I want to buy an air fryer. But which and where!?

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I have an Actifry, with a paddle inside to smash up the food. (It stirs up frozen chips alright though)

It can't be a day over 10 years old, and the poor quality plastic isn't heatproof, just crumbling away. I had to make a new handle a couple of years ago as the pan part fell off when I lifted it up.

However, I wouldn't be without it, as it cooks frozen oven chips quite well- they always end up black & white when I do them in the oven, and it is far less messy than a deep fryer.

I was after one of the £15 ones from Aldi to replace it, but my store didn't get them

Murmansk

I'd recommend the Ninja brand and if you buy from Lakeland you get a three year warranty included. I bought another brand from them and it went wrong after more than a year, they gave me an immediate refund and I bought a Ninja one from them. 

jshm2

If you have a Costco card, then Ninja. Else just get a Tower brand from Tesco or whatever.

dllive

Hi all,
Ive been looking at january sales for air fryers, and Debenhams has a sale on for up to 80% off!! For example: https://www.debenhams.com/product/living-and-home-9l-touch-screen-dual-basket-air-fryer-double-drawers-with-8-programs-time-sync-function-free-selection-mode-in-each-drawer_p-42fe7fa4-1d30-4fae-b3c6-28a1f311d8d0?colour=Silver

However, if I do a Google for Home and Living 9liter air fryer, they all seems to be about the same discounted price (about £80).

So is Debenhams being disindigenous saying its 80% off? If so, then I wont buy theirs on principal!

kinger101

dllive said:

Hi all,
Ive been looking at january sales for air fryers, and Debenhams has a sale on for up to 80% off!! For example: https://www.debenhams.com/product/living-and-home-9l-touch-screen-dual-basket-air-fryer-double-drawers-with-8-programs-time-sync-function-free-selection-mode-in-each-drawer_p-42fe7fa4-1d30-4fae-b3c6-28a1f311d8d0?colour=Silver

However, if I do a Google for Home and Living 9liter air fryer, they all seems to be about the same discounted price (about £80).

So is Debenhams being disindigenous saying its 80% off? If so, then I wont buy theirs on principal!

It looks very much like 80% off a price nobody would have ever paid for it.  

Debenhams now looks like it's being used to sell poor quality goods imported using Alibaba at silly mark-ups.

They were bought by a company called Boohoo.  Presumably because there's lots of tears involved with buying from them.

dllive

kinger101 said:

It looks very much like 80% off a price nobody would have ever paid for it.  

Debenhams now looks like it's being used to sell poor quality goods imported using Alibaba at silly mark-ups.

They were bought by a company called Boohoo.  Presumably because there's lots of tears involved with buying from them.

Thanks for sanity-checking that. I thought it was too good to be true! Ill buy elsewhere on principal. 

Heedtheadvice

It's always so many percent off what? For all sales items not just at Debs.

If it was 80% off a reasonable/fair price that sells( i.e. a real discount ), assuming that is not much of a loss at the sale price rather than a loss leader, consider what the retail markup really is?

 In this case 400%

....depending upon how you calculate 'markup'. 

You could then ask 400% of what? Percentages are useless unless you know the base.

IvanOpinion

Another vote for Ninja. We have had our twin drawer one for several years now and it has given no problems.
If I was to buy again though I would look at one of the ones with 2 drawers sitting on top of each other rather than side-by-side. It would take up less space and might be more efficient with the lower drawer helping to heat the upper one.

molerat

I think Ninja are overpriced at their rrp which is what many sites sell at.  I got my AF451 in a Black Friday 23 deal at Argos when the rrp was something like £260 and paid £152 for it.  Don't think I have seen it that cheap anywhere since.  It was something I never wanted or needed, now the most used appliance ! A dual drawer is a must IMO.

ian16527

Got ours from Asda  - own brand- no frills and does the job - £29
Has a Cosori and was fine but the door mechanism smashed after a couple of months light use so it went back