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The 4 Best Air Fryer Brands - Spring 2025

Updated Mar 13, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Best Air Fryer Brands

If you're looking for your first air fryer or need an upgrade, you'll want one that produces evenly crispy, golden-brown food quickly and reliably. With such a wide variety available on the market, it can be helpful to narrow your search to a few brands. Which is the best air fryer brand depends on your desired capacity, features, and price. The best options make evenly cooked food without drying out or burning a big proportion. If you want to use your air fryer instead of your oven for other methods like baking and dehydrating, a range of settings and fan speeds is also worth considering.

We've tested 29 air fryers, and below is an overview of the best air fryer brands. If you're looking for more recommendations, check out the top air fryers and the best budget and cheap air fryers. If you're looking for a toaster, our overview of the best toaster brands is a good place to start.


  1. Ninja

    Ninja is a U.S.-based manufacturer that makes a wide variety of small kitchen appliances, including blenders and air fryers. This brand is a good starting point if you're looking for a mid-range option. They make air fryers in various shapes and sizes, but Ninja's lineup of dual-basket models really shines. Air fryers perform better when you arrange your food in a single layer, and as a result, it's worth considering a large-capacity model, even if you usually only prepare food for yourself or one other person. The brand's products occupy every spot on our list of the best large-capacity air fryers, and all feature fairly shallow, square baskets, which help maximize usable capacity. Ninja's dual-basket models are designed so that you can use just one basket for smaller snacks or use both baskets and cook different foods in each with different settings. Most models offer a variety of presets that vary the fan speed for different cooking methods.

    The 10-quart Ninja Foodi DZ550 has a big cooking surface area and produces great-quality air fried food, so your food comes out mostly evenly browned and crispy, with just a small proportion under or overcooked. Like other Ninja dual-basket air fryers, you can use the 'Smart Finish' setting when cooking with different settings in each basket so that each side is done at the same time. This high-end model also includes a built-in thermometer that you can use to have the air fryer cook meat to a certain temperature.

    See our review

  2. COSORI

    COSORI makes air fryers and other small appliances, like air fryer ovens and multi-cookers. Their products are less budget-friendly compared with Ninja's but have a sleek, modern look. Some models offer app connectivity, so you can look up recipes and monitor your food as it cooks. Like Ninja, most of COSORI's air fryers have square baskets, which gives you more surface area to spread food out in a single layer versus round baskets. They have digital controls that allow for more precise adjustments, and most models have a slanted control panel, which is easy to read when standing above the appliance on your counter.

    The COSORI TurboBlaze is our pick for the best medium-sized air fryer overall. It produces good-quality air-fried food and has a bigger cooking surface area than other options with the same overall capacity. The brand lists the fan speed corresponding to each setting in the manual, which most manufacturers don't. This is helpful if you want to use your air fryer for methods besides air frying since you can use a medium fan speed for baking and a lower fan speed for dehydrating. However, while it cooks quickly, it preheats somewhat slowly and maintains a less stable temperature during cooking than the Ninja DZ550, making it difficult to follow recipes accurately.

    See our review

  3. BELLA

    BELLA is a kitchenware brand owned by 'Made by Gather,' which is also the parent company of Drew Barrymore's kitchenware brand, 'Beautiful by Drew.' The brand focuses on budget-friendly products, including blenders and air fryers. While BELLA products that we've tested don't always offer the absolute best performance, if you want to try out a new-fangled appliance without spending much, BELLA air fryers provide reasonable performance at a lower price. However, they don't always have a wide range of fan speeds and may not be as well-suited for methods aside from air frying, like baking and dehydrating. It works well for making meals like chicken wings and crispy sides like Brussels sprouts or cauliflower.

    The BELLA 8qt Pro 90088 is our pick for the best cheap large-capacity air fryer. It has a circular basket, so you don't have as much space to arrange food in a single layer as other 8qt models like the Ninja DZ071. Still, it has a pretty big capacity and produces good-quality air-fried food decently quickly, although a bigger proportion is overcooked when your food is ready.

    See our review

  4. Gourmia

    Gourmia has a huge lineup of air fryers, including tiny 2-quart options for snacks and dual basket models suitable for preparing full meals. Most models include convenience features like a 'Turn Reminder' and preheat mode and have square baskets, which help maximize cooking surface area. Some Gourmia models come in several colors, like pink or green, which isn't overly common for air fryers and might be a plus if aesthetics are a priority. However, while most models have a variety of presets for different foods like 'Fries,' they don't always have modes for other cooking methods that actually vary the fan speed.

    The Gourmia GAF798 can be difficult to find available currently, but if you can find it in stock, this 7-quart air fryer produces good-quality air-fried food. The 'Turn Reminder' feature will indicate when to flip or shake your food partway through cooking, and the dedicated preheat mode lets you know when it's fully heated. However, while it has modes like 'Broil' and 'Bake,' they don't correspond with different fan speeds and instead act as suggested time and temperature presets. The 'Dehydrate' mode lowers the fan speed, but only slightly, so it's not the best option if you want a versatile air fryer.

    See our review

Recent Updates

  1. Mar 13, 2025:

    We made minor updates to the text for clarity, but our recommendations haven't changed.

  2. Feb 13, 2025:

    We've made minor updates to the text but haven't changed our recommendations.

  3. Jan 07, 2025:

    We've made minor updates to the text and checked that the products are in stock, but our recommendations haven't changed.

Notable Mentions

  • Beautiful: Drew Barrymore's kitchenware brand, Beautiful by Drew, makes a variety of small kitchen appliances, including air fryers, toasters, and blenders. The brand's products are mainly sold at Walmart, and all come in a variety of pastel colors, with a distinctive design that includes gold-colored accents and light-up control panels. While they don't always offer the absolute best performance, Beautiful products are a good budget-friendly option if you like the look.

All Reviews

Our recommendations above are what we think are currently the best air fryer brands at various price points. If you want to choose for yourself, here's a list of all of our reviews for this type of product. Be careful not to get too caught up in the details. No model is perfect, and which is best depends on your preferences and needs.

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