A healthy alternative to frying, the Dual Cook Pro requires little to no oil, keeping the same great taste for the whole family. A great achievement considering we used very little oil, making this a healthier alternative to traditional fried chips. With dual-drawer air fryers, you can cook two different dishes at the same time, with the gadget doing the timing work for you to ensure everything’s finished at the same time. Finally, we put the chips into the preheated air fryer and cooked them on the ‘chips’ preset at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. We judge the air fryers on how well they cook the food, how crisp the finish is, how long food takes to cook, how easy the machine is to use, how easy is it to clean, and how many extra capabilities/functions it has.

Salter EK4548 Dual Air Fryer review – Is it worth it?

You simply need to select which side of the air fryer you want to use by tapping either ‘1’ or 2 and then selecting the ‘manual’ button. As I couldn’t raise the temperature, I cooked further batches a little longer, and was rewarded with better results.

First, we unpack the box, look at what you get with the air fryer, and then follow the instructions that come with each specific air fryer to set it up. What’s The Best deputy editor, Natalie Corner, put the Salter Dual Air Fryer to the test over the busy Christmas period and well into January, testing a series of recipes (mostly potato based) to see how it compares against deep-frying and oven-cooking. Today, we have millions of users a month from around the world, and assess more than 1,000 products a year.

Salter EK4548 Dual Air Fryer - Double Drawer, 2 XL Non-Stick Salter EK4548 Dual Air Fryer - Double Drawer, 2 XL Non-Stick

Not only does an air fryer promise to cut down your cooking time, but it does so with as little need for oil as possible. If you’re unsure of the buttons (and the little images they represent) and it’s too much choice, I recommend selecting manual cook and winging it with your own time and temperature. This is handy if you’ve got lots of friends coming around and want to cook up large portions of food without the need to batch cook. According to Salter, the Ek4548 will save you 59% on your energy bills compared to traditional oven cooking. Standard air fryers can be a great way to cook healthier fried or roasted food using less oil, but you can usually only fit in one recipe.As one of the most popular foods to cook in an air fryer, we wanted to see if the EK4548 could deliver crispy golden chips only using a small amount of oil. But the frying racks prove fiddly to remove from the drawer because the metal nook is too small to pick up, let alone when it is covered in grease and other foodstuffs. With a 60 minute timer it ’s simple and convenient to use, this air fryer is complete with a stylish sensor touch control LED display and 12 cooking functions. While the main selling point of an air fryer is about reducing the amount of oil you use in cooking and enabling you to pick healthier options, it’s not just a gimmick.

Salter Dual Cook Pro air fryer review - Reviews | BBC Good Food

Instead, blasting the potato for seven minutes in the microwave and then popping it into the air fryer for 15 minutes achieved crispy perfection and a fluffy inside. Firstly to cook homemade chips, then to cook a mock meat, and thirdly to either cook a baked item, or to test the frying ability, depending on the capabilities. Bacon is also a great meat to cook in the air fryer if you like it crispy, but a beefburger dried out and didn’t retain its moisture, so it was almost inedible. While these might be useful once you come to learn them, I generally found it easier to use the manual mode to dial up the temperature and time I wanted.

For more expert advice on the best home appliances visit our sister site A Modern Kitchen, a destination for homeowners and renters looking for a solution to their kitchen problems. In Sync mode, the longer programme gets a head start so that both sides finish cooking at the same time. The instruction manual offers a cooking function guide for you to use as a starter for temperatures and cooking times, but instructions for cooking vegetables were particularly vague. The chicken was slightly uneven in its appearance after cooking and the end closest to the back was darkened, though not overdone.