It also boasts a nifty built-in temperature probe but we’d only use it as a guide, as it was a few degrees out when we took a reading from the chicken using an external probe.

It's a fairly hefty appliance, so if your kitchen is compact it may not be for you, but you can fill its two drawers with different foods and sync the programmes so everything is ready to eat at the same time – a process we found intuitive on test.

Rather than submerging food in oil, air fryers use very little – in our tests we used one tablespoon of oil as standard – to bake food quickly.

The functions are a little awkward: even with the instructions, I struggled to find the compartment you have to fill with water (it’s on top, by the way). Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. For a more in-depth read on the benefits of air-fryers, take a look at our ' are air-fryers worth it? It barely fits on the countertop in my small flat and I can’t push it all the way back because it sits higher than the bottom of the cupboard above.

The lack of cooking charts means some guesswork is required to begin with, but you can scan a QR code in the booklet to access lots of recipes online (albeit not very traditional ones).

That said, if you’ve recently bought an air-fryer, I would advise trialling the times and temperatures first as each model varies in size,” says Samuel. I like the simple dial allowing me to adjust time and temperature settings, from an accurate 49℃ to 205℃.If you happen to end up with leftovers, reheat them in the air fryer in the morning for a tasty breakfast treat. If you want to know more about popular brand Ninja, our friends at olive magazine have written guides to best Ninja air-fryer and the latest Ninja deals.

It doesn’t have a separate pre-set for fish, but with a manual mode it’s easy to tailor the temperature to suit whatever you’re cooking, using the + and - signs.Do you like to choose your own temperature and how long to cook things for, or would you prefer to leave all that to the machine?