This is Mumsnet's Best Highchair. What do you think?

[MumsnetReviews]

We set out to find the best highchair on the market, and after weeks of extensive testing we've declared the Cosatto 3Sixti2 as our Mumsnet Best highchair 2018.

We choose our top products based on Mumsnetters’ recommendations and our Talk boards, as well as which products are being searched for most on Google. We also look at new releases, meaning we give new products a level playing field to compete on with old favourites. You can read more about our testing process here.

Take a look at our reviews page to see which highchairs we rate. Do you agree with our choices? We'd love to hear your thoughts!

[frecklemcspeckles]

I'd love to see the scores for each one then to see where the experienced parent thinks the Cosatto outscored the Antilop. Genuinely!

[TheSpottedZebra]

This involved an experienced parent using each chair for a week...

The people on this thread are quite experienced parents too, who have used chairs for plenty more than a week. How odd that our conclusions are so different!

Unless you're subtracting many many points for splayed legs (or adding in many many points are Cosatto paying you), I really can't see how the Antilop wouldn't win.

It's fine, no one minds you being commercial but just be honest! It's like the blogger #ad #sponsoredpost thing all over again.

[GrouchyKiwi]

I hate the Antilop. The number of times I've tripped over the splayed legs.

[FranticallyPeaceful]

We had this, in pear -mostly because it looks pretty lovely. But it really isn’t that special. My mum had a cheaper one which we ended up using instead as the table was much better and he didn’t want to escape from it like his life depended on it

[Ivegotfamilyandidrinkcupsoftea]

I really personally dislike highchairs that dont have a 5 point harness

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

This seems very unlikely

This^ the only category that the Antilop wouldn't win on, in any budget, is aesthetics.

I cannot believe that the Cosatto is more stable than the Antilop, easier to use day to day, it's definitely not easier to clean, and it's amazing value for money. The Cosatto is also way less pretty than the "premium" chair you featured.

[EssentialHummus]

We then scored each chair on the following six categories: safety and stability, assembly, day-to-day usage, cleanliness, aesthetics, and value for money. The chair with the highest overall score was the Cosatto, which is why it's our overall winner.

This seems very unlikely.

[MumsnetReviews]

Hello all,

Thanks for your feedback on our Best Highchairs reviews category. This is a new area of the site, and we really value your input to help us to get it right.

The Antilop is a favourite on Mumsnet for good reason! which is why we included it in our testing. After researching recommendations on the Mumsnet boards, looking at market bestsellers, and finding new products from trustworthy brands, we put the top 10 highchairs on the market through our real life testing process. This involved an experienced parent using each chair for a week, including standardised tests such as the drop test (each chair was dropped 20 times to assess its resilience to being knocked over) and the bolognese test (splodges of bolognese spilled onto the chair to find out how easy it was to clean).

We then scored each chair on the following six categories: safety and stability, assembly, day-to-day usage, cleanliness, aesthetics, and value for money. The chair with the highest overall score was the Cosatto, which is why it's our overall winner.

The Antilop also scored highly, which is why we awarded it Mumsnet Best for Budget. You can read the review here.

[QueenAravisOfArchenland]

I think we're all fine with MN taking ads and gifting free samples for review and publicity, etc. We're all adults and understand that if you aren't paying, you're the product. What people aren't ok with is supposedly independent review taking into account the views of "real mums" being so obviously a matter of paid product placement. This overpriced piece of shit designer hype is a ridiculous choice for best high chair when literally every experienced mum in the universe* will vote for either the Antilop or Tripp Trapp.

*This may be a slight exaggeration, and then again it may not

[MerryMarigold]

I think the point being made here is that the 'criteria' for best highchair is clearly who paid the most money to MN. That's not good. Yes, MN needs to advertise to pay for itself, but not like this.

[UnderTheDesk]

@Korg

[NoTNoShade]

I had a Tripp trapp and we stopped using it and got an antilop.

We did use the Tripp trapp once they were older though.

I used to hate it when we went anywhere and they didn't have Ikea highchairs,as they were usually dirty and complicated.

[thatsmyjoomper]

I love the antilop but thought I'd have a quick google of the Tripp trapp - £174!!! And that's without the cushion, seat etc. Am I looking in the wrong place or are they really that expensive?!

[JustSeeingHowManyCharactersWeC]

I hated the IKEA one but loved the Stokke Tripp Trapp. It just looks like another chair round the table.

[Korg]

No, underthedesk, you’re not the only antilop hater: you are the market for Tripp Trapp. It’s purpose is to exist for people who don’t like the antilop, or who balk at ugly lumps of plastic.

Scientists have been searching for years to find people for whom neither the antilop or Tripp trapp is suitable, but to no avail.

[UnderTheDesk]

Am I the only person in the whole world that hates the Antilop? Stupid legs, stupid bloody cushion, stupid useless straps.

We finally got rid of it this weekend and I’m so happy.

[TinyPawz]

@GlitterGlassEye really believe they should share. Remember the good rules: puff puff pass🤣

[GlitterGlassEye]

TinyPawz

[EssentialHummus]

I agree korg but I think there’s a balance to be struck, and for MN’s own benefit - if users learn to treat MN reviews as advertorial junk, quality prospective advertisers will be turned off. There are eleventy billion new baby/child products a year that MN can review/advertise, this one was a poor choice.

[Korg]

To be fair, mumsnet doesn’t fall from the sky for free: it is paid for by advertising.

[Kpo58]

I can't help think thaN made up a whole bunch of highchair categories so that they could get paid by more companies to advertise their highchairs.

[Korg]

I think we need another thread with the real mn recommendations. There are some things that us vipers mostly agree on.

[TinyPawz]

Surely majority of opinions count more than 1 solidarity tester?

[TinyPawz]

Someone is smoking the good stuff in mumsnetHQ. Ikea is the best. Silly billy

[ObiJuanKenobi]

It's a fix