The Elite Gourmet Appliance Catalog

Elite Gourmet Small Appliances: What the Range Covers

Elite Gourmet makes countertop appliances at the budget end of the market, and the range is much broader than most people expect. Air fryers, toasters and slow cookers are the obvious part; the line-up also runs to ice cream makers, snow cone machines, dehydrators, deep fryers, hot plates, buffet servers and a rotary cheese grater.

This catalogue organises all of it by what the appliance does, with the current listed price, colour and owner rating on every entry. The sections below explain how the range is grouped and what each group is genuinely good for.

The common thread across the brand is scale. These are small appliances designed for one or two people, a first kitchen, a dorm, a camper or a second counter — and priced accordingly. Where a premium brand builds one large machine, Elite Gourmet tends to build a compact version of it.

Cooking with less oil

The air fryer group is the largest part of the range and the reason most people arrive here. These are convection ovens in a compact shape: an element and a fan circulate hot air fast enough to crisp a surface that would otherwise need submerging in oil.

In practice that means a light spray or toss of oil rather than a pan full. Sizes start at around one quart — one portion — and run up to oven-style models with two racks and a glass door. The basket models are simpler to clean; the oven models let you see what is happening and cook on two levels.

Alongside them sit the indoor grills and griddles, which solve the same problem differently. A ridged grill plate lifts food above its own fat and leaves the marks you would get outdoors, without the smoke of a pan on a hob. For anyone in a flat or anywhere a barbecue is not an option, that is the appeal.

Appliances that cook unattended

The slow cookers, rice cookers and bread makers share a quality that the fast appliances do not: you load them, leave, and come back to finished food. That is worth more on a weekday than any amount of cooking power.

Slow cookers here span dip-sized pots up to 8.5-quart crocks, with both dial and programmable versions. The dial models run until switched off; the programmable ones count down and drop to keep-warm by themselves, which is the model to choose if the food finishes before you get home.

The rice cookers are single-switch machines — a thermostat senses when the water has gone and flips to warm. Several include a steam tray that sits above the rice, so vegetables or fish cook in the rising steam and one appliance produces a whole meal.

Bread makers in the range all bake a two-pound loaf and differ chiefly in finish and pan material, with a PFAS-free ceramic pan on some models and conventional non-stick on others. The delay timer is what makes them habitual: load the pan at night, and the loaf is finished at breakfast.

Preserving and preparing

The dehydrators are the quiet workhorses of the catalogue. Five-tray stackable units handle a weekly batch of fruit or jerky; a ten-tray digital model with a 48-hour timer deals with a harvest. Stainless trays are the ones to choose for jerky and anything acidic, because marinade sits on a tray for hours and plastic eventually stains.

Drying food at home removes the preservatives and added sugar that commercial dried fruit carries, and it solves a glut — a tree that fruits all at once becomes something that keeps. The one rule worth knowing is to dry low and slow: too much heat hardens the outside before the inside is dry, and the piece then spoils from the centre in storage.

On the preparation side the range includes juicers in two styles. Centrifugal citrus presses are fast and suit oranges and grapefruit; masticating cold-press models turn more slowly, which keeps the pulp cooler and handles leafy greens that a fast juicer simply spins past.

Breakfast, coffee and the counter

Breakfast is the best-covered part of the whole catalogue. Egg cookers steam anything from a few eggs to fourteen on two tiers and take the guesswork out of soft-boiling. Waffle makers, panini presses, sandwich makers, crepe makers and omelette pans each cover one specific job well.

The coffee group runs from single-serve compact brewers through drip machines to classic stovetop-style electric percolators and glass French presses. Kettles sit in the same section, including glass models with an illuminated base so you can watch the boil.

What all of these have in common is a small footprint. A single-serve brewer is the right appliance for a one-person household in a way that a twelve-cup machine is not, and a good deal of the range is built around that observation.

The appliances people do not expect

The specialty end of the catalogue is where the brand is genuinely unusual. There is a full group of ice cream makers, including old-fashioned wood-bucket churns alongside compact electric models, plus snow cone and shaved ice machines and a frozen drink maker.

Popcorn is its own group: stirring kettle poppers, hot-air machines and retro tabletop carnival kettles. Deep fryers run from a 2-quart immersion unit to triple-basket models. Hot plates cover single and double cast iron burners and a slim induction cooktop — extra heat for a holiday kitchen, a cabin or a dorm where there is no hob at all.

Beyond those sit buffet servers with multiple warming wells, hot dog roller ovens, electric hot pots, a deli meat slicer, a yogurt maker, an electric jar opener, a cordless carving knife and a rotary cheese grater. None of it is essential and all of it exists because somebody wanted the job done without doing it by hand.

Where the brand fits, honestly

Elite Gourmet competes on footprint and price, not on build. The housings are largely plastic, the metal panels on the budget models are thin, and shade or temperature settings are less precisely calibrated than on premium equipment. If you cook twice a day and want identical results every time, that gap will show.

What you get instead is the full feature set at a small size and a low price: extra-wide slots, cool-touch bodies, dishwasher-safe parts, removable crocks, and PFAS-free coatings on the newer models. For a first kitchen, a second counter, a camper or a household of one, that is usually the right trade.

Two measurements prevent most disappointments. Measure the counter depth under any wall cabinet before buying a tall appliance, and check the cord reach from your socket — countertop appliance cords are short by design and an extension on a kitchen counter is not ideal. Both numbers decide where an appliance lives, and one that has to be lifted out of a cupboard first does not get used.

Finding the right model

Every appliance in this catalogue has its own page with the full specification, the model code, the colour it ships in, the current listed price and the owner rating it carries. Where the same model exists in several colours, each colour is its own entry and the page links across to the others.

Browse by what you want to cook using the category links, or use the full line-up page to see everything at once. If you already know the model code, it appears on each card and in the specification table.