Gourmia - 7 QT Digital Air Fryer

If you’re asking if you need to get another air fryer, the answer is likely yes. We have 2, the same single basket Gourmia you were referring to, and an oven style one as well. We use them for different things, but I’m definitely happy we have both.

I used to have the Cusinart one from Costco (older model with more knobs), and it was good at toasting and being an oven, but barely average at being an air fryer. Had to replace it once right at the 2 year warranty mark since the knobs went bad, and then again about 18 months after. I have the Gourmia basket one now, and it's solid as an air fryer, decent as an oven, but pretty hard to get toasting done right. What do you need as the the primary usage? If it's primarily air frying, keep going for the basket. If you need it for multi-purpose with toasting, etc. get a non-basket.

I feel like my costco gourmia is losing power have you experienced this? Things that uses to cook at certain time/temp now need more time or temp. Using the 7quart

I like the Gourmia basket from Costco.

Too small IMO. I live alone. I have a Gourma 7 quart similar to the one in the link. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Gourmia-7-QT-Digital-Air-Fryer-with-12-One-Touch-Presets-GAF734-New-13-5-in/2247058589? It is big enough for my needs but I would not consider it too big and I think a 2 liter would be too small for me. You want it to have some surface area, which even the 7 quart is kind of limited on. The picture in my link is a joke because they show the bin full to the top with french fries. You can't do that. At least not if you want consistency and crunch and not just "potatoes that are cooked". So if I make fries, it is a thin layer across the bottom and the bin is mostly empty. I can comfortably fit about four chicken thighs or maybe a couple more drum sticks in it. If I am making open faced cheese toast, only about one full slice of bread fits in with some room around the edges. I don't use any mini baking pans in mine to try to bake a mini cake or bread. If I want to bake I'd just use my full sized oven. But if that is something you want to do, find some pans you think you would use, measure them and then compare that to the dimensions of the air fryer you are considering. I have a mini-loaf baking pan and one time I tried and it doesn't fit. It might fit if I bent down the metal tab ends meant for picking up the pan but I didn't want to do that. I think it would be difficult to find pans that fit in a 2 liter unit. A key thought about air fryers is the "AIR" part. Whatever you put in it has to have some room for the hot air to move around it.

I have the last model that doesn't have a glass door on sale for $40. I like it a lot.

I have the 7qt Gourmia from Costco. I'm happy with it. This newer/larger one has a window, which should come in handy.

The 7qt Gourmia mentioned here is great, have 2 of them, on sale as low as $50. Also buy square paper liners on Amazon, preheat, then put the paper and food in, easy cleanup.

I bought the 7 quart Gourmia air fryer from Costco. It works great but isn’t big enough for my family of five and I was sick of cooking in batches like a short order cook. That said, I do think Costco does a decent job vetting brands overall.  When I came across [this air fryer comparison spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y4PR6GCz-Lk5mWX1LUzo-3kChRBv302vSv5HZFB5K1c/edit?gid=1554522955#gid=1554522955) on Reddit, I was happy to see that Gourmia actually has tons of options. I ended up GTF7460 because the kicker for me was that it can fit a 12-inch freezer pizza. I like that my teen son can make himself a late-night snack without heating up my whole house with the oven.

I bought the older 7 quart a couple years ago at Costco when it was on sale for the same price and it broke within a year. When I went to return it at Costco, the return guy told me his broke within a couple months as well. He mentioned that I’m not the first person that he accepted a return on those air fryers. I personally wouldn’t recommend it, but maybe they improve the design on these air fryers or my Costco just got a bad batch of them.