Cosori Turbo Tower review: A tall order that mostly delivers
Cosori’s stacked air fryer crams 10.8 litres into a 30cm footprint and makes family dinners refreshingly easy. Just measure the gap under your wall cupboards before you order
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The Cosori Turbo Tower 10.8L is a two drawer, two storey air fryer that gets almost everything right for a busy household. The baskets are generously sized, the touch controls are some of the most intuitive we’ve used, and the wire rack in the bottom drawer lets you cook a full dinner on three levels at once. It’s quiet, it heats up quickly and, at £239.99, it undercuts plenty of big-name dual drawer machines. The catches? It’s tall, there’s no viewing window, and the companion app on this Standard model is a recipe book rather than a remote control. If you have the headroom, it’s one of the best family air fryers you can buy right now.
Pros
- 10.8 litres split across a 4.3L top drawer and a roomy 6.5L bottom drawer
- Wire rack in the lower basket gives you three cooking levels for one-appliance dinners
- Sync and Match buttons make cooking two foods to finish together painless
- Quiet DC fan that varies its speed from 900 to 3,600rpm depending on the mode
Cons
- At 40.5cm tall, it sits close to wall units in a lot of kitchens
- No window in either drawer, so you’ll be pulling them open to check progress
- The app offers recipes only; Wi-Fi control is saved for the pricier Pro Smart
Quick specs
| Spec | Cosori Turbo Tower 10.8L (Standard) |
|---|---|
| Price | £239.99 RRP |
| Model | CAF-DC111-AUK |
| Capacity | 10.8L total (4.3L top, 6.5L bottom) |
| Power | 2,630W |
| Motor | DC motor, variable fan speed from 900 to 3,600rpm |
| Temperature range | 30°C to 230°C |
| Cooking modes | Air Fry, Roast, Bake, Grill, Reheat, Proof |
| Dimensions | W30 x D41.3 x H40.5cm |
| Weight | 9.3kg |
| Dishwasher safe | Baskets and removable parts |
| Warranty | Two years |
Price and availability
The Cosori Turbo Tower 10.8L arrived in the UK in August 2025 and costs £239.99 direct from Cosori.co.uk, where it was still listed at that price when we checked this week. It’s also sold on Amazon UK, where prices tend to move around during sale events, so it’s worth watching for a dip if you’re not in a hurry. Cosori includes free UK delivery and a two-year warranty when you buy direct.
There are two versions. This is the Standard model. The Turbo Tower Pro Smart has an RRP of £299.99 and adds Wi-Fi control through the VeSync app, a ceramic coating on the food contact surfaces, a second heating element in the lower drawer and a seventh cooking mode, Dry. Both come in the same dark grey and silver finish, which reads as black from across the room.
For a family-sized stacked air fryer with independent drawers, £239.99 is fair rather than cheap. It’s a lot to spend on a kitchen gadget, but if it ends up replacing your oven for most weeknight meals, as it did for us, it earns its keep quickly.
Design and build
The Turbo Tower takes the familiar dual drawer layout and stands it on its end. Instead of two baskets side by side, you get one stacked on top of the other, so the whole unit needs just 30cm of worktop width. That’s the main selling point, and it works. Cosori says it uses 41% less footprint than its older side-by-side TF102S model while offering 27% more capacity, and on a crowded counter you feel that difference immediately.
The trade-off is height. At 40.5cm, the Turbo Tower sat uncomfortably close to our wall cupboards, and air fryers push a lot of hot air out of the top and back. We got into the habit of sliding it forward to the front of the worktop whenever it was running. If your cupboards hang low, get the tape measure out before you buy. At 9.3kg it’s light enough to shift around or lift into a cupboard between uses, which helps.
The casing is mostly plastic, as you’d expect at this price, but it doesn’t feel cheap. The glossy touch panel on top looks smart once it lights up and wipes clean in seconds, which matters on something you’ll be jabbing with greasy fingers. Round the back, the power cable wraps around a moulded handle, a small touch we appreciated when tidying up. The drawer handles are chunky and solid, which you’ll be grateful for when the lower basket is loaded with potatoes.
The baskets have a non-stick coating (the ceramic version is a Pro Smart extra) and go in the dishwasher along with the other removable parts. Cleaning was painless throughout testing.
Controls and features
This is where the Turbo Tower really shines. The touch controls make sense from the first use: pick a drawer, pick a mode, set the time and temperature, press start. Each drawer has its own settings, and two buttons do the heavy lifting when you want them working together.
Sync staggers the start times so food in both drawers finishes at the same moment, even if one needs 25 minutes and the other needs 12. Match copies the settings from one drawer to the other, which is handy when you’re spreading one big batch across both. Plenty of dual zone air fryers offer something similar, but Cosori’s version is clear and quick, and we never had to dig out the manual to remember which button did what.
You get six cooking modes on the Standard model: Air Fry, Roast, Bake, Grill, Reheat and Proof. The temperature dial runs from 30°C, low enough for proving dough, up to 230°C for serious crisping. There’s no dedicated preheat program, but it gets up to temperature quickly enough that we rarely missed one.
A quick word on the app. On the Standard model, the VeSync app gives you more than 50 recipes with nutritional information, but you can’t start, stop or tweak a cook from your phone. That’s reserved for the Pro Smart. We didn’t miss it. Remote control of an air fryer sounds clever until you remember you need to be in the kitchen to put the food in.
Performance
10.8 litres sounds like a lot, and it is. The 6.5L lower drawer swallows a family’s worth of chips, while the 4.3L top drawer is ideal for sides. Between them, dinner for four is easy, and Cosori pitches it at households of two to six people.
The lower drawer comes with a wire rack, and it’s the Turbo Tower’s best trick. Put chicken breasts or a piece of fish on the rack, vegetables underneath, and something else entirely in the top drawer, and you’ve got a three level dinner from one appliance. For anyone who hates washing up a roasting tin, a saucepan and a baking tray every night, that alone might sell it.
It did take some trial and error. Every air fryer has its own quirks, and in the Turbo Tower, food on the rack cooks faster than food underneath it, so we had to nudge timings for the first few meals. Once we’d learned its habits, results were consistent. Roast potatoes at 195°C came out properly golden with fluffy middles, as long as we gave the drawer a shake halfway through. Skip the shake and the top layer browns well before the bottom one catches up.
Running the drawers independently was just as easy. One evening we cooked a couple of burgers in the lower drawer while lightly toasting the buns in the top, and with Sync switched on everything landed on the plate at the same time. That’s exactly the kind of meal a stacked design is made for, and it handled it without fuss.
Cosori’s DC motor deserves credit too. The fan changes speed depending on the mode, from a gentle 900rpm for proving up to 3,600rpm for crisping, and the whole thing runs noticeably quieter than older air fryers we’ve lived with. You can hold a conversation next to it without raising your voice. Cosori also claims energy savings of up to 68% compared with a conventional oven. We can’t verify that figure in a home kitchen, but it heats up and cooks far faster than our fan oven, so the claim at least points the right way.
The one ongoing irritation is the lack of a window. You can’t see how anything is getting on without pulling a drawer out. The Turbo Tower pauses itself automatically when you do, so there’s no harm done, but with a loaded lower basket you’ll be opening it more often than you’d like. Most stacked and dual basket models share the same problem, so we can’t mark Cosori down too heavily for it.
Standard or Pro Smart?
This is the decision most buyers will actually face. Both models share the same 10.8L stacked body, the same 4.3L and 6.5L drawers, the same quiet DC motor and the same Sync and Match controls. For the extra £60, the Pro Smart adds four things: Wi-Fi control through the VeSync app, a ceramic coating on the food contact surfaces, a second heating element in the lower drawer for top and bottom heat, and a Dry mode for making things like dried fruit or jerky.
The extra heating element is the most useful upgrade on paper, since it should mean less shaking and more even browning in the big bottom drawer. The ceramic coating will appeal if you’d rather avoid traditional non-stick. App control and Dry mode are nice extras rather than essentials. If none of those four things jumps out at you, the Standard model is the smarter buy.
Verdict
The Cosori Turbo Tower 10.8L gets the important things right. Capacity is generous, the stacked design frees up real worktop width, and the three level cooking setup makes weeknight family dinners genuinely simple. The controls are intuitive, and it’s quiet enough that you’ll forget it’s running.
Its weaknesses are mostly shared with the rest of the category: no window, plenty of drawer pulling, and a short learning curve while you work out how the rack and the basket cook at different speeds. The height is the one Cosori specific issue worth thinking hard about.
Buy the Turbo Tower if you’re feeding three or more, you’re short on worktop width and you have decent clearance above a 40.5cm appliance. Skip it if you mostly cook for one or two, where a single basket air fryer will do the job for a fraction of the price, or if low cupboards make a tower this tall impractical.
Also consider
Cosori Turbo Tower Pro Smart: The same tower with Wi-Fi control, a ceramic coating, a Dry mode and extra heating in the lower drawer for £299.99 RRP. Worth the upgrade if you’d rather avoid traditional non-stick coatings or want more even browning in the bottom drawer.
Tefal Ingenio Dual Stack: Tefal’s first stacked air fryer has a detachable front panel, so the drawer assembly fits in the dishwasher. A smart pick if cleaning is your biggest bugbear.
