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silicone sunday

01 Monday Dec 2025

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Well this works! I was in the middle of preparing yesterday’s lunch when I noticed that the roasting pan I had bought for the air fryer a couple of years ago was in pretty bad shape. A quick look online and a quick trip to El Corte Inglés later and… brand new “BPA free” silicone thingy. I was a bit unsure about it at first, and being non-biodegradable they’re not exactly “eco-friendly”,  but oh well. It’s mine now. As for functionality, it cooked everything just fine but it doesn’t really brown food as it doesn’t conduct heat. Anyhow, it will be useful for stuff like this…

Free-range chicken thighs marinated in yoghurt, lemon/lime and spices, with garbanzos, red onions, baby spinach and cilantro. Recipe here. 

twice fried fryer

19 Thursday Jun 2025

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I mean what the hell? Remember the first time this happened? I honestly thought it was a one-off bad luck thing and it took FOREVER for Cosori to come through with a new basket. In fact, it took so long that I asked a different division as well and ended up with two baskets (!!!).  I tucked the second one up in the storage room thinking, you know, I wouldn’t need it but just in case. Sure came in handy today.

But now I don’t know. One the one hand this shouldn’t keep happening (is it me??) so maybe I should try and get another replacement from Cosori, again just in case. On the other hand the beast is three years old now and is used several times a week. A few months ago the fan started making weird growling noises when I turned it on but if I banged it on top a couple of times it settled down (???) so I was thinking it would have to be replaced soon anyhow. But then it suddenly fixed itself? In any case it’s been working fine lately… until this. I’m actually okay with upgrading but times are tight atm and if I can keep on with this one for now that would be best. 

Has this happened to any of you?

the cosori story continues…

19 Wednesday Jul 2023

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So last week I was cooking some salmon in my hitherto trusty Cosori air fryer and suddenly, just after transferring the HOT basket over to the counter top, the handle fell off. The screws were still intact but the plastic around them had basically melted away. Yikes. The next day I got in touch with Cosori and they said they would send me a replacement basket. But then I got to thinking… the basket wasn’t the problem. The problem was that the appliance had overheated to the point that if actually fucking melted the handle. I mean, would you feel comfortable plugging that thing in again? I certainly wasn’t.

Thus began a week of emails back and forth. The first email address I’d found was for a service department that said they would send a new basket (which they did yesterday). But when I mentioned my concerns about the overheating they said it wasn’t an issue, in spite of Cosori recently having to recall more than 2 million models due to overheating and fire hazard issues, since this only applied to models in the US, Canada and Mexico. Somehow that didn’t make me feel any better. I still wasn’t going to plug the motherfucker back in again.

Meanwhile I had also written to a second support email address I’d come across and they seemed a bit more helpful. In the end they agreed that I could send my appliance back to them “for inspection” and if it was indeed defective they would send me a new one. I was warned that it would have to be well packed up as they wouldn’t be responsible for any damage during shipping. And well ha. I still had the original box upstairs in the storage room (I keep them all) including all the styrofoam packing stuff and so, snug as a bug, I brought my hitherto much loved Cosori to the UPS pick up place (handily just around the corner from my house).

And now, who knows? But if I don’t get a shiny new Cosori delivered within the week I’m going to go all social media on those guys. What I don’t get is… why did they even bother trying to get out of sending me a replacement air fryer? I see that on Amazon this model is on sale for 118€ right now, so how much does one actually cost them? And is it even worth them paying for the shipping to Madrid “for inspection”? It’s boggling and frustrating. I just want my air fryer back.

air fryer fried

12 Wednesday Jul 2023

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So this happened. The basket handle on my air fryer basically melted and fell off. “Luckily” it happened after I had put it down on the cooker surface and not just after pulling it out of the fryer or it would have been very messy, not to mention possibly burny. I’ve been in touch with Cosori and they say they are sending me a replacement basket. Hope it doesn’t take too long as I feel a bit lost without my Storm Cooker.