Product review (2 stars): Instructions say you have to use 1/2 T. oil to cook with it and drawer won't close
So I am changing my review from 5 star to 2 after using this more. First it is advertised as having a new easy-close drawer in Spring of 2015 but after one week of use ( I ordered near the end of May) the drawer was pretty useless, it takes about 11 tries to shut it, which brings too cool much air into the food if you are checking on your food and don't want the cool down.

Second, when I looked at Youtube videos for other air fryers and then compared some personally (which I had to to figure out recipes to make with this one since it does not come with a cookbook and tells you to "Google recipes on the internet"), they seemed to work far better without any oil, or with very little oil. I feel this one is not as meant to be used with no oil. And actually it says so. For example, it has one recipe in the instructions which is for french fries, and it tells you to use 1/2 Tablespoon of oil. That's lots of calories not including the potato! . For everything else air fried, although it does not provide recipes, it does have a chart that says all should be cooked with 1/2 tablespoon of oil--even hamburgers already loaded with oil! That said a lot to me that you have to use that much oil in this one whereas you don't in the other air fryers. I suspect slower air circulation and less tightness in the air circulation or more air escaping because where other fryers advertise very little aroma, this one fills your kitchen with it. Not sure it keeps all the hot air in to mimic frying..which would be why you would need so much oil in the air fryer. To me this is like cooking in an oven--you get dry food and need oil to get the crispness.

And yes, it also dries my food out, badly, more than baking in the oven even. Unless I use lots of oil

I was initially impressed when doing some vegetarian prepared foods but the more I used it the more I realized I just had food baked at a high temp that looked nothing like the videos I saw of the other air fryers and did not perform as well as the ones I saw in person, and a drawer that took so many tries to close that the temp cooled down on the food.

For that reason I exchanged it for a different air fryer. I went with the Philips, more expensive, but one reason it might work so much better is that after this one preheats, it shuts off. Or if you pull out the drawer, it shuts off. That's a huge issue when you are trying to mimic high temp frying. So you get it preheated, pull the drawer out, put your fries in (on the Philips you will hear the sound of sizzling when you add the food, you won't on this one.) then slide the drawer in (takes about 8 times) by then all the preheating is out the window and you know how badly that works for fried food. With the Philips, it keeps the hot air going (and circulates it way faster) so it's still hot when you start.

In the end, this baked things and got some items more crispy, but even potato wedges were dry unless I followed their instructions for lots of oil. If I need to do that, I can just use the oven and have nothing on my counter, so I will try a brand that has some better features.

Including a drawer that opens.

Note that it says the way this fries is by circulating the air all around it. Well, if that worked you could just lay something on a shelf in the oven with holes in it. You need a very powerful motor that rapidly circulates the air..which this does not, to mimic the fried crispiness but keep the moisture in. The slow circulation of this just means you crisp the outside some and dry out your food.