I’ve fried tempura, chicken, and chips/fries with this and I couldn’t be happier with the product. Temperature tested with other thermometers and it’s accurate.
When it comes to the filter system, at this time I have only used it twice but I honestly couldn’t be happier with the system. I filter the oil, I take the basin out and clean it by hand with plenty of soap and put it through the dishwasher also.
I would say we are a family of two (Three but one’s a dog) and the basket is correctly sized for this. Obviously you would batch cook for larger family meals. I love how easy you can clean it down and then put it away in the cupboard. Easy Peasy.

I love the easy drain facility and the oil filter bottle, which makes it VERY EASY to clean. I would like to mention, due to a “surprise” accident, that the plastic oil bottle which catches the filtered oil for re-use has a capacity of 3 litres of oil, saving a lot of money in refills. The flat lid DOES come off for deep cleaning, if its required. It’s quite expensive for a deep fryer, but it’s worth every penny! The lid is very effective and it catches a lot of condensation, that MUST BE KEPT AWAY FROM THE OIL to preserve the food quality and prevent the oil from the explosive reactions commonly associated with the old pot chip-pans of yesteryear! The food, like fresh potato chips MUST be dry before cooking, we just use kitchen roll which absorbs most of the water. We have had a great time experimenting with our fryer, and hope others have as much fun as we have.

Great replacement for my delonghi roto fryer that I cannot seem to get now. Good build quality and love every part is washable so no horrible build up of oil deposits. Love the filter into the oil pan so easy to use. Takes 10 mins to heat to 190 and cooks frozen chips very quickly 7 or 8 minutes rather than 15 or so on my last fryer highly recommended

This fryer is a game changer. I always hated the mess when cleaning my old fryer, so much so that I didn’t have one for 15 years! The fact you can pop most of it in the dishwasher is the best thing about this fryer.
The filtration system is so easy to use and does the job well. I have found it best to leave the oil to cool down fully overnight otherwise it is too thin and overwhelms the container causing ‘leaks’. As a precaution I sit it on a tray and this also enables me to locate the fryer safely under my cooker hood.
So far I have used it to fry homemade donuts, vegetable pakora, puri’s, southern fried chicken and triple cooked fries. The thermostat control works perfectly too

Works very well & also easy to clean. Makes excellent chips. Cut fairly chunky chips, boil for 5 minutes and then drain and dry. Set fryer to 170 and fry for 5 minutes. Lift up and wait for temperature to go back up to 1700 and fry again for 5 mins. . For this use Maris Piper potatoes. They come up very well

Really pleased with this easy to clean deep fat fryer. All except the electric control can go in the dishwasher. Cooks all types of food needing to be deep fried. chips, onion rings. Scampi. Oil gets filtered ready to reuse. Great size for the two of us. Others mentioned oil overflowing when draining. Yes, this happened to me once. I now leave the oil to get well and truly cold and then all is well. Well packed in sealed box and then again in an Amazon suitable box. Would highly recommend I am so pleased with my purchase.

This is a replacement for a 20+yo Tefal Deep Fat Fryer. It works brilliantly and the Auto Oil drain is a dream. It leaves the bowl empty bar crumbs, which you can then easily remove. It’s just a bit fiddly lifting out the element first, like the old one, and then looking for somewhere to put it whilst you clean the bowl.
One benifit of the Auto-drain is that the Basket also drains off oil, so needs minimal cleaning.
My reason for 4* is only that the construction is noticeably more flimsy than my old one.
Recommended without hesitation.

Out of the box this looks and feels like a quality piece of kit. I used mine for the first time last night. Despite it taking 3.5l of oil and having a large basket I was disappointed with how shallow the oil lays and therefore how little you can fit in the basket.
For context, this replaced a cheapo 2.5l fryer. The oil compartment was shorter but deeper and it was possible to fit the same amount if not more in it.
Where this unit comes into it’s own is the filtration and ease of cleaning. It is so quick and easy. For that reason alone, I love it.
Real shame you can’t fit more in the basket. I certainly doubt the claim of 6 portions being possible. For that reason I can only mark 4 stars and not the full 5.

We like the machine very much indeed. What problem we found was when ordering it we could not find the size of the machine, it gives you the package size but not the machine size, when ours arrived it was larger then we thought it would be, it would be a great help to have the machine size so customers can plan before hand where they are going to be able to store it in the kitchen.

Have had this deep fat fryer a little while now and so far very pleased with it. We are a family of six with hearty appetites. I do two batches of chips as one basket is not quite enough for six of us. Which is not a problem as they only take ten minutes to cook so easy to keep the first lot warm for a short while in the oven. My son recently made doughnuts which were received well by the rest of the family.
I really like the oil storage box which means less mess emptying and cleaning and keeps smells to a minimum. Once it’s cool and drained the pan and basket go in the dishwasher so easy to clean. Overall would recommend.

It works really well. It’s a little bigger than I expected as in overall size but the coverage and depth for frying is quite shallow which surprised me a little. You have to put a lot of oil into it but only use half of it. You’re heating up twice as much oil as you use. It seems a very inefficient way of deep frying. I haven’t needed to clean the oil yet so can’t comment on how easy it is to clean.

It works really well. It’s a little bigger than I expected as in overall size but the coverage and depth for frying is quite shallow which surprised me a little. You have to put a lot of oil into it but only use half of it. You’re heating up twice as much oil as you use. It seems a very inefficient way of deep frying. I haven’t needed to clean the oil yet so can’t comment on how easy it is to clean.

This fryer has worked very well for me and I love the fact it is so easy to clean and the oil is filtered and stored in the container after each use. I saw on some reviews that people had reported leaks of oil whilst draining the oil into the storage reservoir. I have not had that problem but I do wait until the oil is cooled before opening the valve. The fryer is quite large and will take up a lot of room in a cupboard or on the worktop – measure first before buying.

I bought the previous model in 2007 and it was brilliant but was getting tired, so we bought the latest model. All the important bits go in the DW so there is no yellow residue on the outside and the oil is filtered so it remains clean. A brilliant piece of kit. However, be aware that if you follow the cooking instructions for chips, they are incorrect.

From experience, use good spuds, Roosters or Maris Pipers. 1st cook at 160 for 5 minutes, remove from the fryer. 2nd at 190 for 3 minutes. Your chips will be brown and crispy…..perfect!

Enjoy!

Been using this product for some months now and so far it’s been brilliant.

Food always nice and crispy, especially home made battered cod, pancake rolls, chips etc. and very easy to clean afterwards. The oil filter and storage have been 100% reliable so far and zero leakage.

The cooking smell does linger after using but that’s because the oil needs to cool before filtering and storing. But once stored and the easily removal basket, pan etc are washed and cleaned and you let the kitchen air there are no ongoing used oil smell.

YES highly recommended purchase.

its great except for when you go to pour the oil back in make sure you have a grip of the bottom of the reservoir where it comes out, the lid has a habit of separating and releasing all the oil in a tsoilnami all over the place while you’re trying to pour it in. otherwise grea

The patented oil filter mechanism allows some of the oil to spill on the working surface. Initially I thought I had not pushed the collecting tray far enough in. My fault. Next time II was very careful in following the instructions. It happened again, the work surface was oily with about one tablespoon of oil. Probably my fault. I cleaned the fryer planning to return the fryer but thought again. I decided to fill the fryer with water to see if the leakage occurred. It didn’t so the mechanism was not faulty. Again it was my fault but next time I used the fryer with oil the filtered oil spilled over the work surface. Failing to understand what was wrong I decided to put a tray under the fryer when I needed to filter the oil. I had thrown away the packaging after the water test so I didn’t return the fryer.

I bought this for my husband to make chips, onion rings and donuts in. He’s thrilled with it. He finds it easy to use and to clean and says it gives very good results. He loves chips, as do our children, so he experimented a bit with the temperature settings to get the crispiest chips. We did try making our own chips, but in the end found it easier to just buy a bag of frozen chips to shove in there. We haven’t got round to trying doughnuts yet, but that’s next on the list. It does chips, onions rings, hash browns, croquettes and fish fingers very well. Definitely pleased with our purchase.

This is fantastic cooks like a dream and you don’t have to wait around for the oil to cool as it does all that for you and filters the oil as well. Then all you have to do is wash it out and put the clean oil back in the pan, most bits are dishwasher friendly. I don’t know how I managed with my old one would not be with out this.
Only down side I can see is it needs a better filter in the lid a carbon one would be great but thats i

I love the filtered cleaning of the oil fascility. It realy has made a difference to the flavour of the food and the oil usage last longer.
Cleaning is a doddle, but the only bug bear is you have to hand wash the lid, the element (obviously) and the insert.
Butit cleans so easily, it really is no problem.
I love it and it is large enough to cook chips for 6

This is our second Tefal – the first smaller one leaked and was sent back for refund. This one works a dream and is large enough to fry enough chips fo 3 people at once. Simple to use. My one word of waring is that the oil container comes apart (you can remove the lid) which I was unaware of. So when I poured the oil out of the container into the fryer the lid came off and 2L of oil went everywhere

Money well spend, so far one of the finest electric kitchen cooking machine for deep frying ever designed. Oil filter process by gravity separation works perfect. 2300W of heating element for only 3.5 liter of oil is good match to keep with changing oil temperature as you add freezing processed foods (veg or non veg). It may appear huge on the counter as compared to others – for the reasons like it has onboard storage tank to recover filtered oil upon completion of cooking cycle – so, that makes it look almost twice bigger. But, its a trade-off against the benefits of oil filteration which second to none. I have two of these one for veg and one for non-veg cooking to not to spoil the oil and infuse the varying smell into cooking.

I didn’t want the mess of a chip pot, so thought I’d go for a Tefal Oleoclean Pro Fryer, (5 Portions), 3.5 Litre, 2300 W after reading reviews. I’ve tried groundnut and rapeseed oil. Both worked fine and you can slightly taste the difference when frying. So have a go at testing different oil.

Cons: The timer lit up when I first switched it on. Second time the timer never came back on and has never came on since. I’ve tried to reset it and I’ve used the machine around a dozen times. Still no timer. I don’t use the timer though as I prefer to watch the food but for those who are stuck ion a timer check it when you buy.

Pros:
Makes fabulous chips, (I use the https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07PMBMDCL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1chicken which chops two different sizes …such a time saver and provides consistancy) and I’ve tried some spring rolls and some veg in tempura batter. All worked out great.

It drains the oil into a box in the bottom so easy for storing and filters it so it’s clean each time you use it. The parts go in a dishwasher if you have one (NOT THE FILAMENT) so cleaning is easy.

Not the cheapest but if you use regularly it’s worth it.

Love this item. It is now essential in our kitchen. The main reason we love it so much, it’s because the large capacity, was able to 6 thighs/drum stick and still space for one or two. The ability to set the temperature and timer is fantastic. Once you learn the correct temperature and timer for different meals, it’s great. So it is essential to learn your product. The instruction in the booklet is a good indicator but we found it wasn’t as accurate. It states (commenting from memory), the chicken needed 16 minutes a set temperature (forgot). We set it and the chicken was dark brown. Over cooked. Same result with the chips. Once you figure out the best timer for it, it gives you great results. The cleaning is another great feature. Very simple and quick (compared to others). The cleaning was the main reason I went for it.

This is a really good fryer and ideal for just 2 portions. If I didn’t mind the extra cost of oil and electricity I would have gone for the larger model but that would just be extravagant.

The one thing that bugs me most about deep fat fryers is that they get quite dirty no matter how much effort you put into cleaning them. I’ve had this fryer for quite a few months now and it is still spotless even after many uses. Don’t be fooled by reviews that complain about even having to change the oil although there is a filter to clean it. The filter works very well and you don’t have to worry about the burnt detritus of a long gone meal being attached to you chips. The reason to change the oil is that its properties change and becomes slightly more carcinogenic as it gets older. No filter would be able to do anything about that.

If you want a good fryer that is ultra easy to keep clean (I almost enjoy keeping it clean – a job I dreaded with my old fryer) and ideal for just one or two people, this is it.

Given the price commitment of this chip pan, I thought I would write a detailed review. I needed a chip pan that feeds 5 adults. It does just that. But I was also looking for one that doesn’t set off my smoke alarm, and it does just that!
So, what I like is its size; Its ability to cook a large quantity of chips, although it is then a large machine. My previous chip pan was a double one, so although this one is large it is tall rather than wide, which I like. Also, the handle folds inside, so I find it quite compact actually. It does have sharp edges like someone mentioned in a previous review, but if you use the handles on it, then you don’t come into contact with the sharp edges, except when dismantling to put in the dish washer.
I also like its cleanliness; you can put the parts in the dishwasher once you have drained the oil. I notice in previous reviews that people have said the tank for saving oil overflows, but I did not find that, although I only drain the oil after 4 -5 uses, so its not at the maximum. I also love that the handle for the tray slots inside the pan, not over the edge so no oil spills! You can also cook with the lid on, so it reduces splashes too.
What I don’t like is the fact that I bought it because I thought it had a filter, my old one doesn’t, and I thought that would stop my smoke alarm going off. The filter is actually a metal mesh, not really a filter. So, the alarm does go off, and it does make the house smell of chips, although not as much as my old one did, because at least you can put the lid on. So, despite this I still prefer it.
It does get hot on the outside, but not to the extend of a burn unless there was prolonged contact.
I’ve given 5 stars, but really I would give it 4.5!

I saw this fryer a while ago, but it was only available in a bigger version, but as soon as I saw they’d made a smaller version I was determined to get one. It’s not the smallest fryer, but it doesn’t seem too big on the side, and the handle can be folded back into the basket when not in use.
I can honestly say the draining feature is the reason I bought it. I’ve had other fryers and kept using the oil longer than I should, with all the burnt bits in, because it was so much hassle to try to clean it out. This is brilliant. As soon as I see any bits in the bottom I switch it to drain and walk away, and when I come back later I can just remove the metal oil basket and wash all the bits out. Then I leave the oil in the bottom box until the next time when I just unscrew the small plug an pop the oil back in. I have done chips, croquettes, onion rings and more and everything cooks perfectly. I can’t recommend this enough.

Great product. Makes it easy to store the used oil afterwards. Doesn’t leak. Also it can be washed in the dishwasher and this makes it easy to maintain. Only downside is the size. We are a family of 4 and so have to cook in batches. I probably should have gone for the bigger size but the one I have is fine overall otherwise it’s a lot more oil that is needed.

This deep fat fryer is a beast and the best fryer I have ever had. Although it cost quite a bit and is a bit bulky. It is so simple to use and so easy to clean. My gripe with fryers has always been the part where you have to clean it, all you do is cook your food then after you have taken it out turn it to filter oil and I always unplug it and leave it to drain, that’s it, it is that simple, the following day I give it a wipe out with kitchen roll and I leave the oil in the box until I want to use the fryer again. To refill it is really simple, just pull the oil box out, loosen the plug by removing the screw plug and piur the oil back in, my oil has lasted 2 months now and I have had bread crumb items in, potatoes you name it, it now needs fresh oil but nothing like a conventional fryer. Highly recommended if you hate cleaning deep fat fryers, just be aware it is a large machine unless you go for the smaller version but this is perfect for large families.

Only used this about 10 times but that’s enough to know that it was the right choice for my first ever deep fryer.
Looks and feels professional (semi), very easy to use and extremely easy to clean. The oil filtration works a treat and the drawer is an ideal storage container for the oil.
Large cooking capacity enables me to cook for a family of four without too many batches. Heats 3l of oil to 170c in about 5 minutes and maintains cooking temperature well even with a largish batch of food in.
Really very impressed and glad I chose this more expensive option.

EDIT – I found that if i put it into filtration mode while the oil was still warn, the oil was prone to running around the draining mechanism and out onto the work top. I have no had this issue at all if i wait until the oil is fully cooled down.

I bought the compact version and i found the chips were great, the auto syphon and filter function worked well and the remaining residue of oil was easily wiped away. My oil container is now in the fridge and the fryer is clean and in the cupboard.

I added exactly 2L of oil for this first fry, ive yet to see how much oil did not make it into the container and was washed away. I expect very slight top ups on a per use basis to be necessary to maintain the MAX level.

Using 2L of oil leaves about 15% space in the container left so there is some wiggle room above the MAX level marker but i wouldnt push your luck too much otherwise id expect some oil spillage.

All in all, worth its money as nothing else comes close to the features on offer here.

An easy to use and practical design. Reaches dialled temperature quickly and, more importantly, stays on it while frying, something that cannot be said for other cheaper models. I blanched at the price initially but am more than happy with this excellent piece of kit.