However, the control interface is intuitive, the troubleshooting advice is clear and it comes with a recipe booklet packed with tasty inspiration for each setting. As with all Lakeland electricals, it's been tested, tested and tested again until we're confident it's more than up to the task.

Our chips and fairy cakes came out well-cooked but were a little inconsistent; the chips were light and fluffy, but some came out browner than we’d have liked, and the bottom of our fairy cakes were also on the darker side.

You can operate it from a smartphone too, which is a fun bonus, though for safety reasons it has to be switched on manually. With most air-fryers, you need to shake your chips halfway through cooking (or more often if you want to see how they are getting on). Simply select the desired program via the touch display and let your N8WERK fryer choose the right temperature and preparation time. If you're looking for different air fryer ideas, check out our latest cookbook, Good Housekeeping Air Fryer Magicor our special issue, Easy Air Fryer: 75 Delicious Healthy Recipes.

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. Its match function also lets you use the same settings for both drawers – although we noticed our fairy cakes were cooked to slightly different levels on test.The transparent ones tend to be a feature on more expensive machines, so you need to decide how important this is to you. It also boasts a nifty built-in temperature probe but we’d only use it as a guide, as it was a few degrees out when we took a reading from the chicken using an external probe. The chicken legs we roasted were juicy inside and evenly cooked, while the chips in the next drawer required a little more attention with shakes mid-cook, but had a good crisp finish on the outside. If the item comes direct from a manufacturer, it may be delivered in non-retail packaging, such as a plain or unprinted box or plastic bag. It also baked light and fluffy cupcakes that rose to an impressive 40cm with a baking time of 20 minutes.

It’s a smart looking machine with flat, touchscreen controls on the hood, tactile accents on the handle and useful cord storage at the back. We looked at the manuals for each model and followed their directions for cooking temperature, time and the quantity of oil needed. Read our full guide on what not to cook in an air-fryer, plus recipe developer Ailsa Burt’s top air-frying tips.

As medium-capacity air-fryers go, this model from Tefal is impressively slimline with an attractive stainless steel body and brushed plastic base. whole chicken into a golden, moist and tender feast, while cupcakes came out beautifully cooked and fluffy. My food was cooked to perfection, seriously I was a little sceptical about how my food would turn out but I needn't worry. Ninja’s new 10-mode multi-cooker stands out for its innovative “Speedi Meals” function, which allows you to cook your grain of choice at the same time as meat and vegetables, thus quickly preparing a full meal for up to four people at once. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.