Looking for an accessible air fryer

Good luck buddy. The only air fryers that we can access and control the temperature and time to a t are ones we can control with an app. There's no natively accessible air fryer out of the box. You'll either have to add markings to one or just buy a smart one and get with the times. I love my cosori smart air fryer. The app for the cosori devices is 100 percent accessible. It's 2025. Get with the times buddy.

I presume the UK one you mean is Cobalt talking air fryer? Have you emailed them to ask if there is any way they can help you? I asked them a few questions a while back and they were quite friendly and helpful.

I ended up with the Casori air fryer which does need an app and honestly I wish I hadn't got excited by the possibilities of a smart device and had gone for the Cobalt instead.

(I am based in the UK though so realise it's not quite as easy for you)

Finding appliance companies smart enough to use real buttons and not be dependent on other devices is a smart and hard thing to do. There are air fryers that use dials which can be marked with puff paint or scratched to be felt. If thrift stores don’t have any a tech shop like best buy should know about the controls or have an adapter for a British appliance to use our power system. The state commission for the blind might know models or be a place to find people to ask.
I hope people stop being as rude as tyler chambliss was when we can still get spotty internet in cities and need to eat whether our phone works or not. You would think in 2025 politicians would know we deserve to eat even if we aren’t working but most of them won’t get with the times or value independence as much as the people who need it do. I hope you get to cook with ease.

The app is fully accessible. I have fried many a thing in mine, without burning down my neighborhood. Can select the temperature and time perfectly well.
I have also bought the instant pot pro plus since we are talking cooking today. it’s also fully accessible via the application. it also has 2000 recipes in the app and it’s made for idiots like myself. I mean when you select a recipe to cook, all you have to do is prepare the ingredients and then follow the steps on your screen. You don’t even have to select the temperature, time and mode. You just press next on the app when you have finished the current step and the machine does everything on its own. that is it automatically sets the temperature, the time and the mode and all you have to do is wait until you get the notification that the current step is over, in order to press next and go to the next step.
You can’t imagine what I’ve cooked with this thing. mrs. Panais was searching our house for a month to find where I had hid Gordon Ramsay.
Ps. I read the OP again. both the appliances I suggested our touchscreen.

I have a Cosori air fryer which uses the VSync app. The app is mostly accessible except for recipes, but you can look those up online. the only catch is you need to start the unit from the device itself so no one hacks your phone and burns your house down. Put a bump dot near the start button and you're good to go.
Connecting to wi-fi was easy as was registering the device for the warranty. You can usually find these on your e-retailer of choice for about $150.
The other benefit of this one is dual elements at the top and bottom, so no flipping.

I do understand the want. When Amazon Web Services or Cloudstrike go down and brick my Cosari air fryer I get quite unhappy. Unfortunately I'm not being a help here, I don't know of a nice knob having machine either. Truth is my kitchen apliances should not *require* an ap to work, it should be 100% optional. Not only does that make us dependent on internet conectivity and hosts, but also the apliance vendor maintaining the service, and not breaking accessibility of the app. There is room for a lot of things to go wrong and over the years I've seen it all happen. Who else remembers Istant Pot deciding we should all buy new and bricked the Bluetooth Instapot ap for two years before seemingly they heard from enough angry custoemrs to fix it? @tyler chambliss I gues if I am being nice I hope your charmed luck holds out; otherwise you may come to appreciate these observations some day.

RNIB has a list of a few accessible air fryers:

https://shop.rnib.org.uk/blogs/news/looking-for-an-accessible-air-fryer-that-wont-break-the-bank

I did go for the Kosori Dual Blaze too and am pretty pleased with it. It is a touch screen but the power button is far left in the centre of the screen, the start button is far right. I'm also getting the meat probe which allows me to use them together, IE, stop cooking when meat reaches a set temp.

I did have an InstaPot which could also slow cook and pressure cook. It was tactile buttons but did require me learning what each one was and counting through menus. I basically kept it on one temp and kept changing the time for different meals. This didn't give me the confidence to cook fish or meat though.

The Kosori is nice as I feel I can access everything and be a little more adventurous with what I make and I'm kinda regretting not getting the double basket version, even if I don't have the space.

I know you're looking for manual ones, hopefully the RNIB link above will set you on the right path, but I'm just saying how easy it is to use the Kosori with the app. I've got a shortcut to my air fryer on my iPhone home screen, set time and duration, hit start and, then hit start on the air fryer.

I'm not sure the non-start thing is an issue outside europe and the UK. It does make sense though.

Another thing to note, Alexa doesn't work with any of the Kosori air fryers in the UK, which I was kinda bummed about for a while, but I'm not sure I am now. As another poster said, it does rely on external services whereas the app doesn't, only on your home wifi.

The Casori does work with Google Assistant in the UK. I've not really played much with it but I can do some stuff from my Nest Mini thing. It won't actually start cooking, though, and neither will the app. You have to press the button on the unit. I have a lock dot on the button. I have to put my hand on the right, slide it down to about half way, then move left until I feel it, hoping I don't accidentally press something else. You definitely need sighted assistant to set it up.

The app had a number of serious accessibility problems when I started but has improved to the point where it is quite usable, but there's always the anxiety that it won't remain that way.

I think I would prefer something in the kitchen that didn't use an app as it is a bit fiddly but it is doable. One nice thing is that you can select the ingredients, put in the weight and it will use the right setting. So if you don't really know your way around an air fryer it makes it a bit easier. I have the dual one so I should be able to have both sides cooking something different but remaining in sync although I haven't tried it.

It's odd how the experience with the Cosori/Vesync app seems to vary. Like some others here, I'm also in the UK, but my experience differs from what's been described above.

Unlike mr grieves and Oliver, I don't need to use the physical controls on the air fryer to start it - I can do everything through the app, including setting temperature and cook time, and starting and stopping cooking.

My guess is that this might be dependent on the specific Cosori air fryer model. In my case, I have a lower spec model compared to those mentioned above.

I'm curious to know what others see in the app. For me, when I tap on the air fryer on the main screen, I'm taken to a screen that primarily gives access to recipes, but also has a "Start Cooking" button at the bottom (assuming the air fryer is turned on). Tapping this takes me to a screen with pickers for temperature and cook time, plus a "Cook Now" button. When cooking, this screen shows the remaining time and has a button to stop cooking.

I guess I'm just lucky with my Cosori model choice. It's certainly nice not having to locate a physical start/stop button each time!

Pete, when I had this fryer I had exactly the same setup as yourself and when this topic came up before I was surprised most in the UK had to use a physical button etc. Your screens were identical to what I had. Someone suggested this may have been an EU safety thing but as this was after Brexit it wouldn't have applied to us. So we never really worked out why a few of us could do what you do and others simply couldn't.

Ouch, @tyler chambliss. that response came across as very dismissive. Telling someone to, quote, "get with the times, buddy," is not helpful. Sure, you did provide a couple sollutions, btu from how I read the comment they were overshadowed by telling the original poster to get with the times. Also, this person may not wish to get an air fryer that's controlled via an app for whatever reason.

I'm skeptical there would be an adapter that would handle the load of an air fryer, especially over long-term use, and if there is one, it might be more costly than the air fryer. Duel grid appliances are best handled on the internal design end of things, not the after-factory, square hole in the round peg end of the plug.
As per the rest of the discussion, I don't know anything about air fryers. Starting a campfire with a flint and steel and char cloth... maybe.

That's not declarative by the way... I think the UK is still signed up to various standards from the EU rather than having developed their own. I think, as far as I know, the Dual Blaze, the one I have, came out a couple of years ago.

I've also bought the meat probe, been playing with it today. It's very cool. It meshes with your air fryer so will stop cooking when the core of your meat or fish has hit the right temp.

Mr Grieves... I wonder at the difference in displays. I think I'm lucky in that the one i've got is about four CM high and stretches the width of the machine. I did a video call with my dad and found power, far left, held it for five seconds, and set the rest up in the app. The start button is simply on the far right about two centimetres in and mid way up. I just poke it until it beeps. I'm getting quite accurate with it.

It does suck that we have such different experiences, some that work with the auto start, different displays and so on. As it stands, and as far as I understand it, Kosori is the best of the bunch for smart air fryers, but that's not saying much. Ninja specifically says on its sight that accessibility has not been included.

As for the talking ones that are available now, my concern is they might speak, but might not cook as well as mainstream devices.

I bought a Moulinex air frier with just two physical dials for temperature and timer a couple of years ago that is perfectly usable after adding some markings. It even dings like an early 90s microwave so also feels pretty vintage even though Air Friers weren't a thing back then. However cooking is a skill that I sadly never developed even back in my sighted days plus I don't like the taste of french fries made that way so I ended up giving it away.

I'll always opt for simplicity when I don't need to use something remotely. I have a all-dials Cuisinart toaster oven with an air fryer setting (which just means both top and bottom elements plus convection fan). It's taken me a long, long time to get the hang of where to put the dials for the right temps, but that's mainly because I've been too lazy to mark the dials... for years. I just give things a whirl. A toaster oven isn't nearly as good at air frying as a dedicated fryer, and a fryer isn't as good at the other functions of a toaster oven. But I use the thing once or twice daily and rarely turn on my actual oven... or fry things in a skillet, or put things in the pop-up toaster.

The comment @João Santos mentions above, regarding simple controls, reminds me of another post somewhere on these forums where someone was asking for an accessible crockpot with a companion app. I realize this thread is about air fryers, but I couldn't help but think back on the other post. A crockpot, at its simplest design, typically has a dial with three or four positions and that's it. It really does not get much more simpler than that.
And while I absolutely love technology, sometimes old school is the best school. 🙂‍↔️

That sounds like a very expensive way of doing it as you'll also need a transformer.

The UK operates on a voltage of 230V at a frequency of 50Hz, while the US uses 120V at 60Hz.

It's of course doable, but it might be that the only current options are app based.

It's frustrating that we have such a small range that we can use and, year by year, it becomes more digital. If you want to buy a new device, which I probably would when it comes to cooking, there are less manual devices being created as the manufacturers compete for new and exciting features on something which is basically a heating element with a fan.

Nothing is ideal. I can say the Kosiri Dual Blaze 6.4 litre, with the app, is entirely accessible without any modifications.

the manual ones I've seen, and considered, were too small for my needs.

Good luck. Purchasing choices are so much harder when it comes to this sort of thing.

It's a little stranger than that, @Oliver. Our 120v is our split single faze, so one leg of two and the grounded neutral. What comes in off the line is 240v single faze, and we use it for ovens, stoves and clothing dryers, among other machines. That might be manageable on the heating elements.
The 60 to 50 hz will not work for motors, and most likely not with the digital part. As far as I know, you need circuitry that rectifies and smooths the AC 60hz to dc, then inverts the DC to 50hz, and that also handles a substantial power load, probably well over 1,800w. Think of the size of the capacitors for that... You almost might as well have a generator running off your AC.
If the electricians know of some other voodoo to do it, let us know, I just can't think of it.