Air fryers that are easy to clean

Bella Slim Air Fryer has the best record for cleanup: 23 of 23 shoppers said the basket wiped out or washed easily. Ninja Crispi Glass Air Fryer is close behind at 27 of 31, and more shoppers weighed in on it than on any other fryer here. Gourmia Digital Toaster Oven Air Fryer has the weakest record here, splitting evenly at 15 of 30.

  • 177 store reviews counted
  • Target shoppers
  • Nov 2023 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Was cleanup easy? What shoppers said
  1. Bella Slim Air Fryer 23 said either way
  2. Ninja Crispi Glass Air Fryer 31 said either way
  3. Ninja Foodi DualZone Air Fryer 23 said either way
  4. Gourmia Digital Window Air Fryer 18 said either way
  5. Gourmia Digital Toaster Oven Air Fryer 30 said either way

Share of shoppers who stated an outcome for cleanup. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Bella Slim Air Fryer Best record Bella Slim Air Fryer 23 of 23 say it's easy to clean See price & reviews on Amazon
What stands out

Cleanup is harder with the toaster oven style: Gourmia Digital Toaster Oven Air Fryer splits evenly, while the four basket and glass-dish fryers all sit at four in five or better.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points shoppers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1 Bella Slim Air Fryer

Bella

Slim Air Fryer

Best for quiet cooking

23/23 say it's easy to clean

No shopper who mentioned cleaning had trouble with it, and the extras get praise too: 32% like the size and 29% say it runs quiet. Bella's own site agrees at 7 of 7, which we show but don't count.

What shoppers praise

  • Good size 32%
  • Quiet 29%
  • Fast 7%
  • Cooks crispy 7%
  • Good value 7%

What shoppers complain about

  • Stopped working 7%
Where shoppers said it
  • Target 23 of 23
  • Brand site 7 of 7 shown, not counted
2 Ninja Crispi Glass Air Fryer

Ninja

Crispi Glass Air Fryer

27/31 say it's easy to clean

Cleanup is the big draw, with 82% of reviews calling the glass containers easy to clean and 12% saying it cooks fast. A smaller group, 15%, found it hard to clean.

What shoppers praise

  • Good size 15%
  • Fast 12%
  • Good value 6%

What shoppers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where shoppers said it
  • Target 27 of 31
  • Brand site 7 of 7 shown, not counted
3 Ninja Foodi DualZone Air Fryer

Ninja

Foodi DualZone Air Fryer

20/23 say it's easy to clean

Shoppers like the size and the results, with 19% praising the capacity and 14% saying it cooks crispy. The complaints are about the baskets: 11% find them too small and 8% say the coating peels.

What shoppers praise

  • Good size 19%
  • Cooks crispy 14%
  • Fast 8%
  • Good value 5%

What shoppers complain about

  • Too small 11%
  • Coating peels 8%
Where shoppers said it
  • Target 20 of 23
  • Brand site 7 of 7 shown, not counted
4

Gourmia

Digital Window Air Fryer

15/18 say it's easy to clean

Cleanup goes well at 15 of 18, but lasting is the problem: 33% of reviews say it stopped working. 8% also mention a peeling coating.

What shoppers praise

  • Good size 8%
  • Good value 8%
  • Cooks evenly 5%
  • Quiet 5%

What shoppers complain about

  • Stopped working 33%
  • Coating peels 8%
Where shoppers said it
  • Target 15 of 18

Share of 39 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

5

Gourmia

Digital Toaster Oven Air Fryer

15/30 say it's easy to clean

Shoppers split right down the middle here, and 38% of reviews say it's hard to clean. 13% like the size and 13% say it stopped working.

What shoppers praise

  • Good size 13%
  • Good value 8%

What shoppers complain about

  • Stopped working 13%
Where shoppers said it
  • Target 15 of 30

Share of 39 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 5 products ranked here carry 5,410 reviews at Target. We read the newest reviews of each product (up to a thousand per listing), kept the ones that talk about cleanup, and counted up to 40 per product, posted between Nov 2023 and Sep 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (1 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Target also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. We show them on product cards but never count them, because brand-site reviews run more positive than store reviews of the same products.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

We count what shoppers report. Nothing here is safety advice: use heaters, fans and other appliances as the maker's manual says.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most shoppers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Bella Slim Air Fryer Target (28 reviews counted)
  2. Ninja Crispi Glass Air Fryer Target (34 reviews counted)
  3. Ninja Foodi DualZone Air Fryer Target (37 reviews counted)
  4. Gourmia Digital Window Air Fryer Target (39 reviews counted)
  5. Gourmia Digital Toaster Oven Air Fryer Target (39 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which air fryer is easiest to clean?

Bella Slim Air Fryer has the best record (23 of 23), followed by Ninja Crispi Glass Air Fryer (27 of 31) and Ninja Foodi DualZone Air Fryer (20 of 23).

Is a glass air fryer easier to clean?

Shoppers mostly found Ninja Crispi Glass Air Fryer easy to clean, at 27 of 31. 15% of its reviews disagree, so it isn't trouble-free.

Are toaster oven air fryers harder to clean?

In these reviews, yes. Gourmia Digital Toaster Oven Air Fryer splits evenly at 15 of 30, while the four other fryers here all sit at four in five or better.

Does the Ninja Foodi DualZone coating peel?

Some shoppers say so: 8% of reviews mention a peeling coating. Still, 20 of 23 found it easy to clean. Check the manual before putting the baskets in the dishwasher.

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