The Chefree AWF20 serves not only as a great alternative to a conventional oven with faster cook times and less energy consumption, but it also has a leg-up on most of the air fryer competition. Still, if your kitchen countertops are big enough, it’s doable – and there’s a good reason why it’s so large. The performance of the AFW01 Air Fryer was good overall but there are some areas that could use improvement. For example, as there are no recipes, or guidance for cooking different types of food, I was unsure what programme to use for frozen food, although as 200°C was the highest temperature available, this seemed like the best option. There is a Chefree App featuring over 100 recipes "by our chef" (the company says), organised into useful categories, e.g. 'Breakfast Food' and a '21-day Food Plan'. There's a traditonal Recipe Book format, where you can search/define by keyword (e.g. Simple, Western, French, Japanese, Difficulty etc) and also save your own recipes.

While not especially heavy (5.7kg), the Chefree Air Fryer Grill AFG01 is chunky, taking up a sizable portion of worktop space. It’s styled in a similar way to other indoor grills, such as Ninja’s Foodi Max – with a chunky handle to lift the lid, like a barbecue, and carry handles on each side.What I did like is its sturdy carry handles either side for moving it around the room and the large chunky handle at the front for lifting the lid. The controls were clear: there are named presets (rather than symbols), recognisable buttons for toggling time and temperature manually, and a large display spelling out when to ‘add food’ or when it’s preheating. This display also shows ‘off’ when it’s off, which feels a little redundant, but this does eventually turn off. Using the air fryer grill Also on the control panel is the light button, which illuminates the cooking cavity for a minute, thanks to a window within the drawer. The window itself is small, slightly tinted, and obscured by a handle, so it’s not always easy to see how brown the food actually is. Within each basket is a crisper plate, which can sit either one-third or two-thirds of the way down depending on what you’re cooking – you can bring foods like sausages closer to the heat source when grilling for a better finish. A handy little touch is the addition of grippy silicone feet on both sides of the grill plate that helps it stay securely place, even if you’re tipping a basket of chips onto a plate.

For example, all settings come with a short preheating time. Once you select a setting, the Chefree takes a few minutes to come to temperature before beeping to let you know to add the food. The cooking countdown only starts when the lid is closed.

Step by step instructions – we share the cooking steps clearly, therefore, you can follow and create tasting meals with ease. Chefree’s parent company Ultenic was only founded in 2021 so there are no previous models of the Air Fryer Grill to compare this to. Should you buy the Chefree Air Fryer Grill AFG01?

Cooking steak was so easy and you even get gorgeous grill marks on your steaks 🙂 What’s more, most of the fat drains from the food into the basket below allowing for healthier cooking. Being an air fryer enthusiast, I welcomed the opportunity to review this Air Fryer & Grill Combo. Let’s take a look! It doesn’t get too warm on the lid, but even so, I’d not recommend leaving anything on there that could potentially burn or melt over longer periods of use. The bigger thing to worry about is the dual rear exhausts, which can put out quite a bit of hot air during use. Maximum flavor, Minimal Oil: Air fry your fried favorites with up to 90% less oil than traditional deep frying and the same great flavor for healthier meals all around. Having two completely independent cooking drawers means you can easily prepare two different foods at once, also using different programmes, times and temperatures for each drawer (e.g. roast in one; air fry in the other), yet also instruct the Chefree to have everything ready to serve at the same time. This 'Sync Finish Function' is actually reasonably amazing, to be fair, and it takes a lot of hassle out of cooking large meals to feed a family or even just something for yourself of an evening. No need to cook elements of the menu sequentially: everything can be ready at once (provided your planned meal fits into two drawers, obvs).

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XL Family-sized Capacity: With 6L XL capacity, serves 4-6 servings, grill up to 4 steaks, 1 kg of fries, mains and sides, great for gatherings. Meals in Minutes, Saving Energy: 360° rapid air circulation and a high-density thermal conductivity grill grate gives you delicious, char-grilled marks and flavors in a few minutes whilst saving up to 80% on energy. The cooking basket is much easier to clean than the usual air fryer baskets and I had no issues with burning or smoking. The air circulation is better than the pull-out basket air fryers. Using the crisper basket Of course, you don’t buy a huge air fryer to make cheese on toast, so let’s talk about more involved meals.

The AFG01 comes with a crisper basket which is really big! Easily fitting in enough chips or potatoes to feed a family of six.The grill feature is something we really think ‘sells’ the air fryer. The food cooked on the grill was tender, succulent and easily as good as outdoor BBQ food if not better! The controls are at the front in a touchscreen panel: there are presets for roasting, air frying, air broiling (similar to grilling), baking, beef and fries, as well as a four-temperature air grill setting, and manual controls for both time and temperature. Beyond the presets, there’s very little guidance on which settings each food requires, so for veggies and poultry, for example, it’ll be a case of trying different programmes out to find the best one.