Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Man I wish I would have known how much I hated this thing before giving it multiple chances and letting my husband throw the box away. I’m going to list cons from least to greatest offense bear with me. 1. No recipes - so it’s just customary to throw a little book with some recipes and cook times. It is not fun ruining your food having to guess. I’ll bet there are some cool features that I will never know about before finally throwing this in the middle of the street 2. The BEEPING. The beeping is so loud and SO frequent. When I have to leave the basket out (we will get to that in a moment) it literally screams at me that the basket is out. I know! I’m the one that took it out and it’s not running! It’s so loud I can hear it from my upstairs bedroom. 3. Pre-heating - maybe it’s just that my old air fryer was so basic, but I don’t ever remember preheating it that’s the whole point. But even in air fry the thing is like two minutes later “oh beep beep BEEP BEEP -preheat is done add your food!” and my food has already been there. 4. Flip- “oh beep beep BEEP BEEP - time to flip your food over!” Excuse me what? Air fry is a leave it and eat it kind of situation friends. I’m not trying to go back six billion times to the air fryer to tend to my 6 year old’s nuggies. 5. No removable basket or secure tray- this almost made for the worst one. Ok so the “cooking tray” in the air fryer/robot demon’s basket is in there all loosely goosey. It doesn’t secure in any way to the basket. It is simply ‘placed inside’. If you have anything thin in there it gets stuck in the gap around the tray and into the bottom of the basket. Then- when your food is done, you have to fish it out with tongs or something else. You can’t just dump it Becasue the hot dirty tray comes crashing out of it. A really dumb design. It doesn’t even seem like there is enough room under the cooking tray for air flow. 6. Last but not least we get to THE SMELL- caustic, acrid, chemical, stinging smell of this device. Device manual states something like “hey it stinks but it’s ok. It will go away, is non toxic and doesn’t transfer to the food.” I am on day 10 of this thing running it, cooking food to just try and get the smell to go away. We finally put it in the garage because one 15 minute run a day was stinking up my 3,000 square foot home for a whole day. The food absolutely one hundred percent tastes like the smell. It is worse than I imagined it could be. After cooking I have to leave the basket ajar to air out because closing it when it’s hot makes it worse. Overall I really hate this. I think it was made without much thought and creators knew people would buy this because of the Instant Pot success. Please buy something else. There are so many other options that don’t suck like this thing.