Cosori Dual Blaze TwinFry Compact review: the air fryer that wants your oven’s job
Huge capacity, four heating elements and a drawer that transforms from one cooking zone into two make the Cosori TwinFry Compact one of the more interesting large air fryers around, even if the word “Compact” feels slightly optimistic once it lands on your kitchen counter.
There comes a point in every modern kitchen when the appliances begin fighting for territory. The toaster has claimed one corner, the coffee machine has somehow secured permanent residency, the kettle is treated as essential infrastructure, and then the Cosori Dual Blaze TwinFry Compact arrives looking as though it has every intention of taking over whatever worktop space remains.
Despite the word Compact in its name, this is a sizeable 8.6-litre air fryer with serious dimensions, serious cooking power and very little interest in disappearing into a cupboard after dinner. Fortunately, it has enough clever ideas to justify the space it demands, and its biggest advantage is not simply the generous capacity but the way Cosori allows you to use it.
Instead of giving you two permanently separate drawers, the TwinFry starts with one enormous cooking basket and includes a removable divider that splits the interior into two 4.3-litre zones whenever you need them. That means you can cook two completely different foods at different temperatures for dinner one evening, then remove the divider the next day and use the full 8.6 litres for something much larger.
Pros
The huge 8.6-litre capacity is the obvious highlight, but the removable divider is what makes the design particularly useful. The TwinFry also offers four heating elements, a broad 35°C to 240°C temperature range, six genuinely useful cooking modes, dishwasher-safe components and enough room to make family cooking much easier.
Cons
The biggest drawback is size. This is a wide appliance and you should measure your kitchen before ordering one. There is also no viewing window, no automatic shake reminder, and the 2,700W maximum power figure is substantial. Its aggressive cooking performance also means familiar timings from an older air fryer may need adjusting.
Quick specs
| Price | £159.99 RRP |
| Capacity | 8.6 litres |
| Zones | One 8.6L zone or two 4.3L zones |
| Power | 2,700W |
| Temperature range | 35°C to 240°C |
| Cooking modes | Air Fry, Roast, Grill, Bake, Reheat, Dry |
| Heating system | Four-element Dual Blaze |
| Dimensions | Approx. 28.1 x 48.2 x 33.9cm |
| Weight | Around 8kg |
| Smart control | No |
| Dishwasher-safe basket | Yes |
One drawer to rule them all
Most dual-zone air fryers make you accept the same compromise from the moment you unpack them. You gain the convenience of two separate cooking areas, but you permanently lose the ability to use the full width of the appliance for larger food.
That is perfectly fine when dinner involves chicken in one drawer and chips in the other, but it becomes less useful when you want to cook something that simply does not fit comfortably into either compartment.
Cosori approaches the problem from the opposite direction. The TwinFry gives you one large rectangular cooking area as the default, then allows you to create two zones only when you actually need them. Slide the divider into place and you have a familiar dual-zone layout with separate settings. Remove it again and the entire 8.6-litre interior becomes one large uninterrupted cooking space.
That flexibility is more important than it might initially sound because air fryers are now being used for far more than frozen chips. People are roasting meat, reheating pizza, baking, cooking vegetables and using them as a partial replacement for a conventional oven. A large open basket simply gives you more options.
If dinner requires salmon on one side and potatoes on the other, the divider goes in. If you are cooking a large batch of chicken wings, roast vegetables or something bulky, it comes straight back out. It is simple, practical and makes the TwinFry feel better suited to real-world cooking.
Four heating elements give it some serious muscle
The other major feature is Cosori’s Dual Blaze heating system, which uses four heating elements to distribute heat across the cooking chamber instead of relying entirely on heat from above.
The idea is straightforward: by applying heat more evenly from both the top and bottom, food should brown more consistently, the underside should crisp more effectively, and there should be less need to keep stopping the machine and turning everything over.
Anyone who has owned an air fryer knows the familiar routine. You start cooking, walk away, return several minutes later, pull out the basket and shake the chips as though they have personally done something wrong. The TwinFry cannot completely eliminate that process, particularly when the basket is heavily loaded, but the extra heating from below makes the cooking process feel less dependent on constant intervention.
The temperature range also stretches up to 240°C, which gives the grill and roast settings more credibility than they get on some cheaper models. This does not feel like a basic fryer with a few extra labels stuck around the controls. There is enough heating hardware here to make the additional modes genuinely useful.
The maximum 2,700W power figure may look intimidating, especially next to smaller machines, but wattage only tells part of the story. A powerful air fryer that heats quickly and finishes a meal faster can still make more sense than heating an entire conventional oven for much longer.
Six cooking modes without the nonsense
Cosori has also resisted the temptation to cover the control panel with dozens of mysterious presets that nobody asked for. Instead, the TwinFry offers six core modes: Air Fry, Roast, Grill, Bake, Reheat and Dry.
Air Fry handles the obvious favourites such as chips, chicken and vegetables, while Roast gives you a better option for meat and larger portions. Grill is useful when you want more aggressive browning, and Bake expands the machine beyond savoury meals by making cakes, cookies and other oven-style food possible.
Reheat may actually be one of the most useful options in everyday life. Anyone who has watched a microwave destroy a perfectly good slice of leftover pizza will appreciate the ability to warm food while restoring some of its crispness rather than turning everything soft and rubbery.
The Dry setting is more specialised, but it adds the option of dehydrating fruit, herbs and snacks. More importantly, none of these functions make the appliance feel complicated. You select the mode, adjust the temperature and time where necessary, and start cooking.
There is no need to create an account, connect to Wi-Fi or receive a notification telling you your chips have completed a firmware update.
The controls are refreshingly simple
There is something rather pleasant about a kitchen appliance that does not insist on becoming part of your digital life.
The TwinFry keeps its intelligence focused on cooking, particularly when the basket is divided into two zones. Each side can run at different settings, and the machine can synchronise the cooking so both zones finish at the same time.
That is the kind of smart feature that actually matters. If one side contains chicken that needs longer while the other contains vegetables that cook more quickly, synchronised finishing saves you from trying to calculate two timers in your head while doing three other things in the kitchen.
There are, however, a couple of omissions. The first is a viewing window. Once you have used an air fryer that allows you to check the progress of your food without opening the drawer, returning to a completely enclosed basket feels surprisingly old-fashioned.
The second omission is a shake reminder. Plenty of air fryers now prompt you halfway through cooking, while the TwinFry leaves the responsibility entirely to you. That is perfectly manageable until you get distracted and discover your dinner has gone from golden to geological.
It is fast enough to make you rethink your timings
The TwinFry has plenty of cooking power, and that is both one of its biggest strengths and something that may require a little adjustment if you are moving from an older or less powerful model.
Using the exact same timings you have memorised from another air fryer may not always produce the same results here. The combination of four heating elements and high temperatures means food can cook quickly, so checking a few minutes earlier than usual is a sensible idea during the first few meals.
Once you become familiar with the machine, that speed becomes a major advantage. Quick cooking is one of the main reasons people buy an air fryer in the first place, and a machine that can get dinner finished before you start seriously considering takeaway menus is always going to have appeal.
The extra bottom heat is particularly useful because it helps food cook more evenly across the basket rather than depending entirely on hot air from above. You may still want to shake large batches of chips or vegetables, but the TwinFry feels less needy than some simpler models.
Big capacity actually matters
The 8.6-litre capacity makes the TwinFry particularly appealing for families and anyone who likes cooking larger portions at once.
One of the most frustrating things about smaller air fryers is discovering that a supposedly generous serving size appears to have been calculated for people with the appetite of garden birds. As soon as you start cooking for several adults, a small drawer quickly becomes a bottleneck.
The TwinFry gives food more room to spread out, and that matters because overcrowding is one of the easiest ways to ruin the crisp texture air fryers are supposed to deliver. Pack a basket too tightly and the hot air cannot circulate properly, leaving you with uneven results and chips that are somehow both dry and floppy at the same time.
With 8.6 litres available, larger batches are far more manageable, while the divider means that space can still be split sensibly when dinner includes two different components. It is the combination of size and flexibility that makes the machine feel practical rather than simply oversized.
Cleaning is thankfully straightforward
Cleaning is never the glamorous part of owning an air fryer, particularly once chicken fat, breadcrumbs and melted cheese have spent half an hour creating what appears to be a permanent relationship with the basket.
Thankfully, the TwinFry’s basket is dishwasher-safe, which immediately removes much of the pain. The only drawback is that something this large is inevitably going to occupy a serious amount of dishwasher space.
Manual cleaning is straightforward too, particularly if you deal with it soon after cooking rather than allowing yesterday’s dinner to become part of the appliance’s structural engineering.
Verdict
The Cosori Dual Blaze TwinFry Compact is a very convincing large air fryer because its size is backed up by genuine flexibility.
The removable divider is the standout feature, giving you the convenience of two independent zones without permanently sacrificing the ability to cook larger food in one wide basket. Add four heating elements, high temperatures, useful cooking modes and enough capacity for proper family meals, and the TwinFry starts to feel more like a countertop oven alternative than just another air fryer.
A viewing window would make it easier to monitor food, and a shake reminder would have been welcome, but neither omission is enough to undermine the overall package.
If you regularly cook for several people, prepare larger batches or simply want an air fryer that does more than handle one drawer of chips, the TwinFry makes a strong case for itself.
Just measure your worktop first.
Buy it if: you want a large, flexible air fryer that can switch between dual-zone cooking and one enormous basket.
Skip it if: your kitchen is already struggling for worktop space.
Tech Spy says: Big drawer, big heat and enough flexibility to make your oven nervous.
