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Editorial Review: Product Description: Tefal have come up with a winning solution of having tasty home cooked chips with only 3% fat. The revolutionary new ActiFry which is part of the Tefal Nutritious & Delicious range, allows you to cook 1kg of chips (family of four) with just 1 spoonful of oil. You can even use the oil of your choice from olive oil to rapeseed oil. And you can cook a lot more than just chips - the ActiFry comes with a Free recipe book which allows you to cook a variety of meals with vegetables, meat, fish and even fruit! With a large viewing window so you can oversee the cooking, and a non-stick, removeable bowl for easy cleaning, the ActiFry is convenient and easy to use. Tefal, ideas you can't live without. Tefal's product design communicates the brand's identity: They are ingenious and guarantee success. They are useable by everybody in the family. They are pleasant to use. They find their place in various styles of living environments. Please Note: All electrical products sold by cookinstyle (InStyle Products Limited) are supplied with a UK 3 pin plug. Average Rating:
 Rating: - new ownerit's healthier than my old kenwood deep fryer ... but do the chips come out any better ... thats debatable ... the best potato to use is the Kerr's Pink ..... makes Maris Pipers and king edwards potatoes poor in comparison .... 1 downside 30 - 40 minutes to make chips Rating:  - Tefal Antifry very very poorHaving recieved my Tefal Actifry I am more than disapointed! Tried chips, following the instructions and they were really nasty. I looked to see and I had the wrong type of potatoes. Tried again today with the recommeneded potatoes and they were just as bad. Two hundred and fifty grams took twenty five minutes to cook, think about the cost of your electricty!. I am now going to try to sell this machine. Do not buy the Tefal Actifry! It sounds good and healthy! However better not to have chips at all!!! Rating: - Good product with minor down-sides...Had one of these for a couple of months. I concur with the timer being a bit quiet & the unit a bit loud, & maybe it's not as robust as I'd like BUT it makes great chips with very little fat or smell!! So far we've mainly done chips, & sauages & branched out into making some of the recipes from the booklet, which were ok but not amazing. The bananas were good though! I freestyled a nice veg curry while the other half was out which turned out good but stained the mixing arm. My only major complaint is that I'm getting chubby after eating several kilos of spuds in the last few weeks, but that's a lack of self control on my part :) !! On balance I would give it 4.5 out of 5 Rating:  - Chips without fried smells all overI bought the Actifry for one reason alone: less oil meant less odors, and I can't stand the smell of fried oil on clothes. I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Not only does it not let out any of those horrible oil vapors that settle on everything, but it makes the horrible sight of left over oil a thing of the past. You do need to adjust your cooking habits in order to use it effectively. For instance, it will take its time, which depending on quality and quantity can be anything from 25 to 45 minutes (I think more oil -- say 2 spoons instead of one may help speed things up a bit, but haven't tested this so don't take my word for it) This means that instead of preparing a salad, fish or meat and then preparing the chips, with the actifry it saves time to throw the potatoes in and prepare the other dishes while it fries them. It is far more forgiving than a traditional frier with regards to the need to pay attention to it: leaving the chips in for 5 minutes longer will not result in them turning to coal. And Actifry itself will not burn your kitchen down or spill hot oil on you or your family. All this means you can concentrate on other tasks without stress while it does its thing. A word of warning though: turn it off leaving your chips in with the lid down, even for a couple of minutes, and they will loose their crispness. You should be ready to serve them when they are done... or, just turn it off a couple of minutes early and turn it back on a couple of minutes before serving. I found re-activating the airflow for a bit will generally restore the crispness. It is for this reason that I think the timer not stopping the device when it goes off is actually a good thing. Okay they could have had it pop the lid open too, but honestly it never bothered me so far. The great thing about the small amount of oil is that you can afford to use organic oil for frying. I used olive oil at first, but never got the right results. Edges and small sized sticks would burn by the time the rest of the chips where done. So I followed the advice in the book and used sunflower oil with very noticeable results. It doesn't taste the same, but it delivers a crispier, even, frying without burned edges. I plan to try other oils as well and perhaps mixtures (even a third of olive oil would make the edges burn -- okay, it is the healthiest of them all, but it is much more so in its raw form, best use it for salad dressings!) I was glad to read another reviewer's comment about not peeling the potatoes. I do this too and I'll second the suggestion, you really can't tell the difference and it is much more nutritious -- do wash the potatoes *really* well though and cut out any soiled bits or abnormalities. And be very careful about the potatoes you use. Make sure they are certified to be pesticide free. Potatoes grow in the ground and absorb all the chemicals sprayed on the field, most of which stay *in* the skin. So unless you are sure they are free of such substances it's far healthier to actually peel them! It is a bit noisy but it is only a problem if you are right next to it while trying to talk on the phone or listen to the radio. It's the only time I notice the sound it makes. This is one of the best appliances I've ever bought, and I would highly recommend it to everyone. But we don't all like our chips the same so try to have a taste before buying. Rating: - Hold out for a better priceIt is worth noting that Amazon swing the price for this item up and down - it was £100 throughout May, allowing it to gather sales and favorable reviews at that price-point. Then, once it was established in the best-seller lists, it went up to £120 - Amazon know that a lot of people will buy because an item is popular, not realising that it became popular at a much lower price. Now, June 23rd, it is £116. Personally, I'll buy it when it hits £100 again - either here or the other online retailers where it appears at that price from time to time. To make this comment I was forced to make a star rating, so, I gave it 4 in order not to change the overall rating, which is currently 4 stars. There are several online services that allow you to "watch" Amazon items and catch them when prices swing low.  Try searching the Internet for "Tefal ActiFry" or Ebay for "Tefal ActiFry". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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