Philips Premium Airfryer XXL HD9650/96

A very well made unit with good versatility. Easy to use with great results.

Fantastic product, easy to use and clean, should be in every kitchen. Highly recommended

After much consideration and online research, we bought this Philips Air Fryer. My husband wanted a large capacity, I wanted something that would let him eat the fried foods he loves and me not suffer from grease-induced heartburn woes. This air fryer is all we could have wished for, and more. It is a bit difficult to get grease off the burner element at the top of the air fryer after a bacon-frying session, but otherwise easy to use and keep clean. My first try at using it was to make blackberry hand pies, a treat I remembered from my youth. I found a recipe online, made it up, and the results were terrific. So easy to do, the results outside-crispy, inside-moist, and absolutely delicious. We find ourselves using this air fryer several times a week, and not a single thing we’ve made has been less than delicious. Fried chicken came out amazing, battered halibut filets were better even than deep-fat fried, chicken-fried steaks were stupendous. And not a hint of heartburn, either!
The size is workable for keeping on a counter top, we just push it against the back wall when not in use, pull it forward 5″ or so when we’re cooking with it. The top is flat, the black surface is easily kept clean and looks great with my other black kitchen appliances. The basket is very large, and you can get quite a bit of food in it at once. It says you can cook a 5.5 lb whole chicken in it, though we haven’t tested that out yet. It has a pause feature that lets you open the unit, shake the contents around or turn pieces, then resume cooking as before without having to re-set everything. The basket assembly easily comes apart for cleaning, and it all goes in the dishwasher just fine. The fryer is amazingly quiet when running, and the controls on the front panel are easy to learn to use. My one and only complaint is that the cooking temperature is adjustable only in 25 degree increments. Most recipes call for much finer-tuning of temperature, and we’ve had to learn to make adjustments for that each time we work with a new recipe. Having the ability to adjust temperature from 350 to 360, for instance, would eliminate having to keep detailed notes and trial-and-error runs to get cooking times just right for greatly differing temperatures than the recipe calls for.

We chose the Philips brand because all of the serious online reviews (from America’s Test Kitchen, for instance) rated the Philips at the top of their lists, as reliable, durable, and easy to use. It was more pricey than other brands, true, but we figured that we would be using it for a long time to come and would be glad we paid the extra for the quality that Philips delivers. This air fryer has added a welcome and delicious new dimension to our culinary world.

Pedí dos freidoras y llegó solo una. El pedido se realizó el 02 de Marzo, la primer freidora llegó el 07 de Marzo y la segundo no llegó NUNCA. Detalle importante: Tampoco han realizado la devolución del dinero.

I love this air fryer. I love the capacity of it and I love that it’s Teflon free but I hate the design of it. I am now ordering my second one which I’m glad is a lot less than two years ago because the design of it makes it so it’s very very hard to clean where the coil is so you end up with buildup of grease and Dirt and you can’t get behind that and clean and I believe eventually it will catch on fire so be careful once the build up has been there for a couple years it’s time to order a new one. Which maybe that was the point of the company is to keep customers coming back for more? I don’t know worked for us.
But it’s the best air fryer on the market without Teflon!!

I bought this Philips XXL HD9650/96 air fryer with the intention of replacing a cheaper air fryer that i have been using daily for a few years. The quality of this unit is very good. It seems like this appliance was built to last. Unfortunately, I did return this product because it was not what i expected. Let me explain.

PROS:
– Good build quality
– Nice looking
– Option for a lot of different accessories
– Touchscreen is easy to set and use
– Handy cord storage pocket

CONS:
– This unit is expensive
– Optional accessories are expensive
– Air fryer is louder than usual (subjective)
– Unit is heavy (for an air fryer)
– Removable wire tray that comes with the basket is hard to clean
– Basket and fat collection drawer do not lock together
– This unit took a longer time to cook my food that my current unit at less than half the cost (both units holding about the same volume)

As you can see this air fryer wasn’t all that bad and may, in fact, be ideal for a particular use, but compared to what I have been using at less than half the cost, it wasn’t for me. I use my air fryer daily. I cook a lot of meat products in my air fryer and a wire basket is just not practical. Very hard to clean. There is an optional non stick tray available, but this is an extra cost on top of the already expensive unit itself. My current air fryer’s basket and fat collection drawer lock together, which I find to be very useful. I am able to remove the basket and tray together allowing me to transport the cooked food to a plate without dripping. Also, once I have removed the cook food from the basket, I can tip it over and drain the liquid fat without having to use an oven mitt to pickup the separate fat collection drawer because it doesn’t lock to the basket with the handle. Also, the plastic starfish plate that goes into the drip tray is very hard to clean.

I feel that this air fryer, as accessorized, could be ideal for cooking vegetables and and dry foods such as french fries, etc, but I don’t think this unit as shipped is for anyone cooking a lot of meat.