Multicooker with air fry

A pressure cooker or slow cooker with a crisping lid: excellent at finishing, awkward at crisping from raw.

What changes in this appliance

The pot is deep and narrow, so the usable area is smaller than the litres imply and food sits further from the element than in a drawer. Times run 10–20% longer for anything cooked from raw, and a single layer matters more here than anywhere else. The architecture's real strength is a different workflow entirely: pressure cook or slow cook first, then crisp for a few minutes at the end — which produces results a basket machine cannot.

Every cooking page on AirfryerHQ is written for a single-drawer basket machine. This is how to read those figures if yours is different.

How it is built

A deep cooking pot with two lids, or one lid that does both jobs — pressure or slow cooking to make food tender, then a crisping lid with element and fan to brown the surface.

Chamber: Cooking pot with a crisping lid
Independent zones: 1
Element and fan: Element and fan both above the food
Preheating: Comes up to temperature quickly

Typical specifications

Ranges for this architecture, not a claim about any particular machine. Your own manual is the authority for yours.

Advertised capacity: 5–9 litres
Usable single-layer area: 350–550 cm²The number that actually decides how much food you can cook well. Manufacturers do not publish it.
Power: 1400–1800 W
Temperature range: 90–210°C
Adjusts in: 5°C steps
Usually offers: Air fry, Pressure cook, Slow cook, Steam, Roast, Bake, Reheat, Grill, Keep warm

Does it genuinely air-fry?

No standards body defines air frying, so these are AirfryerHQ’s own assessment criteria. They are published rather than applied silently, so you can disagree with the reasoning instead of taking a verdict on trust.

Air moves fast, not just around — met
Air reaches every surface of the food — not met
Recovers temperature quickly after loading — met
Fat and moisture drain away — not met
Reaches genuine browning temperatures — met

Good at

Pressure or slow cooking followed by crisping, in one vessel
Outstanding for anything that needs to become tender before it becomes crisp
Deep pot handles liquid cooking that no other air-frying architecture can

Not good at

Small usable area for its size — the depth is not usable for air frying
Food sits further below the element, reducing crisping
The crisping lid is heavy and, on two-lid models, has to be stored somewhere

Models of this kind

Russell Hobbs SatisFry Air Fryer & Grill Multi Cooker 5.5L — A multicooker that genuinely air-fries: eight modes including slow cooking, and a per-mode preheat requirement nobody else publishes.
Ninja Foodi MAX Health Grill & Air Fryer AG551UK — A lidded grill with a crisper basket, and the source of more published cooking guidance than any other appliance in this catalogue.