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.

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.

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. 🙂‍↔️

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.

My Moulinex air frier only had a few low power engines inside to run its fans, and those were likely brushless and powered by direct current, so the frequency should not be a problem to one of those, or to any air frier whatsoever because the only thing left are the resistors which work the same regardless of polarity. Therefore I think that air friers are extremely likely to work just fine regardless of the alternate current frequency used by the power grid.

Furthermore, and making the disclaimer that this is definitely not my field, I don't think that converting from the alternate current from the power grid to direct current using a few diodes and capacitors and then running a spinning 60Hz alternator on the resulting direct current should be that complicated. Even my cheap UPS has an alternator inside that can clearly be heard when the power supply fails and it starts feeding my Internet router, landline phone, and Raspberry Pis from its own battery, so while I'm not recommending using a UPS here, because the power requirements of an air frier are likely to far exceed the limits of any consumer-grade UPS, I don't think it would be hard for a competent electrician to come up with a solution.

Wouldn't have thought the motors were DC brushless on an air fryer, but perhaps so for speed control. A little fancier than the old-timey convection oven. Ultimately, the control board etc is running off DC, and wouldn't matter with the frequency, but I don't know if the power supply side might be touchy about it.
Let us know what the electrician says, techluver.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but I got some help and put bump dots at every five minute mark on my manual air fryer and that's worked like a charm. Knowing that the last stop on the temp adjustment is 400F has helped too. I refuse to have any device that's app reliant in the kitchen. I've watched too many people lose access to an otherwise operable device when an uncaring company bricked the app for Voiceover. A lot of the old fashioned, simple blindness hacks still work.

I actually like chicken on the dry side, but I wonder if AI could pick up on pinkness of flesh. And if it can, would you trust it?
If you've got the probe and all, I say use it. There's always a gremlin in the back of my mind that says, "ya, but what are you going to do if there's no electricity?" Probably because we have power outages in the summer where I live, and general paranoia... where I live.

The argument about the potential benefit of smart air friers being able to take temperature readings is actually something that I had never considered and does make a lot of sense to me. As for watching the color of the food, unless the frier is illuminated on the inside, that could be difficult, so just pulling the tray out and using some computer vision app for that job is is still likely the best option.

I totally get the preference for a self voiced accessible out of the box air fryer over an app dependent one. Some of us here have had trials and tribulations with the Hive thermostat for example, and Qardio appear to have withdrawn their app from the App Store, rendering my weighing scales a brick unless I keep my old phone around.
That said, I did also find the Cosori air fryer with the VeSync app pretty good. I’m one of the people, based in Ireland if that’s relevant, who did not need to press a button on the unit itself to start cooking.
I have since switched to the Cobalt talking air fryer however, when they brought out the version with two drawers. I’m very happy with it. It cooks very well and it is nice to control it without an app. So if they do bring it to the US market, I would recommend it.
It has two main flaws though for me. First, the buttons are these weird capacitive touch things. They are perfectly tactile, but cannot be pressed rapidly and repeatedly, so changing settings can be slow. Second, the voice is stupidly loud. I feel like the entire neighbourhood knows when I’m using it. I’d still recommend it overall though.
Now Oliver, what is this meat probe you speak of?
Dave

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Talking-Digital-Cooking-Thermometer/144540593?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=1854

I must admit, I was thinking something similar. What is the benefit of the Casori meat probe vs one that just talks?

Yes, @Brian, I have and use them. They are stand-alone devices with no bluetooth dependence on a smartphone, unlike my sickness thermometer. I even have one stowed away in my camping/emergency gear. You can't stick them inside an air fryer, and have them shut it off at such and such temperature, or a campfire for that matter.
Mine are not rechargeable, and I have to keep CR2032 coin cell batteries around for several other devices, both bluetooth and stand-alone. I'm not sure if that is a weakness in my lifestyle strategy, or a plus. The rechargeable devices almost never have easily replaceable batteries, and I don't know of any rechargeable coin cell batteries. I'll put that on the list of things to look into...

/Hi,
I'd recommend the talking air fryer from Cobolt. I've got one and the food comes out great. I'd especially recommend it for cooking meat. I've even made cheese on toast in it. I can't believe this isnt' available in North America. I've heard of people in the US using Cobolt stuff, so surprised this product isn't available. I'd never go with anything for my home powered by an app if I can help it. What if the accessibility breaks or the software running the app has issues. Look at the AWS outage a couple of weeks back. I actually thought about getting Hive for my central heating, but I decided against it in the end. What if accessibility breaks completely? Then I'd have no way to heat my home.

Well I did buy a meat thermometer from RNIB a few years ago, but it was one that you simply poke into the food when you want a temperature.
The meat probe that Oliver mentioned sounds more like something you leave in there as it cooks. Is that right or have I misunderstood?
Incidentally, the one I got from RNIB was useless.
Dave

Currently I have a Cuisinart Convection Toaster Oven. The controls on it are pretty simple, and just require some bump dots. There are three dials vertically, on the lower right front of the device. One dial is for temperature, one dial is for setting between bake, broil, and toast, and the final dial is a timer, which I don't use, as I tend to use either my Alexa device, or the timer on my iPhone.
I would gladly replace this with a talking toaster oven/air fryer combo. 😁

Sadly, most appliances that are, blind accessible, are rather pricey. May I ask what they have to modify on yours?

Looking forward to hearing your review of the device, once you have had time to use it.

Accessible or inaccessible probes of all sorts would make a good subject for a thread.
That chicken probe reminds me of something else, now that I've moved on from inspecting the camping gear to working on the garden. Apparently they have moisture probes that can either alert you of dryness in soil, or possibly trigger an irrigation system. I've ignored them because I assumed they were inaccessible. Is it worth struggling with all that when I've gotten in the habit of using a stick.
The inaccessibility of measuring equipment, like PH meters, kept me out of hydroponics back when I had an interest. Now, I wonder if AI describers could open the door to some things. And to bring it back to cooking, they are using those PH meters, and sometimes test strips, for some of the bread making and even canning. Oliver was making tortillas, and some people around here make them with blue or other colored maize, which requires a certain high PH from juniper ash or baking soda to release its color and certain nutrients. Too much makes things taste bitter, but the sighted cooks just watch for the color to get released. Would AI be able to watch for the color change? Probably not...

Now I check back, you had already indicated that, so apologies - I must have glossed over it. That actually does sound really useful. I had presumed you wouldn't be able to actually put it in the air fryer as it would have skewed the readings, but I guess not. Our of curiosity, which model did you get?

It is taking a lot of will-power to resist all the innuendo possibilities here.

Is it this one? https://www.amazon.co.uk/COSORI-Wireless-Thermometer-Bluetooth-Accurate/dp/B0DCG2TWS1/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2IXYNTUDXSXVI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.g93SnrjmPOBX2q3TWzOpM1OiHpqTQMnbKATRNTBXpJsGuBvGFnn7YEDNOCzUNONBb1w1ZJwhHBh4DcKqO5RUaka0V9HCr-t07Z8BIg3lESUfZ6z8X706CXwXAt8eEfT1pJKBSjaq7Bh7ZM7y77n7a2toiLckWbB3-ey9VqXBCiG8kADSIoOJY07P6X7aTAtshDDHLwOxyPXNpFcNfEiC21qWtQ_LewwtHR-E_sXxdo5BDLQbzNmWY7WcHGZjrD9XysVaqBuQd2B-RuKA1GqyM__4P7ys0LiWeiioOF48bgA.yj0sbwUAU9HIYtqY1NQ2LPkxxXr02y5HwViaHV_rLis&dib_tag=se&keywords=cosori%2Bmeat%2Bprobe&qid=1762261211&sprefix=kosori%2Bmeat%2Bprobe%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-6&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.95fd378e-6299-4723-b1f1-3952ffba15af&th=1

I'll look into it a bit more just to make sure that it will work with our air fryer, whatever it is we have. It mentions the specific one you have, so guessing that is going to be the only one that supports all the smart bits. Not sure what we have

Anyway I'll do a bit more research and perhaps see if it features over Black Friday.

GET a analog air frier, meaning one with knobs o one for time and another for temperature, then put bump dots on your most used temperatures you'll use most often and there you go.
Edit oops, meants with knobs, oh well, same thing. I don't know exactly which one I have at home, will take a look when i get back and let you know.

Ah, so the same design as my toaster oven then. 😎

Hello,
I use the Casori 5-quart smart air fryer and it works like a charm. The added benefit of the Casori is that you can connect it with your Echo and Google devices, which gives you the advantage of voice control. this virtually eliminates the need to control it from the app or use the touchscreen. However, as Mr. Grieves pointed out, it would be helpful to add a bumpdot to the power button and the start button. The reason for this is that the power button is sometimes used when setting up the smart air fryer for the first time, primarily when it comes to connecting it to WIFI. Hope this helps. :)

I have the cosori dual blaze 6.8 quarter size smart air frier for the past 2 years now. I have bump dots on the digital screen for the power button and the temperature buttons. plus I have it connected to alexa for voice commands. don't use the vesinc app at all, but it is accessible with I-phone and android. yep.

Hi, I just bought the Cosori smart fry dual blaze 10 litre model which was on offer last yeek here in the UK. Wow it was a breeze to set up with the Ve sync app. I've marked everything with Braille labels in case I ever have to set it up manually. I'd say this was doable but very tricky especially if you want to use two zones. I to have to start the cooking process on the unit itself so I have marked the top edge with a Braille letter so I just slide my finger directly down the screen from this lable and land strait on the start/pause button. My question though is the Cosori meat probe which the manufacturer tells me isn't compatible with my oven, can it work just with the Ve sync app no matter what cooker/oven you place it in? All the best

Hi @Oliver, really interested in your observations on the meat probe. Is that exclusively for the air frier, or can it also be used in an oven? My old RNIB talking thermometer died this afternoon. Appreciate any insights. Regards, Donal

Just saw this article in The Verge from the CES conference. IAI Smart is making voice controlled devices including an Air Fryer and all processing is done on device, no cloud, internet or Alexa required. This sounds promising.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/850919/smart-appliance-emerson-smartvoice-ces

Ninja makes a pretty good air fryer. No need for a nap. We can get a one container device or a two container device. I think they have larger ones.

Emerson smart offer 2 capacity air fryer
you can buy from many retailers as:
Bestbuy, Target, Walmart, amazon and more.
Emerson SmartVoice 5.3QT 6-In-1 Air Fryer, 1000+ Voice Commands, No APP, No WIFI, Air Fry, Bake, Reheat, Dehydrate

https://emersonsmart.com/products/emerson-smartvoice-air-fryer-5-3qt-5503a

link Emerson SmartVoice 10QT 6-In-1 Air Fryer, 1000+ Voice Commands, No APP, No WIFI, Air Fry, Bake, Reheat, Dehydrate
https://emersonsmart.com/products/emerson-smartvoice-air-fryer-10qt-1003a

Thanks for the info, MarkSarch.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08K8T3W2V?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_A7YW1TZRKZP4H6086J34&th=1
this works with amazon echo dot

LSS Products has one and Maxi Aids probably does too.