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I had always been inclined to get a toaster-oven style air-fryer with a glass window because I like to check in on my food, but after seeing numerous reviews favoring the bucket-style air-fryers (for numerous reason), this model felt like a perfect compromise with the window and light feature.
Pros:
- Many things taste better in the air-fryer, for whatever reason. Fries are more crispy, even broccoli requires no spices to convince me to eat it.
- The window/light: it's perfect. Love it.
- Settings/features are easy to navigate. Love the dial for quick adjustments.
- Broil feature is exceptional, especially for quickly browning cheese atop an open face sandwich.
- Huge time saver. The pre-heat is always less than 3 min, as opposed to my oven which takes 10-15 min.
- Also, a huge time saver: it doesn't lose its heat quite as much an oven, or it reheats fast enough, should you decide to open it early to check on the food.
- The basket is huge. I'm only feeding myself, granted, but I'm glad I did not upgrade in size. If I plan on roasting a turkey once every 3 years, I have an oven for that. But for everything else, I'll be fine with here.
- Odor control. I read some complaints here, where people said that their whole apartment smelled like fish after cooking fish, and to them I ask, "Have you not cooked fish before?" I cook stinky things all the time and the lingering smell must be half of what I'm used to, I believe due to the odor control filter on this model.
Cons:
- You can't dump the bucket over a plate, or the grill plate will fall straight out of the bucket, despite the rubber guards.
- Those rubber guards are a pain to get on and off while cleaning, but it's a minor inconvenience.
- The bucket is easy to clean, but the grill plate can be surprisingly greasy/sticky. After the first use, I left ran the fryer on 400 degrees, empty, just to burn out any residues and that seemed to help.
