Hyundai 1500W Electric Tiller, 45cm Width (HYT1500E)

There is no battery arithmetic to argue about here. The Hyundai HYT1500E is the corded electric machine that takes the top spot in this guide: £119.99, 4.5 out of 5 from 398 ratings, a 1500W motor, six angled steel tines, a 45cm working width, a 22cm working depth and a 10m power cable. Hyundai states a 3-year manufacturer warranty, and the listing gives the machine as 11kg in blue with alloy steel tines.

That cord is what separates it from the cordless tillers in the same round-up, where claimed runtime runs the opposite way to battery capacity — 80–100 minutes from two 3.0Ah packs, 60 minutes from two 4.0Ah packs, 36 minutes from a single 4.0Ah pack. Here there is no runtime figure to reconcile with a battery size; it runs off the mains for as long as the 10m lead reaches. Two things in the listing are worth flagging rather than repeating: the bullet calls the machine "lightweight" while the listing's own weight field says 11kg, and the star breakdown we were given adds up to 100 ratings (74 five-star, 16 four-star), not the 398 the headline reports, so the 4.5 average rests on a smaller sample than the review count suggests. Every figure on this page comes from the Amazon listing as supplied to us, not from any testing of our own.