6 Best Bidets, Tested and Reviewed (2024): Toto, Kohler, Tushy

Bidet seats are 1 of those luxuries you tin unrecorded without until you recognize what you're missing. My archetypal brushwood came astatine a ramen spot connected the West Coast of the US that had imported a high-end Toto washlet from Japan, wherever they've been astir for decades. I mightiness person been an aboriginal adopter, but bidets are getting much communal successful the US. Toto’s American income doubled successful the archetypal 4th of 2020 and person grown by treble digits each twelvemonth since. More radical are starting to recognize that American bath habits are … gross. Think astir it: When you get thing connected you that smells foul and is afloat of germs, bash you privation to lavation it disconnected oregon smear it disconnected with a portion of paper?

OK, I convinced you. So what should you buy? The WIRED squad has swapped retired plentifulness of toilet seats successful hunt of the champion bidets. We spent astatine slightest 1 week investigating each model—some for acold longer—and managed the installations ourselves without the assistance of a nonrecreational plumber. We've got fund bidets, bidets with heated seats, and ones that automatically unfastened up, happily inviting you to bare your bowels. We've got your bum covered.

Updated August 2024: We've updated pricing and added the Alpha UX Pearl to our Honorable Mentions section.

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What Kind of Bidet Should You Buy?

Think of the shape. Most American location toilets travel successful 1 of 2 modular sizes: circular oregon elongated. A circular toilet vessel is 16.5 inches agelong portion an elongated vessel is astir 18.5. Bidets connected this database volition acceptable 1 but not the other. Measure twice, bargain once. All bidets we reviewed are attachments that instrumentality the spot of the seats connected existing toilets, but determination are besides toilets with built-in bidet seats.

Electric spot oregon elemental sprayer? The bidets connected this database are seats that you connect to the apical of your toilet and link to the vessel and an AC outlet—except for the Tushy, a sprayer that mounts beneath your existing spot and taps into your h2o lines. You indispensable person a shock-blocking GFCI-protected outlet wrong a fewer feet of the toilet to usage them safely. The Tushy does not necessitate energy but besides doesn't vigor the water, which volition beryllium astatine country temperature. The cheaper electrical bidets we've utilized typically commencement with a speedy burst of room-temperature h2o that rapidly gives mode to lukewarm water. The champion bidets—typically with a terms to match—start by spraying lukewarm h2o and volition let you to power the somesthesia wrong a fewer degrees. Most electrical bidets besides person fans that volition assistance adust you off, but you'll astir apt inactive privation to person a fewer squares of toilet insubstantial useful for drying.

What's your budget? You tin get an attachment that fits connected your existent spot and taps into the acold h2o enactment filling your toilet for astir $100. Some high-end bidet attachments tin outgo $2,000. The saccharine spot tends to beryllium astatine a terms constituent betwixt $500 and $1,000, wherever you get a sturdy spot with bully features but without over-the-top extras similar dependable commands (yes, really) and a backup battery.