Buying a Philips airfryer? Here’s the Top 10 of 2023

The Philips HD 9870 Premium XXL airfryer features the unique Smart Sensing technology, which automatically adjusts the time and temperature while preparing your meal. With this Philips airfryer XXL, you can prepare six portions of fries at the same time, thanks to its 1.4 kg capacity. But you can do so much more with this airfryer XXL.

It is actually an all-in-one food processor, which allows you to fry, roast, grill, boil and reheat in addition to making chips. Several built-in programmes ensure that you prepare most dishes with just the push of a button, after which the Philips HD 9870 Premium XXL airfryer takes over the work for you. You can also save two of your own programmes.

The unique Fat Removal Technology of this Philips airfryer XXL ensures that your meals contain up to 50% less saturated fats than those of other XXL airfryers. You also cook faster with this Philips airfryer XXL. Reheating is not necessary, thanks to the Rapid Airflow technology. This way, your food is ready up to one and a half times faster than in a hot air oven.

Sustainability has also been thought of by Philips. For instance, user manuals and the included recipe book were made from recycled materials. For various preparations, such as roasting meat, fish or chicken and making a cake, you will have to buy separately available accessories.

The Philips HD 9270 Essential XL airfryer has an output of 2,000 watts and a capacity of 1.2 kilos of fries. It is the ideal airfryer for the average family, with excellent value for money. This Philips airfryer has seven pre-programmed settings for baking, frying, deep frying, roasting and reheating.

In addition, this hot air fryer also has a keep-warm setting and, of course, you can also apply your own settings. Thanks to the Rapid-Air technology, you don’t need to preheat the Philips HD 9270 Essential XL airfryer. The basket of this Philips airfryer is made of sheet steel, which is a lot easier to clean than mesh baskets.

Like the pan, the basket is dishwasher-safe. The airfryer is available in two colours: grey (HD 9270/60) and black (HD 9270/90). Various accessories, such as a baking tray or muffin tins, are available separately.

The compact Philips HD 9252 Essential L airfryer has an output of 1,400 watts and a capacity of 0.8 kilograms of fries. You can fry, bake, roast and sear meat with it, while it also has a warming function. you can choose from seven quick function programmes for the most common applications. Using touch keys, you can also manually set the temperature and baking time.

Two manually set programmes can be saved, so you don’t have to set them over and over again. The timer lets you delay the start time by up to an hour. The Philips HD 9252 Essential L airfryer uses the patented Philips Rapid-Air technology, which makes pre-heating the airfryer unnecessary. Personally, we still think it’s better to let the airfryer heat up first, which is very fast and, in our opinion, makes the final result more predictable.

The HD 9252 Essential L hot-air fryer switches off automatically at the end of the frying time. The basket and pan can be washed in the dishwasher. A baking tray with seven muffin cups and a multi-layer rack for snacks can be ordered separately.

The Philips HD 9867 Premium XXL airfryer has a power of 2250 watts and a capacity of 1.4 kg or about six servings of fries. With this versatile airfryer you can fry, bake, roast, broil and reheat. This uses Philips’ unique Smart Sensing technology, which ensures the appliance always maintains the right temperature and cooking time to optimally prepare all your products.

Whether it’s a single chicken leg or a whole chicken, two, four or six portions of fries, the Philips HD 9867 Premium XXL airfryer makes sure they are perfect all by itself. Thanks to the new Fat Removal technology, your meals will contain up to 50% less fat than those from a hot-air fryer. The Turbostar technology also helps with this. This ensures that 90% of the fat is not recirculated in the pan. This technology also ensures that the deep fryer heats up super fast and that the frying time is shorter.

So if you are looking for an appliance that works fast and can handle large portions, the HD 9867 is a good choice. It is a bit big to put away every time, but from the other side, it looks nice enough to leave it on the kitchen worktop (if you have the space). One small drawback: despite the hefty purchase price, accessories like a baking pan, grill base or pizza plate are not included.

The Philips HD 9200 Essential L airfryer is almost identical to the HD 9252 model. The difference is the controls. This Philips airfryer has an analogue setting of temperature and baking time using two rotary knobs, so no LED display.

Also missing are the pre-programmed baking programmes and the keep-warm function. For the rest, the features are the same as those of the HD 9252: a power of 1,400 watts, a capacity of 0.8 kg fries, Rapid-Air technology for lightning-fast heating and automatic switch-off at the end of a baking programme.

With a power of 1,900 watts and a capacity of 1.2 kilograms, the Philips HD 9260 Essential XL airfryer is the ideal hot-air fryer for the average family. It fries five portions of fresh chips at the same time, without having to heat up the hot air fryer. And that can be done without fat (or at most with a tiny bit of oil). So you are faster than with the oven and healthier than with the deep fryer.

Seven quick-select programmes make cooking even easier, although you can also set the temperature and baking time manually. The pan and basket are easy to clean in the dishwasher after use. If you want to make full use of all the features of the Philips HD 9260 Essential XL airfryer, you will have to buy some accessories with it: a baking tray and muffin moulds for the better pastries or a multi-layer rack to prepare extra snacks.

The hot air fryer is most often used for frying, but you can do so much more with it. This Philips HD 9654 Premium XXL airfryer comes with a special grill plate, on which you can grill meat, fish and vegetables without using fat or oil. Six stainless steel skewers are included.

Without the grill plate, you can use the Philips HD 9654 Premium XXL airfryer to prepare 1.4 kilos of plain or Chips, or 5 to 6 portions, at a time. And all the other possibilities can also be used: baking, frying, boiling and reheating. Five standard programmes are pre-programmed, but you can also use your own settings. You can even save two of those settings to reapply them later.

The grill plate has a non-stick coating and, like the pan and basket of the airfryer, can be put in the dishwasher afterwards. The Philips HD 9654 Premium XXL is a large hot-air fryer, though. So check carefully beforehand whether it will fit on your countertop and whether you have a suitable storage space for it.

Making fries, that’s what all Philips airfryers are good at. In that respect, you only have to choose which size you want: L, XL or XXL. But making fries is almost inseparable from preparing snacks. What is a delicious freshly fried chip without a frikandel or croquette? The Philips HD 9651 Premium XXL airfryer comes with a handy rack for snacks, so you can fry them in two layers at the same time. That’s why we choose this hot air fryer as the best for deep frying.

This Philips airfryer XXL is identical to the Philips airfryer XXL HD9650/90: it fries 1.4 kilos of chips at the same time, there is no need to preheat and apart from frying chips, this hot air fryer also offers numerous other options. Here, too, you will find five preset programmes and you can save two self-programmed settings. You fry with less or even no fat and there is no need to preheat.

The Philips HD 9653 Avance XXL airfryer comes with a baking tray, making it the best choice for baking. The newer Philips HD 9653 Premium XXL starts up just a bit faster due to a slightly modified double-bottom air circulation, but for baking, this does not outweigh the higher price you pay for it.

Apart from this small detail, the HD 9653 Avance hot-air fryer is identical to the HD 9653 Premium series. The power is also 2250 watts and the capacity is 1.4 kilos of fries. There are five pre-programmed settings, including one for frying.

In the included recipe book or in the Philips NutriU app, you’ll find recipes for cakes, lasagne and even bread, for which you can use the baking tray. Like the tray and the frying basket of the hot air fryer, it can simply go into the dishwasher after use.

Do you like to do other things while preparing your meal or frying fresh fries? Then the Philips HD 9280 Essential XL airfryer is the answer. Because this hot air fryer can be linked to the Philips NutriU app. This way, you can follow the process via your smartphone or tablet and you don’t have to stay near the hot air fryer all the time.

You simply choose a recipe and send it to the Philips HD 9280 Essential XL airfryer and you will be notified via the digital interface when it is ready. Other than that, the HD 9280 is similar to the Philips HD 9270 airfryer, our best buy.

It has a power of 2,000 watts and a capacity of 1.2 kg of fries. You can choose from seven pre-programmed settings for frying, searing, frying, grilling and heating, while it also has a keep-warm function. In addition, you can also save two of your own programmes.

No need to preheat this hot air fryer, thanks to the Rapid-Air technology. The frying basket is made of sheet steel and, like the pan, can be cleaned in the dishwasher. With the Philips HD 9280, you will also have to buy the various accessories such as a baking tray or grill plate separately.