The Top 21 Kitchen Trends of 2025

Premium coffee equipment enters the home as consumers pour more money into their high end coffee setups

Recently, many coffee shops have updated their layouts to include retail sections, selling everything from high-end tea kettles to exotic coffee filters. It’s all part of the emerging, and fastest-growing trend in the coffee industry of middle-end products: priced below the $20,000+ machines used by Blue Bottle and Starbucks but above the instant at-home coffee makers many consumers now have on their countertops.

While coffee is the world's second most-traded commodity, after oil, a growing number of consumers want a very non-commoditized experience. In fact, while coffee has been consumed for half a millennium, it wasn’t until roughly 50 years ago that the coffee world generally started to differentiate by origin or beverage type. Before this, instant and undifferentiated coffee dominated the market and many restaurants offered free refills.

Today, specialty coffee hasn’t just taken over commercial coffee houses but also made its way into the home in the form of specialty beans, advanced grinders, special filter systems, and purified water. Part of this category is the single-dose grinder. While most coffee grinders need to be cleaned each time the bean type is switched, single-dose grinders grind just one serving and don’t leave any residue. It helps move away from needing to set up a whole bag and finish it over the course of weeks, letting consumers more easily alternate between different flavors and setups.

From single dose grinders, to coffee pucks, the influx of specialty coffee and equipment into households has gained considerable momentum.

Induction stoves are on the rise

The growing scrounge for more space in cities has consumers talking online about how stove top covers let them buy hundreds of additional square inches in their confined city apartments. These boards, which started popping up on Etsy, then on Amazon in late 2020, go over a stove top when not in use, yielding more food prep surface.

Space utilization is also one reason some consumers are flocking to induction stoves which have completely flat surfaces so, when not in use, they’re essentially extra kitchen space. The flat surface also means they’re far easier to clean than traditional stoves.

Induction stoves are even more beneficial in a commercial setting. For one, they get much hotter, meaning they can, among other things, boil water in half the time, serve customers quicker, and squeeze in more patrons in a given day to earn more revenue. They also don’t have open flames so the kitchen doesn’t get as hot and many restaurant staff are recording fewer burns during the work day as a result. And while they cost 2x the price upfront, they use far less energy in the long run.

Despite all this, only less than 5% of American homes have induction stoves. Some of the hesitation is surprisingly because of stigma. It’s similar to what happened in the auto industry: some consumers felt like the new experience was a lesser version of the original, without the classic engine noise. To combat this, many hybrid vehicle brands, including Toyota with the famed Prius, introduced fake engine noises. Similarly, some induction stove brands have added blue LED lights to help customers adjust to the new experience.

We see this trend poised for strong growth in the coming years as this stigma fades, prices fall, and consumer awareness grows.

Workstation sinks on the rise not just because they add extra counter space, but also because they can conceal a dirty sink

As Zoom and Google Meet’s background blurring algorithms get better, users are increasingly taking calls from their messy bedrooms and obscuring the clutter behind them.

In the kitchen, workstation sinks are playing a similar role with their built-in sliding chopping boards that can cover messy sinks. It's embarrassing to have guests over with a sink piled high with dirty dishes, and a workstation sink can easily cover them up. This puts workstation sinks into an interesting category: products that don't necessarily save the customer time, but shift time instead.

Certain consumers are also chopping vegetables more. Online interest in chopping is rising relative to blending, in part as some consumers are looking for more ways to stand out in their social feeds with nicely splayed culinary arrangements.

And while most kitchen purchases take up counter space, the workstation sink actually adds space. This is especially useful since the boom in kitchen appliances purchases during the pandemic has reduced many kitchens’ amount of free counter space.

Workstation sinks also tie into changes in how people use their sinks. The average sink depth is increasing, from six to eight inches to as much as twelve inches, which increases back strain. One feature of a workstation sink is the ability to essentially raise the bottom of the sink which means less back strain when washing dishes.

Fridge organization products see growing demand as consumers have more food in their fridge than in decades past

Average plate sizes in the US have gone from 8.5 inches to 12 inches in the last fifty years, and that's changed food consumption patterns.

One of the largest trends in the food industry is the fact that many families now have bigger fridges, more ingredients, and more complicated meals—which means more food that gets lost or wasted. Americans on average discard over 100 pounds of food from their fridges each year, often because they literally can't see what they're missing. Fridge storage containers are an increasingly popular new way to keep fridges organized and make sure everything gets used on time. And while they may seem like a luxury product for people who value a neat and organized fridge, in reality, they’re a cost-saver, popular among cash-conscious consumers, that reduces waste.

Grocery shopping, too, has changed in a way that incentivizes people to buy more food: online shopping leads to bigger orders (30% increase in average cart size), since this can save money on delivery costs. And grocery ordering apps have gotten good at using in-app ads to push people to buy just a little bit more.

The fridge plays a cultural role, too. On Reddit, the Fridge Detectives community has almost 300,000 members. They share photos of fridges and try to make guesses about the owner's age and lifestyle purely by their contents. While most people don't see a refrigerator as a means of self-expression, it's increasingly becoming one—and since a typical refrigerator gets opened many times a day, noticing a messy fridge is unavoidable.

Countertop ice makers gain traction, as modern fridges become more expensive to replace and repairs become less desirable

Refrigerators are a long-lived purchase, with an average replacement time of 14 years, more than that of a car. But they’re complicated, and some parts of the refrigerator are more likely to break first, like the ice maker. As the in-fridge ice makers break, consumers are increasingly replacing them with countertop ice makers.

Newer fridges often include more modern features like touch screens, which makes the fridge as a whole even more expensive to replace. The convenience of online ordering also means that buying a new product to replace a broken feature on an old one is easier than arranging repairs, so ice makers have had a tailwind for years.

While ice makers have been available for a long time, they’ve grown in popularity since the pandemic. Consumers are reluctant to invite someone into their home to repair appliances, so any short-term replacement they can buy is a popular alternative. As it turns out, purpose-built ice makers tend to produce more ice, and they’re quieter than built-in ones—especially helpful for households that are more crowded than they used to be as people move in response to the pandemic.

Easy-to-install sink and shower head water filters are growing in popularity as consumers prioritize water quality for health and beauty

Standalone water filters, like the popular brand Brita, have been common for years, but people increasingly opt for sink water filters instead. In Amazon's tools and home improvement section, a fifth of the bestselling products are water filters, including sink and shower head filters. Water quality is getting more salient as people get more health- and beauty-conscious, with one of the biggest trends in the beauty industry being the search for purer water solutions; an expensive skincare routine or a fancy coffee setup can seem like a waste if it relies on impure water. Some shower filters even advertise themselves as a skincare tool for avoiding eczema, itchy skin, and dandruff, turning a home improvement purchase into a beauty product.

Filters can be installed at several points: a full-home water filter is closer to a set-it-and-forget-it solution, but it risks flooding damage and isn't an option for renters. Countertop filters like Brita are a relatively expensive solution: Brita filters cost roughly 10 cents per gallon when used according to the company's directions, while one of Amazon's top-selling sink filters has a cost of under a penny per gallon.

New types of water filters also benefit from the rise of the zero-waste movement. Dehydrated products, like the rapidly growing category of laundry strips, have a lower shipping cost, but they still depend on a clean source of water.

Kitchen have become the most renovated room in homes, driving demand for products to help protect countertops from water damage

After years in the limelight, data reveals that yoga is no longer among the top fitness trends. This has forced yoga-related companies to retool: many yoga mats suppliers have pivoted to focus on using the same materials for different purposes.

From kneeling pads for gardening to sink mats for backsplash protection, yoga mat production infrastructure is being revitalized. One of the top-selling sink mats on Amazon, in fact, is from a supplier that started off selling yoga mats. Several reviews even comment that the product seems like it’s just a yoga mat cut to fit around a kitchen faucet.

The purpose of these mats is to protect the (sometimes wooden) countertop around the sink from water buildup over time. Of all the rooms in a house, renovating the kitchen has the highest ROI on resale value. In part because of this, kitchens are the most renovated room in the house.