While the Actifry has worked a smell of warm rubber began to spread, which went after the second pass, however. The second thing you notice is the volume, this is still quite high and sounds just like a fan. I see this as a major point of criticism. Normally I do not mind a slightly higher volume, especially when I know that it is time-limited, in this case it leads to but one does not perceive the final signal. However, would not you if the Actifry would also be quiet, because the final signal, it is also very quiet even.
The Actifry is naturally warm, and thus this is the main plastic material will almost hot everywhere. In itself that bothers now is not, I would have at the very least that is required at least the handle of the bowl better insulated.
The end result of the first fries were good, though not perfect, but that in turn is because of my choice of fries and the set time. So here you should not necessarily insist only on rigid time limits, but also experiment times.
As for the included recipe book ... Haaaa ... A book has in my view many pages, and if there is a recipe book I expect to many pages, many recipes. Ok, the "book" (booklet is more like it) has quite a lot of pages, but it accounts for only 4 (!) Pages on the recipes in the German language. The Rest? The same recipes in many other languages ... If you advertises "included recipe book" (the e lack really) then it should be even a book. Otherwise, you could have written "including recipe ideas".
On the whole, we can recommend the Actifry, since this is your XL variant can this also highly recommend families because here really goes in a lot, another plus is that you the Actifry can use not only for fries and the usual fried , Only the "Done" signal could be louder and the "recipe book" should not build too high expectations you.
