Hi there, I’m looking for an accessible air fryer. I want something that I can use independently, without ann app, without the Amazon echo, simply me being able to use the air fryer. The problem is, I need to be able to set the correct temperature and time, which is difficult even on the manual ones because they aren’t marked in a way that we can read them. Alternatively, if anyone knows how to modify a device that runs on 220 V power to run on 110 V power for the American market, that would work as well because I found a British talking air fryer. Price is no object at this point. My air fryer is on the fritz, and I’m sick of having to use aira to use it every time I want to use it anyway and I wanna just get a robust solution in place.
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Good luck.
Good luck buddy. The only air fryers that we can access and control the temperature and time to a t are ones we can control with an app. There's no natively accessible air fryer out of the box. You'll either have to add markings to one or just buy a smart one and get with the times. I love my cosori smart air fryer. The app for the cosori devices is 100 percent accessible. It's 2025. Get with the times buddy.
UK one
I presume the UK one you mean is Cobalt talking air fryer? Have you emailed them to ask if there is any way they can help you? I asked them a few questions a while back and they were quite friendly and helpful.
I ended up with the Casori air fryer which does need an app and honestly I wish I hadn't got excited by the possibilities of a smart device and had gone for the Cobalt instead.
(I am based in the UK though so realise it's not quite as easy for you)
Thrift stores or the state commission could help
Finding appliance companies smart enough to use real buttons and not be dependent on other devices is a smart and hard thing to do. There are air fryers that use dials which can be marked with puff paint or scratched to be felt. If thrift stores don’t have any a tech shop like best buy should know about the controls or have an adapter for a British appliance to use our power system. The state commission for the blind might know models or be a place to find people to ask.
I hope people stop being as rude as tyler chambliss was when we can still get spotty internet in cities and need to eat whether our phone works or not. You would think in 2025 politicians would know we deserve to eat even if we aren’t working but most of them won’t get with the times or value independence as much as the people who need it do. I hope you get to cook with ease.
Rohnson
The app is fully accessible. I have fried many a thing in mine, without burning down my neighborhood. Can select the temperature and time perfectly well.
I have also bought the instant pot pro plus since we are talking cooking today. it’s also fully accessible via the application. it also has 2000 recipes in the app and it’s made for idiots like myself. I mean when you select a recipe to cook, all you have to do is prepare the ingredients and then follow the steps on your screen. You don’t even have to select the temperature, time and mode. You just press next on the app when you have finished the current step and the machine does everything on its own. that is it automatically sets the temperature, the time and the mode and all you have to do is wait until you get the notification that the current step is over, in order to press next and go to the next step.
You can’t imagine what I’ve cooked with this thing. mrs. Panais was searching our house for a month to find where I had hid Gordon Ramsay.
Ps. I read the OP again. both the appliances I suggested our touchscreen.
Cosori
I have a Cosori air fryer which uses the VSync app. The app is mostly accessible except for recipes, but you can look those up online. the only catch is you need to start the unit from the device itself so no one hacks your phone and burns your house down. Put a bump dot near the start button and you're good to go.
Connecting to wi-fi was easy as was registering the device for the warranty. You can usually find these on your e-retailer of choice for about $150.
The other benefit of this one is dual elements at the top and bottom, so no flipping.
No App
I do understand the want. When Amazon Web Services or Cloudstrike go down and brick my Cosari air fryer I get quite unhappy. Unfortunately I'm not being a help here, I don't know of a nice knob having machine either. Truth is my kitchen apliances should not *require* an ap to work, it should be 100% optional. Not only does that make us dependent on internet conectivity and hosts, but also the apliance vendor maintaining the service, and not breaking accessibility of the app. There is room for a lot of things to go wrong and over the years I've seen it all happen. Who else remembers Istant Pot deciding we should all buy new and bricked the Bluetooth Instapot ap for two years before seemingly they heard from enough angry custoemrs to fix it? @tyler chambliss I gues if I am being nice I hope your charmed luck holds out; otherwise you may come to appreciate these observations some day.