I don't know what all the rave is about. I bought this because of the great reviews, but it's not that great. It's a very large appliance but can only cook a small amount of food at a time. I tried making French fries, but it didn't work well. The directions say to put up to 3 lbs of fries in the fryer and to shake the drawer halfway through the cooking cycle. That didn't work. I ended up with some very over done fries and some that weren't brown at all. I even redistributed the fries several times while they were cooking. As for fried chicken, it could only hold 2 breasts OR 4 small thighs. It took a long time to make dinner that night. They call this the XL air fryer. Don't be fooled. It's not because it can hold an XL amount of food. It's because the appliance itself is XL. I wish I hadn't bought it.