Excellent performance across a wide range of items and generous capacity are the stand-out features, but the individual drawer size means that you can’t cook larger items in this air fryer. What you need to know

Air Fryer and pressure cooker combo: Who would have guessed that two totally different cooking methods could be combined into one? These air fryers look like a high-tech pressure cooker on the outside. The clever design of this device lies with the interchanging lids and pots or baskets.Each drawer has its own crisper plate, which lifts your food off the drawer’s base, increasing air circulation around it. You should use the crispers for most modes, although there are a couple where you should remove it. At the end of the cooking time, I ran the Max Crisp programme for five minutes, just to finish off the chips. I ended up with pretty-much perfect results: decent colouration without burning, with even the lighter parts of the chip having a nice crunch to them. Exclusive to Tower Air Fryers, Vortx technology rapidly circulates hot air around food, cooking up to 30% faster than a conventional oven. Vortx also cooks food with little or no oil, making it much healthier, too! Lose the fat not the flavour with Vortx Air Frying Technology

Another thing to consider would be some determinants of getting the right air fryer, such as the cooking capacity of the air fryer and the size of the air fryer, and then trying to find a perfect match between them, that is, getting a product that covers your cooking needs at the right size, and for the right price. However, if you intend to use it to cook full meals then you would need to consider whether you need a bigger air fryer based on the next few questions. Category two: These are the medium-sized air fryers, and they are well suited to be used to serve between 2-5 people. Alongside serving a diverse range of cooking needs, they can probably be used to serve a maximum of 6 people, but that depends on the model you’re getting. They range between 3.0- 5.0 quarts. The 16.0 quarts sized fryers are the largest of them all and are tailor-made for bulk cooking. So if you have a large family gathering coming up, this might be your fryer of choice. How Big of an Air Fryer do I need with limited Kitchen Space?people: A Multifunctional air fryer which can range from 9 Quarts to 30 Quarts (8.5 to 28.4 Litres). The Magic Bullet air fryer is quite possibly one of the simplest air fryers I've ever used. There’s no complicated digital display to figure out. It has two dial controls, one for time and the other for temperature. I’d go as far as to say that anybody could use this air fryer without ever glancing at the manual. Air Fry is probably the most commonly used mode, running at up to 210ºC. The Max Crisp mode runs at 240ºC and is a welcome inclusion; it’s designed to give food that perfect crunch. Are you still looking for more of what an air fryer can do? Well, there are the awesome Multifunctional Air Fryers that actually combine the basic air fryer with other cooking functions! Mini oven’ types: these models use convection or fan technology to cook food on flat, slide-in trays. As well as roasting, their extra air-frying functions circulate hot air around the food for more efficient crisping. These took up the space of an average-sized microwave. Some may also include rotisserie elements.

Meat test: Brilliantly cooked burger, with charring on the outside and good bite, but soft and succulent on the inside. Air fryers are great cooking appliances, perfect for those who want to eat fried foods but also want to escape the adverse effect of deep-fried foods on their cholesterol levels. Now, before shopping for an air fryer for family use, it is best to decide just how large or how small your air fryer would be, considering questions such as; would you want an air fryer that is larger than what you need because of when more family members come around? Or would you want a smaller air fryer that’s focused on just you and your spouse and kids? Basket style with heating elements: tall, slim air-fryers feature a main unit with heating elements and fans. These have slide-out baskets or trays that slot into place inside. As they tend to have a smaller cooking area than oven-style fryers, in testing we found even results were more likely if the cooking was paused occasionally to rearrange or toss the food around. Some fryers will cut out automatically when you do this, some will need to be paused if you want accurate timings.Read our full Magic Bullet Air Fryer review for more information. How we tested the best small air fryers Ultimately, it’s a trade-off, and what the Dual Zone offers is the flexibility to cook different items at the same time. So, if you want a burger and chips, you can use one drawer for the meat and the other for the fries.