With an impressive 8.2 litre capacity across the two drawers, this air fryer offers multifunctional cooking abilities including dehydrating, reheating, and baking. As well as independent cooking, you can sync and match cook so that both cooking compartments are ready at the same time.

Salter EK4548 Dual Air Fryer review – Is it worth it?

Just as I found with the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone, you’re likely to use the Dual Air’s sync mode a lot when preparing a meal. It’s extremely helpful to dial up two different programmes, then just start the Dual Air running and have it deliver everything ready at the same time. Sometimes you’ll want greater flexibility, though, and this fryer offers it. You can essentially programme each side completely independently of the other. For example, you could bake for 40 minutes in tray two, while you cook a series of other foods in tray one. An air fryer is essentially a small convection oven, circulating hot air around the food to get that crispy outer layer and fluffy or moist inside. It is also more energy-efficient due to its size and power, compared to heating your kitchen oven. Additionally, the Salter Dual Air Fryer comes with a recipe book to get you started. Although there are only a few vegan air fryer recipes, the book includes an in-depth chart that gives recommendations on how to cook specific ingredients, including what temperature to use, ingredient amount, cooking time, and how much oil is required. Versatile– With adjustable temperature control as well as pause and resume cooking functions, cook a huge range of different foods. Upping the game ahead of Christmas dinner, I tested out Brussels sprouts cooked with bacon. This time, too long meant they'd reduced to barely the size of a pea and were very crispy. By Christmas Day, I’d figured out the perfect cooking time of 10 minutes and they were plenty flavourful. Bacon is also a great meat to cook in the air fryer if you like it crispy, but a beefburger dried out and didn’t retain its moisture, so it was almost inedible.

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Natalie Corner is the Deputy Commercial Content Editor for Bauer Media, working across brands such as A Modern Kitchen, Modern Gardens, Take A Break Pets, Grazia and more, specialising in lifestyle, home and fitness content. You’re instructed to clean the cooking baskets with hot soapy water and give the outer casing a wash to remove any dust. It is recommended that the air fryer runs for 10 minutes without food before first use, this is to prevent any initial odours or smoke from affecting the food – this is normal. Presets and functions Match cook’ sets both cooking compartments to the temperature and time if you’re cooking the same food across both baskets. This is handy if you’ve got lots of friends coming around and want to cook up large portions of food without the need to batch cook.

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We were big fans of the dual drawers and the freedom to cook different foods at different temperatures. Although we had to wait slightly longer for the chips to be cooked, we were willing to look past that and overall were pleased with the speed and quality that it cooked the food. Finally, we put the chips into the preheated air fryer and cooked them on the ‘chips’ preset at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.Some other foods were less impressive. I couldn’t get frozen hash browns to crisp up quite as much as I wanted, for example. Doubtless the limited top temperature is partly to blame here, but I did get perfect results from the Proscenic T22, which only goes 5℃ hotter. And while corn on the cob was fine, it wasn’t browned evenly and as deliciously caramelised as you might get from a grill. Still, it did a good job when cooking Quorn sausages from frozen. Not only is it a stylish piece of kit, but its multi-functional cooking capability makes cooking simple. The Salter Dual Air is much like any other air fryer to use, although there’s some added complexity given that you need to set programmes for each basket. Like many other air fryers, it offers a battery of preset modes for various food types. While these might be useful once you come to learn them, I generally found it easier to use the manual mode to dial up the temperature and time I wanted. We know that the size and the price of the air fryer may be the deciding factor for many. If you live on your own or have a smaller family, the EK4548 may be considered excessive. Additionally, if your kitchen counter size is limited, this could be impractical. It’s a proper piece of kit, with a full touchscreen LED display filled with buttons, which is almost intimidating. But thankfully the instructions are thorough and talk you through each of the functions and buttons.

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According to Salter, the Ek4548 will save you 59% on your energy bills compared to traditional oven cooking. The Salter Dual Air essentially combines two air fryers side-by-side. You can use either side independently of the other, allowing you to cook one dish only, or to cook two foods – each can have its own different settings if needed. It’s much the same setup as we’ve seen from the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone, currently our favourite all-round air fryer, and that’s a strong starting place.

Like the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone, the Dual Air offers a choice of combined or independent control of its two baskets. By default, you can programme a temperature and time for each, then both will start at the same time. In Sync mode, the longer programme gets a head start so that both sides finish cooking at the same time. Finally, Match Cook mode sets both sides to cook with the same settings, which is useful if you just want to cook lots of the same thing. Performance When looking for the best air fryer, we usually buy from brands that we recognise. Salter is a trusted and popular kitchen appliance and cookwear brand, so it’s no surprise that they’ve entered the air fryer game and launched an entire air fryer range. Enjoy healthy alternative to deep frying with this versatile frying alternative. Salter 8.2L dual cook pro air fryer gives you the best of both worlds, allowing you to cook with little or no oil while still retaining plenty of flavour.

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If you prefer to manually set the air fryer, you can. You simply need to select which side of the air fryer you want to use by tapping either ‘1’ or 2 and then selecting the ‘manual’ button. You can then set your desired temperature and time. Kitchen countertop space is a precious commodity, so if you’re considering the Salter Dual Air Fryer, be aware of how much space it takes up. It measures 40cm in length, 36.1cm in width, and 32cm in height – that is bigger than your average four-slice toaster. If you already have a microwave, kettle, toaster and perhaps a food blender, you may have to think about where your air fryer will go, or do you have cupboard space for it? There are 12 preset functions for specific foods, as well as manual settings. The majority of the presets are aimed at cooking meat and fish, but the other functions include chips, desserts, vegetables, reheating, and dehydrating.One thing that was missing was an auto-switch-off function that turns the air fryer off once the food is cooked. We find this to be a godsend to avoid food from overcooking.