The Best Large Air Fryers, Tested and Reviewed

• Ninja Foodi FlexBasket Air Fryer with 7-qt. MegaZone: This air fryer shines when making fries and mozzarella sticks, but its performance with chicken wings fell flat, resulting in under-crisped results. It’s versatile with two cooking zones and easy-to-use controls, but some items may need extra cooking time.
• Phillips 3000 Series Dual Basket Air Fryer: The sleek design is appealing and the larger basket cooks well, but the smaller one struggles, leaving food undercooked and under-crisped. While the controls are intuitive, the smaller basket's performance falls short, requiring additional time for optimal results.
• Midea Dual Basket Air Fryer Oven: This air fryer is a solid choice for cooking multiple dishes at once. It excels at even cooking and produces golden, moist food. However, the dim interior light makes it hard to check progress and the smaller secondary basket didn’t deliver the best results.
• Ninja DoubleStack XL 10-qt. Air Fryer: While this model is great for cooking two dishes at once, the food in the bottom basket didn’t brown or crisp as well as in the top. It’s loud, but the design is space-efficient and easy to use, although cooking both baskets simultaneously may require tweaking times and temperatures.
• Breville Joule: A versatile, large-capacity air fryer with an intuitive display, the Joule cooks evenly and preheats quickly but smokes when air frying certain foods. It’s ideal for families, offering plenty of space, but cleaning the basket can be a chore.

In our Kitchen Appliances Lab, we've put over 50 air fryers through their paces, testing them with foods you'd actually cook at home. For this roundup, we considered models larger than 6 quarts and put three new large air fryers to the test.

✔ Type:

• Basket style: Most common and compact, but limited in size. Great for smaller kitchens or single meals.
• Oven style: These larger air fryers resemble convection ovens and often come with multiple shelves for batch cooking. There are also microwave air fryer combos available now.
• Toaster oven style: The Cuisinart TOA-70 and others like it offer multifunctionality with the ability to air fry, toast and bake, replacing multiple appliances.

✔ Capacity: Look for air fryers with a 7- to 8-quart capacity for family-sized meals or batch cooking. You can find some that go up to 10 or 12 quarts too but many of these extra-large air fryers double as toaster ovens or ovens.

✔ Drawer style:

• Single-drawer air fryers have a more straightforward design that’s easy to manage and clean but limits your ability to cook multiple foods simultaneously.
• Dual-drawer air fryers offer flexibility with separate cooking zones but can be more challenging to clean and manage. Some drawers have equal size compartments while some have one larger and one smaller compartment.

✔ Accessories: Some air fryers have extras like rotisserie spits, multiple shelves or crisping trays.

A large air fryer of at least 8 quarts should suffice for a family of five or six, allowing you to cook in bigger batches or prepare different items at once. You should also factor in the dimensions of the air fryer to ensure your countertop can accommodate the appliance.

Many dual-drawer air fryers, like the Ninja Foodi, allow you to cook two different foods simultaneously in separate compartments, each with its own temperature and timer settings.

It's important to clean your air fryer after every use. After serving your food and once all parts are cool, carefully empty the grease into the trash and wash the basket and/or tray. Most air fryer baskets and accessories are dishwasher-safe but always follow manufacturer instructions. You can also wash the pieces by hand with warm, soapy water. A bottle brush works great for getting into the nooks and crannies. You can also follow our tips for a deeper clean.

Perry Santanachote is a contributing writer for Good Housekeeping. She has been testing and writing about the best kitchen appliances and cookware — from toaster ovens and air fryers to handheld mixers and nonstick pans — for over 10 years.

Nicole Papantoniou is the director of the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances Lab. She has worked at kitchen appliance companies, where she helped develop some popular air fryers as well as many recipes for them. Since joining Good Housekeeping, she has had her hands on all of the new air fryers that come through the Lab (whether testing herself or overseeing testing) and has tasted food that was made in almost all of them. She's an avid air fryer user at home, too, where she has at least three to choose from on any given day.

Raena Loper is a freelance writer and product analyst at Good Housekeeping. In addition to testing air fryers, she has conducted tests for pressure cookers, aprons, and more.