Amazon Basics 6 Litre Air Fryer with Digital Touchscreen and 8 Cooking Presets, Black

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The T31 beeps noisily as you flit between its 12 presets, which include favourites like chips, chicken and vegetables. In comparison to deep-fat frying, air-frying is a healthier alternative – using convection cooking rather than oil means there's less fat in the finished food, which in turn means fewer calories. After a brief flick through of the manual we were able to get cooking pretty quickly thanks to the easy set up. Think of air-fryers as mini ovens that can tackle almost anything you’d put in a conventional oven or deep-fat fryer.

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BBC Good Food’s expert reviews team has been reviewing air-fryers for four years, and regularly tests new models to ensure we’re bringing you the most up-to-date recommendations of the best air-fryers to spend your money on.

One thing about crowd-pleasers is they generate the desire in people to press their nose up to the glass. One of our only irks was the navigation of selecting your function and the ambiguity of some of the function icons. There's something very satisfying about watching chips or chicken crisp up in an air-fryer, and this 8-litre model from Lakeland offers you a clear view of the whole show –with windows on the front of each drawer that allow you to peek inside. Air-fryers use hot air instead of oil, so are healthier than deep-fat fryers, and more versatile and energy efficient for cooking smaller quantities than ovens. We looked at how evenly they ‘fried’ and whether they were brown and crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside.

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Built with eight presets (steak, chicken wings, seafood, fish, pizza, chips, bake, vegetables), its sync function adds convenience and was effective when cooking different dishes at the same time – we tried this with salmon (10 mins at 180C) and chicken breast (20 mins at 180C). These gadgets are much faster to heat up and designed to circulate hot air efficiently, meaning food can be cooked much quicker than in a traditional oven. The transparent ones tend to be a feature on more expensive machines, so you need to decide how important this is to you.Mini oven’ types: these models use convection or fan technology to cook food on flat, slide-in trays. For smaller quantities and specific ingredients, air-fryers will be switched on for considerably less time, which equates to less electricity consumption. We did achieve attractive grill marks when cooking halloumi, however, and our chips were perfectly sealed and crunchy. This is the smallest air-fryer in the Cosori collection and it's currently seeing one of the biggest discounts of the week.