COSORI11-in-1 Air Fryer Oven , 13Qt Small Footprint Airfryer combo with Rotisserie, Toast, Bake, Roast, Reheat Functions and more, Recipe Book & 6 Accessories Included, Perfect for Small Contertop

I had been shopping for an air fryer / toaster oven combo device for several months, but found it tough to make a decision, since there were so many models available of all shapes and sizes, from a bewildering array of companies. I was fairly certain I was looking for a combo model air fryer, since my old (non air frying) toaster oven was clearly on its way out, and I wanted a device that could do both types of cooking, since I used my old toaster oven a lot (I don't usually cook enough to warrant heating up my big, full-size oven). This Cosori 12-in-1 model had been recommended as a lower cost alternative to the highly rated Breville model... similar features, maybe not as highly reviewed, but literally half the price. About 3 months ago, I randomly logged onto Amazon, and happened to click on this product, as it was shown as a "recently viewed item", and saw that for a period of just a couple days, there was both a manufacturer and a vendor coupon available simultaneously, which made this product available for a particularly low price, even cheaper than some clearly inferior lower-end models... so I finally pulled the trigger.Everything arrived on time, and in good working order. I set it up and tested it, and "bake", "toast", and "air fry" all seemed to work. I don't know much about the other 9 functions, and don't anticipate using them much, so limited my initial testing to those 3. I was initially skeptical about getting a model with digital controls, because I appreciated the simplicity of the manual controls on my previous toaster ovens... but these controls were very straightforward and intuitive... no need to consult the manual or online resources at all.So, after I first set it up, I didn't actually use it for a few days. The reason being, before I started cooking in it, I first ordered a large silicone mat to place on the counter below it. I did this because every toaster oven I've previously owned always wound up with crumbs and gunk underneath, periodically requiring an extra hard round of counter cleansing. I figured placing this mat underneath should make that much easier. I then wrapped the removable floor panel of the Cosori oven in aluminum foil, which should also make that much easier to clean. I also ordered another, smaller, silicone mat, and placed that on top of the foil-covered floor of the oven. I made sure the mat is heat resistant to above the max temp of the oven, of course.In the 3 months I've been using it, I haven't had to replace the foil covering the floor of the oven so far, and I simply rinse off the silicone mat that sits inside the oven every week or so. Since it's flexible, it's very easy to do. Some reviews here mention that it's very difficult to clean the rest of the inside of the oven. I haven't encountered that myself, but I simply might not be making the kinds of things that make such cleaning necessary. So far I've sprayed and wiped off the inside of the front glass door maybe once a month, and the inside walls have not required any cleaning thus far.As for the functionality, I've found that it does everything my old toaster oven did, plus (obviously) more. Some professional reviewers like Consumer Reports or Good Housekeeping or CNET test a bunch of models with the exact same foods, and compare results. One of the things they do is fill the oven up pretty heavily, then test for things like uniformity of cooking. Where they might, for example, toast 9 slices of bread simultaneously (since a lot of these devices advertise that capacity), and see how evenly they toast... often finding that the ones in the corner didn't cook as evenly, etc. Well, I'll tell you right now, I'm a single guy, and rarely need 9 slices of toast... but when I try to toast 2 slices, centered in the middle of the oven, they come out perfectly. Same goes for making a frozen pizza. Or air frying 6 chicken wings, which I do often. Or making a standard size tray of brownies, which I've done once. Or heating up a couple hot dogs (I prefer heating them in a toaster oven as opposed to boiling or microwaving). I haven't tried stuff like baking a whole cake, or making a whole rotisserie chicken (even though it came with the accessories to do so), since, again, as a single guy, there's not much reason for me to do either, and the price of a store-bought cake or rotisserie chicken is low enough that I'm not really going to bother.Also, since this is the first air fryer I've ever owned, one of the things I wanted to check is that there was really a difference between baking and air frying. Obviously I can see and hear the fan turn on when in air fry mode, which is the major differentiator (though unlike what some have said, I find the fan very quiet... I can only hear it if I'm right next to the unit, not even from the other side of the kitchen). So, I tried bake vs air fry when making wings (since I make them often), and I can say that there is absolutely a difference, and they're noticeably crisper when air frying. Some have said that toaster oven / air fryer combo models don't make food as crisp as typical cylindrical air fryers that have a frying basket with a handle. Well, I can't comment on that, since I've never owned one of those. Also, I know that french fry crispness is a major factor for some people, and understandably so. However, I haven't tried making fries from scratch, so I also can't comment there. But, I've found this device to do a very good job both with bagged frozen fries, as well as with reheating fries from a restaurant. I just spray some cooking spray on them... I don't actually add any oil beyond that.Anyway, I hope this review was informative, while also understanding that it will probably be more useful to other single people like me who are not cooking very large quantities at once. One more thing I found as well... a couple reviews here mentioned that once you initiate a cycle, it starts preheating, then beeps once it's preheated, then you have to go back and press the start button again to start the actual cook cycle. I'm not sure why people think this is strange. After all, the whole purpose of preheating is to get the oven to the proper temperature before putting in the food... so of course you have to come back and put the food in, and then press the start button again to start the cook cycle. That being said however, I don't fancy myself some kind of professional chef, and I don't want to bother waiting for it to preheat and then walk back and put the food in. Ok, sure, on the very rare occasions I'm making something in my huge, full-size kitchen oven, I'll do it. But when I'm just heating up something small, in a smaller appliance like this Cosori 12-in-1 oven, I just throw it in, add somewhere between 3 or 4 minutes to the cook time to make up for the lack of preheating, then skip the preheating function altogether... which can be done very easily, by simply hitting the start button a second time.

Cosori is a great company with even greater products. I use their 13 liter air fryer that has an excellent rotisserie to roast green coffee beans sourced from Amazon. This air fryer has a 450 degree F. air fry cycle that operates with the rotisserie function. There are few air fryers that have this capability; Cosori handles this cycle with ease & the result is an outstanding medium dark roasted coffee bean. Every bean of the one pound load is of consistent color and flavor. While my primary use is coffee roasting, I cook chicken, turkey, beef roasts, pickles, etc. using the Sous Vide setting & get great results. The dehydrate cycle makes marvelous apple, banana chips & chicken jerky for Lucy, my 13 year old dog. There is a good reason Cosori is No. 1 in air fryer equipment. I have two Cosori Air Fryers & I highly recommend the Cosori products for Quality, Performance & Value.

I've been a fan of air fryers for a while now and this is my second one. The first one I had was the basket design and I loved it but wanted something bigger. To properly cook food in an air fryer, you need to have things spread out enough that the hot air can get completely around everything, kind of like hot oil. So, the photos you see of people filling up their basket fryers completely with fries is not really a good idea if you want everything to cook evenly. Also, for something that takes up precious counter space in my small kitchen, I wanted it to have additional uses. By getting this one, I was able to get rid of my toaster oven, which I use quite often. And this one can cook more than one piece of toast at a time so that was a bonus.The main purpose, however, is still the air fryer and while this works well, there are some drawbacks. I think the larger size makes it less efficient and therefore things don't seem to be getting as crispy as they did in my old air fryer. I do a lot of roasted veggies (carrots, potatoes, broccoli) and it takes longer to get them to the nice roasted level (a bit of charring around the edges). Same with chicken. Again, I think the overall size slows it down so one of the pros about this unit is also one of the cons. The big con with air frying is that this unit takes forever to preheat. As an example, I like to air fry broccoli. Toss it with some olive oil and spices and in my old air fryer, it was crispy and perfect in about 7 minutes (at 380-400 degrees). However, it takes that long for this air fryer to even heat up and I've noticed that things do cook best if you wait until it reaches the higher temps to put them in (foods with oil on them need to be cooked at high temps if you want them to get crispy and not just oily). So, now I wait 7-10 minute for it to heat up, and then the broccoli takes at least 10 minutes to cook at 400 degrees. So, it takes about three times as long to make it compared to my old air fryer. Not a huge deal overall, but disappointing and unexpected. If time is a big issue for you, this unit is less efficient than the basket fryers.Another thing I actually loved making in my old fryer was steak. About 4-6 minutes and it cooked a decent medium to medium-well steak and would kind of char the outside a bit, which is what I wanted. This fryer will cook it fairly well, but I discovered it's good for cooking the inside and not so good for the outside. So, I cook the steak in the fryer to get it to the desired level of inside cooking and then quickly flash fry it in a cast iron pan that is already heated on high -- about 30 seconds on each side does it. Again, no big deal but more time.On the other features, pretty much the same. I've tried baking items and it works well -- just takes longer to heat up. I've also recently used the pizza setting to heat up pizza and at least on that one you can just put the pizza in while it's preheating as it's pretty much done by the time it reaches the temp you set. And it does a good job -- certainly better than the microwave as it browns and crisps it instead of just heating it and making it soggy.One nice thing this unit has that my basket unit didn't is different slots to put the pans to cook things differently. For example, to broil you put the pan in the very top slot so the food is closer to the heating element. And it's helpful that the different slots are labeled so you don't have to read or memorize the directions to know this.Speaking of the controls, they are good and typically easy once you've used them a few times. I like that they are digital as things are much more precise than trying to figure out a manual wheel timer that never seems to be accurate. The timer on this is very good and it alerts you with beeping when the preheating is done and when the cooking timer is up. It's just a bit confusing that you have to again push start at that time or it won't actually start cooking. I get that this is so the timer starts at the right time, but it can be confusing the first few times you use it. The other thing is that it takes a while for the lights to go off once you have canceled cooking so I tend to unplug it when not in use. I do that with a lot of my appliances anyway so no big deal.I haven't yet tried the dehydrating feature so I'll update my review as soon as I have because I'm excited for that one. I'll also try out a few of the other settings, but I've used the main ones enough to talk about them. Toast does what you'd expect, bagel seems to do what toast does just more heat on the top than the bottom, and I'm not sure what the difference is between bake and cookies because I didn't realize cookies needed their own setting (I think that one is kind of an add on to make it look cooler by having extra settings). I'll also try the rotisserie setting at some point because that one looks awesome but messy. Ferment is probably the only one I probably won't use.As for the cleaning, well, that is definitely much more difficult than my basket air fryer. That one, I could easily take out the basket and soak the inside with hot water and some dish soap and then just rinse it clean after dinner. Or, pop both parts in the dishwasher. It was fairly quick and easy to clean and even if I forgot about it for a day or so, a quick soak got it clean. This one, however, is a bit more difficult as there are more parts. Granted, I knew this going in but didn't quite anticipate the cleaning time. To keep things easier, I quickly learned to cover the bottom drip pan in foil. Much easier than trying to clean it after each use. And I can keep the foil on for a while unless it gets really dirty from one use. The glass door actually cleans quite easily if you clean it right away before things dry and cook onto the glass. It seems to have a coating to help with this but I do recommend wiping it down after each use. I had read other reviews about stuff dripping down in between the glass door and the bottom drip pan so I just put a paper towel under the door if I'm cooking something particularly juicy. Then use the same towel to wipe down the glass and down in the space between the door and drip pan. If you clean that after each use, it doesn't get bad. The hard thing to keep clean in this air fryer is the air fry tray. It doesn't appear to have a non-stick surface so definitely spray it with some oil beforehand or you will have food cooked to it that won't soak off even after sitting in hot, soapy water for hours. I pretty much destroyed a scrubby sponge getting the burnt bits of whatever off it. Things get stuck in between the wires and stay there. The broiler pan, however, it easier to clean and appears to be nonstick.And be aware that this unit gets really hot while you are cooking things so be careful about keeping anything on top of it or directly next to it. I basically have the directions and my silicone mitt and that's it. Toasty!Lastly, on the noise this one is maybe a bit louder than my old air fryer but not noticeably so. It has to be loud because of the convection, but it's not loud enough to really be a bother and my living room is right next to my kitchen so I'm about 15 feet away while it's cooking. I certainly don't have to turn the TV up tons to hear over it. I think it helps to give it space between it and the wall and other appliances to keep the air flow clear and it seems less loud when it has proper space.Overall, I'm happy with it because of the extra features. If it were being used only as an air fryer, I would probably go back to the basket style, but the extra uses in this unit make it worth the extra cooking time and clean up. The size is bigger but it replaced my toaster oven and old air fryer so I actually gained some space. I also don't need to keep a dehydrator or toaster so it makes up for it size with those uses as well. Most of the other features are also on my oven, but it's nice to not have to use the oven to cook smaller things. And in that sense, this could work well in a tiny house or other space where you don't have room for a full-size oven. And while I've only used it for a couple of months, it appears to be well made so I anticipate it lasting a good long time. Again, I'll update if that changes. I do keep the boxes for things like this until the warranty runs out, just in case.If you are thinking about this one as compared to a basket fryer, I would consider whether you would use it for the other things it does. If so, then the cons for air frying make it worthwhile. If you are simply looking for a large unit then I think this one compares very well to the others that are similar. I have a friend who has the Cuisinart one and this does everything theirs does and more, for less money. I also like that this one had a decent warranty as opposed to my old one (Emeril brand -- not good.).If there is anything you'd like to know about this air fryer, feel free to ask and I'll respond as quickly as possible. Thanks!