I've tested dozens of air fryers and this is the one I'll be cooking Christmas dinner in this year
It has the versatility of Ninja's FlexDrawer without the price tag


Cooking Christmas dinner is the ultimate test of an air fryer. If your air fryer is your most used appliance year-round but isn't up to scratch on the big day your festive meal will feel a huge knock-on effect.
That's why this year I've upgraded my air fryer just in time for cooking the most high-stakes meal of the season. As a Kitchen Appliance Editor, I've tested dozens of the best air fryers and my usual pick is the small but delightful Our Place Wonder Oven (which I gave a deserved 4 stars to in my review), but for cooking a turkey and a Christmas ham, I knew I was going to have to size up for the occasion.
That's why when I was sent the COSORI TwinFry to review, I was more than happy to get stuck in for a practice run of air frying before the big day. Here's how I got on with this relatively affordable yet very large air fryer which strikes a real design resemblance to the 5-star Ideal Home-approved Ninja FlexDrawer Air Fryer.
This air fryer can be configured into one 'Grandzone' that holds 10 litres or two smaller cooking zones. That means it'll have Christmas dinner covered.
COSORI TwinFry Christmas dinner test-run
This air fryer is Christmas dinner worthy mainly thanks to the versatility of its design. It's a late addition to this year's wave of multi-zone air fryers, which if you don't already know, are air fryers that can be configured in multiple different ways to suit your cooking needs.
If you need to cook a turkey say, you can use this air fryers 10 litre 'Grandzone' with no configuration neccesary. Alternatively, if you need to cook the sprouts and the pigs in blankets at two different temperatures for two different amounts of time then you can simply pop the divider in the middle and voila: you've got yourself one of the best dual zone air fryers.
It's a genius and family-friendly design at the best of times, but at Christmastime, it's especially appealing.
You can fit an entire chicken (and therefore probably a small turkey) into the 'GrandZone'. As part of my test runs on this appliance before Christmas, I tested out how well it can fit my baking dishes, as I rely on these for all sorts of family-sized dinners in December.
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A fish pie in one of my biggest dishes was an easy fit and was far faster to cook than it would've been in my oven. Being able to effortlessly switch to the grill function to get the cheese on top bubbling was another huge plus too.
A look at how the COSORI Twin Fry works
This air fryer has a total of eight functions (air fry, roast, bake, reheat, grill, dry, SyncCook and SyncFinish). Beyond the obvious functions, another secret weapon this air fryer has is the ability to dehydrate as it means you can learn how to dehydrate fruit in your air fryer in order to make your own orange garlands and to adorn your Christmassy cocktails.
With this air fryer in my cooking arsenal I think cooking Christmas dinner this year is going to be a much smoother ride than before. After all, half of the struggle is just finding space for everything to cook!

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.
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