Non-toxic air fryers, rated on what the basket is made of

• No third-party testing published. The “free of PFAS, PFOA and PTFE” claim rests on there being no coating at all, which is a reasonable basis — but it is an argument from design, not a test report. [1]
• The warranty page contradicts itself. The page title says “90-Day Limited Warranty” and the body text says “sixty (60) days”. The product page also says 60 days, so treat 60 as the real figure and the title as a site error. [2]
• Sixty days is extremely short for an appliance at this price. Most of this category offers one to five years. [2]
• Glass is heavier and more fragile than a steel basket. That is the trade you are making.

Sources (3)

1. Fritaire 5qt glass air fryer product page
2. Fritaire warranty page — the 60 vs 90 day discrepancy
3. Fritaire FAQ — country of manufacture

• Cuisinart’s other air fryer baskets are not described this way at all. The replacement basket for the TOA-70 oven gives no material, and another is listed simply as “Nonstick Air Fryer Basket”. “Cuisinart is PFAS-free” does not generalise across the line. [1] [2]
• Three years is the longest warranty in this category by a distance, though the exclusions are not stated on the product page. [1]
• We could find no California AB 1200 disclosure for Cuisinart or Conair, so the PFAS-free claim rests on the product page alone. [1]
• The glass type is not named — the same gap that runs through our food storage category, where only one maker in fourteen names its glass. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Cuisinart ClearView 4-Quart Glass Basket Air Fryer (AFC-4)
2. Cuisinart air fryer parts — replacement baskets with no material given

• Roughly fifteen Brio models from 2.6 to 6 qt and seven from 7.25 to 8 qt are listed with polytetrafluoroethylene (CAS 9002-84-0) and fluorinated ethylene propylene (CAS 25067-11-2). This is one of the clearest maker-published statements anywhere that an air fryer basket is PTFE-coated. [2]
• The page carrying that disclosure is titled “California AB 1200 Compliance: Nuwave’s Safety Assurance” and opens “we pride ourselves on producing the safest products possible”. The disclosure is framed as reassurance. [2]
• “100% non-toxic, all-metal interior” describes the cooking cavity, not the coating on the basket. Read quickly, it reads as a statement about the food-contact surface. [1]
• Like every maker in this category, Nuwave names the coating only as “ceramic”. Nobody publishes the chemistry. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Nuwave Brio Plus 7 qt Air Fryer
2. Nuwave California AB 1200 disclosure — PTFE and FEP in Brio baskets

• The claim here is unqualified — “PFAS-free ceramic nonstick coating” with no “intentionally added” hedge. Worth crediting against the cookware brands that hedge. [1]
• Chefman’s disclosure also lists “carbon black (airborne, unbound particles of respirable size)” among air fryer chemicals. [2]
• Everything — both baskets and both racks — is stated top-rack dishwasher safe, which is more generous than most and harder on a ceramic coating than hand washing. [1]
• Country of manufacture is not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Chefman 9 qt TurboFry Dual Basket Air Fryer
2. Chefman California AB 1200 disclosure list — PTFE on aluminised baskets

• Their own words, from the same page: “6.5-Quart Capacity: Cook meals for 3–5 people with the large, ceramic-coated, nonstick basket” and “PFAS-free ceramic-coated, nonstick basket”. The disclosure is honest; the model name is what misleads. [1]
• No third-party testing, no named laboratory, no country of manufacture. [1]
• Five year warranty, against Cosori’s usual two. That is a real signal about this line. [1]
• Brand history worth knowing: in February 2023 the US CPSC recalled around two million Cosori air fryers over fire and burn hazards — 205 reports of fires, overheating or melting, 10 minor burn injuries. The recalled models are older SKUs, not this one, but it is the brand’s record. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Cosori Iconic air fryer product page
2. US CPSC recall of approximately two million Cosori air fryers, February 2023

• SharkNinja publishes no California AB 1200 or chemical disclosure covering air fryers that we or an independent disclosure index could find. For the US market leader that is a real gap — Elite Gourmet and Nuwave, far smaller companies, both publish per-model chemical tables. [1] [2]
• “Teflon free” is a brand claim, not a chemistry claim. Ninja does not claim PTFE-free and does not claim PFAS-free, and “ceramic” is never named as a chemistry. [1]
• Credit: the substrate is named — aluminium — which several competitors never state at all. [1]
• SharkNinja recalled 1.8 million Foodi multi-function pressure cookers in 2025 over a burn hazard with serious injuries reported. Not air fryers — but buyers routinely confuse the shared Foodi name. [3]

Sources (3)

1. SharkNinja APAC support — AF160 FAQ, the basket and crisper plate materials
2. SharkNinja kitchenware index — no chemical disclosure page
3. CPSC — SharkNinja recalls 1.8 million Foodi pressure cookers, 2025

• “Non-toxic” is unqualified marketing language with no standard behind it, attached to the most material-forward marketing of any product here. [1]
• The glass type is never named — not borosilicate, not soda-lime — on a product whose entire proposition is that it is glass. [1]
• The US and Canadian versions of this FAQ both refused us, so this statement also comes from SharkNinja’s Australian support instance. We are flagging that rather than hiding it. [1] [2]
• The care instruction is hand washing for the food-contact parts, with the powered pod never in the dishwasher. Dishwasher safety for the containers and plates is not stated either way. [1]

Sources (2)

1. SharkNinja APAC support — FN101 Ninja Crispi FAQ
2. Ninja Canada support — FN100 Crispi FAQ, returned 403

• The disclosure goes further than the law strictly needs to: against tetrafluoroethylene it also records “IARC Carcinogens - 2A; NTP 13th RoC - reasonable; Prop 65”. A brand publishing the hazard classifications of its own coating monomer is rare enough to be worth saying out loud. [1]
• Their own disclaimer is the fair counterweight and we are quoting it in full: “The presence of a chemical on the above list does not mean that the product is unsafe and all the food contact material comply with relevant limits and requirements from the Food and Drug Administration”. [1]
• This is a compliance filing, not a test report. No laboratory is named and no result is published, which is why it counts as a declaration rather than an independent test. [1]
• The filing is published by Versuni, which licenses the Philips kitchen brand — so the document sits on a different domain from the product pages. Easy to miss, which rather defeats the point. [1]
• No country of manufacture stated. No price on their own US site either, which is why we have not quoted one. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Versuni / Philips chemical disclosure statement — names tetrafluoroethylene by product code
2. Philips: what materials and coatings are used in my Airfryer

• The most honest maker here on chemistry and the least appealing on materials: PTFE named outright on the product page, country of manufacture published, and no greenwashing at all. [1]
• Both the basket and the removable tray are hand wash only, not dishwasher safe — unusual in this category, and a coating-longevity signal worth reading. [1]
• No maximum temperature is stated on the product page. [1]
• The page carries no Prop 65 warning but links a footer page titled “California AB 1200 and Other Chemical Disclosures”. [1] [2]

Sources (2)

1. T-fal Infrared Air Fryer 7.3 qt (EY8338U0)
2. T-fal AB 1200 and other chemical disclosures

• Credit where it is genuinely due: Elite Gourmet’s disclosure is model-grouped and actually usable. Group 1 is metals only with no fluoropolymer; group 2 lists “PFASs”; group 3, which includes this model, lists PTFE specifically. A buyer can pick a model on that basis — which is more than almost any competitor offers. [2]
• No “free of” claim is made. Instead the page carries a Prop 65 warning regarding acrylamide exposure, which is about the food rather than the appliance. [1]
• The URL slug reads “3-5-quart-electric-digital-air-fryer” for a 23 litre oven — the maker’s own page was recycled from another product. [1]
• Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Elite Gourmet EAF9310 23L Digital Air Fryer Oven
2. Elite Gourmet California AB 1200 cookware disclosure — the model groups

• “Intentionally added” is the scope. It does not exclude PFAS present as a processing aid, an impurity, or from supply-chain contamination. No test method, no standard and no certifying body is named. [1]
• The basket substrate metal is not published, and neither is the housing. [1]
• Per Defend Our Health, Beautiful’s own California AB 1200 page “discloses PFAS in air fryers, waffle makers, griddles, and other appliances with specific model numbers listed”. That page was unreachable to us. If any listed model corresponds to a SKU marketed as PFAS- and PTFE-free, that is the story — and it needs checking before anyone relies on this claim. [2]
• Country of manufacture not stated. The warranty header is present with no terms under it. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Walmart — Beautiful 6 Qt Air Fryer, Lavender
2. Defend Our Health — cookware materials disclosures index

• The disclosure is brand-wide, not per model. It links to a per-product document we could not open, so we cannot confirm which coating is on this specific fryer — only that the brand admits PTFE, PFA and FEP across its range. [2]
• Two Instant pages disagree in spirit: the product page sells “nonstick” with no chemistry, the compliance page names three fluoropolymers. Both are theirs. [1] [2]
• No third-party testing, no named laboratory, no country of manufacture. [1]
• One year warranty, excluding “accident, alteration, misuse, abuse, neglect, unreasonable use” and unauthorised parts. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Instant Vortex Plus 6qt product page
2. Instant Brands cookware chemical disclosures — names PTFE, PFA, FEP

• The hedge is in the same document: De’Longhi states its PTFE coating and FKM rubbers “do not intentionally contain PFOA or PFOS”. That is a two-compound carve-out inside a filing that confirms PFAS presence. Treat any PFOA-free claim on a coated basket as non-informative; this is the citable proof. [1]
• BPS is disclosed — the substitute most “BPA-free” marketing quietly relies on — named in De’Longhi’s own filing. [1]
• De’Longhi is one of very few air fryer makers publishing an AB 1200 page at all. The absence of such a page elsewhere in this category is itself a scoring signal, and we treat it as one. [1]
• The US product page is JavaScript-heavy and rendered as a template for us; the material facts above come entirely from the compliance disclosure and the category listing. [2] [3]

Sources (3)

1. De'Longhi California AB 1200 cookware disclosure — the model list and chemicals
2. De'Longhi IdealFry Rapid Crisp 4 qt US product page
3. De'Longhi US air fryers category

• The manual makes no PFAS or PFOA claim at all, while the product page claims “PFAS-free” and “fluorine-free”. If the claim is substantiated it belongs in both. [1] [2]
• On testing their FAQ says only that “Typhur conducts extensive durability testing to ensure the heating system is safe and reliable”. No laboratory, no standard, no report — and durability testing of the heating system is not a test of the coating. [3]
• No country of manufacture published anywhere we could find, including the manual. [3]
• One year warranty, extendable to 18 months if you register within 30 days. [4]

Sources (4)

1. Typhur Dome 2 product page
2. Typhur Dome user manual — the vaguer wording
3. Typhur Dome FAQs — the durability testing line
4. Typhur warranty terms

• The model is named and sold on the glass — “with Glass Basket” is in the product title — while the cleaning copy describes a coated basket. It is the same pattern as “stainless steel” model names over coated food-contact parts, which recurs throughout this category. [1]
• No coating chemistry, no glass type, no PFOA, PTFE or PFAS statement, no warranty and no country of manufacture. Effectively zero material disclosure behind a $199 price. [1] [2]
• Gourmia’s own GAF7020 manual PDF and catalogue page are blocked by robots.txt, so the one document that would resolve the contradiction is not machine-readable. We are recording that rather than guessing which claim is right. [3] [4]

Sources (4)

1. Gourmia 7-quart digital air fryer with glass basket (GAF7020)
2. Gourmia contact and warranty link — no terms shown
3. Gourmia GAF7020 manual PDF — blocked by robots.txt
4. Gourmia catalogue item page — blocked by robots.txt

• The $24 cooking tray, a direct food-contact part sold separately, has no stated material at all. Its entire official description is that it “fits snugly within the ChefMaker basket”. [3]
• Twelve months of warranty on a $359 appliance, excluding “cosmetic damage” — which is how coating wear on a basket typically first presents. [5]
• No temperature limit published for the basket or its coating, on a machine with a water atomiser and a meat probe. [1]
• No PFOA, PTFE or PFAS statement on any Dreo page we read, and no California AB 1200 disclosure we could find. [1] [2]

Sources (5)

1. Dreo ChefMaker Combi Fryer
2. Dreo Extra ChefMaker Non-stick Basket — the contradicting spare part
3. Dreo Extra ChefMaker Cooking Tray — no material stated
4. Dreo ChefMaker landing page
5. Dreo warranty policy

• We checked the claim against Kalorik’s own AB 1200 filing and it holds up: this model is listed with metals only — aluminium, chromium, nickel, iron, manganese, zinc — and no PTFE. Credit that properly. [2]
• The same disclosure names PTFE for three sibling models, flagged under CECBP priority chemicals, IARC 2A, the NTP 13th Report on Carcinogens and Prop 65. Same brand, same shelf, different chemistry. [2]
• The older Kalorik MAXX says its nonstick coating is “BPA & PFOA Free”. A coating that is PFOA-free is not a coating that is PTFE-free, and Kalorik does not claim it is. [3]
• 500°F is the highest maximum temperature in this category. Dishwasher safety is not stated. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Kalorik MAXX Advance 26 qt (AFO 52233 SS)
2. Kalorik product formulation information and AB 1200 disclosure
3. Kalorik MAXX (AFO46045SS) — the older “BPA & PFOA Free” coating claim

• No “free of” claim at all. Instead the page carries a Prop 65 warning: “Cancer and Reproductive Harm”. [1]
• Same brand, two pages apart: Chefman’s dual-basket model claims PFAS-free ceramic, and neither page acknowledges the other. Their TurboX 5-quart does both at once — a “PFAS-free nonstick basket” and the Prop 65 cancer warning on the same page. [1] [2]
• This model does not appear on Chefman’s AB 1200 disclosure list, which names PTFE on aluminised baskets for eleven other Chefman air fryers. [3]
• 400°F and a top-rack dishwasher-safe basket — on a coating with no published chemistry and no care guidance. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Chefman TurboFry Touch “Stainless-Steel” Air Fryer
2. Chefman TurboX 5-Quart — PFAS-free claim and Prop 65 warning on one page
3. Chefman California AB 1200 disclosure list

• No air fryer model appears individually anywhere on that disclosure page. It satisfies the letter of a disclosure requirement while telling a buyer nothing about the product in front of them. [2]
• The disclosure does explain the chemistry usefully: “PTFE, PFA and FEP are all fluoropolymers that create a non-stick surface on the food-contact surface”. The explanation is good; the model-level attribution is missing. [2]
• The sibling “Vortex Plus 6QT Stainless Steel” shows the same naming trap — a “sleek stainless steel finish” on the housing, with the basket given only as dishwasher-safe. [4]
• No maximum temperature and no price published on the product page. [1]

Sources (4)

1. Instant Vortex 9 qt Air Fryer with VersaZone
2. Instant Pot cookware chemical disclosures — the blanket “and/or” statement
3. Instant Pot product warranties
4. Instant Vortex Plus 6QT “Stainless Steel”

• The claim is written as covering the accessories: “Accessories are made without the following: PTFE (Teflon), PFOA, PFAS, Lead & Cadmium”. One of those accessories is ceramic-coated. Ceramic sol-gel is not PTFE, so the claim can be literally true — but it reads as “no coating” and that is not what it says. [1]
• “Non-toxic” is not a regulated term and nothing is published to substantiate it. [1]
• “Steel” with no grade is the same gap we dock lunchbox brands for. 304 and 430 behave differently. [1]
• No testing, no named laboratory, no country of manufacture. [1]
• One year warranty, excluding “normal wear and tear”, glass parts and accessories packed with the appliance. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Our Place Wonder Oven product page
2. Our Place warranty terms

• Hamilton Beach sells the coated parts separately — a replacement basket at $33.99, pans at $33.99 to $35.99, a crisping insert at $34.99. That is roughly a quarter of the appliance price to replace a coating with no published chemistry and no published care guidance. [3]
• No warranty terms on the product page or in the company’s own product PDF. [1] [2]
• We could find no California AB 1200 disclosure for Hamilton Beach. [1] [2]
• Dishwasher safety is not stated on either document, for a part sold as removable and washable. [1] [2]

Sources (3)

1. Hamilton Beach 5.8 qt Digital Air Fryer (35075)
2. Hamilton Beach air fryer product PDF
3. Hamilton Beach replacement air fryer basket

• The warranty documentation is circular. The warranty page says “to find the warranty length of your specific product, refer to the product page”; the BOV860 product page does not state it. We could not establish the warranty length for a $349.95 appliance from Breville’s own site. [1] [3]
• Explicitly not dishwasher safe: “to extend the life of your accessories, we do not recommend that these be placed in the dishwasher”. [2]
• We could find no California AB 1200 disclosure for Breville. [1] [2]
• Country of manufacture is not stated in the manual or on the product page. [2]

Sources (3)

1. Breville the Smart Oven Air Fryer BOV860
2. BOV860 US instruction manual (PDF)
3. Breville US warranty page — defers to the product page

• The crisper plates sit under the food and their material and coating are not stated. Ninja’s Canadian pages state “All food-contact surfaces are designed without PFAS and PTFE” — that statement does not appear on this listing and we do not score claims made on other continents. [1] [2]
• “Leak Proof Lids So Meals Don’t Spill On The Go” — lid material not published, and the lids contact food. [1]
• “Dishwasher Safe Parts” is the only cleaning information. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE, BPA, warranty or country of origin on the page. Across three Ninja listings at Costco, not a single food-contact material is named — on the 10-quart DualZone, the word “Non-stick” appears once, as a feature tag. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Costco — Ninja Crispi 5-in-1 Portable Glass Air Fry Cooking System
2. JB Hi-Fi Australia — Ninja Crispi, which does name borosilicate
3. Costco — Ninja Foodi 6-in-1 10-qt DualZone Air Fryer

• Three SKUs of one product at one price, with claims ranging from “no PTFE” to “no PFOA/PFOS” to nothing at all. A shopper cannot tell which basket they are buying, and the colour is the only thing distinguishing them. [1] [2] [3]
• “Prepares air-fried foods with 88% less fat and 65% fewer calories compared to restaurant-fried alternatives” — no source cited for either figure. [1]
• “Stainless steel components” refers to the housing, not the tray or pan. [1]
• Country of manufacture and warranty: neither stated. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Walmart — Beautiful 6 Qt Air Fryer, Sage Green
2. Walmart — the same fryer in Lavender, “free from intentionally added PFAS, PTFE”
3. Walmart — the same fryer in Black Sesame, no coating claim at all

• Basket material not published. Crisper plate material not published. Broiler rack material not published. Housing not published. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. No country of manufacture. No dishwasher guidance. [1]
• A “Manufacturer’s Warranty Information” heading appears on the page with no content beneath it. [1]
• The spec table lists “Minimum Temperature: 150°F” while the description says the range starts at 105°F. Two fields on one page, 45 degrees apart, on a machine sold with a dehydrate function. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Costco — Ninja Foodi 6-in-1 10-qt XL 2-Basket Air Fryer

• Three listings, one product, one price. Lavender: free from intentionally added PFAS, PTFE, lead and cadmium. Sage Green: PFOA/PFOS-free. Black Sesame: nothing. Colour is the only variable a shopper can see. [1] [2] [3]
• “Removable crisping tray and pan are dishwasher safe” is the only reference to the food-contact parts, and it describes cleaning rather than composition. [1]
• No country of manufacture, no warranty, no model number stated. [1]
• This is why a claim on one SKU should never be read across a product line. Same factory, same coating, three different pages. [1] [2] [3]

Sources (3)

1. Walmart — Beautiful 6 Qt Air Fryer, Black Sesame
2. Walmart — the same fryer in Lavender
3. Walmart — the same fryer in Sage Green