The Cuisinart AIR-200 is a higher-end 6-qt air fryer. It has some features that aren't standard for all air fryers: its drawer has a window so you can see into the cooking chamber. It has an automatic 'Keep Warm' feature that switches on after a cooking cycle. There's an optional 'Toss' reminder for recipes that require you to flip or shake your food partway through cooking and a preheat mode for its 'Broil' and 'Bake' functions. That said, it's missing a 'Dehydrate' mode, and you can't set the timer for longer than an hour.
Our Verdict
The Cuisinart AIR-200 is decent for air frying. It doesn't have the best performance since it doesn't cook food that evenly, but it does a satisfactory job with air-fried foods like vegetables or chicken nuggets. It's somewhat slow but has good versatility, as it offers a range of temperatures and fan speeds for different recipes and cooking methods.
- Good cooking surface area.
- Good range of fan speeds and temperature settings.
- Somewhat slow for an air fryer.
The Cuisinart Basket Air Fryer is decent for large-batch cooking. It's a 6-qt fryer, so it has enough capacity to serve around four people. It has a good amount of surface area for its capacity, so you can arrange more food in a single layer compared to some 6-qt air fryers. It has good versatility, but it doesn't have the best air-frying performance since a pretty big proportion of your food gets undercooked.
- Good cooking surface area.
- Good range of fan speeds and temperature settings.
- Somewhat slow for an air fryer.
The Cuisinart AIR-200 has a decent air frying performance. It has a good amount of cooking surface area and good temperature stability but has a low maximum fan speed and cooks food slowly compared to some other air fryers. When you make food like potatoes or chicken wings, a little over half comes out well-cooked, crispy, and golden brown, but a pretty significant proportion is undercooked.
- Good cooking surface area.
- Maintains a stable temperature.
- Somewhat slow for an air fryer.
- Somewhat slow maximum fan speed.
The Cuisinart Basket Air Fryer is on the slow side when it comes to cooking speed. It preheats quickly, though.
- Preheats quickly.
- Somewhat slow for an air fryer.
The Cuisinart Basket Air Fryer has a good cooking capacity. Its 6-qt capacity is enough to serve about four people. Its basket has a bigger cooking surface area than some 6-qt fryers we've tested, and you have a good amount of room for arranging food in a single layer for the best results.
- Good cooking surface area.
The Cuisinart AIR-200 is somewhat bulky and tall, but it's not particularly big for a 6-qt air fryer.
- Somewhat bulky design.
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Changelog
- Updated Jan 07, 2025:
We added links to some of our recommendations for the best air fryers in the Compared To Other Air Fryers section.
- Updated Sep 23, 2024: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Cuisinart AIR-200 comes in one 'Black/Stainless Steel' variant. Here's the label for the unit we tested.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update our review.
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The Cuisinart AIR-200 is a high-end 6-qt air fryer. Like the Instant Vortex Plus 140-3088-01, its basket has a window so you can watch the cooking process. It performs better than that model, producing more evenly cooked air-fried food. However, if you don't care about the window, some 6-qt air fryers we've tested offer significantly better air frying performance, like the Beautiful 6qt Digital and the 6-qt COSORI TurboBlaze.
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The Cuisinart AIR-200 is a better air fryer than the thinkkitchen Luminate. Both options feature a viewing window that allows you to see into the basket and monitor your food as it cooks, but the Cuisinart's basket has a larger capacity and surface area. Combined with a higher maximum fan speed, this allows it to cook a larger portion of your food to a crispy golden brown. It's also more versatile, with a range of cooking presets, like 'Roast,' 'Broil,' and 'Bake.' It cooks faster, too, and maintains a more stable temperature throughout cooking cycles, making it easier to follow recipes.
Test Results
Its basket has a good amount of cooking surface area, so you have more room to arrange your food in a single layer compared with some 6-qt air fryers, like the BELLA 6qt Pro 90165.
This air fryer has good versatility. It has a pretty wide range of temperatures, although its minimum temperature isn't as low as some other options. Its maximum fan speed isn't that fast, which can hurt its ability to quickly cook and crisp food. Its controls also include five presets for specific foods, with a different default temperature and time for each. There's no 'dehydrate' mode, and you can't set the timer for longer than 60 minutes. However, it has some unusual extra features that you might find useful. 'Keep Warm' comes on automatically at the end of a cooking cycle for up to 60 minutes. 'Bake' and 'Broil' include a preheat mode, and there's an optional 'Toss' reminder that you can switch on for a reminder to shake or flip your food partway through cooking.
- Air Fry: 200°F - 450°F
- Roast: 200°F - 450°F
- Bake: 200°F - 450°F, preheat on
- Broil: 200°F - 450°F, preheat on
- Keep warm: 140°F - 300°F
- French fries: 18 minutes, 450°F
- Wings: 25 minutes, 400°F
- Vegetables: 10 minutes, 400°F
- Frozen snacks: 10 minutes, 350°F
- Leftovers: 10 minutes, 350°F
The Cuisinart Basket Air Fryer makes decent-quality air-fried food. By the time your food is cooked, most is golden brown and crispy, but a relatively large proportion is still undercooked.
The Cuisinart Basket Air Fryer has very good temperature stability. It recovers its temperature quickly after you open the drawer to add food. It also does a very good job of maintaining a stable temperature during cooking, which helps you accurately follow recipes and make foods that need specific conditions, like baked goods.
