There are five presets for food (chicken, fries, bacon, steak, veggies), plus keep warm and preheat settings. The unique shake reminder is another thoughtful feature, ensuring that your food is evenly cooked every time. But both the preset times and temperatures are higher and longer than they need to be, so we recommend reducing the cooking time and temperatures slightly to avoid any overcooking or burning. Thanks to the quick air circulation, cooking requires almost no oil and there is no unpleasant smell. The air fryer comes with a recipe book with 100 original dishes in English, German, French, Italian, or Spanish.

After using a few preset modes, I found myself spending 99 per cent of my time with the Premium XXL manually cooking food instead. We looked at how evenly they ‘fried’ and whether they were brown and crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. The transparent ones tend to be a feature on more expensive machines, so you need to decide how important this is to you. It's a little snug, so if she thinks anything deserves to stay there, you know it's something special. The COSORI has a "shake" setting on certain presets, which sounds a loud beep five times to remind you to shake your food in the tray.Our chips were a pale golden colour after 25 mins at 190C (using the 'fries' preset), and had a fluffy middle and crisp, well-sealed exterior.

Instead of using a large amount of oil, our smart air fryer adopts rapid surround hot air heating to make your food crispy and golden. If you want to know more about popular brand Ninja, our friends at olive magazine have written guides to best Ninja air-fryer and the latest Ninja deals. The added preheat and keep-warm functions underline its user-friendly focus, providing convenience at your fingertips. It made delicious crispy wedges from scratch and cooked frozen french fries until they were perfectly crisp.With a large capacity you get a large footprint, and there's no denying that a large amount of counter space is needed to accommodate this air-fryer. litre design comfortably caters to individuals, couples or small families, making it versatile for user needs. has more recipes than other brands supply, but it caters more for an American audience than a UK one. As an older woman I don't plan on cooking from scratch but your cookbook is beyond our palette and down home tastes.

Read our full guide on what not to cook in an air-fryer, plus recipe developer Ailsa Burt’s top air-frying tips. We cooked thick aubergine slices on the veggies setting, putting a slice in each quadrant of the air fryer. The main difference lies in the cooking method: an air fryer uses hot air to cook all types of food, while a deep fryer relies on hot oil. The longest preheat time for the max temperature of 205 degrees Celcius is five minutes, which isn’t too shabby. Cleaning the COSORI Air Fryer is straightforward — a big plus in the air fryer vs deep fryer debate.Vegan Baking As an avid vegan baker you will regularly find me in the kitchen whipping up new bakes using different and exciting ingredients. When the ingredients need to be rotated or shook during cooking, it chimes loudly until you open the door – this ensures more even cooking, though it's a feature we find rarely with other air-fryers. Its appearance is particularly striking too, and we were fans of the sleek matte finish and bright, easy-to-use touchscreen.

This is one of the Cosori air fryers I am currently reviewing, so expect a full standalone review of that quite soon! The key to crisp fries was to peel and soak the potatoes in cold water for half an hour to remove starch, before drying thoroughly.

As well as roasting, their extra air-frying functions circulate hot air around the food for more efficient crisping. We should point out, however, that we checked the progress of each of these ingredients and stopped the cooking process a couple of minutes before the timer ended. After a brief flick through of the manual we were able to get cooking pretty quickly thanks to the easy set up. These gadgets are much faster to heat up and designed to circulate hot air efficiently, meaning food can be cooked much quicker than in a traditional oven. This removable cooking area allows fat to drain away from your food, and it makes it easy to clean your air fryer in your dishwasher, too.