Salter EK5106 AeroGrill Pro - 16 in 1 Hot Air Fryer, 1700W Health Grill, Tabletop Multicooker, LED Touch Controls, 3.8L Capacity, Air Fry, Crisp, Bake, Roast, Dehydrate, Pizza, Skewer Presets

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With a generous six-litre capacity, it comes with a selection of trays and bowls to cook in, all of which are dishwasher friendly. A Modern Kitchen tested out Salter's Professional AeroGrill Pro, 16 in 1 Tabletop Multicooker & Health Grill to find out how this appliance performs across the functions it offers: grilling, air frying, baking and roasting and more. Salter claims that this appliance claims can save you 68 per cent on your energy bill for cooking*. The Salter AeroGrill Pro tabletop multicooker is 25.6cm tall and 41.4cm wide and a chunky 40.6cm deep. Please bear this in mind and measure your worktop first to ensure it will fit. Do not install this appliance under cupboards or in recesses as it needs air to circulate around it. You also need to be able to lift the lid. Featuring a 5.2 litre capacity, it has a digital touch display which can be used to select cooking functions and adjust temperature. Some air fryers have bewildering buttons, seemingly with a different mode for anything you’d ever want to cook in them, but despite its versatility, the Salter Aerogrill keeps things relatively simple. To grill, turn it on, select an intensity from low to max, then dial up the cooking time and press the power button again. You’ll need to wait a minute or two for it to reach temperature, after which it’ll tell you to add your food. Load it up carefully and close the lid to start cooking.

I decided to keep things simple and tried some home-made air-fried chips, which turned out to be very crispy and the kids didn’t complain. A handy recipe and cooking guide is provided along with the instruction booklet. It covers foods for grilling, air frying, cooking from frozen and dehydration. The guide relates more to cooking using the low, medium and high settings where you can set the time and temperature. A BBQ icon denotes this method of cooking. Above this, is a menu icon (three lines) - use this if you want to cook using the pre-set functions. Navigate the icons by using the up and down arrows. I was sceptical about the health benefits of air frying but my mind has been opened up to the many options available - particularly the child-friendly meals that could be created from scratch with fresh ingredients but a crispy, fried finish to keep the kids happy. While foil is a great idea to help with the excess mess, the air fryer can adequately cook without and was designed to not be used with lots of aluminium foil. Is air frying good for you? There is also a range of Salter ‘Let’s go healthy’ air fryer recipes so you enjoy fried food with little or no oil.

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We decided to use a bunch of bananas that were about to turn, cutting them into thin slices and layering them into the supplied tray. Tip. Add a dash of lemon juice to stop them turning brown.

Including a roast, dehydrate and bake setting, make wonderful roasts and delicious sweet treats in minutes to enjoy all year round. The chips were a combination of sweet potato and white potato with a jerk seasoning and a spray of oil. Cooking the rustic chips on the chips pre-set in the AeroGrill means preheating for five minutes. Then, cooking at 170 degrees for 21 minutes. Compared to our air fryer which heats instantly, the pre-heating felt like a bit of a faff. However, if you need to use an air fryer multiple times to make enough food to feed your household, you’re probably better off cooking everything in one go in the oven. Not to mention, most air fryers are an expensive initial investment, meaning it will take a while for savings on your energy bill to cancel out their cost. How to choose the best air fryer After three minutes I could hear the chops sizzling and I could smell them. My partner requested well done chops. After 15 minutes, the chops looked perfect and tasted good. There were no fumes, as you'd expect with frying and open grilling.I tested the AeroGrill over the course of a month in a two-person household. We're health conscious and don't have an oven (as we've just moved into our new home) so it's a real treat to have roasted anything. We love to experiment, and I was eager to try some of the AeroGrill's more intriguing functions, such as dehydrating. I'm vegetarian and my partner is flexi, so we tried out some recipes that would suit both of us. The AeroGrill food tests that follow include baking, a meaty mixed grill, chips, chops and dehydrated clementines.