Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 HAF5TWA3 001 Review

Verdict

A well-priced air fryer with loads of cooking modes, together with air frying, grilling and gradual cooking, the Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 HAF5TWA3 001 has a big capability and plenty of equipment. It usually cooks effectively and the window is helpful to keep watch over cooking. Controls aren’t as intuitive as on some rivals and there are some unusual limitations, resembling the shortcoming to vary temperature in the course of a prepare dinner.

Introduction

Upping its vary of small kitchen home equipment, the Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 HAF5TWA3 001 is the corporate’s first air fryer.

A mixture of the highly effective and barely irritating to make use of, this huge air fryer is highly effective and effectively priced, but it surely might do with being barely simpler to make use of.

Design and options

• Numerous equipment
• 7-litre cooking capability
• Helpful viewing window

A single-drawer air fryer, the Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 is about as massive as they arrive for single-drawer units. Its 7-litre cooking capability implies that this mannequin is good for bigger households.

I just like the window on the high, which lets me peer in to see how my meals was cooking with out having to take away the drawer. Extra air fryers might do with this characteristic.

Pull out the drawer, and there’s an interior basket, which is eliminated by urgent down the discharge change. This makes the contents simpler to shake, and ensures that any little bits of meals or grease are left behind when serving up.

In addition to the common dish, there are three equipment within the field. The wire rack enables you to prepare dinner on two ranges or put meals nearer to the grill.

The baking tray can be utilized for something the place you wish to maintain fats within the dish, resembling bacon or sausages.

And the deep dish is for meals in sauce. All elements are dishwasher protected.

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Haier offers a primary instruction sheet within the field, which pictorially reveals easy methods to use the air fryer. It’s alright as a primary information, however a extra in-depth information that reveals higher easy methods to use the controls and equipment would have been helpful. That stated, the information on the again provides cooking directions for frequent meals which is helpful.

Controls are in all probability the weakest a part of this air fryer, beginning with the on/off button. To show the Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 on, I needed to shortly faucet the ability button; press and maintain, and it simply ignores the enter. That had me confused for whereas, figuring out easy methods to flip the machine on.

As soon as on, the air fryer is managed by way of the dial on high, which rotates and clicks. The primary mode is the guide mode, which lets me choose the temperature (40°C to a most of 200°C), and the prepare dinner time. After clicking the management dial to simply accept the cooking time, the air fryer begins instantly; I choose a devoted play/pause button, which supplies an opportunity to appropriate any settings earlier than beginning to prepare dinner.

At any level within the prepare dinner, the dial will be clicked once more to pause the air fryer, permitting the timer to be adjusted; the temperature can’t be adjusted mid-cook, which is disappointing, as rivals, resembling Ninja’s fashions permit this. If you wish to cease early, then there’s an ‘X’ button that may flip the air fryer off.

Mid-cook, the Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 will beep and allow you to know that it’s time to take away the drawer and provides the contents a shake, which is useful, because it’s simple to overlook this very important step.

Exterior of the guide mode, there are computerized modes, together with air fry, grill, roast, bake, dry, reheat, defrost, yoghurt and gradual cooking. These are pre-programmed with a set temperature and cooking time. Some modes even have a sub-choice the place you choose the kind of meals you’re cooking by sort. For instance, with air fry and grill you may choose between meat, poultry, fish, greens and cake, with every selection adjusting the temperature and time.

For many modes, the cooking time will be overridden, however solely as soon as cooking has began; I couldn’t discover a method to regulate the temperature on the pre-set modes in any respect.

Some modes, resembling gradual prepare dinner, didn’t even let me regulate the cooking time: this mode was locked to 90 minutes at 90°C. Most likely not time to throw away your previous gradual cooker simply but.

General, the Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 is sort of restricted in some instances and complicated to make use of in others. For essentially the most half, I discovered it simpler to place the Haier I-Master Multi Air Fryer Series 5 into guide mode and set the temperature and cooking time myself.

Efficiency

• Cooking good however slightly uneven
• Versatile cooking modes

I began by cooking a batch of oven chips at 200°C for 18 minutes, decreasing the advised cooking time on the again of the packet. I used to be prompted to shake the chips half method via cooking.

General, the chips got here out fairly effectively, though the warmth was slightly uneven and a few chips have been higher carried out than others. For essentially the most half, I discovered that the chips have been crispy on the surface and fluffy on the within.

Transferring to hash browns, I used to be restricted to the air fryer’s most 200°C temperature. This allowed me to prepare dinner the hash browns evenly, however I didn’t discover that that they had fairly the identical crunch as when cooked sooner at a a lot larger temperature, resembling with Max Crisp mode on a Ninja air fryer.

I then grilled some sausages, utilizing the grilling rack. These wanted turning a few instances to get the very best outcomes, however I discovered that the sausages have been barely higher cooked to 1 finish, than the opposite, even when they have been nonetheless tasty.

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