DASH Deluxe Electric Air Fryer Oven Cooker with Temperature Control, Non-stick Fry Basket, Recipe Guide Auto Shut Off Feature, 1700-Watt, 6 Quart – Aqua

I’m hard-core in love with this machine! I’ve had it since December 2019, so five and a half months at the time of writing this review. It’s still going strong even after lots of pandemic-related usage.I live at high altitude where ovens take way longer to preheat. This machine takes three minutes to preheat (always optional, but it’s not bad at all to wait for), and items cook on average half the time the product descriptions recommend, sometimes plus one minute. I could wait ten minutes for my oven to preheat and cook taquitos for twelve minutes, or I could have them perfectly cooked, from cold machine to finished food, in nine minutes.I have barely scratched the surface of the possibilities with this machine, but I’ve cooked mainly nuggets, taquitos, pierogies, and tater tots in it. I’ve also made croissants (cook in three minutes), reheated Subway sandwiches (two or three minutes with crispy bread instead of soggy, angry-hot microwaved bread), toasted hoagie buns PERFECTLY for French dip sandwiches (three minutes, no preheating), and cooked chicken Parmesan (can’t remember the cooking time, but it was about 2/3 the recipe time), and reheated restaurant onion rings (those needed two minutes with no preheating, and I over-did them a little). I can cook a Totino’s Party Pizza, half at a time, for five minutes per half, from frozen. Slices of leftover pizza from a restaurant also reheat in a couple minutes. It’s the most convenient thing in the world to be able to simply twist a dial and have crispy-hot food in a flash.I tried bacon once and did not love the results.I NEVER have to add oil for cooking. The fat that’s already in the food comes out and lubricates enough. Directions do say to never use aerosol nonstick spray, so you should invest in an oil squirter if you think you’ll need it. You can also wipe oil around the interior with a paper towel. But really…you don’t much need it.The appliance IS large (6 qt) and sits kind of like a spaceship on the counter, but the Tiffany-mint color is attractive and I think it’s just the handsomest machine ever.One fair warning is that you MUST wipe out the basket after each use because the spatter WILL bake on, and it’s very hard to remove. I have mistreated my handsome machine and am paying for it with some areas that I can’t scrub hard enough to remove for the sake of the nonstick coating. I devoted some time to soaking and rubbing with a washcloth, and it helped, but didn’t work everywhere. Treat your machine well and clean it out while it’s still warm!