Consumer Reports – December 2018

Not all gifts are created equal cr.org/wrapped No matter what gift you’re giving this holiday season, rely on trusted reviews to ...

HOW TO KNOW WHICH ARE REAL Deceptive practices and dubious discounts make it harder to shop smart. This gift season, we expose g ...

Your Road Map to Easy Car Shopping SEARCH for the car you want and see what others paid LOCAT E the dealership from our prescree ...

COVER STOR 36 When Are Sales Too Good to Be True? This holiday shopping season, we expose gimmicks—new and old—that snag consu ...

GE CAFÉ CT9070SHSS DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS 10 What We’re Testing in Our Labs ... Wall ovens, desktop computers, quiet vacuums, ...

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GROWING UP in a large family meant that inding real deals was always top of mind. Whether it was the clever “two for one” pitch ...

ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN RITTER Alerting Consumers About Recalls what’s at stake Here’s a statistic that should concern us all: The ...

Our October cover story, “What’s Really in Your Meat?” investigated the presence of trace amounts of banned drugs in meat and th ...

YOUR ARTICLE, as informative as it was, left many questions unanswered that I know CR will continue to delve into. As your previ ...

WE TESTED: 29 electric models WE TEST FOR: Evenness of cookies and cakes baked on multiple racks, evenness of browning and seari ...

COMING NEXT MONTH Space Heaters and More For the latest ratings of these and other product categories, readers with a Digital or ...

It’s cold out there! Can I get a remote starter for my ca r if it didn’t come with one? If your car was built after 2005, chance ...

Insights Product recommendations and practical advice A GOOD FOOD PROCESSOR can speed up your prep time for almost any meal. “Yo ...

CRInsights 01 20 03 40 50 POOR EXCELLENT ! 0 RECOMMENDED $ 0 CR BEST BUY 1983 In our debut tests, CR reviews the $1, Kaypro II, ...

0 !LENOVO YOGA 720-15IKB $ 950 0 OVERALL (^73) SCORE 2000 We test 10 Windows-based laptops and the Apple iBook (above). Though “ ...

CRInsights WITH SEVERAL TYPES to choose from— ionization, photoelectric, dual-sensor, and more—shopping for smoke detectors isn’ ...

Food Sleuth How Healthy Is Oil? The cooking oils section of the grocery store has more and more options— coconut, corn, hemp, ol ...

CRInsights BIGGER IS BETTER, right? That seems to be the thinking on everything these days, from houses to burgers—and now smart ...

RECALLS TO STAY INFORMED ABOUT RECALLS FOR YOUR VEHICLES, READERS WITH A DIGITAL OR ALL-ACCESS MEMBERSHIP CAN USE OUR FREE CAR R ...