Best air fryers

Top pick: Cosori TurboBlaze 6-Quart. Six quarts is the sweet spot for everyday cooking — enough for a family tray of fries or a whole chicken's worth of wings — and the TurboBlaze fan design cooks faster and more evenly than most basket fryers at this level. It's the one I'd buy for daily use.

Who the others suit:

• Ninja 4-in-1 Air Fryer Pro — the simplest, most forgiving starter fryer; great if you mostly do fries, nuggets and reheats.
• Ninja 4-quart — a step up in capacity without going huge; good for two people.
• Beautiful 6 Qt — big basket, very widely reviewed, and the friendliest budget route to a family-size fryer.
• Ninja Crispi — glass chamber you can watch through and wipe clean; pick it if cleaning annoys you most.
• Philips 5000 dual-basket with steam — two zones plus steam, for cooking a main and a side at once.
• Compact 2-qt / Dash 2.6-qt — small kitchens, one or two portions.
• Granitestone Glass 16-qt — oven-style, for big batches; its ratings are the weakest here.

Skip the tiny 2-quart models if you cook for more than one person.