Kaldera Glass
No black flakes in the fries, ever. The bowl is glass and the racks are steel, so there is no coating to peel off into dinner. You see the wings crisp through the side, you set the heat yourself, and the bowl and every steel part go in the dishwasher.
Found black specks in the tater tots and that was it for the Cosori. Wings at 390 for 18 minutes and the kids ate them straight off the rack.Dana W. · Columbus
Third air fryer in four years, a scratched black basket you are not allowed to scrub, and that question at the table: have my kids been eating this? Here is what changes from the first dinner.
Drag the handle. Left is a coated basket after a year. Right is the Kaldera Glass bowl making the same fries.
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A 6-quart bowl of heat-proof glass, the same kind as a good glass baking dish, made to take 390°F every night. You see the wings go golden, the fries brown and the chicken skin blister without opening anything.
Six quarts is a family batch: a 4 lb chicken, a pound and a half of wings, fries for four.
Every part that touches your food is bare stainless steel or glass: the mesh basket, the round rotisserie basket, the skewers. No non-stick, no ceramic, no "PFOA-free" sticker. There is nothing on the surface to come off.
The plastic on this fryer is the lid housing and the handles. It sits above and outside the food, never in it.
The lid carries a 1600 W heating element and a fan that pushes hot air around the whole bowl. It gets hot fast and runs hot, so fries crisp instead of going soft and chicken skin blisters instead of sweating.
No warm-up ritual. Set it, load it, go.
Drop a 4 lb chicken in the steel rotisserie basket, click it into place, and it turns slowly under the heat until the skin is crisp on every side. The same basket tumbles wings and fries so every piece gets the heat.
The motor runs off the wall outlet, not four AAA batteries that die on a Sunday afternoon.
A touch panel on the lid with a temperature you set anywhere from 105 to 390°F and a timer up to 60 minutes. Dry apple slices at 140. Roast at 350. Blast wings at 390. It does what you tell it, not what a button labeled "chicken" thinks you want.
Lift the lid to shake the fries and it picks up where it left off. Overheat protection and a locking bowl mean it will not run unless everything is in place.
The lid lifts straight off, so the glass bowl becomes the serving dish. Roasted vegetables, potatoes, wings: from the counter to the middle of the table in one move. When dinner is done, the bowl and every steel part go in the dishwasher.
A cooling fan inside the lid keeps the outside cool enough to lift by its edges. The heat mat and glove are in the box for the bowl itself, which gets hot the way a casserole dish gets hot.
An air fryer is a heater, a fan and a container. Most brands put the money into the coating inside the container. This one puts it into a hotter element, and a bowl and racks that never wear out.
A 1600 W heating element in the lid gets hot fast and runs hotter than the thin tube heaters in most basket fryers. That is what crisps the outside of a fry before the inside goes soft.
A fan behind the element drives hot air down the walls of the glass bowl, under the raised steel basket and back up. Food sits in moving heat on every side, so the bottoms brown too. The rotisserie basket adds the tumble.
Heat-proof glass and stainless steel do not flake, chip or peel. The basket looks the same in year two as it did in the box. You clean it with whatever you want.
Covered for two years, with 60 days of dinners to try it.
The first month, in a normal family kitchen.
Fries at 390 for 15 minutes. You stand there and watch them brown through the glass. Nobody opens a drawer.
Wings, sticky sauce. Metal tongs, a scouring pad, as hard as you like. Then the dishwasher.
A 4 lb bird in the rotisserie basket, about 50 minutes, crisp skin on every side. The bowl goes straight to the table.
Most dinners happen in the glass. The steel looks like it did on day one, because it is steel.
A fair worry. Some glass fryers are exactly that: pale fries, twenty minutes instead of fifteen. Three reasons this one is not.
A 1600 W heating element, not the 1200 W tube in a small basket fryer or a halogen bulb. It gets to 390°F fast and holds it, which is what crisping needs.
The steel mesh basket sits up off the glass so hot air passes under the food, not just over it. Fries brown on the bottom too, without flipping.
For wings and fries, the rotisserie basket turns the food through the hot air. No shaking the drawer halfway.
Twenty years testing what comes off cookware coatings.
Every non-stick coating is a film a few microns thick, and every one of them wears. The only questions are how fast, and where the material goes. The answer to the second one is your dinner. I do not argue about which coating is safest. I take the coating out of the equation. Glass and stainless steel are what we use in the lab because they do not give anything up. This is the fryer I bought for my own family.
Here is what you get that the other glass fryers leave out.
| Kaldera Glass | Fritaire and Ninja Crispi glass fryers ($160 to $280) | |
|---|---|---|
| Temperature control | Any setting, 105 to 390°F | Presets only, nothing below 375°F |
| What your food sits on | Bare stainless steel | A ceramic-coated crisper plate |
| Rotisserie | Plugs into the wall | AAA batteries, or none |
| Lift the lid to check | Picks up where it left off | Some restart the timer |
| A 4 lb whole chicken | Fits, and turns | Too small on most |
| Warranty | 2 years | 60 to 90 days, or 1 year |
| Money-back window | 60 days, full refund | 30 days |
Same goal: crispy dinners with nothing in them that should not be there. Three very different price tags.
The third one in four years. Each one starts perfect, starts shedding by month ten, and gets replaced at the same price. And you are picking black flakes out of the fries in between.
Presets only with nothing below 375°F, a coated crisper plate inside the glass, a rotisserie that runs on batteries or does not exist, and a 60 or 90 day warranty.
Glass and stainless steel with nothing coated, 1600 W, a rotisserie that plugs into the wall, any temperature you want, a 2-year warranty and 60 days at home to be sure. Ships free and fast from our US warehouse.
than the basket fryer it replaced.
and scrub the steel without a second thought.
and most came from a basket fryer that peeled.
From 1,738 verified Kaldera Glass reviews.
Found black specks in the tater tots and that was it for the Cosori. This one is steel and glass and I went at the basket with steel wool the first night out of habit, then remembered I was allowed. Cord is on the short side so it lives by the outlet. Wings at 390 for 18 minutes and the kids ate them straight off the rack.
Did wings for eight people in two batches and could actually see when the second batch was done instead of guessing. Louder than I expected on the first run, then you stop noticing. Bowl's heavy when it's full, the glove is your friend.
Four pound bird on the rotisserie, 50 minutes, skin was crackly all over and my wife said it beat the store one. Fries take a couple minutes longer than my old Ninja did. It sits tall so it lives on the open counter, not under the cabinets. That cost it a star.
Read every label for months and wanted no coating anywhere and a temperature I could set low for her sweet potato. This was the only one under two hundred that did both. Came in a plain black box, no plastic smell on the first run. Bowl goes in the dishwasher and I stopped thinking about it.
Salmon and broccoli three nights a week, sticky wings on Fridays. Bowl and basket in the dishwasher every single night for two months and the steel looks brand new. My old basket was scratched to the metal by week six. First run smelled like a new toaster for ten minutes, then nothing.
It's just me now and heating the big oven for one plate of fish felt silly. Does my fish, my potatoes, and apple chips for the grandkids at a low heat. They pull up a chair to watch it. Big oven hasn't been on since Easter.
Unbox it, run it empty once, then make fries.
Bowl, basket, rotisserie basket and skewers through the dishwasher or the sink. That is all the prep there is.
Ten minutes at 390°F with nothing in it, window open, to burn off the new-heater smell. Every new heater does this once. Then never again.
Basket in, fries in, 390°F, 15 minutes. Stand there and watch them through the glass. You will.
The rotisserie basket and skewers come in the box, not sold separately. Keep the box for 60 days in case you want to send it back.
For people who are done buying replacement baskets and done wondering what is in the fries.
If the first list sounds like your kitchen, this is the fryer. And you have 60 days to be sure.
Get Kaldera Glass| Type | Glass-bowl air fryer. The lid with the heater lifts off the bowl |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 6 quarts (6 L) square heat-proof glass bowl, dishwasher-safe, locking side handles |
| What touches your food | Glass bowl, 304 stainless steel mesh basket, rotisserie basket and skewers. No coating on any of them |
| Heating | 1600 W carbon heating element, fan-driven hot air around the whole bowl |
| Temperature | 105 to 390°F (40 to 200°C), set manually |
| Timer | 1 to 60 minutes |
| Functions | Air fry, roast, bake, dehydrate, rotisserie |
| Rotisserie | Driven from the lid, plugs into the wall. No batteries |
| Safety | Overheat protection, internal cooling fan, locking handles, heat mat and glove included |
| Controls | Touch panel with digital display on the lid |
| Power | 120 V, standard US outlet. Give it its own outlet, not a shared power strip |
| In the box | Lid, glass bowl, mesh basket, rotisserie basket, skewer set, lifting tool, mat, glove, quick-start card, manual |
| Warranty | 2-year Kaldera warranty, 60-day money-back guarantee |
Make Kaldera Glass your only fryer for two months. Wings, fries, a whole chicken on the rotisserie. Scrub it, run it through the dishwasher. If it does not crisp like your old basket, or anything inside it ever flakes, send it back and you get every cent back. And when it is still crisping in year two, it is still covered.
Stop buying baskets, stop wondering about the flakes, stop opening the drawer to check. Kaldera Glass cooks in glass and steel, crisps like it means it, and is covered for two years. It ships free and fast from our US warehouse.
