Tower T17086 Vortx 5 in 1 Air Fryer and Grill with Crisper, 5.6L, Black

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It includes a fully digital touchscreen, with adjustable time and temperature settings, as well as a number of preset modes for popular foods such as chips and breaded foods. Overall this isn’t just a “dump it in the dishwasher” job, but the non-stick interiors make it fairly easy all the same.

I flipped the strips around and cooked them for a further 3 minutes, after which they’d developed excellent grill lines on both sides. Accessories are plentiful, comprising three air-flow racks (which allow you to cook food on three levels at the same time), a rotisserie fork with handle, 10 skewers with rotating wheels, a wire rack, a reversible grill plate (functions as a hotplate and a griddle), two heat-proof silicone mitts and a drip tray.It might be easy to clean, but the prep work required to make homemade chips cancels this out somewhat. The Tower Vortex is marketed as an air fryer, but it's certainly unconventional when compared to the likes of Ninja, Philips, Cosori and other top air fryer brands. This meant we had to do a little reshuffling of the trays every now and then to get both trays equally golden. Cooking took around 35 minutes, which is 5-10 minutes more than I'd expect an average air fryer to take to cook potato wedges.

Okay, the vortx digital air fryer oven isn’t going to win any awards for design any time soon, but who needs aesthetics when you’re giving the masses rotisserie-style chicken in under an hour? The oil-drip tray is useful for gathering any excess oils through the cooking process, and was very easy to clean.

The body looks and feels cheap, and the see-through hinged door, which opens outward, is a tad flimsy. With that you do get an 11-litre cooking capacity, which is well above standard, and all the attachments you need to get started. It was close, and I had to string up the wings and legs to make sure they didn't splay out and cause the chicken to get stuck.