Top 5 Air Fryers for Healthy Crispy Gluten-Free Meals

Air fryers have quickly gained in popularity since their introduction, offering all of the convenience and flavor associated with deep frying without all of the oil used during traditional methods. Furthermore, these multifunctional appliances can toast, bake and dehydrate foods.

Breana Killeen of Strategist Senior Food Editor praises this tray as being ideal for hearty vegetables and protein-rich dishes like fries, chicken wings and biscuits. Additionally, its easy-to-clean stainless-steel food tray makes her happy!

1. Cuisinart Air Fryer

An air fryer can help those following a gluten-free diet create more flavorful and satisfying meals than those prepared through traditional methods. Deep-fried foods typically contain much more fat than their counterparts; this additional fat may contribute to weight gain or other health complications; air frying requires far less oil than deep frying, making it the ideal way to prepare gluten-free diet meals.

The Cuisinart air fryer is an all-in-one appliance designed to take the hassle out of cooking for families who value healthy meal preparation without spending hours slaving over a hot stovetop. From air frying, baking and broiling – even multitasking with multiple trays for cooking multiple dishes at the same time – making it the ideal solution for families that value healthy eating while saving time in the kitchen.

Air fryers boast impressive maximum fan speeds that make it easy to crisp food up nicely, maintaining an even temperature throughout the cooking cycle and making following recipes and browning foods even simpler. This model includes a viewing window so you can watch as food cooks but unfortunately lacks digital controls so determining exactly how long for each recipe may prove challenging.

2. Cuisinart Air Fryer Toaster Oven with Grill

The Cuisinart Air Fryer Toaster Oven with Grill is an all-in-one unit combining several cooking functions like grilling, baking, toasting and air frying into one compact space. One of its greatest strengths was its rapid preheat time: just four minutes! Additionally, this unit produced delicious results when cooking various foods like chicken cutlets that were crisp yet tender; Brussels sprouts that boasted an inviting texture; and fries with beautiful golden-brownings – the list goes on!

Easy to operate, the oven features a user-friendly control panel with four dials that you turn to choose the function, set temperature or timer settings or select and change functions. In our testing, it achieved one of the lowest decibel readings–54.7! Additionally, its bright interior light makes checking on foods while they cook easier than ever.

This oven can accommodate a 34-pound air-fried chicken, roast a 4-pound turkey and bake a 12-inch pizza all at the same time. With its small footprint, making it easier than ever to fit on a countertop; however, due to not being dishwasher safe you’ll need to hand wash its basket and crumb tray separately – but other than that it was simple to clean! Featuring an attractive stainless steel finish and sleek design it looks good in any kitchen setting.

3. Cuisinart Air Fryer XL 8-Quart

Air fryers promise crisp and flavorful foods at a fraction of the fat, and can also bake, broil and roast as well. Finding the ideal model for you depends on your desired use case: it depends on kitchen space/style preferences as well as whether multiple ingredients will need to be cooked simultaneously.

Strategist junior writer Breanley Goertzen recommends the Cuisinart model. With multiple digital settings that automatically set temperature and time settings–perfect for new air fryers or those with limited cooking experience–this unit can easily set temperatures and times without intervention, making it simple to clean without the hassle of rotating baskets to get full crispiness without rotating periodically. Furthermore, its analog dials may appeal to those less concerned with modern digital ones.

The Cuisinart XL 8-Quart is more expensive than its Thinkkitchen Luminate counterpart, but offers larger capacity, cooking surface area, maximum fan speed, one-touch presets for more recipes, and easier one-touch access for faster preparation of large quantities at once. Our tests showed it delivered consistently crispy fries as well as well-browned dishes!

4. Cuisinart Air Fryer XL 6-Quart

Cuisinart offers this air fryer as the solution for anyone searching for an air fryer that can air fry, bake, roast and make dough at the same time. At roughly equal or slightly more expensive to our previous large- and dual-basket picks, but offering greater wattage output and bigger cooking capacity with multiple presets that make life simpler when feeding multiple people simultaneously.

It stands out among our testing models by not using any PFAS-based nonstick coating (though other models do feature one of these alternatives as an added feature). Furthermore, in our tests it produced some of the crispiest chicken wings we’ve ever experienced from an air fryer.

Only downsides include its lack of viewing window compared with thinkkitchen Luminate and crisper plate falling out when trying to dump out of basket (this can be solved using tongs or other utensils for food handling), but otherwise this model remains one of the most versatile choices on the market for its price point. Nicole Papantoniou of Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances Lab has been testing air fryers since 2021; since then she’s seen all kinds of new models come through the lab and many even make home for both testing purposes and everyday cooking!

5. Cuisinart Air Fryer XL 4-Quart

Cuisinart air fryer stands out from its smaller think kitchen Luminate counterpart by being wider at its base, accommodating for larger baskets. Furthermore, this model boasts higher fan speeds to ensure even browning; baking functions provide easy thrifty bakes or classic cake recipes while free-from options that can accommodate special dietary requirements (fruit leather).

This model is straightforward to use and produces delicious food with exceptional texture and flavor, producing crispy chicken, golden-brown fries, and tender cornbread without using any oil at all! Furthermore, its quiet operation means it takes up minimal counter space.

This higher priced oven is best for larger portions, such as chips, nuggets/goujons, fish fillets and small joints of meat, or when air frying two different items simultaneously. Each drawer holds 4.1l capacity allowing you to simultaneously air fry small joints of meat with chips at the same time or schedule them both to finish cooking simultaneously.