I know a lot of reviews people struggled a bit with the symbols but I didn’t find them too bad, managed to navigate my way around the menu and how to set the timer for whatever time I wanted, so reading the instruction manual does help work out 1 Bitton selects what you’re cooking and the other is the timer so it’s all straightforward.

For the size etc I’m glad I bought it during the sales, it’s a decent fryer if you want to have a go but you’re not 100% committed to having one, so around £50 I felt was a decent price. Only issue I have is my partner prefers bigger meals so I can cook for example chicken Kiev and enough chips for me, but for him I had to a 2nd lot of chips but, if we get enough use put of this one then we could look at getting a bigger one in the future.

I like this one because it’s pretty basic so I don’t feel I’ve over spent on a product I’m not completely confident I want, people at work raved about having one so I thought I’d give it a go. I’ve found plenty of things I can cook in it and it saves time, sort of, when cooking dinner. It holds enough to make a decent sized meal and it cooks everything fine, any errors so far have been on our part experimenting with different food/timings/etc. It also doesn’t take up too much space, we have limited counter space, and it’s light so I’m not put off by the idea of having to pick it up off a shelf to use it. I need to play around with it more and cook more food in it before I decide whether upgrading is a good idea, although I’ve seen some more expensive ones with about the same amount of drawer space so I might just stick to this one.

Certainly helps if I’m cooking a few things, our gas oven doesn’t disperse the heat evenly so cooking 2 lots of the same thing at once is very helpful.

When it’s cooking I don’t think it’s that loud but the beeping every time you press a button is loud and annoying, it’s like it’s not sure I’m aware I pressed anything so it’s yelling at me to reassure me I have pressed the button 5 times and didn’t miss once! I get it’s a touchscreen and all but if I can manage my phone without the beeping I can manage an air fryer.

Washing up is easy, the tray comes out, although I knocked the rubber stopper on the side where the handle is and it won’t sit back in place so I have to tilt it towards me to get the stopper to sit where it’s meant to and the slot the tray in without moving it. Bit annoying but easy to do.

I’d recommend this air fryer if you only have 1-2 people to cook for and I’d wait until it’s on sale if you want to buy it as a starter/tester fryer before you decide whether to move on to more expensive, complicated air fryers. It’s good but I think for what it is £120 (I think) was more than I was willing to pay to be honest.

Note this review is for the 5L Digital Air Fryer

This has been my first ever experience with an air fryer and it has been brilliant. As someone who avoids cooking, it’s great being able to throw stuff into this and have it cook quickly without the need to preheat.

There is ample space in the drawer and it is pretty easy to keep clean. The interface is responsive and, although I probably couldn’t name what all the pictures are, it offers a variety of settings (albeit they seem to just be heat/time presets).

For the price, this air fryer looks pretty sleek and is probably the nicest thing in my kitchen – I am a bit nervous about the piano black plastic on the top, however. For some reason, Tefal decided that the area where you interact with the air fryer should be made out of the most fingerprint-magnet-easy-to-scratch material known to man. Either you don’t wipe it and leave it covered in fingerprints, or you do wipe it and pray that you haven’t covered the thing in 500 microscratches.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with my purchase and it’s only a minor gripe that I have with the design.