Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Actually received the air fryer the day after it was ordered. Prior to cooking, I ran the fryer on a preheat cycle of 400 deg. F for 5 minutes to eliminate any possible manufacturing/electrical residue. There was somewhat of an electrical smell with this process, but that has been normal with other kitchen electrics I own. (Some manuals will even direct you to run the appliance a few minutes to let it "cure in" and to expect an electrical odor.) The odor dissipates and isn't an ongoing issue after curing. Started off with cooking tests of 3 inexpensive items: meat, potatoes and bread. I didn't use fresh items for the testing, but chose frozen sausage patties, frozen "cubed" hash browns, and canned biscuits. I made certain to preheat the fryer for every item at the cooking temperature being used - the results were impressive. For the sausage patties, the fryer was preheated at 390 deg. F for 5 minutes then cooked at 390 deg. F. Cook time was 6 minutes and patties were flipped over at 3 minutes. The finished patties were tender and moist, just slightly browned around the edges, but not at all burnt or hard. Wonderful result. (Quite a bit of time saved over skillet cooked patties which I usually cook low and slow to keep them tender and avoid hardness/burning.) The fryer was cooled and preheated again at 390 deg. F. The frozen cubed potatoes were lightly spritzed with EVOO, and cooked at 390 deg. F for 7 minutes. With 3 minutes remaining, the potatoes were tossed well, seasoned with salt and pepper and lightly spritzed again. (The potatoes weren't seasoned initially because I wanted to clearly see how well the fryer was browning them.) The end result was light brown crusty edges and tender centers. Perfect. Better than oven roasted. Saving the canned biscuits for last, I really thought this would be the challenge and was prepared for a re-do. (I haven't been very successful in the past with canned biscuits in the GoWise Turbo air fryer.) I set the fryer to preheat at 360 deg. F for 4 minutes and used the time to lightly butter both sides of the 5 biscuits. The biscuits cooked almost 5 minutes on 360 deg. F. At 3 minutes remaining, I pulled the basket out and checked them with the intent of flipping them over. But I decided to wait and see what the end result if they weren't flipped. I was very surprised to see the end result were biscuits that looked as if they had been cooked in a conventional oven. I literally could see no difference. They rose perfectly, browned without burning and even had a light brown crust on bottom. So there would have been no need to flip them at all - another time saver and great looking biscuits! Let me tell you I was happy ! Keep in mind these tests weren't even run with fresh foods...so I can imagine how great fresh chicken, wings, ribs, steak, fresh seasonal vegetables and homemade breads will be! There may be occasional tweeks with with temps and time, but from what I have seen thus far, this fryer will produce very good results if proper temp, time and techniques are used. (And barring any unforeseen errors and issues with the unit of course.) Almost forgot to mention the KEEP WARM feature is going to be a real help to me since hubby's work hours aren't stable! (Then there's that gorgeous cookbook that came with the fryer I need to cook through!) Registered right away to capture the extra year warranty. P.S. - I also have the Cosori Multicooker which is a stellar performer. It has Bake, Boil, Roast, Steam, Slow Cook (3 levels - Low/Med/High) , Saute, Simmer, Brown, Yogurt, Rice functions and also Manual programmable temperature and time input. (You can also sterilize items with the Boil function) - Fantastic appliance.