 Great for small batches |
| Review Date: December 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: T. Chai, Vancouver, BC |
| This is a great fryer for its size. Only 4 cups of oil, heats quickly. I have made yam fries, tempura shrimp/scallops and fried wontons. All were delicious and very crisp. Clean-up is a little annoying because you cannot remove the oil container from the unit. This is pretty much exactly the same as the FryDaddy with the addition of adjustible thermostat and fry basket and cover to keep oil from spattering when frying. |
Presto 05471 Stainless/Aluminum Fryer
|
| Review Date: December 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: David Dilworth, Jamesport, NY United States |
Previous owner of Fry Daddy (until it died) surprisingly pleased with the performance of this model
for thirty or so bucks getting the looks/performance of a professional fryer love the metal aspects of this fryer
seems like it will be easy to clean.
PROS
Aluminum interior conducts heat nicely compared to the insulating quality of the nonstick Fry Daddy interior, frys vigorously
Looks nice stainless exterior handsome professional quality
Solid construction, stable on the countertop
CONS
none yet |
Nice look, cooks well.
|
| Review Date: March 11, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Aussiegirl, |
I received this little fryer yesterday around lunch time, so I decided to give it a go, I made french fries with chicken nuggets. I was not disappointed.
Pros: compact size; looks good sitting on the counter (this is a plus because I don't have to hide it away in the cupboard; cooks evenly, every thing was nice and crisp; clean up was a cinch.
Cons: I only have two small complaints and that is that it doesn't indicate when the oil has reached the correct temperature but for the price that would be asking too much, I used a deep fry thermometer and that worked well. The other thing is that it takes a good 15 minuets to heat the oil, so if you are in a hurry that could be a problem.
All in all this little fryer is really terrific, much nicer than the Fry Daddy. I picked this one because of the aluminum interior, I don't like Teflon it always comes off. Well worth the money. |
Easy
|
| Review Date: November 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Beamer, |
| This fryer doesn't take up a lot of counter space and is easy to clean. It cooks the food fast enough. Nice for frying small pieces and saves from getting your stove greasy. A timer would make it better. I haven't tried larger pieces to fry, but don't think it would work well for that. |
Convenient mini-fyer
|
| Review Date: April 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: L. A. Tucker, Washington, D.C. |
This fryer is a great value for your money. It does exactly what it purports to do: it fries small quantities of food, at adjustable temperatures, and is small enough to be convenient for those of us without a lot of space. It's also a lot cuter than many similarly sized fryers of this type--which can be important if you're leaving it out on top of the counter most of the time.
It's small, so it doesn't use a bunch of oil, and we do usually just leave the oil in the fryer until it needs to be changed. It's lightweight, so moving it without spilling and cleaning it isn't really much of a hassle. And the exterior is very easy to clean because it's relatively sleek and simple. It works really well for exactly what it says it does: frying small amounts, like single/double servings of french fries. It does take a bit longer if you're trying to fry a lot, or something really dense like chicken legs/thighs, but that's only to be expected. And the food comes out great, with the perfect consistency.
The only thing we wish it had was a hook to hang the basket on for draining. It's possible to open the lid and balance the basket on the rim to drain, but you have to be careful it doesn't fall back in and splatter, etc.
Just a tip: we usually use the highest temperature setting, because any lower seems to be inefficient and take forever, so that doesn't really seem to be such a plus--but perhaps for different kinds of foods we don't cook it is and we're just unaware.
Overall, we are really please with this product, and it was a great value for the price. We use it constantly--and that's another great thing about it: it's small and we just keep it on the counter, so when my husband wants fries, we turn it on and it heats up really quickly, so it's very quick and convenient! |
good but...
|
| Review Date: September 5, 2010 |
| Reviewer: l.t., |
For that price, it is ok. It would be a 5 stars if...
- there was something to hold the basket over the oil for draining or placing the "food" (before/after)
- the light would switch (on or off) when the selected temp. is reached.
This two little things would make this little fryer perfect.
I'm not convinced with the "magnetic" plug and short cable. |
Too small and under-featured to be useful
|
| Review Date: August 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Forrest Milder, Boston, MA USA |
I bought the Presto as an experiment to see if I could get a small enough frier that my wife wouldn't complain that I was using up counter space, or fillling our cubbard with another electrical appliance. The goal was mostly to make french fries.
The plusses are that the frier seems to be very solid, and when you want to put it away you can fold everything inside it, and put it away.
Alas, the minuses are too many to recommend it. Most importantly, it doesn't get hot enough (even though it has a 390 setting; I didn't indpendently test just how hot it got) to make crispy fries. And equally importantly, the basket is so small and round that it holds next to nothing. It took 2-3 batches to make one potato's worth of fries. Of lesser importance, the light only tells you that it is plugged in, not whether it has reached the desired temperature, and pouring the oil out of the unit was not as smoooth as I would have liked. I tended to spill some of the oil.
So, I returned the unit and got a Waring Pro D55, which has a much bigger, squarer basket, another 500 watts, and is still pretty small. I'm far happier with that unit. |
Horrible Fryer
|
| Review Date: August 16, 2010 |
| Reviewer: evythingfried, |
Bought this and was so excited it. The heating is slow and it leaks!
10 mins after heating it up, I noticed the fryer was leaking oil. WHAT? Where is the oil coming from? The material on the inside seem to open the pores when it heats up. I had a party of people to feed so I kept it on. I lost about 3/4 cup of oil after using it for 45 mins. AFter the fryer cooled down, it didn't leak anymore. Still, no way am I keeping it a leaky fryer. Maybe it's pure bad luck that I got a malfunctioning one, but I would caution you when you are thinking about this one. |
don't buy
|
| Review Date: December 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: cincisoccermom, cincinnati oh |
| Even though I turned the thermostat all the way up (to 390 degrees), it barely made it to 350 which isn't hot enough to fry chips, much less anything more dense. Mine is going back to the store. |
|
No video reviews found for this product.
Waring Pro DF55 Professional Deep Fryer Stainless Steel[ReviewAZON asin="B002KMBVYK"]... »