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Best Performance
Overall winner (best average finish)
Average Finish: 3.1
Purchased for: $120
Made In: Thailand
Overall winner. 6-qt TurboBlaze (90–450°F) with ceramic coating. Very fast and efficient preheat/metal heat-up, excellent bacon consistency, strong chicken results, and broad temp range (450°F). A bit noisy.
Fast heating, strong results across fries/cookies/bacon/chicken, and a 450°F max setting.
Runner-up
Best fries + very fast heating
Average Finish: 4.4
Purchased for: $130
Made In: Vietnam
Runner-up overall. 5-qt basket-style air fryer. Best fries result, very fast heating, but loudest measured (66.2 dB) and tended to run hot (ambient overshot well above the 400°F setting). Strong airflow sometimes moved food (bacon pieces overlapped; parchment shifted cookies).
Powerful and quick, but loud and tends to run hotter/move food with aggressive airflow.
Best Cookies
Top cookie finish (toaster-oven style advantage)
Purchased for: $400
Made In: China
Premium toaster-oven style smart air fryer (86–480°F, 13 functions). Best cookies finish, but slowest for preheat/metal heat-up and by far the slowest fries cook time.
Excellent baked-cookie results, though slower for heat-up and fries.
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Measured/observed power draw during testing. Higher watts can correlate with faster heating but not always better results.
Lower is quieter. Measurements were taken about 6 inches from the unit on the highest heat setting.
Longer cords can make placement easier (not a performance score).
A standardized preheat-style test: time to raise a metal test piece to 200°F (temperature measured via wireless probe with thermal paste).
Time for the unit’s internal ambient temperature to reach 200°F in the same heat-up test sequence.
One serving (14 pieces) at 400°F, checked periodically. Faster time didn’t always mean best texture—see quality ratings.
Only explicit subjective ratings stated in the transcript: Ninja (1.0 best), Chefman & Oster (1.5 tied 2nd).
Cookies were set to ~300°F with a 5-minute preheat. Chefman ran 2 cookies; others ran 4. Times are the stated approximations from the transcript.
Explicit subjective ratings stated in the transcript: Breville (1.0 best), Black+Decker & Cuisinart (1.5 tied 2nd).
Extra-thick bacon at 400°F in a single layer. Speed is not the same as consistency—some units cooked more evenly than others.
Chicken quarters with a 5-minute preheat; flipped at ~12 minutes; test ended at 170°F internal. Times reflect the transcript’s stated approximations.