Find your nearest electrical recycling point, or read our guide on how to donate or dispose of your appliances and tech for extra guidance. It’s a bulky bit of kit, but we found it easy to use and appreciated the included cooking charts that detail how to use the machine to prepare different foods. Businesses which market electrical and electronic devices are also obliged to take back used devices. Then there’s the convection technology, which ensures the heat and vapourised oil is very evenly distributed to every part of your food. They were crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, though slightly dry (the downside to most air fryers).

There are also plenty of recipes and food charts included, so you can cook up a storm as soon as you set it up. The GOURMETmaxx has a sleek and stylish gloss black finish to it which will suit most kitchen decors. bird to fit it in, and it took 65 minutes to cook, but the skin was mouthwateringly crispy and the meat was moist. The products or services listed have been selected independently by journalists after hands-on testing or sourcing expert opinions. The range goes from 60°C to 200°C, which gives you a lot of scope to bake or dehydrate foods at a lower temperature, or blast them at a more powerful heat to create that delicious crispy, fried finish.Its controls are clear and responsive, the machine is stable in use, and it’s effortless to clean thanks to a trusty non-stick coating. The machine is excellently built and it hits the sweet spot of power at 1,700 Watts, making it both powerful and cheap to use. You might not have heard of the GOURMETmaxx brand before, but that’s why we’re here – to let you know about the latest brands and models in the healthy air fryer lineup. You can’t combine the two drawers, but you can sync them to prepare multiple dishes at once, with a total capacity of 7. The plug socket must also be readily accessible after connection so that the connection to the mains can quickly be isolated.

However, if you need to use an air fryer multiple times to make enough food to feed your household, you’re probably better off cooking everything in one go in the oven. A meal cooked for an hour in a typical 2,000 Watt electric oven would use two kiloWatt hours of energy – but if you could cook the same meal in half an hour in a 1,000 Watt air fryer, it would use just half a kiloWatt hour. We offer a wide range of airfryers and fritöser, including the HOT Lauben Air Fryer Oven 1500SB, HOT Lauben Air Fryer 4000BC, and Ariete 4615 Airy Fryer Mini 2L.It has the same ‘drawer’ design as the Tower fryer above, which is handy for checking the progress of food halfway through. If the main unit falls into water while it is connected to the mains power, pull the mains plug out of the plug socket immediately. If you're looking to branch out when it comes to equally trusted brands, Daewoo and Salter have been earning rave reviews at Currys and Wayfair. It lets you see when your sausages are starting to brown and need a turn, or if your chips need a good shake to evenly coat them in oil. A heating component heats air, which is circulated by a powerful fan around the food to cook it and produce a ‘frying’ effect with minimal oil.

And once you've found your perfect air fryer, head to our round-up of the best air fryer recipes for some cooking inspiration, including a delicious recipe for lemon drizzle cake.I found that the end results were crispy, but more similar to a convection oven than the two air fryers above.