Anyone own an air fryer? Is it accurate to say that these things need to be fully disassembled in order to remove the heating element just to clean around it? Is it also accurate that they are not designed to be taken apart.. that people just throw them away when they get too dirty?
I'm glad I never bought an #airFryer.. just pulled a working one out of the trash, which apparently someone tossed because it reached a level of dirtyness. It seems the scam with air fryers is that consumers are forced to treat them as disposable.
@resist1984 they are just awful to clean. I purchased an upgraded basket that is dish washer safe and that made it a much more usable device…. But that means the basket they sell with the devices are meant to be trash to make you buy the useful accessories.
@Apolyon_LMR After some research, I've found that there are some microbial cleaners for grease/oil. That is, you can buy microscopic bugs in a liquid form that like to eat the stuff. Well they don't eat it spotless like magic, but they seem to soften the hard baked-on grease enough that a plastic scraper has a fighting chance without removing the non-stick surface.