Air fryer plug and electrics question

essex_grl

So like most houses we have an air fryer and the plug is getting hot. Tried in various sockets and someone said see if the kettle does the same as it draws the same watts and that did it too but a kettle only runs a short time. Air fryer runs a lot longer.

Our house is 80s we had a new consumer unit put in 4 years ago but our whole downstairs is on one ring.. “downstairs sockets” 

We don’t want to rip the kitchen out so would it be advisable to put in a cooker switch with socket allowing us to run the air fryer off the cooker ring which has a dedicated 45amp ring. It currently has just a switch. 
Thank you

BarelySentientAI

The plug will still get hot regardless of the size of the circuit breaker protecting the cable in the wall.

Getting another socket put in will make no difference at all.

fatbelly

Yes I'afraid the heat is being generated in the plug

Any smoke or smell of burning?

essex_grl

BarelySentientAI said:

The plug will still get hot regardless of the size of the circuit breaker protecting the cable in the wall.

Getting another socket put in will make no difference at all.

Thank you.
I thought running it in on the oven only ring main might not make it pull as much bad the downstairs ring that has a every single appliances on it.

essex_grl

fatbelly said:

Yes I'afraid the heat is being generated in the plug

Any smoke or smell of burning?

No signs of smoke or burning.. yet.
Someone said I should run it and when it gets warm to unplug and feel the pins as if one of those is very hot there is a loose connection in the plug.

BarelySentientAI

essex_grl said:

BarelySentientAI said:

The plug will still get hot regardless of the size of the circuit breaker protecting the cable in the wall.

Getting another socket put in will make no difference at all.

Thank you.
I thought running it in on the oven only ring main might not make it pull as much bad the downstairs ring that has a every single appliances on it.

The power for the other appliances isn't going in and out of the air fryer or even the plug - it sort of goes through a bit of metal in the back of the socket.

essex_grl

I get that but if we’re running the air fryer off the main ring and we use the kettle. Microwave kettle dishwasher all together we’re overloading them whole ring.

coffeehound

If the socket is old, the spring connectors that touch the pins on the plug can get tarnished and slack, both of which could increase the heat produced at the plug pins.  Therefore changing the socket faceplate for a shiny new one *might* help

essex_grl

coffeehound said:

If the socket is old, the spring connectors that touch the pins on the plug can get tarnished and slack, both of which could increase the heat produced at the plug pins.  Therefore changing the socket faceplate for a shiny new one *might* help

Thank you. I have tried it in  4 plug sockets and it does the same in all of them.

coffeehound

Were they all in the kitchen?  Kitchens being humid and having things regularly plugged and unplugged are often the worst.  If the plug is too easy to plug/unplug that's a sign of slack contacts.

Otherwise have you looked at online reviews of your airfryer just to see if anyone's had the same problem?

essex_grl

Yea all in the kitchen but we have 4 double sockets and only 2 are ever used so I tried all 4. Doesn’t seem to be much slack but I don’t know how old the sockets are.

We have done so much to our house and a rewire just isn’t in the budget after 2 new bathrooms. A new roof, and currently waiting for a plumber to do a broken toilet and a fence to knock down our old garden wall that falling. I could go on with many other things but basically it’s not affordable. 

I’ve posted on a few Facebook ninja groups and not finding a whole lot.