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WIRED
17 hours ago
- WIRED
The Dome 2 Is a Silicon Valley Air Fryer That Will Cook Faster, Clean Itself, and Bake a Pizza
Typhur lets you control this the way sophisticated toaster ovens like Breville's do: through settings like 'grill' or 'broil' that modulate both fan speed and primary heat source. The grill setting combines the crispness of an air fryer with direct heat from the bottom of the basket—meaning I can brown and even lightly grill-char a pair of chicken legs at 450 degrees Fahrenheit, leading to deliciously crispy-fatty skin. This is also how the oven does pizza and pancakes, heating each from below but at a much lower fan setting to avoid drying out the crust or batter. This said, Typhur doesn't make its settings overly easy to parse, except via a recent blog post that still requires a little parsing. I'd love if the device or app offered indicators to show which burners were most active, and the speed of the fan, for each setting. But for now, below is a handy chart explaining the various cooking modes. In general, the higher the fan speed, expect more browning or crisping on the surface as the air draws across the surface and steals the moisture—which is the main reason air fryers are so effective at creating crispy food. That said, too much fan can dry out the food over time. Fan Speed and Heat Source for Each Cooking Mode on Typhur Dome 2 AccordionItemContainerButton Live By the App, Die By the App Photograph: Matthew Korfhage But you won't get full use out of the Dome 2 unless you pair it to your phone. Many functions aren't accessible from the eight-button control panel on the device itself. The app's most straightforward bonus is a 48-deep menu of recipes designed specifically for the Dome 2. These range from simple recommendations for bacon, chicken legs, or asparagus to air fryer cakes and cookies, and chicken cordon bleu. Once you choose a recipe, you can tweak both temperature and time, based on how much food you've added or how thick you've sliced your bacon. Then click start, and the device's setting will pair up with the recipe on the app. You'll still have to physically press start on the device, as a safety measure. But many useful functions are app-only, including dehydrate, bake, and roast—plus an added Steak preset. No baking or steaking if the Wi-Fi's down! (The Wings and Bacon presets, oddly, are the buttons on the device that are most similar to the baking function.) The self-clean function, which heats the oven at high temps to burn gunk off the heating elements, is also app-only. The basket and griddle grate are coated with PFAS- and PTFE-free ceramic nonstick, and it's pretty easy to wipe clean—but the self-clean, meant for monthly use, is a good backup for the oven interior. Price aside —this Typhur isn't cheap—reliance on the app is one of the main sticking points on an otherwise terrific device. (Though I'd also like more visibility on fan speed and primary burners.) I've accepted, for whatever reason, that my Google TV is a brick without a remote or a phone app. But I guess I still want to be able to bake cookies when my phone's dead. Maybe I need to learn to stop worrying and love the smart kitchen.
WIRED
06-02-2025
- Business
- WIRED
The 8 Best Air Fryers for an Extra Crispy Life
Typhur Dome Air Fryer for $450: The Typhur dome air fryer is a reimagined fryer with a broad base and a shallow basket that cooks with 'blazing speed,' WIRED commerce director Martin Cizmar noted when naming it one of the best gifts you could give a father in a previous version of that guide. It's far from cheap, but the design means that crispy food arrives on an abbreviated schedule, including crispy wings in 14 minutes, and 'fried hard' wings in a couple more. Typhur has just released a revamped Dome 2 we're looking forward to testing soon. The original is already impressive. Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Instant Pot Vortex Slim for $130: This 6-quart fryer has nearly the same excellent performance, and much of the same functionality, that we like in our top Instant Pot pick. But its lack of cooking window and odor-erase filter keep it lesser in our hearts. That said, the Slim's got a slimmer and deeper profile, about an inch less broad than the Vortex Plus. In some kitchens, this inch will matter. Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Philips 3000 Series XXL at $150: This Philips is a 7.6-quart air fryer with an interesting topside viewing window and a large capacity that crisps alllllmost as well as the much-smaller 2000-series fryer we like as our favorite budget pick. It also sports the same sort of fiddly, beepy, control panel. Still: At its size, big enough for a whole chicken, this a high-performing basket fryer that keeps reliable temperature. Hard to come by. Cosori 9-Quart Dual Air Fryer With Wider Double Basket for $170: This was a previous pick among large, dual-basket fryers, prized for its intuitive controls and a dual-basket syncing feature that's now become common among two-basket fryers. We now recommend the Instant Pot 9-quart fryer, among large fryers. Air Fryers We Don't Recommend Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Ninja Doublestack XL 2-Basket for $220: On the one hand, this 10-quart Ninja offers a dramatic amount of cooking space with a relatively small footprint, plopping two 5-quart baskets atop each other. Each basket also has a crisper rack, offering the potential of putting together a four-component meal. We had good results placing wing flats atop the crisper, and letting them drip onto the drums beneath for a mix of extra-crispy and extra-juicy wings. But this stacked design also means putting the heating elements and fans in the back of each drawer rather than the top, leading to uneven cooking throughout the basket and equally uneven air circulation. Cooking with multiple zones also required difficult and often confusing recipe conversions, and cooktimes stretched quite long. Cosori DualBlaze 6.8-Quart for $180 and Cosori TurboBlaze 6-Quart for $120 are a bit like Jack Sprat and his wife. The DualBlaze runs too hot, and the TurboBlaze runs too cold. WIRED previously had the DualBlaze as a top pick, in part for a phone app that's now a common feature across the category. On recent testing, we're now more concerned about the wonky thermostat. Zwilling Electrics 4-Quart Air Fryer for $100: Contributing WIRED reviewer Emily Peck liked the low profile on this Zwilling, under a foot tall. But the lack of a start button separate from the on/off switch, and strange preset recipes placed it off our to-buy list compared to an also-svelte, lower-priced 4-quart Philips. Ninja Doublestack XL Countertop Oven for $350: This doublestack looked like a versatile design, dropping a toaster oven atop an already spacious air fryer oven—with a clever door design allowing the compartments to open together or separately. The reality was disappointing. The shut-off button on the top oven malfunctioned, meaning I had to turn the power off completely to shut off the top oven. And temperatures were all over the map. If the temp at the back of the main oven was 400 degrees Fahrenheit, the temp near the door might be 345, leading to wildly uneven cooking. And while Ninja touts FlavorSeal technology to keep odors and aromas from traveling between the top and bottom oven, the same was not true of heat: Heat from the bottom oven freely traveled into the top oven and vice versa. Also, toast burned even at medium-low settings.
