Fruit leather is an excellent way to make the most of a dehydrate function if you have a hand blender, blender or food processor at home, or for an umami-kick try dehydrating tomatoes or mushrooms. The Reuse Network lists the nearest charities and community projects that will welcome your old gadgets. One thing we didn’t realise until testing this air fryer was just how many models are set with silver. If you're cooking chips for example, just select the appropriate illustration on the top, and simply wait for the air fryer to adjust to the temperature and time you need to cook for.

Things that need a hot oil to get super crispy might also fall a little flat, such as roast potatoes.Our salmon, air-fried for 8 minutes at 180C – could have also done with an extra five minutes to crisp up the skin underneath, but otherwise had good flakiness and flavour.

Because all air fryers claim to do very similar things, it's important to us that we put them through their paces before recommending any air fryer to our readers. Tower kindly sent me the Tower Vortex, which is a pretty piece of kit with black exterior and silver accents.as real users, posing a threat to a site’s security, so the site sometimes runs random security checks. 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.

Hooking up to wifi, the clever machine can be controlled by an app, allowing you to heat it up before you’re home, scroll through more than 100 recipes, and time your tea perfectly for when you step through the door – it truly is like magic. An air fryer is a mini convection oven that is designed to recreate the taste and texture of deep-fried food, without the need for boiling it in fat. The simple dial at the top was incredibly easy to use, and instead of selecting your food type, all you have to choose is the function, temperature and time, like a regular oven.

Whether they’re worth it is of course down to personal preference, but through testing, we’ve found that they can speed up cooking time (for example, the Tower xpress pro combo 10-in-1 digital air fryer can roast a chicken in 40 minutes), deliver delicious dinners and are very easy to use. 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. Having fast replaced our traditional oven during mealtimes, Lakeland’s large air fryer boasts touchscreen controls, eight presets (from seafood to baked goods and even steak) and a generous 3l capacity, which easily suits two people.