Lewis's Premium Multi-Functional Halogen Oven Cooker/Healthy Air Fryer (17 Litre) 60 Minute Timer, Self-Cleaning Function, Temperature Controlled

This product is fantastic you can litterally cook anything in here instead of the oven.. roast dinners, whole joints of meat, chickens, pies, the lot. It doesn't take up loads of room but is easily big enough for a family of 4. With electricity prices soaring I've used it instead of my oven to keep costs down and even taken it camping during the summer.. as some reviews state you do have to take the lid off to open it rather than it having a hinged lid but are provided with a lid stand.. this doesn't bother me at all and for the price and the added saving from not putting my oven on id say it was a minor inconvenience. Its fantastic so easy to use.. litterally turn the dial to temp and time you want shut the lid and off it goes.. wouldn't be without it now!

Could not fault the quality of the product and would highly recommend it.

OK, this is likely to be a long review, but after 1+ year’s use, hopefully useful. Firstly, it’s worth pointing out that this large air fryer is available under numerous brand names, at varying prices, sometimes with slight differences in included accessories, but they are all the exact same product. As far as I can determine, all 12 litre glass air fryers are the same (most with an extension ring to 17 litres). I bought the original in July 2022 under a Lewis’ brand name, as this was the cheapest of this model I could find, though it came with only 1 basket (some, more expensive, appeared to include 2, but the difference in price didn’t seem worth it). I must state early on that my first one lasted only a year, which is disappointing for an electrical product of this sort, but it had been well-used and I couldn’t find anything I liked as much, so I replaced it with a different branded replica of the first. I didn’t really feel that it was worth going down the route of “fit for purpose” complaints when a replacement was only about £35 – and I needed to be up & running again ASAP. The replacement is exactly the same, but came with 2 baskets along with the wire stands, so I now have 2 of each of the low & raised stands and 3 baskets. Though they are slightly different sizes, so I have had to bend them slightly so they all still fit around the baskets & inside my baking trays (see below for info on these). With any air fryer, it can take a while to get used to the new cooking method, as you usually need a lower temperature and/or shorter cooking time than a traditional oven (and few food manufacturers offer air fryer instructions) and I found it very useful to have a meat thermometer to ensure everything was cooking thoroughly during that period of adjustment. So I’ll begin with what I love about these air fryers: Already large, and expandible with the extension ring to become enormous! You can quite easily cook a large chicken & virtually any joint of meat in here, which I doubt is possible with any of the more common designs of air fryer. I’m usually cooking for two, and (without the extension ring) this provides ample space for meat, veg & potatoes (takes some practice to get cooking times down pat when cooking on 2 layers). I frequently cook for 4 and, with a bit more careful planning, it can do meat & spuds for all of us, though I do prefer to do just the meat in the air fryer, often lightly cooking extras in other ways and finishing them off on a level below the meat. Tip: when doing potatoes (chips, wedges, roasties, jackets etc), it works well to cook in the microwave until tender, then oil/season & brown them in the air fryer, as it can be a challenge to juggle times of things on different levels (you can also swap things from one level to another, so when the meat’s lightly done, swap the spuds/veggies to the top to brown & put the meat on the lower level to finish off/keep warm). I rarely use the extension ring, but it's handy to have if you want to cook a large joint and still have room beneath for other things. The clear glass bowl means it’s really easy to see the progress of your food without continually stopping cooking to open & check on it. I’ve seen people complain about the lifting tongs being pointless, but I love them – and really felt the loss when I mislaid them! They make it really easy to move the baskets & wire stands. I also now have silicone pot holder mitt type things, which are very useful with this air fryer. The body of the air fryer is tempered glass, so it can go into the dishwasher without worrying about degrading non-stick surfaces (obviously, this doesn’t include the lid, which contains the heating element). It also has a “self-cleaning” mode (the defrost temperature setting), where you pop a bit of water and washing up liquid in the bottom of the empty bowl and let it run for 20 minutes. This softens any stubborn grease in the bowl which can then easily be wiped, washed or thrown into the dishwasher – it also helps soften up grease build-up on the lid, which obviously has to be cleaned by hand (a scrubby sponge works fine to finish this). It defrosts brilliantly. I always have problems defrosting food in the fridge for 24hrs, as generally recommended on packets, as things are usually still frozen in the middle when I do this (my fridge isn’t set at an extra low temperature). Defrost settings on the microwave tend to thaw food unevenly, so it will overheat part of it and start cooking when other parts are still icy and it can make meat rubbery. This air fryer on defrost setting will evenly thaw food out really quickly without starting to cook it. Lastly on the positives – this air fryer, along with a lesser-used Crockpot, has completely replaced my oven. I bought both in Summer 2022 to reduce my energy usage, and they’ve achieved this far beyond my expectations. I have literally not used my oven or grill once in the 15 months since I bought them (I'm using these as extra cupboard space!). We don’t heat with electricity, and nothing else has changed, but not only did we reduce our electricity consumption, but we even reduce our electricity spend, despite a 70% increase in energy charges over the previous year. Negatives – these are things that aren’t a deal-breaker for me, but might be for others: The size does mean this takes up a lot of counter space, and you’d need a lot of spare room in a cupboard if you planned to put it away between uses. The basket/s & wire stands it comes with aren’t stainless steel and quickly degrade. I no longer put them in the dishwasher, as it’s not efficient at removing food from wire and rusty water started appearing in the mesh of the basket after dishwashing within the first week or two, and would leave permanent rust marks on other items it touched in the machine. The wire stands seem to be chrome plated, which quickly eroded, leaving them looking dark & stained (this isn’t baked-on food residue, it’s the bare metal). Also, the process of erosion of the plating can be rapid, as the nature of wire means that they can often need vigorous scrubbing to remove baked-on food residue – and of course if you use a wire brush or metal scouring pad, you’ll quickly remove any plating. I am disappointed these accessories aren’t made of stainless steel. Because of this issue, I’ve been continuing to use only the old accessories for meat & cheese, which generally causes more stubborn residue that needs more scrubbing to clean, and keeping the new ones only for veg, so I don’t need to use anything too abrasive on them. I’m sure the chrome plating will also degrade eventually on these, too. I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for stainless steel replacements of the right size. Because of its size & weight, washing the bowl is more difficult than a smaller air fryer drawer. I deal with this by using a set of 11-inch stainless steel round baking trays I got on Amazon which exactly fit the bottom of the fryer bowl (as they’re a snug fit, I generally have to wait until cooled to remove, then I can push one edge and it pops up the opposite side and I can lift it out). I can then bin any oil/juices & they wash brilliantly in the dishwasher and prevent having to drain & wash the air fryer bowl after every use. The lid is fairly heavy & unwieldy, and of course needs fully removing to access the contents, so it’s a bit more hassle turning/serving your food – leading me onto the next…. I hate the lid stand with a passion! It’s hard to work out how it’s supposed to work and It’s not only cumbersome to use – requiring lifting the fryer lid vertically to place into the stand, but it also requires a huge amount of extra counter space, as a standard counter isn’t deep enough to have the stand in front of the fryer (and you would then need to reach over the large, hot lid to get to the food), so it needs a whole extra spare space beside the fryer to support the lid in its stand. Added to this, the power lead isn’t terribly long, so unless you’re unplugging it every time you want to turn your food, you need space next to the fryer, ideally on the power supply side, to put the lid. I address this problem by having a large Crockpot alongside the fryer, so I always leave the lid off the Crockpot (when I’m not using both appliances at the same time) and just put the fryer lid, element facing down, on top of the Crockpot. As I have these 2 appliances in the only space near a plug & not impeded by low cupboards, I have nowhere I can safely put the fryer lid in its stand anyway. Not sure if this is a negative exactly, but the replacement model seems to cook at a slower/cooler rate than the first. It still cooks, and it might mean that the first was faulty (and burned itself out so quickly as a result?), but it does mean that I’ve needed a new learning curve to get used to how long things need in there. In summary, this has been a really useful appliance that has saved me far more money than it cost - for my purposes, the disadvantages are far outweighed by the benefits of having such a large air fryer that can fully replace an oven & grill.

This is a truly versatile Halogen /air fryer. I have not needed to use my main oven since I purchased this cooker. Very easy to use with excellent results. No problem cooking a complete meal. Obviously you do need to be aware of different timings required as in a normal oven. The instruction book could have been better. I went onto the DAEWOO equivilent cooker & downloaded the PDF copy of that instruction book. As a retired chef I highly reccomend this cooker. Practice will make perfection.

This is brand new to me so I was a little dubious. I had to try it out, make sure it did what it claimed otherwise it was going straight back. Well, all I can say is, I love it, yes, its big & bright (lamp) but it cooked my fish pieces & chips in 20 mins & only cost me 9 pence. For a single person or a couple looking to to keep utility bills to the best level, this is a great help. I am now looking into different types of cooking that I can do in the Halogen Oven & am amazed at its scope. Your main saving is the heating up of your regular oven before thinking of putting in the food to cook, here, it is, more or less, instant.