[paranoidrobot]

> Are there washer/dryer and toaster influencers now?

Possibly. It might depend on your definition of 'influencer', too.

Vacuum Wars[1] seems to do pretty comprehensive reviews of vacuums.

Watching Project Farm[2] is also interesting, although it's often bulk testing a whole lot of one type of product at once, and is very fast paced.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@VacuumWars [2] https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm

[themagician]

What I like about Project Farm is he often doesn’t make an absolute recommendation. The way he tests is really useful in identifying the products NOT to buy based on specific use cases.

[throw9away6]

Project farm is great never been disappointed with his reviews

[tjoff]

Reviews?

Feels like it is just, here, tested it once for 2 mins doing one or maybe two things. At best it gives you an idea of what to avoid but I've never come out of one of those videos knowing what I'd actually want.

It also feels like the videos could be a courter in length if they just included a table with product data.

[sgerenser]

While the reviews can sometimes be superficial, there’s also often cases with a clear winner, or a winner without paying 3x the price. I ended up following his recommendation on automotive scratch remover compound, for example, and was happy with the results.

[throw9away6]

They do include that I always skip to the summary at the end then back track to any tests I care about

[jinushaun]

My confidence was recently shook by their garden hose review. I own of the highly rated hoses that he says had zero kinks. Mine kinks 100% of the time. Multiple times in one session.