Tower, T17099, Vortx 5.2L & 3.3L Eco Dual Drawer Air Fryer
Tower, T17099, Vortx 5.2L & 3.3L Eco Dual Drawer Air Fryer with 8 One-Touch Pre-sets, 1700W Power, Black
DUO BASKET TECHNOLOGY
Why settle for an Air Fryer with one cooking basket when you can have two! The two baskets are different sizes, one is 3.3L and the other is 5.2L meaning you can mix and match to meet all your cooking needs. The easy to use controls allow you to use one basket at a time or use both together; you can even set different cooking times at different temperatures for each basket. The combined 8.5L capacity is large enough to create crispy and healthy meals for up to 8 people at once.
Perfect results every time when using both baskets
The Smart Finish button ensures foods with different cooking times finish at exactly the same time
8 pre-sets take the guess work out of cooking
Touch buttons to cook Fries, Cakes, Steaks, Chicken, Chicken Drumsticks & Wings, Sausages & Quiche
Free digital recipe book to get started
25 great recipe ideas with easy to use instructions to help get the most from the Air Fryer
Crispy and healthy Air Frying guaranteed
Grill plates allow hot air to circulate food during cooking for an even cook, whilst removing fat
Lightweight, easy to use and to keep clean
Cool Touch handles allow safe movement of the baskets after cooking, as well as making cleaning easy
| Weight: | 6.55 kg |
| Dimensions: | 35.2 x 40 x 30.6 cm; 6.55 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Tower |
| Model: | T17099 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Dimensions: | 35.2 x 40 x 30.6 cm; 6.55 Kilograms |
Easy enough to work out how to use after reading instructions and googling it. Cooks food well and quicker. Good price as seen more expensive else where.Easy to clean usually can just wipe out with kitchen towel.
his product is outstanding, easy to use with pre-set cooking recommendations as well as setting your own, easy to cook 2 different products at the same time & capacity could easily suit a family of 4. Great value for money and sites lovely in kitchen. Easy to wash and keep clean.
Stylish, decent size, many facilities ..and it works great..food is fantastic.
Large lED screen shows time set and countdownand temperature selected.
Easy to select cooking time..does it for you. Just select food to cook on led panel and ind it auto selects time and temp.
Main pointscooks food great! Fast. No mess.
Great value from Amazoncheaper than Ninja with same facilities. 5 star all round
The crisp trays in the bottom are easy to clean as are the drawers. Need to wipe around the elements very regularly to avoid fat/oil plashes getting burnt on. You can’t use normal oven cleaners on airfryers but foam sprays are available especially for airfryers.
It is ideal for small batches of food such as sausages, chips, fish fingers. I use it to crisp up jacket potatoes that have been cooked in the microwave. Never tried anything more advanced than these examples.
I think it must be economical because you are heating only a small space. You still need a conventional oven if cooking family sized meals.
Perfect for 2 people east to use, best kitchen gadget I have brough
Not the easiest to set the temperature or time on but a decent air fryer.
Good size for 2-4 people. Completely replaced my oven with this. 5 stars, very happy customer!
Amazing air fryer!! Easy to use and clean. Baked buns,meats,Yorkie puds and they’ve all come just as they would a normal oven!!
Brought for daughter as aa thank you she can’t stop using it says she will never use her oven again roast potatoes were yummy
I cooked a whole chicken for the 1st time and Oh my goodness so delicious.
Would be a bonus if there was a manual button to set temp and time, as you need to press any pre-set and then alter to the settings that you need.
Easy to clean with a hot soapy sponge/cloth.
It would have been nice if Tower also included a basic recipe book.
We definitely would recommend it.
Very impressed with how this cooks steaks and pies. I can cook a full Sunday roast dinner for the two of us.
Yes, it takes some juggling and tweaking to start with, but everything is trial and error. I don’t use the presets and simply adjust the timings and temperature by about -20%.
The best feature is definitely the fact this has glass doors and a light, eliminating the need to open the doors to see how the food is doing. Hence no heat loss!
I’m so glad I chose this air fryer. Far better than my friend’s one that cost more than double.
I have only had this a couple of days and it’s clear that I need to adjust cooking time from the presets. Yesterday my chips were over done and burgers were under done (put them back in for 5 mins and they were then over done, lol. Not blaming the cooker, it’s a matter of getting used to the settings. Apart from that I really like this cooker. Easy to clean, quick to cook. Did I mention I love the separate compartments so can cook 2 different things at once? The reason I did not use my single drawer previous fryer much. I am not sure how could cook enough for a family, but it says it could.
Well pleased with buy a bit slow for me to sort out cooking times the pictures of cooking images could be a bit bigger but overall well satisfied.
Iam so pleased with this air fryer . Exactly what I had been looking for. I can’t believe how quiet it is . My tefal air fryer was so noisy. The only down side is the panel on the front isn’t bright enough . Apart from that it’s fab.
Absolutely love this air fryer. The amount of things you can cook in it is great and they are nice size drawers too, brilliant for our big family.
Great product. Cooks well. Saves time and energy. Hardly use my oven now
I love this air fryer, you can cook 2 different things at same time, you can even set it so that they finish cooking at the same time and it’s easy to clea
a fantastic unit does what it says on the tin i have always used a Halogen oven for many years this is far better you dont have one then get one they are brillia
Better quality than I expected, very robust and good looking out on the kitchen side. Used it loads and it still looks good as new inside and out.
I have stored away three other appliances since getting this. My induction hob, microwave and this oven ae the perfect combination for my kitchen.
I am particularly pleased I didn’t get a tub, top loader air fryer as this front loader is far more flexible to use.
I would have appreciated an air fryer cook/recipe booklet included in the package.
I have ordered a Tower air fryer cookbook and am optimistic about future meal times (with fingers crossed).
The places I found it to be lacking so far is as follows.
A clip on handle to remove the baskets when hot is a must and should be included.
Two more deep baskets would have been nice as the distance from the element to the flat basket in the top position is not enough to put much on and the additional baskets should be included.
It definitely needs another positioning point between the current two used for the baskets to allow more refinement when positioning food and baskets in the air fryer.
Finally the temp limit of 200C is a bit low and it would have been better if it was at least 220C
Otherwise I am pretty happy with my purchase, however not as much as I could be andif another brand offers these options perhaps worth looking at or for.
Energy Consumption:
1700 Watts, therefore electricity consumption at the current Ofgem / Gov energy price guarantee rate average of 0.34 kWh (Dec 2022) = 0.58 per hour
Which is forecast to increase by 20% in April 2023, therefore 0.41 kWh = 0.70 per hour from April 2023
Tower T17088 9 Litres Dual, 2600 watts, therefore going by the same rates = 0.88 per hour and from April 2023 = 1.07 per hour
Tower T17100, 9 Litres Dual, 2600 watts, therefore going by the same rates = 0.88 per hour and from April 2023 = 1.07 per hour
Ninja AF400UK, 9.5 Litres Dual, 2470 Watts, therefore going by the same rates = 0.84 per hour and from April 2023 = 1.01 per hour
Monthly Comparison using the Tower T17099 as the base price:
If using the Tower T17088 / T17100 for an average of 1 hour per day, taking 30 days in the month = 9.00 per month premium, April 2023 = 11.10 per month premium
If using the Ninja AF400UK for an average of 1 hour per day, taking 30 days in the month = 7.80 per month premium, April 2023 = 9.30 per month premium
Size:
Large basket: 5.2 Litres: 22cm x 18.5cm
Small basket: 3.3 Litres: 22cm x 11.5cm
Positive Points:
Large basket, probably the largest basket size of the dual air fryers available, good size for cooking a whole chicken, the one in the photo was 2.072kg labelled as extra large, 280mm (11″) part baked whole baguette also fits in the large basket
Whole 2kg extra large roast chicken and roasties in the small basket suitable for 4 adults, 200 degrees for 1 hour
Able to Sync / Smart finish the timing of both baskets
It’s reasonably quite, I have tried to catch the sound on the video uploaded
Warranty:
3 Year Warranty, when you register on the Tower website (Tower Housewares)
Ninja AF400UK: 1 year warranty
Negative Points:
Chips in the small basket take Approx 45 mins
Temperature maximum of 200 degrees, unlike the Ninja AF400UK 9.5 which has a maximum of 240 degrees
Cannot put the grill plates & baskets in a dishwasher (not sure if you can with other manufacturers)
Accessories such as silicone liners & racks suitable for the size of baskets are hard to find (well almost suitable fit going by the small basket silicone liner photo) – I would also advise my experience of using the silicone liner is, that it adds to the cooking time, therefore I only use for food products that produce a lot of juices / fat, so you can wash it out & put it in the dishwasher
Capacity, Dimensions & Weight:
The weight and dimensions are incorrect under Product details:
Capacity: 8.5 Litres (total)
Dimensions: Height: 310mm , Width: 420mm, Depth: 360mm (from the User Manual)
Dimensions: Height: 310mm, Width: 395mm, Depth: 340mm (when actually measured)
Weight: 7.75kg (from the User Manual)
I also considered the following 2 prior to purchasing the Tower T17099:
Lakeland Dual Air Fryer, Model 26920 and the QVC, Cook’s Essential Dual 7.7 Litre, which look near on identical to this one (but claims to be 9 Litre with Lakeland and 7.7 litre with the QVC Cook’s Essentials, strange that that calculate the volumes differently! ), likely to have them manufactured by the same provider somewhere in Asia and all 3 rebrand, however no Sync / Smart option going by the reviews on the Lakeland and QVC options