Salter EK2817 2L Compact Air Fryer - Hot Air Circulation, Removable Non-Stick Cooking Rack, Adjustable Temperature Up To 200°C, 30 Minute Timer, 1000W, Small Household Air Fry Oven, Black/Silver

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We like air fryers partly for the innovative roster of functions often on offer to cook ingredients quickly and evenly. We added one whole small chicken into one drawer and raw chipped potatoes tossed in one tbsp of oil into the other. We act as a credit broker not a lender, offering credit products provided exclusively by Klarna Bank AB UK branch (BR020956), a branch of Klarna AB (556737-0431) which is authorised and regulated by the Swedish Financial Services Authority. In a bid to find the best air fryer, we put the Salter EK4549 AeroGrill to the test to find out if this machine is as impressive as it sounds.

Easy to use thanks to its 30 minute timer, adjustable temperature settings and indicator lights, the fryer circulates hot air around the chamber for a thorough, rapid cook.It has an auto-shutoff feature, timer and temperature dials, as well as a removable non-stick cooking pot. The ability to preset cook times for up to 30 minutes, so you can cook your food without worrying about it. Ranging from different types of veg, fresh or frozen foods, and meat – which of course we won’t be testing. It uses much less oil than a conventional deep fat fryer, ensuring healthier meals with maintained flavour.

Firstly, the ability to preset cook times for up to 30 minutes, so you can cook your food without worrying about it. It also features 8 preset cooking functions to save you on guesstimating and it also allows you to set a cooking timer for up to 30 minutes.

With 12 preset functions and drawers deep enough to accommodate a small whole chicken, this is a good entry-level model for dual-drawer air frying. With dual-drawer air fryers, you can cook two different dishes at the same time, with the gadget doing the timing work for you to ensure everything’s finished at the same time. It’s also more compact than you’d expect, measuring 40cm in length, 36cm in width and 32cm in height. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is in fact rather compact, I’d even dare say it’s one of the smaller air fryers that we’ve tested despite its large cooking capacity.

We particularly like the temperature control function, the 30 minute timer, the fast preheat time and the easy to clean cooking pot.This is only 10cm longer than many of the single-drawer models we know and love, plus it slots under low-hanging kitchen cupboards for storing on the countertop.

Separate to this are the options to sync cook for which you set each drawer’s temperature and cooking times for the different foods so they can finish cooking at the same time. I would have preferred to see deep char marks that were darker in colour, but perhaps I’m being picky.There were still 5 minutes left on the timer, meaning I had delicious homemade chips in just 15 minutes.