DASH Tasti-Crisp Electric Air Fryer, Aqua

This little DASHI is great!! Much smaller foot print than the original very large one I have been using for a few years. This uses less energy and works very efficiently to evenly heat, cook and crisp your food to perfection!!

For summer, not using the oven was great!
As far as I have found, I can fix anything in air fryer, just smaller portions. It hasn’t stopped me from enjoying old favorites.

So happy with this air fryer. I am using it for months now, and it woks perfectly and with amazing performance. Perfect size and I like how simple to use it without need to read or figure out many buttons or options. I also in love with the retro style of it.

Cut my clean up and cook time in half! Quiet, compact. Easy to travel with.
If you are traveling with food needs like gluten free for celiac, this makes staying with friends, family or even a hotel SO much easier! You can even make toast in this while not worrying (or worrying your host) about cross contact. Save money when staying at hotels or RV- make fresh delicous meals without trying to find a restaurant that can accommodate. I’ve had my Dash Tasti-Crisp for 6 months now and we use it every single day! It even makes perfectly browned grilled cheese as well as Smores! You totally need one of these!

Nice compact, no frills unit. I bought this for a kitchen with limited counter space. Works perfectly for 1 or 2 people. Cute color & easy to clean!

Good quality air fryer for the sale price. I have used it fairly regularly for 6 months now, most of the time just tossing in preseasoned frozen chicken breasts from Walmart, and then some mini potatoes. The trick is to use some cooking spray directly on the meat after, turns out perfect every damn time.

Even heat, easy to use, and easy clean up. The small size makes it perfect for single people or couples. Wish I had bought a few more before the price increase as gifts and for myself (simultaneous air frying?).

My oven was improperly wired at my apartment complex when I moved in. Management, who handles appliances, refuses to fix it while I am in residence (eg they’ll fix it for the next person but I can suck it). This has required adaptation over the years to my cooking habits.

The stove has two hobs that work, two that don’t, and if you keep things to half the oven, it MIGHT cook if the stars are properly aligned. I got an Instant Pot one Prime Day, and it’s been the best dang thing. But, as someone who doesn’t cook with a lot of oil, and loves french fries, that has been the biggest thing I have missed, and often have spent way too much on fast food fries as a result (ew).

So thus began the hunt. The hunt to find an air fryer that was small enough for my very limited counter space, without needing too much attention during the cooking process. I didn’t want the one my mother has because it aggravates even her, requiring preheating and, unfortunately, a lot of adjusting times. It became such a source of frustration for her that I put off finding one for myself for quite a while.

Alas, finding something that met all the requirements I had, plus fit my limited budget was a bit of a pain. My mother had purchased hers for under $50, and I felt surely I could do the same! But that happened to be the sale price of the one she had purchased. Yikes.

And then one day my rice cooker decided to go kaput. So I was scrolling Amazon in annoyance at having to replace multiple appliances in less than half a year (I wound up having to replace three, in addition to my purchase of an air fryer. When it rains, it pours!)– and I looked up the air fryers. So many different options, vast variety of sizes, styles, colors…and PRICES.

Finding this air fryer I could only hope that it would work well enough and that the rating was on par with reality. The temperature is by dial, and the power is by a dial, as well, that you turn to the number of minutes you wish to cook your food for. It’s very simple, fairly idiot-proof, and worked great right out of the box.

I’ve had the timer glitch out once, getting stuck at the 5m mark, and kept cooking while not counting down. I caught it. Nothing caught fire. It was fine. It hasn’t done it since. It’s pretty simple to clean, but you want to be thorough and careful. Don’t leave behind soap scum or whatnot, which is a little tricky. You CAN just wipe it clean with a paper towel a few minutes after use once the tray has cooled down.

It’s not loud to my knowledge, but I am hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. It’s nowhere near as loud as the microwave. It cooks things very evenly, it hasn’t given me any problems outside of the one glitch.

The limitations you have are temperature control — you don’t know the exact temp you’re setting as it’s not digital, it’s just a dial, so you can turn it, but, without digital temp tracking– who knows.

Overall, if you are looking for one decently small and easy to use for your chicken nuggets and fries? This foots the bill very simply. Not high-capacity, so best for a single person, or two people who don’t eat large portion sizes.