And the product’s thin metal and plastic parts feel cheap and fragile. Chicken wings were another area where the Purifry delivered the goods. Perhaps it’s because I only cooked black decker toaster oven a small batch of four wings at a time. Whatever the cause, chicken wings I made in the Purifry were fantastic. You can’t deny that the $100 Purifry is a tempting appliance.
Like a standard convection oven, a fan circulates hot air to cook your food, but the Air Fry Technology includes a vent that pulls out moisture while cooking. This allows you to cook with little to no oil and still get that crispy, deep-fried taste. Plus, with five cooking functions, including air fry, bake, broil, toast, and keep warm, you can make a variety of snacks and foods to satisfy whatever your family is craving. Air-frying food with the Purifry is relatively easy, but it takes a little bit of elbow grease. First, you insert the pan (don’t put your food in it yet). Then, you set the temperature and set the length of time you expect to cook.
The Purifry will fire up its heating element and convection fan. Unlike other air fryers like the DeLonghi Multifry, you have to preheat the Purifry before you insert your food. It can take as many as four minutes for the Purifry to preheat to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. A green preheat light on the front of the fryer glows when it’s actively heating up. The included air fry basket, bake/broil rack, bake pan and rotisserie spit fit perfectly, making it easy to insert and remove food.
You can, however, cook more food than recommended in the Purifry. For example, I increased my test amount to 23 ounces, the typical amount you can fit on one baking sheet. Chicken wings cooked in the Purifry turned out especially well. The basket and pan sit in a chamber on the bottom half of the Purifry.
This helps ensure that your food browns evenly and is cooked throughout. That plastic tab also covers a release button for the fryer’s food basket. It’s thin, and it rattles around loosely on black decker toasters the handle. You press the release button to detach the basket from the pan. Make sure you secure the pan first — the action happens suddenly since the pan is much heavier than the basket.