Philips Premium Airfryer XXL, Fat Removal Technology, 3lb/7qt, Rapid Air Technology, Digital Display, Keep Warm Mode, 5 Cooking Presets, HomeID App, Family Sized, Black (HD9650/96)

A great air fryer
After much consideration and online research, we bought this Philips Air Fryer. My husband wanted a large capacity, I wanted something that would let him eat the fried foods he loves and me not suffer from grease-induced heartburn woes. This air fryer is all we could have wished for, and more. It is a bit difficult to get grease off the burner element at the top of the air fryer after a bacon-frying session, but otherwise easy to use and keep clean. My first try at using it was to make blackberry hand pies, a treat I remembered from my youth. I found a recipe online, made it up, and the results were terrific. So easy to do, the results outside-crispy, inside-moist, and absolutely delicious. We find ourselves using this air fryer several times a week, and not a single thing we’ve made has been less than delicious. Fried chicken came out amazing, battered halibut filets were better even than deep-fat fried, chicken-fried steaks were stupendous. And not a hint of heartburn, either!The size is workable for keeping on a counter top, we just push it against the back wall when not in use, pull it forward 5″ or so when we’re cooking with it. The top is flat, the black surface is easily kept clean and looks great with my other black kitchen appliances. The basket is very large, and you can get quite a bit of food in it at once. It says you can cook a 5.5 lb whole chicken in it, though we haven’t tested that out yet. It has a pause feature that lets you open the unit, shake the contents around or turn pieces, then resume cooking as before without having to re-set everything. The basket assembly easily comes apart for cleaning, and it all goes in the dishwasher just fine. The fryer is amazingly quiet when running, and the controls on the front panel are easy to learn to use. My one and only complaint is that the cooking temperature is adjustable only in 25 degree increments. Most recipes call for much finer-tuning of temperature, and we’ve had to learn to make adjustments for that each time we work with a new recipe. Having the ability to adjust temperature from 350 to 360, for instance, would eliminate having to keep detailed notes and trial-and-error runs to get cooking times just right for greatly differing temperatures than the recipe calls for.We chose the Philips brand because all of the serious online reviews (from America’s Test Kitchen, for instance) rated the Philips at the top of their lists, as reliable, durable, and easy to use. It was more pricey than other brands, true, but we figured that we would be using it for a long time to come and would be glad we paid the extra for the quality that Philips delivers. This air fryer has added a welcome and delicious new dimension to our culinary world.

Say hello to my little friend.
First use was simple, easy to figure out the learning curve, made some onion rings and hot buffalo nuggets, with wrap on the side, the rings and nuggets tasted better then those cooked in oven or toaster oven by far. tonight recipe is straight out of the cookbook that came with the fryer. butter milk chicken, marinated over night. rice and asparagus on the side. clean up is simple everything comes apart and is made solid. no pre warming needed just set and forget sorry Rondell you’ve have been out classed. lol. many different ways to use as a aide to cooking, and in summer time kitchen will not be as hot when oven is used. turn that off. mojo.After a few mths of use I love this fryer even more whipping up some aired fried thies is easy and oh so good. My go to recipe is Louisiana chicken fry batter mix play with that and add your own twist for some ole fry up chicken one cheat to pass on is cut thies into 4/5 pieces before dipping into batter for best results enjoy grass hopper. Mojo

This Phillips Premium Airfryer XXL is great. I have used it most days since purchase, about 3 months. Easy to use, well designed and well made. Easy to separate the fryer basket to clean and it fits back together with no effort. The non-stick coating is perfect.This airfyer needs no preheating and it recalculates preset cooking times to account for reheating after the basket is opened and closed when you add or turn food. No preheating is a huge advantage! This airfryer provides good control over cooking and has good presets.The big basket will fit a very small chicken or lots of pieces and the accessory to double the cooking layers works well for larger families. Food tastes better and there is no oil cooking smell in the house. I just smell the cooking food, delicious.It takes some learning and weighing of ingredients at first like any new cooker or microwave. Turning or tossing the food half way through the time is important.Being able to walk away while it fries is great. I don’t have to watch it constantly as I do when frying in oil. Having heat safe handles and a cooler outer layer is good. Be sure not to fill the basket above it’s top. This will prevent food touching the element above.Crumbed food, crispy poultry, sizzling meats, fresh veges and home made french fries are amazing in this!Fresh wet battered foods are more of a challenge in all airfryers as the batter drips before the heat can seal it. Fish and chips are easier if the fish is crumbed or purchased prebattered for cooking. All the recipes I find are for crumbed foods, not battered. Maybe cooking wet battered food on a paper liner for the first half of the time will work. I am yet to try this. I have not tried baking in it yet either.This will feed 4 people 1 part of a meal easily. Layering the veges on a rack over the sizzling meat works well for 4 people. Keeping the cooked food warm in an oven will let you cook more batches and feed many more people or have courses served together.

Quality product with high quality performance. You get what you paid for. First thing to do is to download the app for the appliance because this was very helpful in all ways. Be sure to look at how to clean it because its fast and easy. This XXL can hold a whole meal. At first i had trouble figuring it out but now i am seeing more and more potential for it. I LOVE fries and this appliance does fries well. Try the McCain crinkle cut (frozen) fries and you cannot tell a difference from deep fried. so the healthy component lets me eat guilt free. I did ground turkey meatballs and they were perfect. I am still playing with my time limits. I also did stuffed pork chops! Divine. Everyone thought it was haute cuisine. I also did Jamie Oliver’s vegetables which were par boiled at first them I fluffed the outer edges of the potatoes and they were crispy and golden on the outside but soft on the inside. This worked well with the parsnips and carrots too. I do shake and bake topping on my chicken and this was delicious!!! Bacon in this is cooked to perfection minus the grease which drains to the bottom. I then added my hash browns (cut up potatoes) because of the space to add to my breakfast. The chicken wings cooked in this are UNBELIEVEABLE! My husband says they are better than deep fried ones and less work. I dip each wing in milk then roll in flour and cook quickly in this. Half way through I shake then in my sauce in a bowl and put them back in to finish cooking. The technology in this appliance is superior because it can cook at such a high heat and so quickly which is a bonus on the busy family with short time frames. I’m cooking as healthy as possible which is why i bought this model. The reviews for this one were very good and I can see why.

amazing appliance that cuts down cooking time. We went with the XL so we could fit a whole chicken. Fries and wings come out crispy and cooking time is fast! No longer need to wait for preheating and because it’s a smaller volume then an oven, cook times can be reduced. Easy to maintain, cleaning is not as hard as I thought. All the pieces can be removed and can be cleaned in the sink or dishwasher.