For under £100 Tower's multi-zone air fryer is bound to be a hit

(Image credit: Tower)

There's a new air fryer on the scene: Tower's 'Elite' Flexi Drawer model, which has swept in with the stylish good looks and game-changing design of competitors that usually have a much higher pricetag. This new buy is currently on sale for the bargain price of £99.98 on Amazon, down from £149.99.

If you're looking to elevate your experience of one of the best air fryers at home without breaking the bank, then this new release is worth your attention. As well as a sleek digital control panel, it's has a lot in common with our top-rated air fryer ever, the Ninja FlexDrawer (as per our five star review), when it comes to versatility.

UNDER £100

Tower

Elite Flexi-Drawer Air Fryer

You can remove the included divider within this air fryer to create a huge 11 litre cooking zone, or keep it as a dual drawer model when you're cooking different foods.

Ninja FlexDrawer Air Fryer ORIGINAL FLEXIBLE DESIGN

Ninja

Foodi FlexDrawer Air Fryer

Released in the summer of 2023, this fantastic Ninja air fryer quickly became our most recommended buy after our expert reviewer struggled to find fault with it. It started the trend for multi-zone air fryers.

So what is a multi-zone air fryer? Essentially, it's a mini oven with removable dividers but unlike your built-in oven, which you divide into zones horizontally using racks and trays, it has attachments that allow you to split it up vertically into two sections.

With this all-important divider, you can switch on the the Tower Elite air fryer from one megazone to two disparate ones easily. You can then program each side to a different temperature and to run for different times – an excellent weapon to have in your arsenal if you're cooking for fussy eaters.

Tower Air Fryer on pink Ideal Home background

Another key feature of this air fryer is the ability to match and sync up the sides, so that you can bring everything to the table, still hot, at the same time.

If you're less of a button pusher and more of a dial-user, there's an amped up version of this air fryer on sale made with you in mind: at £149.99 via Amazon, it is a little pricier but might be more intuitive to program.

Both versions have preset cooking programs, which are built-in to help you easily get the right temperature and timings for whatever you're cooking whether it's fries, chicken or a whole pizza.

Ninja FlexDrawer during testing at the test centre — Our favourite air fryer ever at the Ideal Home test centre.

If this air fryer is anywhere near as good as the model it bears so much similarity to (the Ninja FlexDrawer) it might be worth a try in your kitchen. After all, our expert reviewer called the original multizone air fryer 'worth every penny of its premium price tag'.

All that's left to decide now is which one to install on your kitchen wortkop.

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Molly is Ideal Home’s Kitchen Appliances Editor, the Ideal Home Certified Expert on Appliances. An all-around cooking and baking enthusiast, she loves finding the next must-have product for readers that will their kitchen a better place. She joined the team in September 2022 after working on the editorial teams of Real Homes, Homes & Gardens and Livingetc.

For the last 4 years, she's been reviewing hundreds of small appliances; conducting tests at home or in the Ideal Home test kitchen. She would be hard-pressed to pick a Mastermind specialist subject but air fryers are her ultimate area of expertise, after testing just about every single one released since 2022.

To keep ahead of trends and new releases, Molly has visited the testing and development spaces of multiple kitchen brands including Ninja Kitchen and Le Creuset as well as attended consumer shows such as IFA, hosted in Berlin to see the cooking innovations of the future.