5 appliances to speed up your dinner preparation.

Eating out has become increasingly expensive and can hinder your progress towards financial and health objectives. One of the most effective ways to achieve these goals is by preparing meals at home.

Cooking for hungry kids can be challenging, but the convenience of a take-out meal is often too tempting to resist. Fortunately, smart appliances today allow you to prepare dinner quickly, even if you forget to defrost the chicken.

Here are five kitchen appliances that can help you get dinner out faster:

Using a slow cooker to prepare meals in the morning that will be ready when you get home is a smart move. The Hamilton Beach defrost-and-go, programmable slow cooker at Walmart has a unique defrost function that follows USDA food safety guidelines. For a workhorse option that is easy to clean and looks great, try the GreenPan Elite six-quart slow cooker, available at Home Depot for $190.22.

A pressure cooker can significantly reduce the time it takes to cook dinner by utilizing pressure and steam to increase the temperature inside the pot. The Instant Pot Rio on Walmart is highly praised for its user-friendly design, featuring seven cooking functions and four customizable presets to save your favorite settings. Alternatively, the Breville Fast Slow Pro Multi-Function Cooker, available on Amazon for $299.95, is a versatile kitchen appliance that can pressure cook, slow cook, steam, sear, saute, and reduce.

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An air fryer, such as the Instant Vortex on Amazon, can be used to cook food with less oil and is more convenient to use than an oven. This six-quart air fryer has six customizable programs for one-touch meals like wings, roasted vegetables, and cookies.

The Typhur Dome, priced at $499 on Typhur's website, is a 10-in-1 appliance that is self-cleaning and can be controlled through an app on your phone.

A food processor can reduce dinner prep time. By chopping and dicing ingredients more quickly, you can serve dinner sooner. The Cuisinart custom 14-cup food processor is a powerful option, with a large feed tube for whole fruits and vegetables and a small feed tube and pusher for liquids and smaller ingredients. The Cuisinart mini chopper, priced at $40 at Macy's, is ideal for smaller tasks.

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Immersion blenders, such as the KitchenAid one on Amazon and the Hamilton Beach two-speed immersion blender at Walmart, are time-saving tools that eliminate the need for transferring ingredients to the blender and washing extra dishes.