Philips - HD9650/99 Premium Airfryer XXL

None will be BIFL but I have a Philips which has been excellent. I added their pizza tray and baking kits and haven't used the oven since I got it a few years ago. Would get used almost daily. The pizza tray and baking pan are very easy to clean, the air fryer itself isn't too bad and I believe some of their newer models have a steam clean function built in.

I think it was HD9650/93. It's an obsolete model now but whatever their current XXL model is should be much the same.

I have had a Philips XXL for over 5 years. It’s been good but not big enough. We recently got the Breville smart oven airfare pro. So far we are liking it. We are keeping the Philips too. But the Breville has worked really nice. In fact we need to adjust times from how we did things in the Philips

We have the Cosori Turboblaze and absolutely love it. Before that we had a small Philips and a Philips XXL. The Cosori is whisper quiet compared to those, it's lighter, has a bigger basket and cooks better. We like it so much we bought a second one too.

I have the Breville Joule air fryer and it’s great and big enough to handle whatever I want to air fry or roast for that matter. But the air fryer that I used to have is a Phillips and it was just for air frying and I loved that it was an XXL. It was absolutely the best.

Never saw the appeal of it till my friend was pushing it onto me really, really hard. Found black Friday offer for half price Philips family size one and cannot imagine life without it. Made me realise that often I have decided against buying bakeable food due to feeling wasteful- felt like a waste of energy to warm up and bake stuff in the oven, especially that mine can be very temperamental. Now I have a timer and stuff comes out great, no longer feeling bad about bills when I want to cook for one. So I really recommend getting one

I have a Philips XXL I bought in 2019 and I love it. Most things I don’t even have to flip over while cooking. The best part is it has analog controls … one dial to set the temp, and one dial to turn it on. I’ve had a few digital air fryers in the past and I found it so annoying fiddling with the controls to do such a basic thing.

I currently have two, both drawer types, they've upped my kitchen game quite a bit, and helped me cut down my use of the deep fryer. I have a really crappy oven, and having an airfryer helps immensely with this. It helps save on cooking time and electricity. I've done whole stuffed chickens in the bigger one (Philips XXL, got it on special, so far it's been good), cooks well and quicker than an oven, larger ones (up to 2kg) get a bit close to the element and needs turning over during cooking and a foil sheet sometimes. Smaller birds are much easier to work with. I bought a smaller cheap (ALDI) one for the car/camping. Other than size factor, there's nothing it can't really do compared to the other one, though the Philips heats up quicker. It's been nice throwing a couple of frozen pies and some chips in on the road, and they are done in around 23 minutes. It's been handy having two when entertaining or for special occasions. They've been great for roasting vegetables, they cook much faster than the oven. Roast potatoes are done in about half an hour, provided I chop them up a bit smaller than usual and give them a couple of shakes during cooking. (Low sodium) Silverside roasts really well in it, I just chuck a rub on it and let it rip with a temperature probe in it. Gets it nice and barky, and perfect for making ruebens. Briskets, not so well, but that might just be a skill issue on my part. Brocolini/Brocoli done in soy sauce, garlic, sesame oil, MSG and oil turns out god tier. Done in 6-8 minutes depending on thickness. I make really quick garlic bread in it, ~2mm butter/margarine layer on a couple of nice thick slices of homemade bread, crush a garlic clove or two and spread it in, a sprinkling of salt, sandwich together, slice in quarters, throw it in for 5-6 minutes it's done. Tasty. I also find tofu gets a better texture airfried first when making stirfrys. As for helping stay on budget, I guess it depends how you use it. Less energy wasted is a big plus. It's definitely an appliance worth having in my book, but an instant pot and/or slowcooker would be first on my list if I didn't already have one. Airfryer's are good for quick lazy straight-from-the-freezer meals where I really can't be bothered. Plus I don't think there is any better way on Earth to reheat pizza or leftover chips. 5 minutes, done! I'm not a big fan of the combo-ovens with built in AirFryers.. I've had two, including an overpriced Breville combowave 3-in-1, they were both complete garbage. I used to have an original Tefal with the stirring arm, it was good and I used it to death, but tended to overcook and mush things up a bit if I wasn't careful. The modern drawer types are the winners in my book.

the Ninja dual drawer top and bottom is awesome and very easy to clean. In fact, we threw out the Phillips XXL because it was so cumbersome and hard to clean in comparison.

But is that for a 6” pizza or a 12” pizza? I have an XXL Philips airfryer, and only a personal pizza will fit without cutting the pizza to fit. My Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro has become my 12” pizza oven.

Very pleased with Philips XXL. Use it about 10 times more than the big oven (that is used for more than 1-2 people or lots of oven dishes) - the pizza insert is perfect and makes great pizzas in under 8 minutes! The oven will do it in 20-22 with 10 minutes warm-up, do a worse job (more dry than crisp) and using 4000w in half af hour.. Very good for all "small" things!