There are many different ways to cook your meals at home. One of the most convenient kitchen appliances that you can use to cook food in is none other than an air fryer. These handy kitchen appliances work similarly to countertop convection ovens, utilizing convection for cooking food, a unique cooking method powered by a fan that circulates hot air at high speed around food to heat it and cook it evenly and relatively fast. This cooking method essentially creates a crunchy and crispy exterior along with a moist interior. Air fryers are quite versatile for cooking, as they can be used for grilling, roasting, and baking, meaning you can use them to cook a wide variety of foods, including vegetables, meats, and even desserts. What’s more is that unlike traditional deep fryers, air fryers require little to no oil or fat to cook food, resulting in significantly less fat and calories consumed. That also makes them a much healthier alternative to deep-frying foods such as chips and fried chicken. For those looking to add an air fryer to their kitchen set up, check out the Fritaire.
The Fritaire is a high-end self-cleaning air fryer which is equipped with a 5-Quarts capacity transparent glass bowl that’s large enough to cook for the whole family while also allowing for a 360º view of your food’s cooking process, for which it utilizes a 1500W 400°F halogen heater engineered with vortex convection technology that delivers hot convection whirlwinds around the edges of its bowl to ensure the hot airflow from its cooking method evenly touches every side of your food without losing heat, thus allowing for consistently crispy and even cooking results for all types of food. It has a non-toxic construction that’s free of plastic, BPA, teflon, and Phthalates to ensure the healthiest food possible, and it also comes with three cooking accessories, including an air stand, a rotisserie, and a french tumbler rotating cage. It also integrates a digital control panel equipped with a built-in LED display that shows its cooking temperature and a set of touch buttons for adjusting its cooking temperature from 0°F to 400°F, setting its cooking time between 0 and 60 minutes, and controlling its 6 cooking functions, which include cooking french fries, meat, fish and seafood, chicken, as well as baking and de-hydrating foods. It also boasts a self-cleaning function that makes it capable of automatically rinsing and drying its glass bowl after cooking in it.
Designed to let you see the cooking magic happening inside it, this innovative self-cleaning air fryer lets cook delicious, crispy, and crunchy meals in no time without having to use any oil or fat.
Now, let’s have a more detailed look at the Fritaire, where we’ll see how this self-cleaning air fryer is designed to work, and go over its included accessories and its many different functions.
DESIGN & SPECS
Starting with the device’s size, this air fryer comes at a fairly compact size, measuring just 10.8 inches long by 13.9 inches wide by 12.6 inches tall, meaning it won’t take up much space within your kitchen countertop. The air fryer is also fairly lightweight, as it only weighs 11 lbs. (4.99 kg).
The Fritaire also sports a beautiful and chic design. Its body comes in a solid bright color that allows it to easily match and blend in with the rest of your kitchenware. For our review unit, the company was kind enough to send us the Orange color model, which looks astonishingly cool.
Moreover, this self-cleaning air fryer also packs a high-quality, durable and non-toxic construction, for which is also rated to be free of plastic, BPA, teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene), and phthalates to ensure you’re always able to cook the healthiest food possible with it.
For its cooking container, the Fritaire comes equipped with a transparent glass bowl that has a total capacity of 5 Quarts, making it large enough to cook big meals for 3 to 5 people, so you can rest assured that you can use it to prepare meals for your entire family.
Not only that, but the transparent design from its glass bowl also provides a 360º view of your food’s cooking process, allowing you to see the exact moment when your food is perfectly cooked without the need to open or close the unit, which helps to prevent the loss of heat while its cooking food.
What’s more is that the Fritaire also comes together with three cooking accessories, including an air stand, a rotisserie, and a french tumbler rotating cage.
Its air stand accessory is best used for dehydrating foods, but it can also be used to cook crispy snacks or to re-heat bakery items.
Its rotisserie accessory is most suitable to perfectly cook meat dishes such as kabobs, a crispy whole chicken, and more, for which you’ll always be able to achieve a crispy exterior and a juicy interior.
Its french tumbler rotating cage accessory is mostly used for when you’re looking to air fry smaller food pieces like chicken nuggets or fried fish fillets while achieving 360º of heat flow, allowing you to cook such foods with even and crispy results.
In addition to those accessories, this air fryer also comes with a rotisseries and tumbler cage grabber (works basically like a pair of thongs) that can be used to safely remove its rotisserie or tumbler from inside its glass bowl whenever you’re cooking food with those particular accessories.
For its cooking method, the Fritaire utilizes a 1500W 400°F halogen heater engineered with vortex convection technology that delivers hot convection whirlwinds around the edges of its glass bowl to ensure that the hot airflow from its cooking method evenly touches every side of your food without losing heat. This ultimately allows for consistently crispy and even cooking results for all types of food.
Lastly, for its power specs, this air fryer is rated to have a Wattage of 1500 Watts and a Voltage of 60 Volts.
INTERFACE / CONTROL PANEL
We’ll now go over the Fritaire’s interface, which consists of a digital control panel integrated at the top-center of the device’s lid that features a simple and intuitive layout.
Starting at the top-side of the air fryer’s digital control panel, there’s a built-in LED display screen that shows its current cooking temperature (in Fahrenheit).
Integrated directly below its LED display, there’s also a set of touch buttons that allows users to select between its six (x6) cooking functions, which include cooking french fries, meat, fish and seafood, chicken, as well as baking and de-hydrating foods, along with its dedicated Power On/Off button and its Start/Pause button at the right-side of its digital control panel.
At the bottom of its digital control panel, there are 2 other sets of touch buttons, for which the left button controls are used for adjusting its cooking temperature from 0°F to 400°F, while the right button controls are used setting its cooking time between 0 and 60 minutes.
Best of all, this high-end air fryer also boasts a self-cleaning function that makes it capable of automatically rinsing and drying its glass bowl, which makes cleaning up the inside of its glass bowl after cooking in it a breeze.
For that, you simply have to fill approximately a third of the air fryer’s glass bowl with some soapy water and let its hot air stream circulator wash, rinse, and dry its bowl from the inside.
FINAL THOUGHTS
All in all, this high-end self-cleaning air fryer allows you to cook restaurant-quality meals at home without much effort and without having to use oil or fat. Plus, its self-cleaning function makes it incredibly easy to clean.
The Fritaire is currently available in four (x4) stylish color options: Black, Orange, Sage Blue, and White.
If you’re interested in purchasing it, know that each unit is priced at just $199.99, and that each purchase also comes accompanied by a 90 Days Limited Warranty and a 30 Days Money Back Guarantee. You can order it online either directly from Fritaire’s official shopping page, or you can get it from Amazon, if you’d prefer.
