Dreo ChefMaker Combi Fryer, Cook like a pro with just the press of a button, Smart Air Fryer Cooker with Cook probe, Water Atomizer, 3 professional cooking modes, 6 QT

A friend recommended this and we needed a new air fryer that was not too big. Everything about this DREO is crazy good. The Teflon coating is amazing and it cleans up so easily. The Chef Mode is basically like AI cooking with probe. It is as close to Sous Vide cooking you can get with very little effort. I'm a cook. I'm a griller and BBQ guys. I cook the best steak ever. This thing in Chef Mode cooked the best damn Ribeye steak I've cooked in a long time. It does need to be a thicker cut of meat though to really work well. It takes a little extra time, BUT you don't do a thing except season your meat, put the probe in and it cooks it to perfection while you do whatever else you want. It's only good for a small family or single people this thing will save you a fortune in time and not wasting food. I've had it for 2 months and I still haven't gotten through all the bells and whistles. Yes, the app for your phone is really good. You can use it to go through all the menus and it's faster than the touch screen plus gives you an expected time of finish and lets you know when your food is done. It's pricey, but in my opinion worth it. I used some credits I had which helped, but I would go back and pay full price for it. Vegetables and Potatoes are cooked to perfection. It even has a setting for mushrooms and it nailed it! This thing has so many permutations of settings it would make a statistician dizzy. I plan to try them all. No, did not get paid anything to say this and I really bought one. If you are on the fence, don't be. It has a money back guarantee. But I guarantee if you take the time to learn how to use it and really use it, you won't be sending it back. Kali Oreksi!

This combination cooker reminds me of my first bread maker back in 1990. All of a sudden, you could put the ingredients in, push a button, and go away. It has done that for me for meals. It Broils, Bakes, Defrosts, Air Fry's (and Convection cooks), Dehydrates, and cooks with steam/humidity (“steam cooks” using a water tank (my words)). There is a “sous vida” capability, which is pretty neat with meat. It has a temperature probe which allows it to control the types of cooking with recipes you choose from those inside and those provided in an Apple or Google App. It has an impressive control system which is nicely integrated with the display screen. This allows you to effectively turn the whole cooking operation over to the Chefmaker, from when you put in the ingredients, to when you “plate” them. It also has 4 modes which you use to cook Chef Mode which allows you to use all the capabilities built in, based on Chef recipes for various foods, Classic (air fryer) Mode pretty much like my old air fryer, Probe Mode (sort of air fryer mode with a probe, that turns off the air fryer when the dish gets to the desired temperature. There is also the App, which has recipes like those of Chef mode, but can use whatever other way of cooking the chefs and engineers decided to have the device follow. This is all pretty cool to us, and we have had nothing but successes. The downsides? The device is new and desperately needs documentation and Cookbooks. For instance, you can easily choose a meat dish from your favorite recipes and search through the Chef Mode and APP recipes to find something similar, which you can use to cook your dish. There are a good number of cooking with Chefmaker videos out there, with everything from cornbread, which work great in your Chefmaker, but you Have to go looking, and generally, you better write down the instructions, because they usually are not in the YouTube video. You can take Air Fryer Recipes, and adapt them, but you better be careful to watch them, because air fryers vary widely, and the Chef Maker has a pretty powerful heating element. It would sure be nice to have a paper or on-line “Map” of the options and recipes in the device’s inherent modes. I expect these problems to go away pretty quickly, because Dreo has engineered the device to be able to change both its software and the recipes. The current Chefmaker’s size, and therefor portion sizes seems to make it most useful for meals for 2 or 3 people, or you get into “batch cooking”. For instance I love cooking bacon in it, but can only get 5 pieces in. Well, I’m going to eat two of them (but I sure loved sitting down with my wife and coffee when the bacon was cooking. Got breakfast done in half the time. P.S. My first Filet was Exactly Medium Rare in Chef/Sous Vida Mode. I cooked it with the probe in my (larger) filet. Wife prefers Medium, and next time, I’ll set the steaks to Medium, stick the probe in hers so the smaller steak is medium and the larger is less rare. Just not going to be able to get the Thanksgiving turkey in there next week (you can get a little rib roast in though.

I have owned a lot of air fryers because I have owned dozens of homes up to 25 homes at once - and most of them have had air fryers. This is the type of kitchen appliance. I've always been looking for... Something with a lot of style with an interface that has a beautiful color screen with an easy to use and intuitive interface. And doesn't look like it was designed by somebody who designed a cheap American car. Having a basket is truly superior to any other air fryer like the ones that just have a door... I used to think that those were better but after having so many different air fryers having a basket really is the best. But this is a basket that also has a window which is fantastic. The fact that this has a water tank for steamer functions is fantastic. I really love that a lot. My suggestions for this company is that they allow us to make a few more custom programs or that they even include some better custom programs for things like breads... There is no bread function, but it would be great if there was a function for making frozen rolls or biscuits or for heating up pita bread which is best heated up with steam. I also wish that you could select a favorite from the menu on the screen rather than going to your phone, but that's okay for now. This company makes really fantastic products. I have five of their wall heaters and this air fryer and everything about their interface on the app is just so good. Like so good that it's unbelievable. Also this is kind of like the Tesla of air fryers... I say that because it seems that they make frequent updates and add functions to the air fryer about once a month so far, but it is a new product, but I like to see that they are continuing to support it and improve it even once it has been delivered to customers. I'm sold on Dreo as a company and I can't wait for them to make some more products... I really hope that they make at bread maker because with their interface I bet it would just be so good. Maybe one day they could also be the first company to make a home based boba tea. Tapioca Pearl maker because that would be incredible and it's something I've always wanted.

I did NOT get my Dreo ChefMaker through Kickstarter, nor was it given to me for free for an "impartial review". So no, I did not get any kind of heavy discount. I just bought mine on Amazon, for a paltry 10% off...$315 before tax. There was little to like about this thing, but much to dislike. e.g.: - No presets for simple functions. When I first got this machine, I kept looking for presets for french fries, tater tots, fishsticks, reheating pizza etc. Nothing! REALLY? Even the cheap $75 air fryers have these presets! AND, many of those cheaper air fryers provide you with a reminder alert to shake/toss your fries. But not with the Dreo ChefMaker. - Steaks cooked with programmed sous vide mode DO NOT produce sous vide like results. When I chose to cook two New York strip steaks medium rare, one came out medium rare AND medium. The other steak ended up mostly medium. I'm guessing that the uneven cooking was likely due to the position of the heating element, and the source of the circulated air. Worst of all, the medium rare parts of the steaks didn't even come close to the tenderness you get with sous vide cooking. What little crust you get, is only on one side too. Total cooking time was around an hour (it needs time to "calculate" before it actually starts cooking). I'd rather sous vide my steaks for two hours, and torch sear like I always do. It's worth the extra time and effort for the dramatically better results, including getting an actual crust on BOTH sides of the steaks. - Salmon steaks came out mushy, not flaky and moist, as with baking in a conventional oven. The ChefMaker took 17 minutes (plus "calculating" time) vs when I usually bake for 20 minutes in a conventional oven. AND with a regular oven, cleanup is easier (when using foil on a baking sheet). Like with the beef steaks, cooking was also uneven with the salmon. - PITA to clean. I don't use my dishwasher (I cook for one), so manually cleaning the basket, cooking tray, grilling rack, and the probe is cumbersome. If I want to fry up something with the ChefMaker, I immediately think that "I really don't to have to clean those parts again". So I basically don't want to use the cursed thing. - The smell of melting plastic never goes away. I have used this machine quite a bit since I got it, but that new melting plastic smell is always produced when cooking. I was hoping it would go away, but so far, it hasn't. So, now I'm stuck with a $315 mediocre air fryer, that I won't waste costly proteins on.

So on the kind of person to watch & read hundreds of reviews of a product before buying it, and ignoring most of them being paid or affiliate, I was still fairly convinced this would be a good purchase, but not an amazing one. Man, do I stand corrected. The very first time I ever used this product, I cooked one of the biggest choice grade ribeyes I have made that I got from my local meat market. I properly seasoned it and coated it in butter as per instructed. Then finally I let it cook. Sure it took quite a long time to cook fully, and I did pop it back in for another minute on broil after flipping it, but if it wasn’t the most amazing steak I’ve ever tasted at home, I don’t know what it was. Never would I think making a steak in a glorified air fryer would taste this good. It cooked it to a perfect medium rare as I instructed it to in the app before sending the recipe to the machine, and it was still so juicy after all that time cooking. Besides that amazing first meal, the thing is built extremely high-quality, made almost completely of metal and some very high-quality plastic so it looks really nice on my counter. It is a little big for having such a small frying bin, but that doesn’t subtract from the functionality if you’re able to understand that I can’t cook for an amazing amount of people usually. I’d say one to two people is a good range for how many people it can cook for. Weirdly enough, the screen is not a touchscreen, but that’s fine since the buttons are pretty easy to understand. I will notice that some of the product pictures in the manual do look different than the ones that you get with the product, like the grilling rack for the steak is this metallic metal piece, but on the images in the manual, and sometimes the app seem to depict a thicker, black piece. Overall, I think this combination device has been an amazing purchase so far, allowing me to cook things with little intervention, as well as being able to cook things like side dishes, while my main course can cook on its own, or vice versa! A handy little gadget I don’t see getting rid of anytime soon… I just hope they add more recipes on the app! (Like maybe more basic things such as fries or chicken tenders).

This thing is amazing, I just love the temperature probe, you can set the temp you want anything to cook at and the probe will ensure it hits the temperature you set. I cook steaks, burgers, and potatoes with the built in cooking menu and they come out perfect every time. The window and light are just awesome, being able to see what is being fried makes it super easy to use, so you don't have to keep shutting it off and opening the drawer to see what's going on. I can not recommend this enough.

The initial unit didn’t work properly. Dreo customer service was prompt and responsive. After a little trouble shooting the sent me a complete new replacementChefMaker. Several months later, One of the 4 screws holding the face plate to the cooking basket came out. When I tried to replace it, I found that all 4 of the attachment screws would not engage. I informed Dreo through their customer service message system. I got a reply within half a day. They said they would send me a new cooking basket. I am continually impressed by how accommodating, friendly and prompt their customer service team is. I really enjoy the Chefmaker. It is challenged somewhat by having to operate at an altitude of 8500 ft in the shadow of Pikes peak. Cooking takes a little then the automatic system thinks it should take, but is to be expected this high in the mountains, but the results are excellent. I heartily recommend the product and the company, particularly Carol in Customer Service. November, 2024 update: After almost a year, Tracy and Drio Customer Service team continues to amaze and delight me. I live at high altitude (8500') and, while the ChefMaker continues to cook protean - seafood, chicken, pork and beef perfectly, it does not sear as well as "advertised". I've been communicating with Drio about this and expressed that the ChefMaker was not designed to provide enough heat to sear beef at this altitude (because the air is too thin). The Drio technical team agreed with my assessment. Even after almost a year of use, Tracy offered to have me return my ChefMaker if I wasn't happy with it. While I appreciated Tracy's exceptionally generous offer, I'm too happy with the way the ChefMaker works to accept it. There are a lot of things that are designed to work where every "normal" person lives, that just don't have the over-design to work as well up here where we only have 75% of the air for a convection oven to work with. As I've said before, I am delighted with the way ChefMaker does its thing and I, absolutely can't believe the kind of Customer Service Tracy and her team have provided.

I've owned a Dreo Chefmaker for 6 months now and use it just about every day. If you live in an apartment and want a kitchen appliance that takes a lot of the legwork out of cooking, this is it. A Chefmaker and an Instant Pot are the perfect combination. The Chefmaker cooks good steak, pork, and chicken without much thought or attention. Overall, I would recommend owning one. However, I think there may be some quality control issues with the manufacturing of these devices. After about 4 months, the water atomizer in my Chefmaker stopped working entirely. This isn't a big deal for the most part, but it's a core selling point of the appliance and makes the "sous vide" mode kind of pointless. I contacted Dreo and they immediately shipped me a brand new unit with no need to return the old one. As far as Dreo's support is concerned, I give them an A+ on fast communication and trying to right my situation. My replacement unit still functions correctly... for the most part. This new one experiences intermittent screen distortion that can sometimes make it difficult to use the menu functions, and is just annoying to look at. I'm not going to reach out to support again unless the screen becomes unusable. However, this and the first failure tells me that Dreo needs to work on improving the QA of their Chefmaker units. Two units in a row with weird issues doesn't seem to be a coincidence. Also, I will note that the Chefmaker is virtually impossible to repair if you are handy like I am. Once I received my replacement Chefmaker, I figured I'd open up the old one and harvest parts I could keep around just in case. It turns out these units are very difficult to get fully opened without breaking the shell. If you've ever tried to do any sort of repair on a modern Macbook, it's kind of like that. I decided it wasn't worth my time to try and completely tear that thing down when doing a repair on my new unit would probably mean destroying it in some way. At best, I have an extra basket, grill, temperature probe, and atomizer nozzle. Another thing I should mention is that the first generation of the Chefmaker had a grill that is teflon coated and nicely fits the basket. They've since replaced it with a stainless steel grill, presumably because many more people are trying to limit their exposure to teflon. While I applaud them for going with stainless steel in this case, I really don't like the new grill design. When removing food, it's way too easy for it to tip sideways and potentially splash any oil that's in the basket. The old teflon grill was better from a design standpoint. Not a big deal, but it's a shame that they didn't design a better steel grill. Anyway, I look forward to Dreo improving this gadget in the future. I still love mine despite the issues I've mentioned.

Very good

I was a bit on the fence because it's more expensive than a standard air fryer, but after using it for a few weeks I can honestly say it's been worth it. The thing that's impressed me most is the temperature probe. I've cooked chicken breasts, steaks and salmon and it's taken all the guesswork out. Instead of constantly checking if everything's cooked, I just let it do its thing and it's come out spot on every time.

Me encanta la precisión del término en los cortes de carne, super recomendado!

I just received this last week, and have been using it for chicken wings, burgers, and ribeye steaks. It's better than the phillips air fryer I have, the steak came out perfectly medium ( it has medium rare, medium, medium well and well done, unlike some of the others that were reviewed ) Temperature goes to 450 F unlike some other persons review, and food came out better than in the air fryer. I tested both the ribeye and chicken wings in both the air fryer and the Dreo, at the same time. it was more moist, and more crispy, in the Dreo if that's possible. For $499 I could get by with just my old air fryer, but for $399 Black Friday, it was a steal of a deal. If your not happy with your air fryer, this should be your next choice, and if you are looking for an air fryer for the first time, this would be exceptional for you. So far I love it, I'd just wait for the boxing day sales, $500 is a bit steep! Edit: Six months later it's still the best cooking device I have owned, however I feel a lot of that is because of the cooking probe, but when I went to Dreo site to purchase a backup probe they were all sold out. That's not a good sign for me, also the chefmaker was all sold out, did they stop making it ? Now I'm worried about warranty in the future. What's going on Dreo?

Un an plus tard, je suis extrêmement satisfait de mon Chefmaker ! C'était ma première expérience avec un air fryer. Et, je dois dire que je ne regrette aucunement mon achat, et je ne peux plus m'en séparer. Le Chefmaker est peut-être un peu plus dispendieux en comparaison des marques populaires, mais sa technologie et ses accessoires rendent celui-ci beaucoup plus attrayant et plus "premium", à mon avis. Par exemple, j'ai comparé le Chefmaker avec les air fryer de mes amis. Les "presets" et le "probe" sont ce qui attire le plus. Un steak medium saignant ? Un poulet sous-vide ? Une cuisson selon la température internet ? Juste à appuyer sur deux ou trois buton, insérer le thermomètre, et voilà ! En plus, vous avez une application sur téléphone très sympathique ! Entre autres, vous pouvez suivre la cuisson sur votre téléphone. Ce n'est pas indispensable, mais très agréable lorsque nous sommes dans la pièce voisine. L'application propose aussi des recettes avec des tutoriels, ce qui est également très plaisant. Seul bémol, mon Chefmaker a complètement arrêté de fonctionner après une cuisson, environ 14 mois plus tard après mon achat. Toute l'alimentation s'est coupée. Cependant ! J'ai communiqué avec le service à la clientèle avec le système de messagerie dans l'application. Quelques heures plus tard, Carol, au service client, m'a contacté et m'a demandé quelques informations supplémentaires (photo, vidéo, facture, etc.). J'ai tout partagé, et en moins de deux jours Carol m'a confirmé un nouvel envoi pour remplacer mon modèle défectueux ! Ma crainte s'est rapidement dissipée, et j'ai eu le nouveau appareil en moins d'une semaine entre le moment de ma signalisation et la réception à la maison. Qui plus est, le nouvel appareil a bénéficié de quelques corrections depuis mon premier achat, et a été livré avec une nouvelle garantie ! Honnêtement, je n'ai aucun commentaire négatif à partager sur le Dreo Chefmaker. Que ce soit l'appareil ou le service client, tout est parfait de mon expérience !