Conveyor grill: model selection, tips, reviews (1)

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Dear forum users!

This topic is entirely devoted to the question of choosing such a kitchen appliance as the Convection Grill! Here you will find advice on purchasing, choosing a model, user reviews about the "pros" and "cons" of this device ... Read, choose, buy and use for your pleasure !!!
Convection oven actually a cool thing if there is no grill function in the stove, but very bulky in my opinion. And what really tires me is to wash it. Maybe in modern (mine was bought in '95. I specially looked at the check, it became interesting myself) models, this issue is somehow solved technologically.
Consists of a large glass pan and a glass lid with motor and fan. The food is prepared with hot air by blowing. You can cook in dishes (refractory glass, ceramics) and on the wire rack (included). Everything large is cooked on the wire rack - chicken, fish, meat, vegetables. And in the pot there is every little thing, well, if the dish contains liquid. It turns out delicious, but I will not say that it is fast. And the grilled chicken is simply incomparable if you smear it with mayonnaise on top (before cooking)
Since my unit is ancient, it has no functions other than a timer and temperature.
Modern models are certainly more functional.
I found a few links, who are interested

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Thank you Elena Bo for the explanation. The description of the chicken salivated. But if it is bad to wash it, then this is a problem for me. There is no dishwasher, but in general it is very lazy to manually wash everything, although the thing, I think, is worthwhile. As far as I understand, the airfryer is the same grill, only with airflow? I have a grill function in the microwave, but it turns out not at all what I would like.

I have nothing in the oven except the oven. Therefore, I cannot compare the taste from the airfryer and from the grill of the oven, but from the airfryer the chicken is very juicy with a beautiful crispy crust.

There is no dishwasher, but generally hand washing everything is very lazy

I think you can't put such a "horse" in the dishwasher. I wonder how people wash them? Is everyone really suffering like that?

After I got a dishwasher, the intensity of using the airfryer in my household jumped by an order of magnitude. Indeed, washing it just in the sink is very inconvenient. The thing is very heavy and can easily break, because it tries to slip out of the hands. But any dishwasher can fit, even the smallest desktop one (I have one).
I use the airfryer primarily for cooking meat - pork, poultry. Very tasty baked vegetables are obtained - celery (tubers), pumpkin, eggplant. It is great to toast bread (eg with garlic).

According to my feelings in the airfryer everything turns out more juicy. This applies to both meat and fish.

By the way, there are much less odors when cooking fish!

About speed. In my opinion, it is necessary to compare specific models of ovens and airfryer. Grilling is faster in my case.

Yes, washing is not very convenient.

According to my feelings in the airfryer everything turns out more juicy. This applies to both meat and fish.

Moreover, you can cook without oil, including cutlets. Moreover, a huge plus in these cutlets is that they do not need to be watched and turned over + the stove is not splashed.

We have been using it for two and a half years. There are no problems, the flask is washed in the dishwasher, the lid is done by hand.

I totally agree with Elena! The thing, of course, is beautiful, but washing it will torture you. Therefore, I cook in it extremely rarely. mostly grilled chicken, shashlik and even cooked buckwheat porridge. I tried to steam manti in it.The bottom stuck to the grill and the top is very dry.

[Convection oven HOTTER]

Why are you tortured? The airfryer has a special self-cleaning mode! You can look at the instructions on the website 🔗, there it is for every airfryer.

In general, the main thing is not to make a mistake when choosing. There are all kinds of Chinese air grills, you don't need to take them. It is from the fact that they were produced by all sorts of cheap factories that they very often break down and thus deserve a bad name. If you choose, then only Convection oven HOTTER!

Kulya, do you have an airfryer? There is self-cleaning, but it is the dangling of water over the pan. If you add detergent, you still need to rinse it by hand. And this means dragging into the bathroom, because in the kitchen this contraption can hardly fit into the sink. Otherwise, the thing is comfortable, but large. It takes up a lot of space in the kitchen. And of course you need to buy a good device (when I bought it, they just appeared and they brought everything that came to us).

I completely agree with Elena. I have an enta piece and takes place. It may be good, but I have not found the proper use for it. And mostly because I don't want to wash it !!!

Of course, he does not wash everything himself, but anyway it is better than nothing :-) And you try to wash the microwave with a grill or a convection oven ...

In order not to take up much space, you can buy a special bracket with a wall mount.

And I have such a thing.
Used instead of a microwave.
Sobsna the question was: a microwave oven or an airfryer, they chose an airfryer. It does an excellent job of what the microwave does (defrost, heat up) and at the same time you can cook deliciously Porridge in pots in it - HUM!

And this thing was for us instead of a stove when we lived without a kitchen

I share my experience of communicating with the airfryer.
Wash - no problem. Firstly, there is a special corrugated pallet, which is placed on the bottom before using the stove, which means that the main "dirt" in the form of fat, pieces, etc. will fall on the pallet, then after the stove has cooled down, it must be thrown away and washed like other kitchen utensils. detergent. I wipe the stove inside with a sponge dipped in dishwashing liquid and for this I do not even pull the glass flask out of its place (so as not to drag it around again), and then rinse and wipe it with a clean cloth. I don't fill in a lot of water at all. And that's it! That the flask should be constantly dragged into the sink and swear at it and be afraid to break it when all the dirt remains in the pan. Of course, after such operations, you will fiercely hate the airfryer. Then you have to hate the microwave, there is more dirt, and even every day. In the microwave, you also need to cover the food with a lid. I do not often take out the flask for washing in the sink.
Convection oven is useful and good for those who want to cook without oil. Even when you coat the chicken with oil or mayonnaise, all the excess fat flows into the pan, unlike the oil in a pan, in which the meat is fried and absorbed. Moreover, this does not affect the quality of the finished product in the airfryer. Chicken "tobacco" weighing 1 - 1 1/5 kg. roasts at high speed in 35 minutes. And what a marinated shish kebab turns out! All meat and fish dishes cook very quickly and well. Mackerel of St. ice cream. smoked with a smoke in 10-15 minutes, etc. There are many recipes. And you also need to adapt, try recipes. I now have very little and rarely fry in a pan, the taste of fried butter annoys me.
What I would not start cooking in the airfryer is to make baked goods, cook borscht and porridge with compote. I think "the game is not worth the candle." Long and not practical.
Porridge is perfectly cooked in a dish with a thick bottom (like a Zepter) or in a real oven in pots. Pies are also better and tastier in the oven. First courses are definitely better on the stove or in the oven.
The recipes (and video) show cooking vegetables for vinigrette in an airfryer, cooking time 50 minutes. Not practical. It is better to cook such vegetables in a double boiler (cut into small pieces, in 20 minutes) or in a Zepter-type saucepan (also in pieces in the same 20 minutes), faster and tastier.
I like to cook in heavy-bottomed pots when I can cook without water. The most interesting thing is that meat (for example, pork) is ready in 30 minutes and is almost completely salted, although no salt is added, and in general, the taste of the same borscht turns out to be different, and not so fatty.
But this is another topic of conversation, if there are those interested, let's move on to another sheet and share our opinions, experience and advice.
The airfryer is also good where you need to make a crust on a dish, grilled sandwiches. Still, the best thing is meat and fish. It's my opinion. I have had a hot air grill since last summer, I use it all the time.

I have had an airfryer for more than 7 years, when installing a new kitchen I gave up the oven, now there are two huge drawers for pots. My bowl is in the dishwasher, no problem.

I got my airfryer from the "bins of the homeland", I really wanted a chicken.

For comparison - the airfryer next to the multicooker


The chicken legs are marinated, placed on a wire rack and sprinkled with a mixture of peppers.


After 30 min. done!


Delicious! And the smell! And what chicken wings are obtained - you will lick your fingers!

I totally agree with Elena! The thing, of course, is beautiful, but washing it will torture you. Therefore, I cook in it extremely rarely. mostly grilled chicken, barbecue and even cooked buckwheat porridge. I tried to steam manti in it. The bottom stuck to the grill and the top is very dry.
I make it easier: I line the bottom with foil. After cooking, I just wipe it with a damp cloth and everything is clean! But it happens, of course, and I clean it thoroughly

lira70, I did not bake in the airfryer, but can these links help you if you haven't seen them yet?
Here are the recipes 🔗
And here you can ask a question and get a qualified answer from a specialist 🔗 ... Well, and a lot of interesting and useful things to learn for yourself.

THANK YOU! I have their airfryer, so I saw this website, I decided to call them last, for me it is valuable - this is the advice of members of the forum, although you still have to call or write there.

I am going to buy an airfryer, tell me who has it, really functions like smoking, drying, baking are performed in it. Does it make sense to buy it?

I have had an airfryer for more than 1 year. From experience I can say that it is needed primarily for those who have problems with the oven. As a result of long experiments, I settled on a few recipes that satisfied my family, and I cook the rest the same way. And it takes up a lot of space. I don't want to drag it from place to place - it's very heavy. So it stands in the kitchen, I use it no more than 1 time a week. He does not smoke as such, it is just that the recipe uses a preparation for smoking, which gives the smell and taste. I use liquid smoke.
If the size of the kitchen allows, you can buy it for a change, but I did not feel the need for it.

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I bought girls a hotter today! I was looking for a multicooker - no! And reading the forum for many days excited me so much for tasty and good and smart cooking that I already bought it:
- bakery
- thermopot
- coffee grinder
- chocolate bar
and airfryer.
She brought her treasure and immediately made butters and sausages (I wanted to eat). The son of the butera approved, and I took pictures of the sausages happily. Then I began to cook borscht (I need 4 liters for a home garden). Now I ran through the topic again - I don't have a very good opinion about soups (I even got upset). But there is nothing to do - I continue to cook. I was confused by this: the seller said that they cook without a lid, and the instructions say that soups are made under cover. And where's the truth?

I have an airfryer for 12 years. I use it very rarely. The stucco is huge and not very comfortable. Only meat and chicken are tasty in it. Everything else takes an insanely long time to prepare. Baking is not very good at all. I used it sometimes in my old apartment, because I had an ugly oven there. We can assume that the oven was simply not there. And a little more last summer at the dacha, we had a construction site there and the stove had to be disconnected. In general, with the advent of a normal oven, the airfryer went to live in the country, because.there is more space, but I will use it only in rare cases.
Sometimes I used a pan from an airfryer for an Olivier salad when many guests were expected. The capacity is just huge and the salad was convenient to stir.
You can also heat the rooms with the cover from the airfryer. You put it on its side and you get a wonderful fan heater.
My opinion is this - a thing in the household is not very necessary, since it makes no sense to keep such a bandura in the house just because of meat.

I choose an airfryer as a gift. Stopped at 2 models:

Mini airfryer VES 7 l


and the usual 12 l UNIT


The price is almost the same, but which one to choose?

Choose regular. Although he is big, but small is nowhere (she said). In short, a small one is not convenient. You can't really cook anything in it.

The first is mechanical, the second is electronic. My electronics crashed many times.

I bought with electronics. The mechanical one had a timer only for 1 hour, the electronics - for 24. Maybe so much is not needed, of course ... But the multicooker is also designed for 13 hours. It is sometimes necessary. Then, for the electronic one, the lid opens, for the mechanical one, it opens like a saucepan (it's cramped in my kitchen, you start rushing about where to put it). Also, my electronic one was more mechanical. Although more expensive for 2 thousand.

Then, for the electronic one, the lid opens, for the mechanical one, it opens like a saucepan (it's cramped in my kitchen, you start rushing about where to put it).

The lid of this UNIT airfryer does not fold back, but is removed, which is of course not very convenient. The mini-airfryer has a special lid stand in the kit. And in general, it has more accessories: a rice cooker, grates, attachments, a spit, tongs, skewers, etc. A regular UNIT has only coasters, a grab, a roasting pan and a silicone baking dish, but it has a self-cleaning function. Maybe if I saw them with my own eyes, I would immediately choose, but I judge only by the description and picture on the Internet.

The silicone mold warms me up. Mine didn't have that. I want to buy. I do not know how expensive it is, in my opinion, not cheap. What do you say, girls, who bought it? My choice for this one, which is with silicone.

Just the UNIT airfryer with a silicone mold is not expensive, but costs about 3,000 rubles in in-t stores. Mini-airfryer VES - 250 rubles more.
I also liked this UNIT, and I read good reviews about it, and the price is normal. But I will give a family of 2 people who have a kitchen of 6 sq. m. It seems to me that they simply have nowhere to put it. Therefore, I think that a mini-airfryer is probably more suitable.

Will you join the company? Yesterday I bought an airfryer, and today I took a test drive. He worked all day: pickle, chicken fillet shashlik, turnover and curd casserole. It is something!!! The oven is far from such a result. HOTTER is just great. Now I will re-prepare all your recipes.

Thanks for the recipe, Nicolene! Guys, who uses what dishes in the airfryer? Haven't noticed which one cooks better? I have a silicone mold, in ceramics, in my opinion, it takes longer. And I have not tried iron. Nicolene, what kind of dishes have you got?

I don't like glass pans. probably because they are low. It is good to cook everything from the first to cereals in ceramic pots. And all the rest are Teflon for the oven, they bake very well in them and the look of the finished product is more familiar. I'm not friends with silicone yet. I had an airfryer about 7 years ago from the first, and a lot of glass remained from it. In it, you need to cook as much as possible on the grates, quickly and conveniently, and put a pallet on the bottom, it greatly facilitates washing the flask. Now I have grilled chicken on beer preparing - the smell for the whole Ivanovskaya is ...

I use VESovsky aerogrill for about a year. What can you say? For dietary nutrition (the problem is that the son has acetonomy + a daughter of a year and a half) is a very good option, since in all steamers (although there is a steamer effect in aero), the cutlets turn out to be nasty, to put it mildly, in the grill - a crispy crust and no oil! I fry both fish and meat - it is much more useful than in a frying pan and the presence of blush on the listed products pleases)) Baking - somehow I can't do it in it, besides I bought a slow cooker the other day, I think to bake in it. There is no longer the need to buy a toaster - there is in the airfryer.I tried to smoke with shavings - the result is not very - I could not buy liquid smoke from myself yet, but when I buy, I will definitely try to make smoking !!! Yes, I'll be back about frying - sausages - sausages - sausages stopped heating in the microwave - in the airfryer they are just a miracle! And hot sandwiches with a crispy crust - in the oven, like who did not try from my neighbors - could not repeat !!! And how it helps in canning !!! Here are jars of cucumbers or salads, well, where, according to the recipe, you need to sterilize with the product, how do you sterilize, how do you get out of the situation? It is very simple and easy with an airfryer and I cooked different jams this year and pickles with aero)))
As for the dimensions, I agree with a tremendous piece !!! Although my kitchen is not small, but there are also a lot of equipment on it (I like everyday shade), so the airfryer is too big, but what can I do, I can't refuse it now - it's convenient

I have had a HOTTER classic for several years now, but a bulky thing, but it takes up a lot of space in the kitchen, but I can't imagine my life without it. I cook in it often and a lot. I don’t remember when I was frying meat on the stove, but what kind of pastries it contained !!! And the soups in pots !!! Even an ordinary omelet is very tender and airy. I tried to smoke fish, the smell is awesome, the taste is amazing ...

I also have an airfryer. I hardly use it. It takes up a lot of space and is terribly inconvenient to wash. My model is really very old. He's already 13 years old, I don't remember exactly. There was a time when I used it often, I did not have an oven, and even at the dacha when there was no stove. This year we are at the dacha without a stove either, but I had a multicooker and an airfryer, I never even got it.

Good day! I decided to get a grill, please tell me which one is more logical to take for 7l or 12l. And I'm still wondering if the 12 liter is much larger in size. Thank you

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marinal, of course, take a 12 liter one, I have a Hotter with a working volume of 10-14 liters, and sometimes it is not enough, I have to put an enlarger ring. Especially if you will cook something on several wire racks, or preserve something in three-liter jars.

Good day! I want to buy an airfryer, I rush between the Elite model and the Multichotter. Can anyone help with good advice)) In addition to the functions of frying, smoking, and also cooking porridge and french fries. Do Elites have these opportunities?

Wonderful model Elite. The following models are more expensive, but functionally there is nothing new. Changed the design of the paella or added little things in its appearance.
Elite has all the possibilities that one can imagine in an airfryer (look at the 7 hills website).
The Multichotter definitely does not have a smoking function - it is a multicooker with a deep fat and double boiler function. There are no other possibilities in it.
Multichotter is an addition to the airfryer. Stew, boil, fry and steam in fairly large volumes (4.7 liters). I am very happy with it. The airfryer is much more functional and it is different in terms of the principle of operation and results.

I bought Elite a little over a year ago, a very good thing! A friend with a removable lid from another manufacturer frankly did not like it.

I bought myself this fun)))
Indeed, everything in it turns out much juicier))) even chicken breasts (just a revelation))) honestly))) and what kind of shish kebab --- wai can be swallowed right with your fingers)))
So far, I'm terribly happy))) I want to smoke a fish, but I don't know if it is possible to create it without "liquid smoke"? I do not want something to chemistry ... and which one to do? I'm afraid of mackerel, very fatty ... Who did what? Please tell me, she's not very bony, otherwise they won't eat small ones ((.

I came to cry.
I always avoided aerogrills (both in stores and on forums) because of their size. And yesterday I saw a miniature Airfryer Brand ... If it does not disappear from the sale, I'm afraid it will be added to my list ...
Poor, I'm poor ...
Conveyor grill like this 🔗

Nice airfryer, but it seems to me that it is still not much smaller than Hotter, the same 7-10 liters, grilles, a magnifying ring ...

Alas, but I'm talking about the grills that I saw on the shelves in stores (MediaMarket, Technosila, Expert, Mir). There seem to be no hotters there. But I'll see Hotter, thanks for the idea! Of course, it's better to take Hotter himself than some Brand ...

There seem to be no hotters there. But I'll see Hotter, thanks for the idea! Of course, it's better to take Hotter himself than some Brand ...

Hotters are distributed through their own network of demonstration distributors, so they are not available where other aero grills are sold.

Hotters are distributed through their own network of demonstration distributors, so they are not available where other aero grills are sold.

Hotters are sold in the "Seven Hills" stores, there are also all sorts of accessories for them and a lot of other interesting ...

It seems to me that there is no "Seven Hills" store in Moscow ...

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and these are store addresses 🔗

Brand's option was dropped. If I take an airfryer, then this
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Interestingly, if this is network marketing, then it will be possible to buy it at a discount?
But the shops in Moscow are here 🔗

Hotter often has various sales and promotions when you can buy a discount airfryer. In St. Petersburg, we have just a New Year's discount of 2009 rubles for some models. I think that there is also in Moscow ...

Look here 🔗