Product Description

Professional quality with cool zone for cleaner, longer-lasting oil. Fast cooking temperature recovery after insertion of food in oil.Rectangular frying basket with removable / folding handle. Professional system fryer. 4.5 lite oil capacity, 1kg food capacity, dishwasher-safe basket, 18/10 stainless steel frying bowl 9dishwasher proof) heats up to temperature within 6 minutes, cool zone under elements for cleaner frying and longer oil life, new design 3200W element, 25 minute timer, satin stainless steel, control panel with black dials.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8749 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Magimix
• Model: 11179
• Released on: 2003-05-13

Manufacturer's Description
Professional quality with ‘cool zone’ for cleaner, longer-lasting oil. Fast cooking temperature recovery after insertion of food in oil. Also includes rectangular frying basket with removable/folding handle.

Customer Reviews

Awesome
Worth every penny. We bought this after throwing away a cheaper one that was awful. This is big but it heats up incredibly quickly and makes great crispy chips. Best thing - the whole thing comes apart and is so easily cleanable. There are no plasticky parts to get sticky and horrible - this is just a stainless steel bowl with an element that clips down into it.

Great but also with one large fault
I got this product as I liked the capacity and it was all metal rather than plastic and metal and seemed well designed.

The fryer is well made, gets up to temperature, works fine except for one thing and in general would be a 5* item except for ...the temps are well out for my particular example.

When I first got it I set it to 120C to do some chips gently before browning them off later and they went brown straight off! I measured the temps with a thermometer that had been calibrated in boiling water and the actual temp was 155C! I did some testing and got the following

60C = 114C
120C = 155C
160C = 178C
180C = 188C

so it gets more accurate with rising temperature. Now I know how it works it is fine, but if you did not have a thermometer it would be very bad to work out what was happening and so perhaps is worth 1*.

So in summary, if you don't have your own thermometer for checking yours is OK when it arrives I would give this a miss. But if you do then it is fantastic.

As an aside, I cooked chips about 10-12 different ways and have found that if you boil the potatoes first until they are very soft, then put in the freezer for 25 minutes and then fry rapidly at 190C then this gives the best result. Microwaving them first gives a skin and gentle frying makes them hard and go soft quicker.

BEST £100 I HAVE EVER SPENT !!
OKAY SO I AM A PROFESSIONAL COOK AND I AM SLIGHTLY BIASED TOWARDS THE MAGIMIX BRAND BUT IF YOU WANT A SUPERB QUALITY AND WELL-DESIGNED FRYER THAT SPECIALISES IN SPEED,SIMPLICITY AND SIZE THEN YOUR £100 WILL NOT BE BETTER INVESTED.EASY TO CLEAN,EASY TO USE AND THE TEMPERATURE GAUGE WORKS FINE FOR ME! I BLANCH MY CHIPS AT 70' AND BROWN THEM AT 140'...PERFECT CHIPPIES,THANK YOU. ALSO GREAT FOR PAKORAS,DOUGHNUTS,BATTERED FOOD AND CRISPY KFC STYLE CHICKEN.THE ONE THING THAT HAS NOT BEEN MENTIONED IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AFTER THIS FRYER IT WILL LAST FOR YEARS AND YEARS,UNLIKE THE OTHER CHEAP PLASTIC DOMESTIC FRYERS.MAGIMIX APPLY THEIR PROFESSIONAL PRINCIPLES WHEN DESIGNING FOR THE DOMESTIC MARKET, AND NO I DO NOT HAVE SHARES IN THE COMPANY!!!!