CHEFREE Dual Air Fryer, 8L Family Sized, 2 Nonstick Viewing Window Drawers, Low Energy 8-in-1 Smart Muticooker, Roast, Grill, Bake, Dehydrate, Less Oil, Low Fat, Dishwasher Safe, Black, AFW20

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Still, if your kitchen countertops are big enough, it’s doable – and there’s a good reason why it’s so large.

Both baskets have a transparent window so you can see the cooking status of your food at all times without having to open the basket.That’s because you’re presented with many buttons surrounding the central digital display. It was incredibly daunting initially, and it took me a few minutes to work out how to start the air fryer (the start button looks like an odd fast-forward button), but within a few uses, I’d gotten the hang of it. LED display: large touch screen with double display (one per basket) to control its functions independently. The performance of the AFW01 Air Fryer was good overall but there are some areas that could use improvement. For example, as there are no recipes, or guidance for cooking different types of food, I was unsure what programme to use for frozen food, although as 200°C was the highest temperature available, this seemed like the best option.

One of the more interesting features of the touch interface is Sync Finish. As the name suggests, this allows you to individually set each basket’s mode, temperature and time and have them both finish simultaneously. Within each basket is a crisper plate, which can sit either one-third or two-thirds of the way down depending on what you’re cooking – you can bring foods like sausages closer to the heat source when grilling for a better finish. A handy little touch is the addition of grippy silicone feet on both sides of the grill plate that helps it stay securely place, even if you’re tipping a basket of chips onto a plate.

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Synchronised Cooking (L=R): Yes (to cook different foods using the same function, temperature and time) The CHEFREE AFW2 includes a SHAKE function so you don’t forget to shake food, especially useful for fries. For each basket you have an LED display on the touch control panel and you can set different times, temperatures and programmes for each basket. Cooking is achieved by Chefree's 360° evenly distributed rapid air circulation technology, which sends super-hot air around the food up to four times faster than a traditional oven. This is where the energy savings are made: things are simply done much faster with an air fryer. You can also search recipes by your specific Chefree model (Chefree makes more than one air fryer, as you can imagine), so the app will tell you exactly which buttons to press. It's the ultimate idiot's guide to air frying, but genuinely useful to get you up and running. Once you get the hang of things, new ideas and ingredients should start to pop into your head unbidden, as the potential of the device gradually dawns on you.

There is a Chefree App featuring over 100 recipes "by our chef" (the company says), organised into useful categories, e.g. 'Breakfast Food' and a '21-day Food Plan'. There's a traditonal Recipe Book format, where you can search/define by keyword (e.g. Simple, Western, French, Japanese, Difficulty etc) and also save your own recipes. While the maximum 2400W draw at full capacity will see a drain of roughly 71p an hour on current electricity tariffs, that’s still much cheaper than a conventional oven, and more importantly, it’s not very often you’ll use the air fryer for that long.

The CHEFREE AFW20 air fryer offers 8L of capacity distributed in two baskets that allow you to cook more in less time and using less electricity.

Not only did they taste delicious, they were cheap, required little effort and no washing up. They were quite small compared to other Yorkshire puddings I have eaten in the past, but that didn't bother me, I just put two or three on my plate instead. SYNC Finish, Serve Together: Thanks to 2 independent frying baskets, you can use different programs, times and temp in each draw, both ready at the same time. With Dual Cook Function, get the double guilt-free fried foods with the SYNC cook function. Intelligent preset programs: 8 presets (AIR FRY / ROAST / AIR CRISP / BROIL / BAKE / GRILL / DEHYDRATE / REHEAT) It offers 8 intelligent cooking programmes that you can easily select from the fryer’s touch screen. Each program has stored time and temperature settings specific to each function. The 8 programmes are: AIR FRY, ROAST, AIR CRISP, BROIL, BAKE, GRILL, DEHYDRATE and REHEAT. The top row is reserved for all eight cooking modes: air fry, roast, air crisp, broil, bake, dehydrate, reheat and grill. Once you select one of the cooking modes, you’ll then be able to tap either L or R, depending on which basket you use and tweak your time and temperature settings using the up and down keys on either side.The dual 4L basket design allows you to cook two different foods at different temperatures and even different cooking modes, at the same time, with a Sync Finish option removing the need to manually time your cook so all your food is ready at the same time.