Ninja has not too long ago unveiled a brand new fashion of air fryer: the Double Stack fashions are double-decker air fryers with the capability for twice as a lot meals – however due to their peak, they’ll take up half the counter house of rivals.
Double Stack fashions aren’t but out there however that doesn’t imply there aren’t loads of air fryer sorts to select from proper now. Air fryers aren’t one-size-fits-all. Under, we check out the commonest sorts.
Single drawer air fryer
Single drawer air fryers are the unique and hottest sort. The good thing about their design is that they’ll be quick, low cost to run and easy to make use of.
Alex Greenwood / Foundry
Get one if: you might have a small family and are on the lookout for probably the most environment friendly option to prepare dinner for one to 2 folks, or if you happen to have a tendency solely to make use of an air fryer to prepare dinner a single facet. In case your air fryer is actually only for making fries, you possibly can go for the best mannequin.
The perfect we’ve examined: We liked the Immediate Vortex Plus.
Twin drawer air fryer
The issue with a single drawer air fryer is which you could solely prepare dinner one dish at a time for any given meal. That’s not essentially an issue – however if you wish to prepare dinner fish and chips for a household meal, you’ll want to make use of the oven. That’s the place twin drawer air fryers are available.
Every drawer can have across the identical capability as a smaller single basket/ drawer in a daily air fryer, so round 5QT/ 5 litres every. The massive benefit is which you could set the time and temperature individually for every drawer, or simply prepare dinner in a single.
Emma Rowley / Foundry
Look out for options that’ll simplify and streamline your cooking course of. Many air fryers can have a “match” perform, so you possibly can repeat the cooking directions throughout each drawers. The opposite key function is a “sync” button, which is able to make sure that, even with two totally different cooking instances, each dishes shall be prepared on the identical time, so you possibly can simply are available when the alarm goes off and dish up instantly.
Get one if: you wish to air fry a couple of dish at a time. When you usually prepare dinner one dish within the air fryer and use one other cooking technique to arrange a facet, utilizing a twin drawer air fryer will prevent money and time.
The perfect we’ve examined: Ninja’s Foodi MAX Twin Zone is among the general finest air fryers we’ve ever reviewed, however the Chefree Twin-Drawer air fryer is a wonderful, extra budget-friendly various.
Steam air fryer
Including steam to the air frying course of might help to crisp up meals, which means you want even much less oil whereas cooking. Steam air fryers sometimes include a water reservoir, which you fill and insert into the equipment earlier than cooking.
Emma Rowley / Foundry
Get one if: you’re making an attempt to chop down on oil in your cooking, particularly for roasts.
The perfect we’ve examined: The Ninja Speedi doesn’t have a water reservoir. However you possibly can steam and air fry two totally different meal elements on the identical time, in the identical house. An possibility with a water reservoir – which we haven’t but had the possibility to check – is the Breville Halo steam air fryer, which is on the market from Currys for £129 on the time of writing.
Air fryer oven
Air fryers are simply mini convection ovens, however the emphasis is often on the ‘mini’. However what if you happen to want a bigger cooking capability? That’s the place air fryer ovens are available. They’ve a a lot greater cooking house than your common air fryer and the identical construct design as a traditional oven, with a pull-down door that includes a viewing window, and house for a number of cooking racks.
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
They usually function a rotisserie as effectively.
The draw back is that they take up an enormous quantity of counter house and received’t be as economical as a compact air fryer for cooking small volumes of meals.
Get one if: you’ve ever thought {that a} second oven can be helpful.
The perfect we’ve examined: Tefal’s Straightforward Fry air fryer oven is a wonderful possibility, however the largest capability air fryer oven we’ve examined is the chrome steel HySapientia 26QT/ 24-litre air fryer oven.
Mixture air fryer
You need to use most air fryers for air frying, baking, roasting, dehydrating and often grilling, however as they’re huge home equipment that’ll take up a good quantity of counter house, you might wish to get extra from them.
How about an equipment which you could additionally use for strain cooking, sluggish cooking, steaming, sautéing, warming, grilling, dehydrating, yoghurt making, sous vide and bread proofing?
Jim Martin / Foundry
The draw back of multifunctional air fryers is that they are often extra difficult to make use of or could have components you must swap out to alter the performance.
Get one if: you wish to clear your counter of single perform home equipment and use one system for the whole lot.
The perfect we’ve examined: We fee the Immediate Pot Duo Crisp with Final Lid – it’s simple to make use of, and also you received’t should swap the lid out to make use of totally different cooking strategies.
To see all of the air fryers we advocate, take a look at our round-up of the most effective air fryers we’ve examined.