A handy companion, this guide contains suggested air fryer cooking temperatures and times for a variety of foods, good for a quick reference.

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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.We highly recommend trying out the air frying function and can confirm it’s made us a tasty dish or two, including gorgeously crispy (and not at all oily) halloumi fries.

If you’re unsure what the temperature should be, check out this guide to food-safe cooking temperatures. Some we felt the cumbersome size outweighed the results, and others were simply too small to recommend for most household uses. It scored almost perfect marks across the board in our tests, delivering light, crispy chips and succulent chicken, which you can programme to be ready at the same time using the handy sync function. It also baked light and fluffy cupcakes that rose to an impressive 40cm with a baking time of 20 minutes. Luckily, this didn’t impact the finished dishes too much – our chicken was juicy and our chips were the perfect texture inside, if a little unevenly browned.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. I find them so useful for a range of applications: from moving food in a frying pan to tossing a stir fry, they're even great for twirling spaghetti to arrange it artfully on a plate. Despite this small niggle, our testers were impressed with this fryer’s versatility and easy-to-clean design.