Philips Airfryer Review – HD9220

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Being the generous type I recently bought my parents the very popular Philips Airfryer HD9220 from Amazon for Christmas. I can testify that it is indeed hugely popular because I had a right job finding any in stock (I actually failed miserably and had to give it to my folks in January).

Any way, I thought I’d take the time to write a little review on the product as so far we’ve all been suitably impressed with its output.

The Philips Airfryer follows in the foot steps of the Tefal Actifry offering a healthier alternative to deep fat frying, as they both utilise minimal oil in the process of cooking your food.

From the reviews and forum discussions I observed prior to ordering the Airfryer a lot of people seemed to utilise them for cooking chips, but it’ll do plenty of other items as well including chicken nuggets, fish fingers, steak, pork chops, hamburgers, sausage rolls, drumsticks and chicken breast. To cut a long story short, if you can put it in your oven then chances are high it’ll be fine to go in your Airfryer.

At the point of writing we’ve used it on probably 10 separate occasions, but so far only to cook potato based products like wedges, roasties and chips – the results have been good on all.

This review will touch upon the process and quality of the chips that are produced as I think that’s what most people would purchase an Airfryer for (please for the love of god, don’t cook a steak in an Airfryer – even if they are good, that’s just criminal and you deserve to be locked up).

Step 1 – Having chopped up a couple of potatoes we soak them in water for about 30 minutes, which is recommended in the mini instruction card.

Step 2 – Having dried the potato thoroughly you add your oil to the bowl and shake the potato around to get a good coating on them. Below is a picture highlighting the required oil – as you can see its really not a lot (1 table spoon to be exact). Top Tip: the instructions suggest using olive oil, but using vegetable works much better in my opinion.

Step 3 – Once you have coated the potatoes with the oil its time to bung them into the Airfryer drawer as shown below. We were only making enough chips for 2 people, but as you can see its got plenty of room to take a lot more.

Step 4 – Once the potato is loaded its time to set the Airfryer in motion. Philips provide a basic instructions card (over and above the detailed instruction manual) which gives you guidance on temperatures and timings for various items. Given we were cooking potato we set things in motion for an initial 10 minutes at 180°

Step 5 – The reason for setting the timer at 10 minutes initially was to act as a reminder to shake the chips halfway through cooking. After 10 minutes we remove the chips, give them a shake and then put them back into the Airfryer for a further 10 minutes at the same temperature.

Step 6 – The buzzer goes after the second 10 minutes and the chips are ready to go. Whilst cooking time, temperature and amount of oil will depend somewhat on your personal taste and volume of potato in the drawer the Airfryer does push out tasty, healthy chips.

Despite such a small amount of oil they do still have a shine to them, so if you’re feeling particularly healthy you might still want to dab them down on kitchen roll before serving.

In Conclusion

We are genuinely very happy with the Philips Airfryer but thus far have limited its usage to potato based products (chips, wedges and roasties). I doubt it’ll ever get used to cook anything more exotic than chicken nuggets, but its good to know that if push came to shove (and your oven, hob and grill die) then you could technically use the Airfryer for most items.

Whether its better than the Actifry I wouldn’t like to comment having not used the latter to date. All I can say is that as a standalone product the Airfryer lives up to its billing and will be getting plenty of usage in the Rush household.