About FixMyKitchenHQ

FixMyKitchenHQ is a free reference library focused on one specific problem: finding the original instruction manual for the small kitchen appliance sitting on your counter, after the paper booklet has long since vanished.

The site indexes manuals from the Internet Archive's freely-redistributable manuals collection — the same archive used by university libraries and independent researchers — and organizes them around the categories home cooks actually search for: blenders, toasters, drip and pod coffee makers, espresso machines, air fryers, and stand mixers. Where the Internet Archive presents tens of millions of documents in one giant pile, FixMyKitchenHQ exists to surface only the small subset that's relevant to a kitchen appliance owner trying to fix or operate a specific machine.

Coffee maker and kettle on a kitchen countertop, the kind of small appliance FixMyKitchenHQ indexes manuals for
Small kitchen appliances like this one are exactly what FixMyKitchenHQ exists to keep documented.

What we host

We do not host PDF files on our own infrastructure. Read-online and download links point to the corresponding record on archive.org; where we have not confirmed an archived copy of a title, the page offers an archive.org search instead and says so. We are not a piracy site, we are not bypassing any DRM, and we are not republishing copyrighted material on our own servers.

Each manual page on FixMyKitchenHQ contributes its own original written context — a description of what's typically inside that class of manual, common questions about that appliance category, related models, and a short brand history — but the manual itself always lives on archive.org.

How this site is funded

FixMyKitchenHQ currently shows no advertising. We do not sell user data and we do not run any kind of paywall, account system, or "premium download" upsell. If display advertising is ever introduced to cover hosting costs, ads will be clearly marked and this page will be updated first.

We do not accept payment from manufacturers in exchange for editorial coverage, and we do not remove brands from the index based on commercial pressure. If a brand wants their manuals removed because of a copyright dispute with the Internet Archive, the right place to file that is with the Internet Archive directly — once the file is removed upstream, it disappears from FixMyKitchenHQ automatically on our next ingest.

Editorial principles