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Best Dual-Drawer Air Fryers for 2025

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4 days ago

January 18, 2025

Dual-drawer air fryers from Tefal, Ninja and Cosori

If you’re currently using a single-drawer air fryer, then a dual-drawer, also known as a dual-zone or two-basket air fryer will change the way you cook. These game-changing appliances will allow you to prepare an entire meal in your air fryer, instead of just cooking a main or side.

The advantages are obvious: more space and much greater cooking flexibility. They’re easy to use as well, with a ‘sync’ function that ensures that the food cooking in both drawers will be ready at the same time. So, when the alert sounds to let you know that cooking has finished, you can dish up right away, with no fuss and no waiting around.

They typically also have a ‘match’ function that copies the cooking time and temperature from one drawer to the other, so you only need to program once.

If you’re cooking one dish, however, you can opt to use only one drawer, so they’re just as energy-efficient as a single-basket air fryer.

Their only disadvantage is the amount of room they require, so if counter space is at a premium, you might want to head straight to the Ninja Double Stack XL.

If you already know you’d like a Ninja appliance, have a look at our dedicated Ninja round-up. We’ve also got specific recommendations for air fryer ovens and air fryer toaster ovens. You can find our top picks among all types and brands in our overall best air fryer round-up.

Otherwise, read on for the best two-zone air fryers we’ve reviewed.

1. Ninja Foodi DualZone FlexDrawer – The oven alternative

Pros

Huge cooking area for baking and roasts

Flexible cooking

Crispy, even results

Robust and easy to use

Cons

No shake alert

No viewing window or option to open a single drawer to check on food

Price When Reviewed:
$149.99 (MSRP $179.99)

If you want to use your oven less, the FlexDrawer is an excellent alternative. Its unique offering is the ability to combine its two 5.2-litre cooking spaces into a 10.4-litre ‘megazone’ for roasts and baking full-size cakes.

In the US, the equivalent air fryer, the FlexBasket, only has a 7QT capacity. It also lacks the UK model’s ‘prove’ cooking mode. It’s otherwise a similar model, and we’d still recommend it.

But you can also use the two cooking areas separately, in the same way that you’d use any dual-zone air fryer. The FlexDrawer has all the functionality you’d expect, with match and sync functions to make dual-drawer cooking simple.

There are seven cooking modes: max crisp (for frozen food), air fry, roast, bake, reheat (for leftovers), dehydrate (for jerky and dried fruit) and prove (for dough). The FlexDrawer comes with a manual containing recipes and a cooking chart, with suggested times and temperatures for popular food, so it’s a good option for air fryer novices.

Still, its controls and digital display are so intuitive and easy to use that you likely won’t need to resort to the manual.

It’s extremely powerful, so you’ll probably need to adjust your air fryer recipes down but once you do so, it’ll produce evenly cooked, crispy food.

Read our full
Ninja Foodi FlexBasket review

2. Tefal Easy Fry Dual Air Fryer & Grill – Grilling included

Pros

Grills

Extremely quiet

Stainless steel finish

Cooks evenly

Well priced

Cons

Not all modes have a shake reminder

No frozen foods mode

No viewing window

Price When Reviewed:
Not currently available in the US

This Tefal air fryer and grill has a lot to offer, especially for its attractive price point. Although it has an RRP of £199.99, it’s available from a number of retailers for £129.

As for the air fryer’s design, we really like its stainless steel panels, which give it a brighter look than the average model, which tends to overwhelm a kitchen counter. Inside, it has two drawers of different sizes: 5.2L and 3.2L. These give you the option of cooking a larger main, such as roasting a whole chicken, or using the smaller drawer for quick, economical sides and snacks for one. As you’d hope, it has a sync function, so you can have both cooking drawers finish at the same time, for easy dishing up.

It also has a grill function, which we found did a pretty good job of creating the flavor of grilled food, without the cooking odor and smoke that grilling can produce.

The digital display is intuitive and easy to use and the appliance has eight pre-set programs – fries, chicken, vegetables, fish, dessert, dehydrate, manual and the grill mode. You can adjust the time and temperature on each. There isn’t a dedicated setting for frozen food however, so you’ll need to work that out by trial and error.

We found that the pre-sets cook accurately and that the air fryer produces evenly cooked and reliably crispy food. Altogether, it’s a good buy.

Read our full
Tefal Easy Fry Dual Air Fryer & Grill EY905D40 review