bella PRO - SmartCrisp 8-qt. Touchscreen Air Fryer - Brick

Heats up quickly. Great as an air fryer and for baking. Runs quietly.

Works amazing, this is one of the best air fryers I’ve ever had.

If you haven’t seen air fryers around, then you’ve likely been living under a rock. 8 qt is advertised as being enough to feed a family of 8. I’ve got 2 boys that play league sports and I can say that 8 qts comfortably feeds our family of 4 even with their appetites. The design is nice and simple with a single cylinder design. I feel like the cylindrical shape allows for more “usable” space compared to a rectangle with its sharp corners. The Evergood ceramic coating is free of PFAS, lead, and other harmful chemicals that might be found in other non-stick coatings. What’s also clutch is the fact that the basket and tray are both very easily removable. Another plus is that they’re both dishwasher safe, which definitely helps with convenience. The touchscreen interface may be overkill, but it makes the whole exterior look sleek without any breaks due to physical buttons. Very clear menu options and layouts for various cooking options as well. We love that air fryers allow us to crisp up food without using a bunch of oil, and nowadays, we sometimes forego adding oil completely. The biggest food critics in our home haven’t complained about the food, so it’s a win for us. Nice and spacious basket with easy to clean, easily removable parts.

It is a great product plenty of room to cook anything you want the heat works as it should I thank Best Buy for all the products,

Outstanding air fryer! Cooked some wings in it and they came out perfect crispy and done!

bella PRO - SmartCrisp 8-qt. Touchscreen Air Fryer (Model: 90223) The Bella Pro takes another step towards making our conventional and inefficient built-in ovens irrelevant. You won’t complain. With its tight, fully sealed, large-but-reasonable cooking chamber the Bella SmartCrisp drives heated air all around our food resulting in well cooked dishes that have an inviting crisp finish. And this takes less time and uses less energy. Cleanup was easier than ever. Nothing sticks to this ceramic surface. Using the SmartCrisp: I really like a control panel that is so intuitive it requires no searching into the User Guide. The Power Button does just that and should be used at the end of cooking to disconnect the Air Fryer. One push PreSets get you the usual selection of Bake, Roast and typical foods (French Fries etc) and some unusual (fish, bacon) with easy adjustment to the temperature and timing parameters as you learn your machine. Or, simply set a time and temperature and create your own cooking chart. A Start/Stop button initiates the cooking when not using the PreSets or if you want to interrupt cooking. In any event, Bella suggests having a meat thermometer to be sure you have cooked through thicker pieces. PERFORMANCE: PORK CHOPS or chicken breast filets: We have developed some decent techniques with our grill and thick bone-in chops, but with thinner, boneless food like chicken or pork, it’s been hit or miss. We may have found our fool-proof solution. With the bella SmartCrisp, we slightly oiled up our medium size chops. We then used a nice coating of onion and garlic salt followed by Italian herbs. At our manual settings of 400 degrees and 12 minutes we had the very best chops, very moist and quite tender. It was a huge win. With little effort. FRENCH FRIES - super thin: Just cooking regular french fries seemed too easy. It’s why these Air Fryers are bought, right? We bought these thin style which are a bit more challenging. Getting the time and heat just right would make the difference between burned-to-a-crisp and limp. Spoiler: they came out great, but it may have been luck. Using the suggested 10 minute minimum time with 400 degree temperature, and after some confusion about starting the cook, I pulled the fries at the “shake” audio alert, and the fries were already, and perfectly cooked. Yikes, This was at the halfway (ignoring the restart cycle) cooking point! This also highlights one of issues with the SmartCrisp. Using the preset French Fry setting changes how the fryer works. After preheating, the fryer requires you do NOTHING but put the food in the basket and let it cook. However, the countdown timer only reads minutes, with no seconds. So, it looks like nothing is happening for a full minute. You’re tempted to press the start button to be sure. Guilty. Ugh. Now you’ve shut off the cooking and have to start over. Reading the instruction for preset cooking is not very helpful because it seems like you’re being told to press start. Nope. Our second batch was done correctly and revealed just how fast this oven cooks. 400 Degrees and 8 minutes! NOISE LEVEL: The bella SmartCrisp has managed to contain the inevitable blower noise to a very low level, barely above average kitchen activity. I measured 54dB from a few feet away and it was the lower frequency, far less annoying sound. CLEANING after the cook: The design of the basket is so slick, smooth with no seams that cleaning takes seconds. The grid insert is similarly smooth and easy to quickly clean. The SmartCrisp has a remarkably slick ceramic surface which defies anything sticking. Use whatever you want to cleanup. The entire chamber is so large, that it’s easy to use whatever your favorite sponge, towelettes, or cloth is and follow up with a wipe. ANNOYANCES: bella, you really need to add the seconds to your timer. It improves confidence that the fryer has actually initiated the cooking, and that it is still cooking, as well as helping us judge how to prep our companion cooking tasks. Also, a well designed and full featured product like this deserves a more impressive user guide and menu suggestions. RECOMMENDATIONS: The bella Pro SmartCrisp is a very well designed, high capacity Air Fryer that makes preparing meals fun and convenient. We quickly learned to accommodate to the SmartCrisp’s control panel and we get consistent results. It encourages imaginative cooks to explore a different approach to some favorite dishes, and we’ve found ourselves loving the results. Easy to recommend.

I just got this during the black Friday weekend a few days ago, and have used it a few times already, and so far so good. It works well HOWEVER I am a bit baffled by the rubber tabs around the airfryer grate. Yes they keep from scratching the pot and hold it in place, but if you're buying to avoid toxic stuff and they are advertising it as non toxic... seems weird. They do feel like silicone but they refer to them as rubber in their little booklet. The main issue, is that they are going to get food particles and grease in them and they are not easy to clean. We made roasted chicken thighs (came out great) and there was enough broth and herbs to get lodged in all the tabs. I tried my best to clean them but they still smell like chicken lol I took pics to upload and realized that if you zoom in you can still see some rosemary...

works great , came in on time , was packaged very well

The bella PRO SmartCrisp Touchscreen Air Fryer is a game changer! The air fryer is easy to use and produces excellent food. The cleanup is minimal and the food cooks quicker than frying in a pan.