How we work
Cupindy publishes buying guides and safety explainers about home and kitchen products. This page describes how that work is done, including the parts that are less flattering than the way most review sites describe themselves.
Where our judgement comes from
Cupindy grew out of a home and kitchen retail business in Egypt. That business worked directly with traders and suppliers: we went to them, handled the product, measured it ourselves, photographed it, and read what was printed on the box. Hundreds of items across cookware, appliances, food storage and cleaning.
We still have that access and still use it. When a guide needs a real item examined, we can go and examine one.
That business also gave us something harder to buy: years of customers asking the same questions and repeating the same mistaken beliefs. Which plastics are safe to heat. Whether a granite coating is different from a ceramic one. Why a stainless pan sticks. Most of what we publish exists because a real person asked, not because a keyword tool suggested it.
What we do not do
We do not run a testing lab. We do not measure toast browning across fifty slices or run cookware through a thousand heat cycles. Sites that do this are valuable and we are not one of them.
We have not handled most of the products we recommend. Our readers are largely in the United States and buy through Amazon. Those specific items have not been in our hands. Where a guide recommends something we have not held, our assessment comes from manufacturer documentation, regulatory disclosures, retailer listings and published specifications, and we say so.
We do not sell products. Cupindy earns from advertising and from affiliate commission when a reader buys through one of our links. Neither changes a verdict, and where one product pays us more than another we say which one.
How we make money
Cupindy is free to read and earns in two ways. Advertising is served on our pages by Google. And some outbound links to retailers are affiliate links, which means we may be paid a commission if you buy through one, at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Commission rates are not the same on every product. Occasionally a brand funds a temporary bonus rate on a specific item, which means one of our picks can pay us several times what another pays. When that is true of something we recommend, we say so in the guide itself, next to the recommendation — not only here.
No brand pays us to be included, to be ranked, or to be described in a particular way. We do not accept payment for coverage and we do not send drafts to manufacturers for approval.
Some of our guides conclude you should buy nothing. Those pages earn us nothing. We publish them anyway.
Prices and availability change constantly and anything we quote may be out of date by the time you read it. Always check the current price on the retailer's own page before buying.
How we use AI
We use AI tools to help draft and structure our articles. We think readers are entitled to know that, because most sites that do it do not say so.
What the AI does not supply is the experience. The measurements, the photographs of real items and their packaging, the knowledge of what customers actually get wrong, and the decision about what a guide should say — those come from us. A person decides what is published and is responsible for it.
We are also going to be honest about the limitation. Not every sentence on this site has been independently verified against a source. That is true of most publications and it is true of this one. What we can tell you is which sentences we treat as non-negotiable, and that is the next section.
Our rules
These are the standards we hold ourselves to. They are commitments, not a description of a long history, and we would rather publish five we keep than fifteen we do not.
- Claims about chemicals, regulations and safety are checked at source. Any sentence naming a brand alongside a chemical, a regulation or a safety claim is verified against the primary document before it publishes.
- Missing information is reported, not hidden. If we went looking for a manufacturer's disclosure and could not find one, the guide says so — including when the silent brand is one of our own picks.
- Every recommendation names a drawback. A pick with no downside is an advertisement.
- We say what we have and have not handled. No guide implies hands-on testing that did not happen.
- Corrections are made on the page and dated. We do not quietly edit an error out of existence.
Corrections
If something on this site is wrong, we want to know. Email [email protected] with the page and what is incorrect. If you are right, we will correct the page and note the change and the date on it.
This page describes our standards as of August 2026. If we change how we work, we will change this page.