Replacing a part, and what to ask for

Questions this answers

• Where do I buy a replacement air fryer basket?
• What is the part number for my air fryer basket?
• Which parts of an air fryer can I replace myself?
• Where is the model number on my air fryer?
• Will a basket from another air fryer fit mine?

What can be replaced, and what cannot

The parts an owner handles are the parts an owner can replace: the basket, the drawer, the crisper plate, a grill plate, a rack or tray, and on the one machine in this catalogue that has one, the cooking probe. Every one of those comes out as part of ordinary use, so fitting a replacement is not a repair — it is putting the new one in.

Everything else is not an owner's job. The element, the fan, the thermostat, the control board and the wiring are inside a sealed housing carrying mains voltage, and this product will never describe opening one. A fault in any of them is a manufacturer or qualified-engineer matter, and on an appliance still in warranty, opening it usually ends the warranty as well.

The part number problem

Twenty-nine models, twenty-one manuals read, no order codes. The manuals are not being unhelpful about it — they name the components clearly, several publish which are dishwasher safe, and one publishes a cleaning method specific to the coated parts. They simply do not treat the parts as separately orderable in the document that comes in the box.

So AirfryerHQ records what it can honestly record: what the part is, what it is called in that manufacturer's own words, why people replace it, and which models the manual says it belongs to. Where a machine's parts appear in this catalogue they are on that machine's page. What we will not do is invent a plausible-looking reference, and we will not tell you a part from one model fits another because both are advertised at the same number of litres.

Finding the numbers you will be asked for

A manufacturer's parts desk will ask for a model number, and often a serial number. Both are on the rating label — the printed or etched panel carrying the electrical ratings and the safety marks.

On a basket air fryer it is almost always on the underside or the rear of the body. On an oven-style or countertop machine, look on the rear, the underside, or occasionally inside the door frame. On a built-in oven it is usually on the frame revealed when the door is open. AirfryerHQ describes where rating labels generally are rather than asserting a location for a specific model, because label positions are not published and guessing one would send somebody looking in the wrong place.

Two things worth doing while you are there: photograph the label, because it is easier than repeating the exercise, and check the identifier against the manual. Model families differ in ways that matter — the 7.6-litre and 9.5-litre versions of the same dual-zone range do not share parts.

Will a third-party part fit?

AirfryerHQ cannot tell you, and neither can anybody selling one as universal. Fit is a dimensional question: the base area, the depth, the shape of the runners, where the release catch sits. No manufacturer in this catalogue publishes a usable cooking area, and most do not publish chamber dimensions either, so there is nothing to check a claimed fit against.

What a nearly-fitting part costs is not only inconvenience. A basket that sits loosely changes the airflow path the whole appliance depends on, and one that fouls the drawer mechanism stops the machine closing properly — which on several designs is what tells it that it is safe to heat.

The safe route is a part the manufacturer sells or specifies for your model. Where that is not available, the honest position is that the appliance has reached the end of its life rather than that a substitute will do.

Register it, and do it now rather than later

Registering an appliance with its manufacturer is what makes a direct safety notification possible, which is the reason Electrical Safety First advises it. It is also what makes a parts enquiry straightforward three years later, when the receipt has gone and you cannot remember which model you bought.

It takes a few minutes and the only thing you need is the rating label you have just photographed.

What AirfryerHQ has not established

Spare-part availability, pricing or lead times for any manufacturer in this catalogue. No manufacturer has been contacted and no parts catalogue has been surveyed.

The rating-label positions above are general to the appliance types rather than confirmed per model. Where a manual states a location we record it on that model's page; otherwise this is a description of where to look, not an assertion about your machine.

Whether any third-party part fits anything. Not established, not inferable from the specifications manufacturers publish, and not something this catalogue will guess at.

Evidence and confidence

Appliances

• Basket air fryer
• Dual-basket air fryer
• Oven-style air fryer

If it went wrong

• The basket coating is flaking or peeling
• The drawer will not close, or will not stay closed
• Food sticks to the basket