Air fryer recalls: the full U.S. list, and how to check yours

“Air fryer recall” is a query people type after seeing a headline, and headlines are a poor way to find out whether the machine on your counter is affected. The CPSC keeps the actual record, and the actual record is short enough to read in full. Below is every U.S. air fryer recall it lists, with the model numbers, what went wrong, how many incidents were reported and what the remedy was — followed by the check that takes about a minute on your own unit.

Every U.S. air fryer recall, newest first

Insignia air fryers and air fryer ovens — March 2024

Best Buy recalled six Insignia models: NS-AF34D2, NS-AF5DSS2, NS-AF5MSS2, NS-AF8DBD2, NS-AF10DBK2 and NS-AF10DSS2, with cooking chambers from about 3.4 to 10 quarts. The CPSC notice describes two failure modes — the air fryers can overheat to the point where handles melt or break, and the oven versions can overheat and shatter the glass in the door. Twenty-four reports of overheating, melting or shattering glass were received, including six fires. No injuries were reported. The remedy is a refund rather than a repair, and Best Buy asks owners to destroy the unit and submit photographs rather than return it to a store.

PowerXL dual-basket air fryers — December 2023

The one recall on this list that is not about heat at all. On the 10-quart DUAF-10 and 9-quart DUAF-005, the plastic U-channel connector that optionally joins the two baskets into one large basket can break during use, dropping hot food. Empower Brands received 41 reports of the part breaking, three of which involved burns. About 319,000 units were affected and the remedy is a full refund. If you own a dual-basket machine of any brand, this is a useful reminder that the joining hardware is a moving part under heat — the trade-offs of the format generally are in single vs dual basket air fryers.

Secura air fryers — September 2023

A small recall with a narrow scope: model SAF-53D (TXG-DT16E) with date code 1901, and model SAF-53 (TXG-DS16) with date codes 1903 and 1904. About 6,400 units in the U.S. A wire connection inside can overheat; nine reports of fire, burning or smoking were received and no injuries. The date code matters as much as the model number here, which is why the label on the base is the only reliable check.

Cosori air fryers — February 2023, and the largest by a distance

Two million units in the United States, plus 250,000 in Canada and 21,000 in Mexico. The cause was the same wire-connection overheating as the Secura recall, and the consequences were more visible because of the scale: 205 reports of fire, burning, melting, overheating or smoking, including ten minor burn injuries and 23 reports of minor property damage. The recall covers 3.7-quart and 5.8-quart machines sold between June 2018 and December 2022at prices from $70 to $130, under a long list of model numbers beginning CP158-AF, CP137-AF, CS158-AF, CO137-AF, CO158-AF, CP258-AF and CAF-P581. Cosori's remedy is a free replacement, registered at recall.cosori.com, and no receipt is required.

We recommend Cosori machines on this site, and that recall does not change the recommendation — a manufacturer that pulls two million units and replaces them without a receipt is behaving better than one that quietly revises a component. What it does change is what we tell you to check. If you own a Cosori bought in that window, read the model number off the label on the base and compare it with the CPSC list before you use it again. If you are buying today, note that the recall window closed in December 2022 and the machines in our current roundup are later products — but the model number on the unit in your kitchen is the only thing that ever settles this, not the brand on the front.

Magic Chef air fryers — October 2022

Newair recalled the Magic Chef digital air fryer oven in two finishes, MCAF56DB in black and MCAF56DW in white — about 11,750 units. The machine can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards. No incidents were reported to the CPSC, which makes this the rare case of a recall issued before anything happened. Owners were asked to photograph the rating label, disable the unit and take a $50 store credit.

Insignia air fryers — April 2022

The first and second-largest of the set, and the reason Best Buy appears twice: about 635,000 U.S. units across eight models — NS-AF32DBK9, NS-AF32MBK9, NS-AF50MBK9, NS-AF53DSS0, NS-AF53MSS0, NS-AF55DBK9, NS-AFO6DBK1 and NS-AFO6DSS1. The machines can overheat and catch fire. Best Buy received 68 reports from U.S. consumers and 36 from Canada, including seven of minor property damage and two injuries, one of them to a child's leg.

What the pattern actually tells you

Five of the six recalls are the same failure: a connection or a component gets hotter than it was designed to, and the machine cooks itself rather than the food. The sixth is a plastic part breaking under load. Not one of them is about a nonstick coating, PTFE, PFAS or anything that leaches into food — which is worth sitting with, because the coating question is what the internet argues about and the electrical question is what actually recalls machines.

That does not make the materials question unimportant; it is a different question with a different answer, and ours is set out with its sources in are air fryers toxic. It does mean that if you are going to worry about one thing, the evidence points at the wiring and the heat, not the basket. The practical consequences of that are dull and effective: do not run an air fryer on an extension cord or a daisy-chained power strip, which is the reasoning in can you plug an air fryer into an extension cord; give it the clearance the manual asks for, per air fryer clearance and placement; and do not leave one running unattended.

How to check your own machine in about a minute

1. Find the rating label. It is almost always on the underside of the unit, and sometimes on the power cord. It carries the brand, the model number and often a date code.
2. Write down the model number exactly, including the suffix. Recalls are scoped to suffixes and date codes — NS-AF53DSS0 and NS-AF5DSS2 are different machines from different recalls.
3. Search the CPSC recall database at cpsc.gov/Recalls for that model. It is the authoritative list and it is free.
4. Register the product with the manufacturer if you have not. Registration is how a company reaches you directly instead of hoping you see a press release.

One caveat worth saying plainly: the absence of a recall is not evidence that a machine is safe. It means no defect has been established and acted on. A brand with no recalls may have sold very few units, or may simply not have been caught yet.

If your machine is on the list

Stop using it, take the remedy — the refunds and replacements above have no expiry in the CPSC notices — and do not pass it on or sell it, which is illegal for recalled products. If you need a replacement, these are the two we would put on the counter in its place.