With food and energy prices rocketing, many families will be looking to keep the cost of Christmas down this year.
Swapping a traditional oven for an air fryer is one way households are managing to cut their bills, as they use a fraction of the energy.
But how do they fare with a full Christmas dinner?
I set out to find out exactly that with this 10-in-1 Tower air fryer oven, which has its own rotisserie function, making it particularly popular for cooking a turkey or a chicken.
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Obviously you're not going to get a huge bird inside it, but the small 1.6kg turkey I'd bought fit in just fine and it was plenty big enough to feed four of us, with some left over.
When it comes to making a big dinner, you can't fit everything inside at once. The idea is that you prep your veg while the turkey is cooking - and parboil any that needs it - and the meat can be kept warm under some foil for the 30 or so minutes it takes for the veg to roast.
The turkey itself, which I simply sprayed with some oil and seasoned with a bit of salt and pepper, took around 50 minutes to cook at 200 degrees. And there was enough space on the tray underneath it to cook the pigs in blankets too. These took half the time.
In the meantime the potatoes and sprouts were being parboiled before being put on a tray to go inside the air fryer to roast.
I wasn't convinced I'd get everything inside it, but three trays can fit in at once so there was one for the spuds, another for the parsnips and carrots and a third for the stuffing balls and sprouts.
This lot took around 40 minutes to cook altogether. If I'd have par boiled the carrots and parsnips for a few minutes first, it would have been less as these ended up taking the longest.
Once that was all out and being plated up, I stuck the Yorkshires in for a few minutes to heat up. As this was my first attempt with this air fryer, I kept it simple with shop bought ones rather than attempting my own.
It all tasted great - and the juices from the bottom tray added some extra flavour to the gravy.
The only thing I would do differently next time, as well as par boiling the carrots and parsnips, would be to shuffle the potatoes about a bit as some browned off more than others so could have done with a quick rotation.
I'd also hopefully spend less time standing and staring at my fancy new machine, while drooling over the twirling turkey.
All in all, I couldn't have been more pleased - especially when I checked how much it had cost to cook and the electricity totalled just 39p.
You'd have a little bit extra on this for the use of the hob for the veg, but it wouldn't amount to much.
And it's a hell of a lot cheaper than any traditional oven would be. And, with the lack of oily trays and pots to clean up afterwards - the air flow racks can go in the dishwasher - it felt like all my Christmases had come at once.
The Xpress Pro Combo 2000W 11 Litre 10-in-1 Digital Air Fryer Oven with Rotisserie costs £179.99 on the Tower website.
It's also available at Argos for £150, Amazon for £139 and will soon be available at Boots for £139.99.
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