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What looks like a complicated industrial process in most supermarkets or at street food fairs can now be achieved in your own kitchen. You can manually programme the machine using the digital keypad, but there are automated settings for the most popular dishes which we could do with just the touch of a button. The Tower digital 5-in-1 is an affordable air fryer with an impressive array of features and accessories. You can also use the touchscreen to switch between rotisserie cooking, baking, roasting, air frying or dehydrating. As recommended in the manual for using the grill plate, I first preheated the air fryer for 3 minutes.
On the other hand, the manual is very good for cooking suggestions for various foods in terms of timings and temperatures.The oil-drip tray is useful for gathering any excess oils through the cooking process, and was very easy to clean. Comes with a removable wire rack and cooking tray, with two different holding levels to reposition easily. Tower has the most extensive range of Air Fryers in the UK and guarantees to meet all of your air frying needs. Little to no oil is required, all while keeping the same great taste, so you lose the fat not the flavour. Overall this isn’t just a “dump it in the dishwasher” job, but the non-stick interiors make it fairly easy all the same.
As Head of Reviews, her job is to test all the wackiest product launches, whether they're air fryers, bread makers, or juicers, and give you her honest experience. Please note some larger products are delivered to kerb-side (the street outside your home), it is at the drivers discretion if they can deliver the item to another location on the property. 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. The body looks and feels cheap, and the see-through hinged door, which opens outward, is a tad flimsy. While the maximum temperature of 200°C felt a tad low at times (leading food to crisp, but not necessarily brown), a longer cooking time and a little more oil usually did the trick.Tower kindly sent me the Tower Vortex, which is a pretty piece of kit with black exterior and silver accents. A lot of the extra oil already on the chips ran down to the drip tray – leaving me with a healthier meal. 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.
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. Since I normally have to use more oil to cook the cobs in the frying pan, having to constantly rotate them, this was both an easier and healthier way to prepare them. It doesn’t make it unusable, but if aesthetics are less important to you, the T17038 manual model is worth considering.Previously Small Appliance and Cookware Editor, she remains our go-to expert for all things air fryer related. It’s a little fiddly to set up at first but worked without a hitch thereafter, cooking an entire 1kg chicken – enough for three people – in just 45 minutes. Since receiving it I've been spending more of my Sundays sat on the sofa, and less time prepping a roast, because the Vortex is a stress-free way of achieving a perfectly cooked roast every time. Because this mini oven pushes air across the top of the interior, chips on the top racks – if you’re using multiples, like we were – will cook faster and more evenly than those on the bottom.
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