8 Best Small Tvs for a Kitchen

Full 1080p at 32 inches is the reason to look at this one. Most small sets settle for 720p; the Roku Select doubles the pixel count, adds HDR10 and a pair of 14-watt Dolby Audio speakers, and includes Bluetooth headphone mode for watching a late game without waking the house.

That makes it the sharpest picture in this roundup and the set that feels like a normal television rather than a kitchen appliance. It is also 28.3 inches wide and 18.4 inches tall, which is a wall-mounting job or a long counter — you are not tucking this under a cabinet beside the coffee maker. Given the wall, though, nothing else here puts this much screen in a kitchen.

Roku’s interface is the same friendly one on our top pick, and it feels quicker here: the voice remote does the searching when your hands are covered in flour, and three HDMI inputs cover a cable box, a console and a stick without a switcher. The speakers get 14 watts and Dolby processing, more headroom than most of the small sets here, which matters when a range hood is competing.

The hinge is the whole idea. This 15.6-inch set screws to the underside of a cabinet, folds down when you want it, and rotates through 360 degrees so the screen faces the stove, the sink, or the table. Folded up it is 1.4 inches deep and effectively disappears into the cabinetry, which is the only way some kitchens get a television at all. We think that mechanism is worth real money when counter space is the thing you do not have.

The panel is 1080p with a matte finish, which is the right call under a cabinet where a glossy screen catches every overhead light. Android gives you an app store rather than a fixed menu, Bluetooth 5 sends sound to a speaker, and the touch keys along the bezel are sealed against wet hands. There is a clock and a kitchen timer built in — filler until you are timing a roast and do not want to unlock a phone with flour on your fingers.

Two things to plan for. The mounting plate expects a flat underside with no overhang under the counter; where there is a lip, a spacer or a different spot solves it, but measure before you drill. And 15.6 inches is genuinely small — this is a set for glancing up at the news, not for following a recipe video from across the room.

Fifteen inches of free counter is a real constraint — narrower than a sheet pan — and this Feihe is 15 inches wide and 2 inches deep, about as small as a smart TV with a real tuner gets. It is also 1080p, which is more resolution than the 24-inch Westinghouse offers.

The panel is glossy with a 160-degree rating, and it runs webOS with Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video and Apple TV, plus three HDMI inputs, a USB port and 10-watt speakers. What it will not do is run the cable-provider apps: Xfinity, DirecTV, Spectrum, Comcast and Fios are all explicitly unsupported.

For a streaming household with a sliver of counter, that trade is easy to accept. The picture is the strongest thing about it — 1080p at this size is crisp from a couple of feet, and the 10-watt speakers do more than the number suggests. The dual-band Wi-Fi radio is a small mercy too: an older 2.4GHz router is fine.

The catch is the app list. If your television comes through a cable provider, plan on an HDMI streaming stick or buy differently. And at this money — as much as several larger sets in the roundup — you are paying for the footprint; the 15-inch frame is the only thing that justifies it.

Nobody stands still in a kitchen. You are at the sink, then the board, then the fridge, and a screen that only looks right from one spot is a screen you stop watching. The LG’s IPS panel is rated to 178 degrees, and that is the whole reason it is here — color and contrast hold up from the far counter in a way the smaller, glossier sets in this roundup do not.

It is also a genuinely good 27-inch 1080p television, with webOS, two HDMI inputs, 10-watt stereo sound and a footprint of 24.1 inches wide by 5.9 inches deep — narrow enough to sit under a cabinet on a normal-height counter, which is where it belongs. Head-on, several sets here look as good or better. From an angle, none of them hold up like this one.

The catch is the size. At 27 inches it is a tweener — bigger than the counter sets, smaller than the 32s — and it gives up an HDMI input against the Westinghouse and the Roku. It suits a long counter or an open plan into a living room, where the screen is as likely to be watched from a sofa as from the stove.

No Wi-Fi, no account, no updates: this is a television in the old sense. A 12-inch panel with ATSC and NTSC tuners, an HDMI input, USB playback, a headphone jack, dual AV inputs, and an antenna and 12-volt car cable in the box. In a kitchen with bad Wi-Fi, or a shed with none at all, that is not a limitation — it is the reason to buy it.

It measures 11.8 inches wide and 1.8 inches deep, so it sits on a narrow counter or a workbench without rearranging anything, and it pulls in local channels over the air through the included antenna. Want streaming later? The HDMI port takes a Fire Stick or a Roku and the set becomes a monitor with a tuner. Setup is a channel scan and a clock.

We came away thinking of it as the two-power set: the news while you cook, and the one that still works when the internet does not. The sound is serviceable rather than good, so headphones through the jack are the better answer in a noisy kitchen, and the stand attaches with two screws — check they are in the box before the packaging goes out.

Every television in this roundup answers when you press a button. This Samsung makes you wait for it. The picture is genuinely good — bright, with HDR10+ support and Samsung’s usual color handling — but the interface is slow enough that scrolling to Netflix feels like work, and button presses on the remote land a beat late. That lag is what we could not get past.

What you get for putting up with it: a 32-inch LED set running Tizen, and Samsung TV Plus with 2,700-plus free channels that need no subscription and no sign-in — genuinely useful in a kitchen where you want something on without deciding anything. Object Tracking Sound Lite spreads dialogue around a 10-watt stereo pair, and Knox is there if you treat the TV as part of a smart home.

The panel is 768p, not 1080p, a strange corner to cut on a 32-inch screen when the Roku at the same size manages full HD. It is 28.9 inches wide, so like every 32 here it wants a wall or a long counter.

So who is it for? A house already living in Samsung’s world — a Samsung account, a Samsung phone, a preference for Tizen’s layout — that wants a 32-inch kitchen or bedroom set and can live with the lag. Everyone else gets a sharper picture for less money from the Roku. It is not a bad television; it is a slow one, and in a kitchen you notice every second of it.

Battery, three antennas and an FM radio: the Tyler is built for the night the power goes out. It is a 10-inch LCD with a built-in ATSC tuner, a rechargeable battery, HDMI, USB, RCA and VGA inputs, an SD card slot and a 12-volt input, and at 1.5 pounds it goes wherever the outlet is not.

In a kitchen it earns shelf space for storm coverage and weather alerts — the tuner pulls in local channels through the detachable antennas, so it needs nothing but a signal. It is also the set that ends up in a camper or a cabin, because the 12-volt input runs off a car outlet and the battery covers the walk to the picnic table.

Two watts of stereo is the honest limit here. Dialogue is clear at low volume and thin above it, so plan on headphones or a small speaker for anything longer than a news bulletin, and treat the battery as hours of watching rather than a weekend of standby.

This is not a kitchen’s only television. We treat it as the second screen, the one that works when everything else does not, and for that job an antenna and a battery matter more than resolution. Run it through a few charge cycles in the first weeks.