Philips Premium Airfryer XXL review: The best air fryer for feeding a crowd

The Philips Premium Airfryer XXL is the greatest air fryer for you if you demand the best and are prepared to pay for it. You can tell it's well built as soon as you lift it and feel how weighty it is. It also has a large capacity, making it an excellent choice if your dining table is always full.

However, it comes at a high cost and is somewhat noisy. Continue reading to find out if the Philips Premium Airfryer XXL is worth the money.

Price and availability of the Philips Premium Airfryer XXL

The Philips Premium Airfryer XXL is priced at $350.29 on Amazon.

Review of the Philips Premium Airfryer XXL: Design

The Philips Premium Airfryer XXL is constructed of glossy black plastic and is formed like a large barrel. When you pull out the baskets with the handle, they glide out on a track. The inner basket is then lifted out, leaving the bottom one without a handle. There are a handful of flaws with this layout. To begin with, because the inner cooking basket has a mesh screen on the bottom, fat and liquids may drip onto the countertop or the floor. Second, because the machine no longer has a handle, you'll have to pry it open to replace the inside basket.

A digital panel on top can be operated by rotating and pressing a dial. The display's settings are small. An icon, such as a steak for meat, represents each preset.

The Philips is enormous (12 x 16 x 12 inches) and hefty (19 pounds), making it difficult to move about or transport if you want to put it away in a cabinet or closet between uses.

Cooking performance of the Philips Premium Airfryer XXL

On test, this air fryer did the greatest job with brussel sprouts and breaded chicken. It also received a good rating for overall simplicity of use in terms of straightforward controls, manual detail, and cleaning ease. We didn't give it a grade for this, but we were impressed with how well it performed when frying a huge quantity of frozen fries – it performed better than it did with smaller servings!

The Philips doesn't require any preheating, however food takes longer to fry than the manufacturer suggests. Cooking in this fryer, on the other hand, is a one-step process, which is convenient. This allows you to extend the cooking time if necessary without having to worry about the oven going into standby mode. After pressing the "on" button, you can choose from a preset programme or set your own temperature and time.

Philips claims that the basket can hold 3 pounds of fries and advises cooking 2 pounds. We obtained an outstanding outcome when we cooked a 32-ounce bag of crinkle cuts – all of the fries were browned and crispy after the suggested 33 minutes, with two stops to toss the fries. If you want crispy results, avoid cooking products like breaded pork chops or fish fillets stacked on top of each other. You're limited to the size of the bottom of the basket, which is a 9-inch square, for those types of things.

Chicken cutlets and brussel sprouts were precisely browned and crispy, however chicken wings were not. We received good, but not fantastic, results when we fried a pound of frozen and homemade French fries, which means they browned and crisped unevenly and kept pretty tender. As previously said, we had better results with a bigger quantity of fries.

Although there is no roast setting, there is a roast chicken dish in the accompanying cook book. A three-pound bird came out moist and picture-perfect after 50 minutes, with crispy skin all around except the underside. The bottom of a bird rarely crisps up unless it's grilled on a spit or rotated during cooking, in our experience. We enjoyed how easy it was to just throw the baskets in the dishwasher and be done with it.

In 15 minutes, four 4-ounce hamburgers were ready. They came out like broiled burgers rather than grilled or pan-cooked burgers, as with all air fryers. They were browned on the outside but didn't have a dark crust on the outside. They were delicious, though, and there were no spatters to clean up. However, there was some smoking.

Review of the Philips Premium Airfryer: Ease of Use and Cleaning

We had to go to the handbook the first time we used the Philips to figure out what some of the icons on the control panel meant. It's easy to get the hang of programming the air fryer after a few usage, albeit the preset icons are small and require a little of squinting to see. The dial allows for rapid adjustments to the setting, temperature, and time.

A regular air fryer has fewer pieces than this one. It contains a removable element called a "Fat reducer" that sits in the drawer and a cooking basket with a removable mesh bottom, in addition to an outer basket or drawer. While the baskets glide out of the air fryer without needing to be tugged, only the inner basket comes out when you lift the handle up, resulting in drips through the mesh. Then, when it's time to replace the basket, you'll have to pry open the machine because the lower basket has no handle.

It's unlikely that someone will get burned if they touch the Philips when it's on. On the base front-side, the greatest temperature we observed was 138.5°F. The grip and controls are both cool to the touch. The air fryer works at a decibel level of 64.7, making it one of the noisiest air fryers we tested.

All of the removable parts have a nonstick coating and can be washed in the dishwasher. Food debris, on the other hand, might get lodged in the mesh and be difficult to dislodge. You get a very extensive usage and care handbook as well as a paperback recipe book with this air fryer.

Review of the Philips Premium Airfryer XXL

The Philips Premium Airfryer XXL is a well-constructed equipment with a hefty price tag. It performed admirably in the majority of air frying tests, with no notable flaws. This makes it a good all-around performer, but a lot less expensive machine, like our champion, the Cosori Smart Wifi Air Fryer 5.8qt, can produce food that's equally as brown and crispy.

Our main gripe is with the cooking basket, which isn't too tough to use. However, it is less convenient than those found in other air fryers. It does, however, offer one significant advantage: it can fry 2 pounds of French fries in a single batch. If you feed a large number of individuals on a regular basis, the cost may be justified.