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Tower T17023 Vortx Manual Air Fryer Oven with Rapid Air Circulation and 30 Min Timer, 2.2 Litre, Black

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The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully Tower is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the Fryers category. Tower include a booklet which instructs you in the various methods, but most essential to know is the amount of oil one adds to the basket will determine what cook method is used. The air will circulate in the Tower air fryer no matter what, so it is the oil added that dictates the crispy outcome. The Technology in the Tower Key specs – Power: 1,500W; Capacity: 1.2kg; Display: Digital touchscreen; Accessories: Measuring spoon If you want to learn a little more about how air fryers work, and what benefits they have compared to a standard oven, then have a read of our handy explainer here: What is an air fryer? How much should I spend? The next step after looking at products in the same category, was to look at products from the same brand, Tower.

Easily adjust the cooking temperature up to 200°C and set the 30 minute timer to suit your recipe using built-in manual dials

Marrying top-notch value with solid performance and easy to use controls, Tower’s 2.2l air fryer is a great budget, compact option

Like its predecessor, the FlexDrawer comes with an array of thoughtful functions including its match and sync settings, the former of which allows you to match the time and temperature of both sides of the fryer without having to input all the information twice, while the latter syncs up both sizes of the fryer, so they finish at the same time, even when at different temperatures of cook times. You’ll also recognise all the classic settings for air frying, roasting, baking, reheating, proving and dehydrating, as well as the Max Crisp setting, which allows you to crank up the heat to a whopping 240ºC. Amongst the other features are an analogue timer, which runs for 30 minutes. And that's pretty much it. Very simple, if a little too simple. If you want to dehydrate items in the Tower you will have to set your own timer - it is thankfully not essential to set the timer to start the cooking process. Next up is material. Read through the product description for Tower T17023 Compact Air Fryer to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material. Despite being a budget-friendly option, the T17023 was no slouch in testing, cooking oven classics such as spring rolls and hash browns to a commendable crispness and performing solidly when tasked with more delicate items like meat and vegetables. The text on the temperature gauge is very small and hard to read, even in a bright kitchen. (Image credit: Future)

The 360-degree stirring paddle is incredibly handy and ensures food is evenly and consistently cooked without the need for shaking your food mid-cooking cycle. Nine automatic cooking functions take most of the guesswork out of air frying but there’s still an option to manually set the time and temperature if need be. What’s more, if you’re using these presets, the Genius+ (and every other Genius model in the range) automatically adjusts the temperature and stirring paddle during cooking so your food isn’t overcooked.

A super-small air fryer for making modest meals

Adjust the cooking temperature up to 200C with the easy to use control dial and set the timer up to 30 minutes to suit the needs of your recipe. The best models will have a number of basics you should look out for. These include weight and temperature settings, so you can adjust the heat and cook time to suit your ingredients. So let’s carry on with our Tower T17023 Compact Air Fryer review and explore the product’s pricing. The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Fryers category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Tower. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Tower branded products in the Fryers category.

More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review. Cooking food 30% faster, Tower Air Fryer Ovens use less power than conventional ovens. Save up to 50% on your energy by simply switching to Air Fryer cooking As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it.The Dual Zone’s Max Crisp function is also worth shouting about, as it cooks thinner frozen foods such as chips, onions rings, and nuggets in a fraction of the time it would take a standard convection oven. During testing, one portion of frozen potato lattices came out perfectly crisp and golden in just six minutes, compared to the recommended 15-minute oven cooking time stated on the bag. This air fryer can also bake, roast, dehydrate, and reheat, making it a versatile tabletop multi cooker. You can even cook your food up to 30% faster than a conventional oven to save you time and up to 50% less energy than an conventional oven. The ventilation on the Tower T17023 is pretty good, although this could be due to the size of the machine. It doesn't take as much oil or fat to begin with, and when using without adding fat you only get a small breeze of hot air. Still, I prefer to use all air fryers in a well-ventilated environment, like under or close to the extraction fan above my hobs.

The next step for us was to look at all of the products that fall within the Fryers category, of which we found 31 products at Argos. So we pulled together all of the prices of these products to analyse the average prices as well as finding the cheapest and most expensive options. The key benefit of the Tower T17023 is its rapid air circulation system, known as the VORTX fry technology. Hot air rises, as we know from schoolroom physics, the Tower pushes this hot air down, creating a vortex, or VORTX as the marketing department thought the spelling was the correct way.The Tower Vortx is super small, which makes it ideal for cramped kitchens: it’s just under 30cm high, with a depth of 20cm and a width of 22cm. Rated capacity is 1.5L, but we found the basket was pretty much full with 500g of food. CAPACITY: Family-sized air fryer with a large 4.3-litre capacity lets you serve up enough portions to go around the whole table Its compact dimensions will fit neatly into smaller kitchens or onto already crowded countertops, and the controls couldn’t be simpler: two physical dials allow you to set the cooking temperature between 80ºC and 200ºC and set a timer of up to 30 minutes.

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