Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: one-minute review
The Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer is the perfect size for smaller families looking to cut down their cooking time a bit by air frying a larger part of their meal, like a chicken, or side dishes, with the basket easily big enough to feed three people - but it has some less-than-ideal quirks that prevent it ranking up there with the best air fryers.
The interface is easy to use, and there are an abundance of cooking functions available (including four Turbo Modes), but the performance isn't what we'd have liked (or expected) from an air fryer costing over $100. While some foods, like chicken wings and toast, turned out perfectly and allowed for easy clean up afterward, I also ended up with a half-baked cake and a mixture of burnt and undercooked chips and vegetables.
These niggles may be able to be worked out, but given the TurboBlaze's promise of 360-degree air flow, and faster cooking on its Air Fry, Roast, Grill, and Frozen modes, I was left disappointed and uncertain of what to expect next from this rollercoaster gadget.
These performance quirks may be able to be worked out with a lot of time, experimentation - and patience - but after my week with this air fryer, I was left far from impressed.
Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: price and availability
- Price: $119.99 / £159.99 (about AU$180)
- Available in UK and US (as 6 Quart) from Cosori's website or third-party retailers like Amazon
- Regular discounts and sales
The TurboBlaze may not be the most expensive air fryer on the market, but it's certainly not the most affordable we've seen - nor the best for this price range. The US price tag is a bit less than the UK one, coming in just under $120. If you are buying in the US, note that the name and model is a bit different (6 Quart rather than 6L) If you've got a $100 budget, don't worry, this air fryer seems to be regularly discounted on Amazon, so we advise picking one up there rather than from Cosori directly. While the price in the UK is a bit higher, making this a less budget-friendly air fryer, again, Amazon regularly does discounts that knock it closer to the £100 mark. Unfortunately, if you're in Australia, the TurboBlaze range isn't available.
While this air fryer offers a bunch of bells and whistles, its lack of consistent results hold it back from being good value for money at that price tag. The things it does well, it does brilliantly, but there's a lot of functions that just didn't work how I'd expect. For an air fryer over 100 quid, I would expect the most basic functions (at the very least) to work well every time. That's not the case here.
- Value score: 2.5/5
Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: specifications
Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: design
- Easy to set up, use, and clean
- Touch controls work well
- Fairly compact given its capacity
The Cosori TurboBlaze 6.0-Litre Air Fryer was a breeze to set up, coming with a handy booklet of recipes and tips to try out and recommendations on cooking weights and times for some of the most common air fryer ingredients.
The overall black, matte design is pretty sleek, and its digital interface is easy to use, with a good-sized touch-screen interface showing its nine cooking functions (including four Turbo modes) and keep warm function. Simply select the mode suited to what you're cooking (the booklet helps here), then use the touch screen to increase or decrease the time and temperature. Press start, and you're off.
The air fryer itself is pretty compact given its generous capacity, but still measures 40 x 30 x 30.1cm, so it takes up a chunk of counter space when you consider the 13 cm behind it you need to leave. How imposing you find it will really depend on your kitchen counter space - and how often you plan to use it.
The six-liter basket provides plenty of room to cook for a small family (I was easily able to fit an eight-inch cake tin pan inside) and is ideal for those looking to cook one larger item, like a whole chicken or a portion of vegetables or fries for a few people. It comes with a crisper plate, which slots in simply from an angle (just don't catch the rubber stoppers) and is used for most cooking functions.
The basket and crisper plate are dishwasher-safe, but I found that hand washing them was almost quicker and easier than waiting for the dishwasher cycle to end.
It would have been good for a window to be included in the basket to prevent me from having to pull it out to check on my food (letting some heat out), and it was frustrating at times to have to reset all the controls when my food needed an extra 10 minutes, but overall this TurboBlaze has a solid, to-the-point design.
- Design score: 4/5
Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: performance
- Inconsistent results
- Handy preheating function
- Plenty of functions to try out, including proving
I found Cosori TurboBlaze 6.0-Litre Air Fryer the perfect size for me and my partner, and I was excited to put it through its many cooking functions through their paces- but the results were mixed to say the least.
Testing started off strong when I tried a chicken wing recipe from the booklet. After preheating the air fryer as per Cosori's instructions, I added 700g of seasoned wing to the crisper plate and set it to air fry at 200C for 16 minutes.
This air fryer isn't too loud, hitting around 60 decibels when cooking - about the volume of a conversation between people sitting a meter away. So, while you don't need to shout over it, you will notice it a bit. As a massive clutz, I liked that the outside of the air fryer never got above around 23/24C, with the back airflow around 25C, so if you've got little ones, you don't need to worry about them accidentally burning themselves by touching the outside- though obviously, the inside is another story.
I was really impressed with the first test. The wings came out crispy on the outside and succulent inside - perfectly cooked and the best I've ever made. There was minimal mess in the bottom of the basket, too. But my other tests were another story.
I tried 500g of fresh and frozen fries on the air fryer setting (part of the Turbo modes), at different times, but both came out with half the fries underdone and half overdone - mostly with the edges of the chips burnt. Even giving the basket a shake during cooking didn't help. Those that were cooked were fluffy inside but either burnt outside or soggy. Considering fries are a staple of air fryer cooking, and the Turbo Mode cooking functions are meant to quickly cook food with 360-degree air flow, this was a big disappointment.
The disappointment only continued with my cake baking. I used this as a perfect opportunity to bake my fiancé a birthday cake, using an online air fryer standard cake recipe. After consulting the book again (which I had to do a lot), I set the air fryer on the Bake function, using the recommended time and temperature from the booklet. It's worth noting, you can't (and shouldn't) just use the default cooking mode setting for everything and anything you're cooking in this air fryer (or any, really).
After preheating the air fryer and cooking my cake for 20 minutes at 165C (as the book instructed), my skewer came out wet. I ended up baking the cake for another 20 minutes (in intervals) until the top was burning and busting open.
Though the skewer was still a bit wet at the bottom, the cake wasn't going to survive much longer. After cooling, I tipped the cake upside down on a rack to find the entire bottom half was completely raw, while the top half was on the verge of burning. Absolute disaster.
Using this air fryer was a bit of a rollercoaster. After the cake, I made a roast chicken using the roast function and the booklet's recipe that was crispy on top and juicy inside. Though, the bottom was a bit too juicy, verging on almost soggy after the air fryer managed to blow over my whole chicken. Much like the chips, the vegetables for the roast were inconsistently booked, with the edges of my broccoli burning until the point of being inedible but my carrots not cooking enough - and requiring more time than the instructions stated.
As for the other functions, I ended up still somewhat juicy lemons and limes after four hours dehydrating, but did find toast easy to grill and the proving feature rose my bread dough in just an hour, resulting in perfectly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside bread.
By the end of my testing, I wasn't quite sure what I was going to get from this air fryer. I spent days testing its modes, but still found it inconsistent across some of its most basic modes. My advice? Trust the book's recipes, but maybe not its cooking times.
- Performance score: 2/5
Should you buy the Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer?
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How I tested the Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer:
I used the Cosori TurboBlaze 6L for a week, cooking a wide variety of foods including fresh and frozen fries, chicken wings, fresh vegetables, a roast dinner, cake, and bread. I tested all the air fryer's various modes (including dehydrate, which I used to dry fruit slices). I cleaned the air fryer in line with the instructions provided in the manual. For more details, see how we test.
First reviewed October 2024
