In this video, I'm going to be reviewing and testing out the Gourmia Air Fryer.
So let's get started.
The Gourmia Air fryer measures at 15.3 inches tall, 13.5 inches in width, and in-depth.
It also comes with a 6 Quarter removable basket.
Inside the basket, you'll find the crisper tray
and a multi-purpose rack and all these parts are dishwasher safe.
Inside the box you'll also find a manual and also a recipe book which has up to 30 recipes.
With the basket removed inside the air fryer, you'll see the top heating elements. It's always
a good idea to wipe this down before using it because sometimes it has a lot of residue on
there and it'll also help with some of the smell that you get from the first time of using it.
I'm going to quickly wipe down the air fryer and wash out the basket and parts.
This Gourmia Air Fryer comes with a digital touch screen. Press the On button for the display panel
and you'll see six air fry preset programs for various types of foods and six cooking
preset programs which include bake, roast, broil, dehydrate, reheat, and keep warm.
The Air Fry button defaults to 200 degrees Celsius or 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes
with the preheat enabled but you can turn this off if you didn't want to preheat it first.
But it doesn't enable the Turn Reminder so you have to remember to press the turn reminder if
you wanted to turn your food halfway. The fries button does have both the preheat and the turn
reminder enabled so it's just a shame that they haven't included it on the air fry mode.
I used the multi-purpose rack to cook more food at the same time. So I've layered fries at the bottom
and chicken nuggets on the rack. Pop it in the air fryer once it's preheated
for 20 minutes but I did forget to switch on the turn reminder. So luckily I did remember
to check it after about 12 or 13 minutes or so and here you can see that they're almost done.
So I just flipped over the chicken nuggets and I put it on for another two minutes.
After another two minutes, they were perfectly done. You can see here.
So in 15 minutes, these were all done. Next time, I'm just gonna use the Fries button.
Since I wasn't sure how long it would take for the nuggets to get done I just used the air fryer
button. But now I know that 15 minutes is fine for both fries and chicken nuggets I'll just
hit the Fries button and just to show you when I cut into the fries they were perfectly done.
And the chicken nuggets, perfectly crisp and cooked all the way through.
I sprayed some cooking oil on a small batch of potato spring rolls
and I air-fried them for 8 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius or 400 degrees Fahrenheit
Again, I forgot to press the turn reminder on. But I did check and flip them halfway.
If you do open the basket or pause the program anytime during the cooking,
as long as you don't cancel it does automatically continue from where the time left off.
And they did turn out crispy no doubt and the inside is cooked and you can see the potatoes,
but the pastry was very, very dry. It's still edible but these are definitely
going to need some more trials and testing to make them even more enjoyable, I think.
So next, preheat on air fry for eight minutes at 200 degrees Celsius or 400 degrees Fahrenheit,
I popped in six drumsticks. I probably could have added a couple more in there and I included two
small chicken breast pieces on the rack. After eight minutes I took out the breast
pieces and I added on another 10 minutes for the drumsticks to complete cooking. Unfortunately,
I think eight minutes was a little too long for the breast pieces I think maybe six, or actually,
maybe five would have been enough because they were small and thin. So they came out really dry.
But the drumsticks were cooked to perfection they came out crispy. The skin was crispy
and the inside was so juicy and tender.
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I'll just show you as I cut into it just how soft and
juicy you can see it. Now you guys need to believe me when I tell you,
this was so good. This is probably the best thing that we cooked out of there so far.
You can't fit a 12-inch pizza in the basket but you can fit in two mini pizzas.
So following the air fryer chart that came in the recipe book I
air-fried these at 190 degrees or 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes.
But that was way too long and they overcooked.
Oh my goodness, too much!
So the underside was nicely done but
the top just got way overcooked. So next time I'm gonna reduce it maybe to like eight minutes.
Again on air fry. 200 degrees Celsius. 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Preheat and this time I remembered
to switch the Turn Reminder on and I'm going to increase the time to 25 minutes put it on preheat
and while the air fryer is preheating I'm going to take out my chicken. This time I'm using bone-in
thighs and I'm going to sprinkle on some baking powder just before I add it to the air fryer.
Flip it over and sprinkle on the other side as well.
Pop it in the preheated air fryer with the skin side facing down.
Halfway through flip them over and pop them back in and then here is the final result.
But here you can see, just how crispy the skin turned out just by sprinkling on some baking
powder and the inside is so juicy and tender, and look at that skin it's so crispy and just
look at the texture and the bubbles on there that the baking powder created. This chicken again was
also just as good as the drumsticks and it was delicious I can't tell you guys how good it was
The next day I reheated the food. Hit the reheat button.
It'll default to 15 minutes but that's way too long I'm gonna reduce it down to three minutes.
The drumsticks are nice and crispy and the fries, and also the spring rolls.
So just a couple of things that you want to watch out for with the airfryer is that when
it is cooking you may see a lot of smoke coming out of this so you don't want to
keep it too close to a wall or too close to any other appliances on the counter and you
may also notice a hot plastic smell but that's supposed to go away as well after a few uses.
Otherwise, this Gourmia six-quarter is a great size for my family needs. It's not too loud. Not
so more than any of the other airfryers that I've had. It's very easy to use and clean.
A viewing window would be nice to have also the Turn Reminder on the airfryer preset
would have been ideal because the first few times I did keep forgetting to switch it on,
but now that I'm used to it I do remember to turn it on.
And lastly, I don't know how to change the temperature format from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
Since most of the recipes are always shown in Fahrenheit,
I really wanted it to show it in Fahrenheit. I don't know if anybody else has been able to
figure that out, but if you have please feel free to share that in the comments below.
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