours of research and interviews with industry experts, and a combined 15 hours of baiting, setting, and detonating mousetraps,...