Obviously, you’re here because you’re considering monetizing your cooking-related content through affiliate marketing.
Good. You should be doing that.
Affiliate marketing is a great way of earning a paycheck by recommending solutions to your audience’s problems.
In this article, I examine some of the affiliate programs that could potentially allow you to do just that.
I only picked quality-oriented companies that care about their customers, as well as their affiliates.
Why should you care about who and what you promote in your content?
In my opinion, the last thing you need is to be associated with low-quality, gimmicky products that only make you look bad in the eyes of your audience.
Having said that, if nothing in this list fits your content, you should disregard it completely.
In that case, only use the list as an example of what’s out there.
And there’s a lot out there.
Companies in the cooking space leverage affiliate marketing and are always looking for original content creators that are passionate about cooking to sign on as affiliates.
Anything you’re looking for, odds are you’ll find it.
Without further ado, let’s dive into the meat and potatoes of this article – the affiliate programs.
1. Stonewall Kitchen
Commission Rates: 8%
Cookie Duration: 15 days
Affiliate Program: Handled by Rakuten Marketing affiliate network – Link
I’m a big fan of origin stories like that of Stonewall Kitchen.
Jonathan King and Jim Stott, the two founders, established themselves selling jams and jellies at local farmers’ markets, fairs, and festivals.
Their high-quality food items quickly took off and launched Stonewall Kitchen into the stratosphere, with more than 6,000 wholesale accounts globally.
At Stonewall Kitchen, they’re proud to be one of the most awarded specialty food companies in the US.
If you’re picky with what you want to recommend to your audience, give Stonewall Kitchen a shot.
Their attention to detail, homely product design and extraordinary product quality will put a smile on your audience’s faces and make you look like a superstar.
A tiny fraction of the Stonewall Kitchen line of products includes:
- Food
- Cookware
- Home Décor
- Home Keeping
- Kitchen Tools
- Gifts
Apart from the quality-oriented product line, Stonewall Kitchen takes care of its affiliates too.
They have an in-house affiliate management team that’s there to help you every step of the way.
The team will let you know about promotions in advance so you can increase sales.
You can also subscribe to the monthly newsletter that lets you know about events and seasonal offers.
Stonewall Kitchen partnered with Rakuten Marketing (formerly Linkshare), where they host their affiliate program.
This means you will have to create an account with Rakuten and look for Stonewall Kitchen’s section.
You will be able to choose a variety of creative banners, links, and products that match your website.
2. Cuisinart
Commission Rates: 10%
Cookie Duration: 45 days
Affiliate Program: Handled by CJ Affiliates network
The late Cuisinart founder, Carl Sontheimer, introduced his revolutionary food processor kitchen appliance in 1973.
Culinary icons such as Julia Child and James Beard were among the first to introduce it to the American public.
Cuisinart’s motto “Savor the Good Life,” says a lot about the company’s mission to provide quality culinary experience.
The company offers a wide array of products in the following categories:
- Appliances
- Cookware
- Bakeware
- Dinnerware & Flatware
- Cutlery
- Tools & Gadgets
- Outdoor Grilling, and more
Cuisinart is known for its innovative GreenGourmet product line that’s energy-efficient and is made from 70% recycled stainless steel components.
The packaging is made from 100% recycled materials and is printed with soy ink.
Certainly a big draw for the more green-conscious crowd.
If you think your audience would like to hear about a product line like that, why not tell them about it?
An important thing to note is that Cuisinart’s affiliate program is handled by the CJ Affiliates network so you will have to make an account with them.
This is nothing out of the ordinary.
Not every company handles its own affiliate program in-house.
3. The Prepared Pantry
Commission Rates: 10-15% (depending on the sales volume)
Cookie Duration: 45 days
Affiliate Program: Handled by ShareASale affiliate network
The Prepared Pantry is a family-owned business and it shows.
Its charm is second to none.
The company offers a wide range of products that include:
- Baking mixes
- Seasonings
- Cooking Gadgets
- Grilling Tools
- Cake Decorating
- Colors
- Flavors, and much more
All carefully chosen, quality products.
In their own words, “Nothing makes it onto our shelves without first being tested and proven.”
This is backed up by their 90-day no-questions-asked refund policy.
The Prepared Pantry blog is chock-full of kitchen projects to choose from, over 50,000 of them to be more exact.
So both you and your audience can draw inspiration from this company.
As an affiliate, you will have access to free e-books and magazines to entice your audience to sales.
The company will back you every step of the way.
They even staff an Affiliate Manager in—house.
It’s notable to add that the company offers bonuses for their more successful affiliates.
If you sell over $5,000 worth of product in 30 days, your commission gets bumped to 12%.
And if you sell over $10,000 worth of product in 30 days, you get rewarded with a 15% commission.
The affiliate program itself is handled by the ShareASale affiliate network so you will need an account with them.
In closing, if you have an audience that predominantly values a more traditional and old-school approach to cooking, The Prepared Pantry may be the right partnership for you.
4. Shineuri Kitchen
Commission Rates: 10%
Cookie Duration: 30 days
Affiliate Program: Handley by Growthher.io – Link
Shineuri Kitchen products often time find their way into the top products lists and reviews.
Their quality is undeniable, topped only by their sleek design and attention to detail.
Shineuri cookware is definitely one of the most aesthetically pleasing product lines on the market.
The company offers products in the following categories:
- Cookware
- Bakeware
- Small Appliances
- Utensils
If you have an audience that likes sleek, modern-looking design, Shineuri Kitchen products may be just the right type for your website.
Shineuri’s forte is their cookware and bakeware sets that make for perfect gifts to friends and loved ones.
Let’s just say I’m very tempted to order a set myself.
I especially like their copper-colored line.
But enough about me…
At Shineuri, they promise high-converting offers and provide vanity codes to the top-earning affiliates to make the offers that much more enticing.
Will you take them up on that promise?
5. Outdoor Cooking
Commission Rates: 5-8%
Cookie Duration: 120 days
Affiliate Program: Handled by CJ Affiliates network
Barbeque, anyone?
Outdoor Cooking has got you covered!
Outdoor Cooking, quite literally, supports everything related to – outdoor cooking.
“Eat like a pro, wherever you go” is one of the catchy phrases they like to use.
The company has hikers, fishermen, hunters, backpackers, campers, and other outdoor enthusiasts among their ranks.
If anyone knows how to stay well-fed while on a trip, it’s them.
They have products for you no matter if you’re preparing for your first camping trip or you consider wilderness your second home.
Outdoor Cooking offers products in the following categories:
- Grills & Smokers
- Stoves & Ovens
- Cast Iron
- Firepits
- Pots & Pans
- Utensils
- Thermometers
- Seasonings & Spices
If you serve the outdoorsy crowd, I bet they’d love to hear about some of these products.
Not only would you be recommending quality products, but the prices on a lot of them run from a few hundred to well over a thousand dollars.
There’s definitely commission money to be made here.
Outdoor Cooking’s affiliate program is handled by the CJ Affiliates network so you will need an account with them to take advantage of this program.
6. The Grill Masters Club
Commission Rates: 10%
Cookie Duration: 90 days
Affiliate Program: Handled by ShareASale affiliate network – Link
I can’t talk about barbeque and grilling without mentioning The Grill Masters Club and its affiliate program.
The Grill Masters Club is an exclusive subscription box service for the grilling community.
Subscribe to their service and you get a box of grilling-related products at your doorstep each month.
The box can include things like:
- Sauces
- Rubs
- Marinades
- Grilling Recipes
- Smoke Flavor Wood Chips
- Recipes
- Grilling Accessories
I like to think of The Grill Masters Club as the Santa of grilling that comes to your house 12 times a year.
Apart from the box, the subscription gives you access to an exclusive online community on their website.
It truly is a “club.”
If you have grilling and smoking enthusiasts in your audience, you may want to suggest The Grill Masters Club to them.
The affiliate program itself goes through the ShareASale affiliate network so you will need an account with them to access it.
As an affiliate, you will have access to the monthly affiliate newsletter featuring promotions, as well as Grill Master Club’s professional affiliate program management.
Apart from the subscription box service, the company sells grilling-related apparel too on their website so you could be collection commissions for those as well.
7. KettlePizza
Commission Rates: 5%
Cookie Duration: 90 days
Affiliate program: Handled by ShareASale affiliate network
Be right back, doing some research on who likes pizza…
This just in… Oh, it’s EVERYONE.
Best pizza comes from a pizza oven, of course.
Not everyone can afford a pizza oven, though.
This is where KettlePizza comes in with its patented gas and charcoal grill pizza oven kits.
The kits are easy to use and they transform your grill to reach commercial wood pizza oven temperatures for the best pizza cooking experience.
Basically, their product “pizzafies” your grill.
It can turn every gas and charcoal grill into a pizza oven.
Personally, I didn’t even know this product existed before doing research for this article.
I bet a lot of pizza-lovers in your audience would love to hear about it from you.
KettlePizza’s average reported order value is close to $250.
The affiliate program itself is run through the ShareASale affiliate network so you will need an account there to access it.
8. The Chef & The Dish
Commission Rates: 10%
Cookie Duration: 90 days
Affiliate Program: Handled by ShareASale affiliate network
You can have the best cooking equipment in the world, and not know what to do with it.
Thankfully, The Chef & The Dish has got you covered.
They offer private, one-on-one, live cooking classes via Skype.
Through their service, you can connect with chefs from all corners of the globe.
Want to learn how to create better pasta meals?
Why not connect with a chef born and bred in the home country of pasta – Italy.
The Chef & The Dish offer classes in the following cuisines:
- Italian
- American
- Brazilian
- Hungarian
- Japanese
- Spanish
- Thai
- Turkish, and more
Their cooking classes find their place in the “Best Gifts” articles in publications all over the world.
If you think your audience would love to experience something different and have some fun, The Chef & The Dish cooking classes might be something worth checking out.
The classes are priced at $299 for two, making them a great experience that someone could share with their friend or loved one.
The company only accepts reputable content creators with original content into their affiliate program.
But if you do get accepted, you get access to everything you need like logos and banners to help you get better conversions and earn money.
9. Rouxbe
Commission Rates: 10%
Cookie Duration: 60 days
Affiliate Program: Hosted in-house
Rouxbe takes culinary education to the next level.
They bring the curriculum of a professional culinary school and deliver it online to home and professional cooks around the world.
So far, Rouxbe has helped 530 thousand students with their 1,500+ instructional videos from 78 lessons.
Rouxbe offers both individual and industry group training where entire restaurant staff members can participate altogether, for example.
Some of the courses Rouxbe offers are:
- Culinary Rx
- Essential Vegan Desserts
- Forks Over Knives Ultimate Cooking Course
- Professional Cook Certification
- Professional Plant-Based Certification Course
They also offer training to health and wellness professionals so they can help their clients transition to a healthier lifestyle.
Rouxbe offers many different courses and packages, making sure there’s something for everyone.
No matter if your goal is to improve your day-to-day cooking or become a certified chef.
The Rouxbe affiliate program is hosted in-house.
That means you will be getting first-hand guidance and tools necessary to succeed as an affiliate.
Does Rouxbe sound like something your audience would love to know about?
10. Amazon
Affiliate Commissions: 4-10%
Cookie Duration: 24 hours
Affiliate Program: Amazon Associates – Link
Last, but certainly not least, Amazon.
Amazon sells everything under the Sun.
They would be selling the Sun too if they could.
Kidding aside…
If you’re looking for an umbrella-type affiliate program that enables you to sell a vast number of products from thousands of vendors, Amazon may be what you’re looking for.
Amazon Associates program works as follows.
If a customer lands on Amazon’s website through one of your affiliate links, you earn a percentage of the first transaction that occurs between that customer and Amazon in the next 24 hours.
Meaning, the customer doesn’t even have to buy the initial product they clicked on your website.
A 24-hour cookie is placed on the customer’s device and as long as they buy anything on Amazon in that period, you get a cut.
Of course, if that customer clears their cookies or clicks on someone else’s Amazon affiliate link after they clicked on yours, you don’t get rewarded.
Personally, I think Amazon could afford to be a bit more generous with their cookie duration period, but they hold all the leverage in the world so they can do what they want.
The biggest strength of Amazon’s program is that everybody trusts Amazon at this point.
Not to mention the large number of Prime members who all have free shipping on everything they order.
If you decide to apply for the Amazon Associates program, you will have to get approved.
Amazon will look at your content and decide if it’s something they want to be associated with.
Once you get approved, be very careful to study their rules in detail.
If you break any of their rules, you get a domain-wide ban that’s difficult to appeal.
Something many people get banned for is using images directly from Amazon in your content.
That’s a big no-no.
Luckily, there are WordPress plugins that help you get the same images in a way that doesn’t violate Amazon’s terms of service.
Conclusion
For this article, I picked what I think are high-quality food and cooking-related affiliate programs for you to consider.
I believe a prospective content creator could not just earn some money from the commissions, but also draw content ideas from these companies.
All of them care about their customers and work towards providing the best product possible.
However, affiliate programs listed in this article are literally a drop in the sea of possibilities.
So many companies host affiliate programs and would love to have you aboard.
You know your audience’s problems the best and some research of your own would definitely unearth great products that could help solve them.