Oven-style air fryer
Tower T17038 Xpress 11L 5-in-1 Air Fryer Oven
Model T17038 — United Kingdom
An 11-litre oven-style machine with a rotisserie, 2000W, 80–200°C, manual dial control rather than a digital panel.
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Where to get real advice for this machine
Almost everything that changes a cooking answer is a property of the architecture rather than the badge. This is a oven-style air fryer, and the Oven-style air fryer page carries the cooking guidance that actually applies to it.
Add roughly 10–20% to basket times, or raise the temperature by about 10°C, and preheat properly — the larger cavity takes several minutes to come up and does not recover as fast after the door opens. Food on a solid tray will not crisp underneath; use the perforated shelf or a rack. Where two shelves are in use, swap them halfway: the shelf nearest the element browns considerably faster.
Does it genuinely air-fry?
Genuine air frying
Assessed as genuine but at the weaker end. The cavity is larger than a drawer, so air velocity at the food is lower, but the racks and the rotisserie both hold food in the airflow with nothing solid underneath it, and the manufacturer's own quantity guidance — 700g of fries against 500g for its basket models — indicates the airflow does real work across a larger load. Both core criteria are met; rapid thermal recovery is not, and the archetype's cooking adjustment applies.
- Air moves fast, not just around
- Air reaches every surface of the food
- Fat and moisture drain away
- Reaches genuine browning temperatures
What we know about this machine
Read from Tower T17038 Xpress 11L 5-in-1 Air Fryer Oven with Rotisserie — Instruction Manual (PDF), retrieved on 2026-08-13.
It is rated at 2000 W, which is toward the top of the domestic range and means it recovers temperature quickly after cold food goes in. It has a single cooking shelf, so everything in it cooks at one temperature for one time. It runs from 80°C to 200°C, which covers ordinary air frying and is too warm at the bottom end to dehydrate with. It is sold as 11 litres, which measures the whole drawer including the space above the food that you must not fill.
The figures above are the manufacturer’s. What they mean for cooking is AirfryerHQ’s reading of them, not a measurement — nobody here has run this machine.
Size and capacity
- Advertised capacity
- 11 litresA volume, not a cooking area.
Power and heat
- Power
- 2000 W
- Temperature range
- 80–200°C
Setup and cleaning
- Cooking zones
- 1
- Supplied with
- Rotisserie spit, Grilling racks, Removable door
Retrieved from Argos's manual library for Argos product 363/6653.
9 figures we could not establish
Each of these says WHY it is missing. “Not recorded by the sources consulted” means the manufacturer does not publish it in the document we read — not that nobody looked, and not that the figure does not exist.
- Usable cooking area
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — Not published.
- Chamber
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — Not published.
- On the worktop
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — Not published.
- Weight
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — Not published.
- Power range as published
- Not applicable — A single rated figure is published.
- Adjusts in
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — A continuous dial rather than stepped digital control. The manual states no increment and a dial does not have one in the sense this field means.
- Standby power
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — Not published by this manufacturer. Only one model in this catalogue publishes a standby figure at all.
- Preheating
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — Not addressed directly. The manufacturer's basket manuals tell the cook to add 3 minutes if the appliance is cold; this manual does not repeat it, and the instruction is not carried across.
- Dishwasher safe
- Not recorded by the sources consulted — Not stated in the copy read.
Error codes and display states
Only what this manufacturer publishes, and only for this manufacturer. A code means whatever the firmware author decided it means, and reading one across from another brand is the commonest way to misdiagnose a fault.
AirfryerHQ does not hold this code for this manufacturer. That is a statement about this catalogue and not about your appliance: most manufacturers publish no code table at all, and a code's meaning is specific to the firmware that produced it. Do not read a meaning across from another brand — check your own manual, and contact the manufacturer if it is not in there.
Cleaning this model
The parts this architecture has, what collects on each, and what its own manual permits. Full methods and prohibitions are on the cleaning pages.
| Part | What is on it | How often | Dishwasher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basket | Ordinary residue after cooking | After every use | Depends on your model — check the manual |
| Grill plate | Burnt-on residue | After every use | Dishwasher safe on the models we hold |
| Trays and bake pans | Burnt-on residue | After every use | Depends on your model — check the manual |
| Crumb tray | Ordinary residue after cooking | After every use | Depends on your model — check the manual |
| Interior of the chamber | Greasy film | After every use | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
| Interior of the chamber | Lingering smell | When it needs it | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
| Oven-style cavity | Greasy film | About weekly | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
| Heating element area | Carbonised deposit | About monthly | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
| Fan and air intake | Greasy film | About monthly | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
| Viewing window | Greasy film | About weekly | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
| Exterior and body | Greasy film | About weekly | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
| Controls and display | Greasy film | About weekly | Not removable, so the question does not arise |
Faults the manual documents, as printed
Only what the manufacturer publishes. AirfryerHQ does not invent the meaning of an error code, and where a manual documents one undifferentiated fault state that is what appears here.
The air fryer does not work
Two causes, and the second is a property of the design rather than a fault: the timer dial is what switches the appliance on. With it at zero the machine is off, however it is plugged in or set.
Plug into an earthed wall socket, then turn the timer dial to the required preparation time. There is no separate power button to look for.
White smoke comes out of the air fryer
Attributed to grease from previous use heating up inside the fryer, not to the food currently cooking.
Clean the fryer properly after each use.
The fried ingredients are not done
Three causes: too large a batch, too low a set temperature, or too short a set time. The manual points back to its own settings table for both figures.
Cook smaller batches — the manual states they fry more evenly — and check the set temperature and time against the settings table.
Replaceable parts
AirfryerHQ holds no part records for Tower T17038 Xpress 11L 5-in-1 Air Fryer Oven. That is a statement about this catalogue rather than about the appliance: every air fryer has a basket and most have a crisper plate, and the manual read for this model does not enumerate them in a way we could record. What can be replaced, and what to ask for covers the general case, including where to find the model number a parts desk will ask you for.
Recall and safety status
No recall known to us at the review date
Checked against OPSS product recall 2503-0094 on 13 August 2026; this model is not among the six named. Not a clearance — see the recall register's scope statement.
No verified recall or safety notice is currently recorded in AirfryerHQ for this appliance. That is a statement about this catalogue and not about the product: AirfryerHQ holds a small number of checked alerts and is not a copy of the UK register. Check the authority's own register before concluding that an appliance is unaffected.
The Office for Product Safety and Standards publishes the UK register of product safety alerts, reports and recalls on GOV.UK, and Electrical Safety First operates a recall checker for electrical appliances. Registering an appliance with its manufacturer is what makes a direct notification possible.
Finding the manual
The settings table gives quantities in grams, consistently larger than the same manufacturer's basket models — 600–700g of frozen fries against 400–500g — at broadly similar times. That is the clearest published evidence in this catalogue that usable area rather than litres decides how much a machine cooks well.
About this model
A front-opening cavity with a removable door, an internal light, grilling racks and a motorised rotisserie. Controlled by dials rather than a touch panel, which is unusual in current products and makes it a useful example of the architecture without the preset menus that obscure what a machine is actually doing.
Owning this machine
The questions that come after the cooking.
- Looking after itFive minutes a week and one check a month, nearly all of it about grease.
- What to clean it withIncluding which tool every manufacturer in this catalogue prohibits.
- The coating, and when a basket is finishedThe part that decides how long this appliance lasts.
- Replacing a part, and what to ask forWhere the model and serial numbers are, and why no order code appears here.
- Accessories, and whether you need themWith the verdicts first and no affiliate links anywhere.
- Repair, replace, or stop using itThe symptoms that mean stop now, and the ones that mean a part.