Instant
Best known for the multicooker, and the manufacturer with the clearest published specifications of any read for this catalogue. AirfryerHQ has no affiliation with the company.
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About the company
Instant's Vortex range covers single-basket, dual-basket and flex-drawer machines. Its manuals are among the most useful we have read for one specific reason: they publish a settable temperature RANGE for every programme, not merely a default, which is the number a reader actually needs and almost nobody else prints.
Also trading as: Instant Brands (EMEA) Limited, Instant Brands LLC
Model numbering
UK and EU products share a manual. Model identifiers such as AFB9002BK and DAF8132BK appear only in the specification table, not on the marketing material, so a reader will usually be searching by capacity and range name instead.
Finding your manual
Manuals are published on the manufacturer's UK site and mirrored by retailers. The specification table at the back carries the model identifier, volume, wattage, weight and dimensions in one place.
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How these models differ
6 models are held, across 3 kinds of machine. Each row is what that model’s own manual or specification prints, so a blank is the manufacturer’s silence and not a zero. The last two columns are the ones that differ most between siblings: settings one model has and the others do not, and what each manual says may go in a dishwasher.
| Model | Kind | Litres | Zones | Power | Settings only this one has | Dishwasher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vortex 4 | Basket air fryer | 3.7 | 1 | Not published | None: every setting is on a sibling too | Air fryer basket |
| Vortex 6 | Basket air fryer | 5.7 | 1 | Not published | None: every setting is on a sibling too | Air fryer basket |
| AFB9002BK | Flex-drawer air fryer | 8.5 | 2 | 1700 W | None: every setting is on a sibling too | Cooking tray, Tray divider, Air fryer basket |
| DAF8132BK | Dual-basket air fryer | 7.5 | 2 | 1700 W | None: every setting is on a sibling too | Cooking trays |
| AFB4002BK | Basket air fryer | 3.8 | 1 | 1500 W | Warm | Cooking tray, Removable air frying basket |
| AFB6132BK | Basket air fryer | 5.7 | 1 | Not published | None: every setting is on a sibling too | Cooking tray |
Models we hold
- Instant Vortex 4-in-1 Air Fryer — A 3.7-litre single basket with the clearest published mode data of any model here: default AND settable range for every programme.
- Instant Vortex 6-in-1 Air Fryer — The 5.7-litre sibling of the Vortex 4, sharing its manual and its temperature ranges but not its default set points.
- Instant Vortex Plus VersaZone 8.5L — One 8.5-litre drawer that a removable divider turns into two 4.2-litre zones, each of which takes its own programme, temperature and time.
- Instant Vortex Plus Dual Air Fryer 7.6L — Two 3.7-litre baskets with windows, each with its own programme, and a Grill that goes to 232°C. 1700W.
- Instant Air Fryer 3.8L AFB4002BK — The smallest fully specified machine in the catalogue, and the only manufacturer anywhere in it that separates black smoke from white smoke.
- Instant Vortex Plus 5.7L with ClearCook — A 5.7-litre single basket with a window, a light and six programmes. One version adds odour filters that the display tells you to replace.