BlueStar

High-performance, highly customizable American pro-style ranges, cooktops, ovens, and hoods (750+ colors). The BlueStar brand launched in 2002.

Approved

Founded: 1880
Website: bluestarcooking.com
HQ: USA
Manufacturing: USA
Ownership type: Family-owned
Parent: Prizer-Painter Stove Works
Status since: 2026-06-08

Ownership

Made by Prizer-Painter Stove Works, an independent family company manufacturing in Reading, Pennsylvania since 1880. Not part of any conglomerate.

Why Approved

Independent, family-owned, US-made cooking equipment with a continuous 140-plus-year manufacturing lineage. Approved.

Reversibility

What would change our verdict

Sale to a conglomerate or PE firm. Offshoring of US manufacturing out of Pennsylvania.

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Investigation · June 11, 2026

Your Appliances Got Worse On Purpose

One company makes the refrigerator you'll buy under four different names. Another sells the identical window unit under nine. GE is Chinese now, Frigidaire is Swedish, and Kenmore never built anything at all. Plus the few brands still built to last.

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