All I can say is this product is fantastic and a blessing for living in a household that does frying the "old-school" way by putting oil in the pan and having it splash back on you is the most terrifying thing ever. I can have my parents use this fantastic appliance instead of having a chance at being burned, or myself! "fry bowl" drains the oil, my family tends to clean everything by hand so we had no issues cleaning the appliance - it is indeed very easy to clean. When we were frying cauliflower the other day as well as chicken, we had hardly any crumbs/batter on the bottom of it. We tend to love things crispier so we double fried it as usual.