tefal actifry

[stephen999]

Hi,

I hope you don’t mind me posting here, it’s a little smaller than the appliances you usually discuss!

Has anyone bought one of these? I embarrassed to say I bought one when they were about £100 but I think they are now £150-200. They are a great idea, allowing you to cook chips and things using just a couple of teaspoons of oil, rather than a deep fat fryer (and I’ve never got on with oven chips) but all it is really is a hair dryer/fan heater blowing hot air over a turntable. Nothing to justify the £100 price tag. They could sell these for £40 which would be a fairer price.

Anyhow, in addition to cooking food, mine has decided to cook itself. I made some rather frightening popping noises and there was the smell of burning plastic. A few torx screws later and it seems there are only two motors inside: one for the fan and one for the turntable and its the fan motor that is “leaking” smoke.

So I’m going to look into whether I can get a replacement motor. Does anyone know and are they easy to replace? Any idea what has gone catastrophically wrong with the one I have?

thanks,
Stephen.

[don]

Re: tefal actifry

Hi

Not stocked these due to the high price point so I have no experience of them. There are no spares available through our normal trade sources. Probably best to giveTefal spares a ring.

HTH 🙂

Don

[stephen999]

Re: tefal actifry

don wrote:Hi

Not stocked these due to the high price point so I have no experience of them. There are no spares available through our normal trade sources. Probably best to giveTefal spares a ring.

HTH 🙂

Don

Thanks. Seems that tefal parts are exclusively available from one supplier. Hopefully they will be able to help me. they say there were two fan motors and one is obsolete but they also said the new motor will fit both models, so I just need to get the serial number and get back in touch with them.

When it first went bang, I searched with google and found BBC watchdiog did a report about these catching fire and there are a number of bad reviews on Amazon from people who have suffered the same fate. If I can’t get a fan motor, I’m not sure I would buy/recommend another. I remain convinced that they are overpriced for what they are. I think someone suggested a halogen oven might be more versatile.

Thanks.

[kwatt]

Or the new Philips AirFryer, not cheap though. 😉

Personally I have an old Magimix proper fryer as it’s far more versatile for cooking, bulletproof and just works. Thing must be about 15 years old or so now.

K.

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