Breville Halo Rotisserie Air Fryer | Digital Extra Large Air Fryer Oven | Fry, Bake & Dehydrate | 2000 W | Energy Efficient | Black and Grey [VDF127]

I did a lot of research before choosing. This is fantastic. Generally following the rule of 20 degrees lower than a conventional oven works, but timing wise it depends - somewhere between 20 percent to 50 percent less time required. E.g. part baked bread cooks well in 6 minutes if you turn it over half way through cooking.If you're trying to cook a whole meal in it it really only cooks enough for 2 people. Or you can cook a component of a meal or more people e.g. one small chicken, loads of sausages, 3 small pizzas. Great for cooking part baked bread, small pizzas, frozen foods. Only cooks enough frozen chips for max 2 people - if you put more in the basket then they don't freely rotate and it ends up taking twice as long as a conventional oven. Potato wedges take forever and aren't worth the effort.I used the dehydrate function to make dried oranges for Christmas decorations. On its 50C temp setting it would have taken 3 days to dehydrate them. I changed it to air fry on 120C and it did them perfectly in 1 hour.We love that this has shelves and the rotisserie and the rotating basket, a removable tray at the bottom for easy cleaning, and I particularly love the easy remove door which makes it very easy to clean.I would love it if they could make a 15 litre version or even a 20 litre version so you can cook a larger chicken or even add the roast potatoes.It's good for cakes but you have to experiment to learn how to get it right - the kids have under and overcooked cakes trying to get used to it.If it had a heating element at the bottom as well as the top the cooking would be more even - as it is, whatever's on the top rack gets cooked much more, so you need to turn things over and switch the shelves around for even cooking - I'd have thought the fan would mean this wasn't necessary.We've stopped using our conventional oven apart from for doing roast dinners or baking meals for more than 4 people.Edit note:After 2 months of use it started cutting out with no notice. It looks like unplugging it after every use remedies this - presumably resetting the software/firmware, but I'll update this again if that becomes a recurring fault.

Dead handy little machine this. Rotisserie basket can hold enough chips for a family of four, and cooks wings to perfection.The oven is quite small though, so the manual recommends no larger than a 1.3Kg chicken to put on the spit.I stuff mine with onion and lemon, marinade/season/apply rub to the skin, tie the legs up, then use the preset chicken button. Perfectly cooked and incredibly juicy.The touch controls aren't very sensitive. Trying to add negatives in between the positives.The thing that to me is it's stand-out feature is the drying/dehydrating function. I've done citrus fruit and herbs (actually made a nice mulled wine spice), and even flowers. But my favourite is home made jerky. Get a steak or three, trim the fat, tenderise it and flatten it, then marinade (i keep it simple, salt, pepper, Worcester sauce and chilli flakes). Place on each of the three removable shelves and dehydrate; I usually go for 6 hours at 60'C. Check it, and once its ready chop up with scissors into strips, trying not to eat it as you go along!I've had an error once or twice, don't know what it was but it happened half way through cooking, so if you use the preset buttons you'll overcook your grub.Cleaning is simple enough, there's nothing really for your sponge to snag on. I line the drip tray with either foil or greaseproof paper, let that cool and then just bin / recycle it.All in all a great machine that's perfect for quick, easy, low-fat meals.

This does its job very well. There is a rotating basket for chips or you can have up to three shelves of static food. The timer waits until the fryer is up to temperature before starting and there are various cooking modes. The removable drip tray at the bottom makes it easy to clean.However, there are two issues that I have with it which knock this down from getting a 5-star review.Firstly, the basket is not easy to open once cooked. It's like no-one thought of how to get the food out afterwards. There is a spring loaded clasp to keep the door to the basket shut during cooking, but it is fiddly to use when at room temperature, and extremely difficult when hot. Oven gloves don't transmit the fine motor controls needed to release the clasp. I've taken to using folded kitchen roll and a knife to compress the spring and flip the catch. After a few careful attempts not to burn myself, I can release the food within. The instructions contain no hints about how to effectively release the food without burning yourself.Secondly, when using the fixed shelves I've found that the airflow is not even. I have to move the shelves around so that everything has a turn of being near the top and the source of the heat.