Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought the 5.3qt Power AirFryer XL for my wife for Christmas. Since then we've used it nearly everyday. *** Updated 4/23/17 *** What I like: - Easy to Use - There are multiple presets to help cook steaks, fish, chicken, and more. Or you can manually set the temperature from 180 degrees up to 400 degrees and set the amount of time you need from 1 to 59 minutes. - Accessories - It comes with a divider so you can cook two separate foods at once. It also comes with a baking pan, which you can use for cornbread or cakes. - Easy to Clean - The basket cleans easily, but is best to clean it right after you use it and by hand with warm soapy water. Do not put in dishwasher, even though it says you can. Trust me, it'll last far longer. - Frozen Foods - From my experience this is one area where it really shines. Instead of limp or soggy reheated frozen foods from the microwave, the Air Fryer can reheat just about anything I've thrown at it from frozen fish fillets to onion rings or corn dogs, and everything is crispy or crunchy as if fried in oil, but it's not, which makes it so much healthier. - Cooking Meats - This is the other area where this fryer excels. Hot dogs with blackened skins as if cooked over an open flame, and in only 4-5 minutes at 380. Steaks, pork chops, wings, chicken breasts, and even whole chickens turn out amazing and so much faster than baking in the oven or on the grill. - Fresh Veggies - These take some practice and experimenting, but baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, asparagus, poblano peppers, all quickly cooked without having to heat up your kitchen. What I don't like: - Vents very hot air out the back, which I'd forgotten, and one night noticed one of my blinds was drooping and quickly realized it was because I had the fryer too close to the wall. I was able to bend the blind back into shape, well mostly straight anyways. LOL! Now I just make sure I pull the fryer out to the edge of the counter and have had no issues since. - So So on Freshly Breaded Foods - Yes you can spritz freshly breaded items with oil, or spray with cooking spray, but I find that it's more trouble than it's worth and a lot more messy. So I'll do a quick flash fry in oil, then finish off the frying in the Air Fryer, which tends to remove much of the excess oil that may be on the fried food. Tips/Tricks: - Experiment - The manual provides a few basic foods and suggested cooking temps and times, but there is many more foods that you just have to experiment with. However, check out the Power AirFryer XL Facebook page and Amazon for AirFrying cookbooks. - Buy high temp silicone trivets. This will help you not ding up the black bottom basket with the copper fry basket, especially with heavier foods like steak, chicken, etc. Walmart sells a Rachel Ray Trivet set for around $5, which goes beneath the copper fry basket and works perfectly! - When Hot, Insert the Basket in a Scooping Motion. Some have reported that the basket seems to get stuck when trying to insert it into the machine, especially when hot. It even happened to me a few times, until I came across this tip. If you use a scooping motion, front end in first, the basket slides right in with no issue or resistance. - Leave the silicone tips on the divider. The silicone tips are high temp and are designed to keep the divider in place. They don't tell you that in the manual. - Line the bottom of the black basket with tinfoil if cooking very greasy foods for an easier cleanup. - Cover foods with tinfoil once at your desired crispiness, to help prevent them from burning, like chicken. - Preheat your AirFryer - Do this by turning it on at 400 for 2 minutes. Foods I've Made since Christmas: - Frozen Onion Rings - 400 for 8 minutes (flip the rings over after 5 minutes). They turned out so crispy and delicious, and with no oil! - Frozen Egg Rolls - 400 for 12 minutes (flip over half way through cooking). - Frozen Pizza Rolls - 400 for 4 minutes. - Frozen Mini Corn Dog Nuggets - 400 for 5 minutes. - Hot Dogs - 380 for 4-5 minutes depending on personal doneness, rolling over half way. - Whole Chicken (6lbs) - I just cooked this last night, and OMH!!! I rinsed the whole chicken and patted dry and then rubbed with a tiny bit of oil and seasoned with Johnny's Seasoning Salt (Google it, you'll be glad you did!) and black pepper. Then place in AirFryer basket breast-side down and cook at 370 for 35 minutes. Then I flipped it over to breast-side up and cooked an additional 30 minutes. When I saw the skin was to my desired crispiness, I covered it with foil and cooked it for another 10 minutes, and then removed the foil and cooked another 5 minutes more. The result was the tastiest and juicy chicken! My kids actually wanted to eat the skin. Note: If the liquid comes up above the fry basket holes, then carefully dump out some of the juice and continue cooking. Also, you'll want to use the silicone trivets under the fry basket to keep it from making contact with the bottom basket. I hope this helps you make up your decision to buy the Power AirFryer XL, and I highly recommend the 5.3qt version. It really is perfect for any sized family!