COSORI LITE 4.0-QUART SMART AIR FRYER REVIEW: PERFORMANCE

COSORI LITE 4.0-QUART SMART AIR FRYER REVIEW: PERFORMANCE

  • Quick preheating and whisper-quiet cooking
  • Keep warm function is really useful
  • Home-made chips aren't great

It takes about three minutes to preheat the Cosori Lite 4.0-Quart smart air fryer to 392ºF/200ºC and can run at up to 446ºF/230ºC. The cooking area has a capacity of 4.0quart-/3.8-litre but the basket is relatively small, with a cooking area of just 20cm x 20cm: that limits your cooking for foods such as fries, which really need to be laid out in a single layer to cook consistently.

We did our usual food frying tests, and found our cupcakes (an online favourite recipe, 320ºF/160ºC for 11 minutes) to be pretty much perfect: they were gently crispy on the outside, wonderfully fluffy inside and wolfed down by the kids in a matter of minutes.

Our kids' cupcakes won't win any awards for symmetry, but they were perfectly cooked. (Image credit: Future)

We followed the French fries recipe, which automatically increases the temperature for the final five minutes, and found it a bit optimistic with the timings; we had to run it for a bit longer and shake the basket more frequently than the recommended single shake to get everything fully cooked. Some of the fries were overly brown but everything tasted great and the recommended oil/cornflour coating made the outsides nice and crisp.

Getting our home-made fries cooked through meant a lot were overly brown, but they were super tasty. (Image credit: Future)

A larger cook of hand-cut wedges was disastrous: even after going 10 minutes over time we ended up with wedges that were half-burnt and half-raw. That’s clearly an airflow problem: there were simply too many wedges for the air to circulate effectively. If you're making your own chips or wedges we'd recommend parboiling them first.

Hand-cut wedges were still half-raw even after an extra 10 minutes at 200 degrees. (Image credit: Future)
We got the best results from frozen oven chips, which were perfectly crisp on the outside and fluffy inside. (Image credit: Future)

We abandoned the pre-sets in favour of our preferred “20ºC cooler, 20% less time” formula for frozen steak-cut chips and shook mid-cook multiple times. That was a great success, producing heavenly chips with the perfect balance of crunch and fluffiness.

A little spray of oil and five minutes in the Corsori brought last night's takeaway leftovers back to life. (Image credit: Future)

This is a really good option for solo or partnered people, but the Instant Vortex Slim 6-quart air fryer, another recent visitor to our kitchen, has similar dimensions but much more capacity – 6-quart/5.7-litre compared to 4-quart/3.8-litre – thanks to a longer basket that effectively doubles your cooking area. That’s definitely worth considering, especially at the moment.

The Cosori Air Fryer Lite is very quiet in operation: we measured it at a maximum 58dB, and it’s not unpleasant to be in the same kitchen as it cooks.

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