Air Fryers

You don’t need to spend £90+ for a good air fryer. These 5 budget models all produce genuinely good results — here’s which one is right for you.

Every Sunday I spend 90 minutes using my air fryer to prep five weeknight dinners. This is the exact routine — what I cook, in what order, and how it cuts weeknight cooking to 10 minutes or less.

These are the 10 air fryer chicken recipes I make most often for a family of five — tested repeatedly, times accurate, and written for the kind of weeknight when you have 25 minutes and limited patience.

The Tower T17021 Vortx is a £50 UK air fryer that competes directly with Ninja and Cosori. I tested it for six weeks cooking family dinners. Here’s whether the savings are worth the trade-offs.

I clean my air fryer after every single use and it takes less than 3 minutes. Here’s the exact method I use, the deep clean routine I do monthly, and how I’ve kept the non-stick perfect after 18 months of daily use.

The Cosori 6.8-Qt costs about £20 more than the Pro II but adds a larger basket and more functions. I tested it for six weeks alongside the Pro II to find out whether the upgrade is worth it for a family of five.

Dual basket air fryers solve the single-biggest problem with cooking for families — timing different foods to finish at once. I tested four models. Here’s which one is actually worth buying.