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

• A glass appliance with an unlocated coating is exactly the pattern to be wary of — and Kogan does not make the obvious “no coating chemistry to worry about” claim that a genuinely bare glass bowl would earn. [1]
• The heating element assembly sits in the lid directly above the food and has no stated material. [1]
• No borosilicate standard cited and no thermal shock rating, so the glass type is asserted rather than specified. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. One-year warranty. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Kogan Portable Glass Air Fryer 2.5L & 5L

• This is the claim most often contradicted by statutory filings in this category, which is precisely why it would be worth something with a test report attached. High value if true, and currently unverifiable. [1]
• “Designed in Italy”. Designed, not made — the manufacturing country is not stated anywhere. We do not score design as origin. [1]
• Smeg separately sells a “Stainless Steel Basket” accessory for this machine, which implies the standard basket is coated metal rather than solid ceramic. [1]
• Betta’s listing for the same unit drops the PFAS claim entirely and describes only “basket and grill rack” with no material for either. The grill rack’s material is not published anywhere we could find. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Smeg Australia — air fryer range
2. Betta — Smeg XL 7.3L Air Fryer Matte Black

• Betta sells the same unit cheaper and describes it only as “Non-Stick Ceramic Coating”, dropping the PTFE-free wording entirely. Same appliance, less information, lower price. [2]
• “PTFE/PFOA-free” is not the same as PFAS-free, and Ninja does not claim PFAS-free here. PTFE is one fluoropolymer among thousands of PFAS. [1]
• No laboratory, standard or report supports the claim. It is the manufacturer’s assertion. [1]
• Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. SharkNinja Australia — AG551
2. Betta listing of the same unit

• The marketing copy on the same page says only “Non-stick removable pot”. The word PTFE appears in the specification table and nowhere else. A buyer who reads the sales copy and skips the spec table learns nothing. [1]
• “Iron-coated PTFE” is garbled — read literally it says the PTFE is coated in iron, which is backwards. The sense is a PTFE coating on an iron or steel plate. We score it as a disclosed fluoropolymer because that is plainly what is meant. [1]
• No PFOA, PFAS or BPA claim anywhere on the page. That is consistent rather than evasive: Kogan names the polymer and makes no claim about it either way. [1]
• Dick Smith, which Kogan owns, lists the identical product with byte-identical material text at the same price. It is the same listing, not a second opinion. [2]
• No country of manufacture and no third-party testing published, which is true of every Kogan product we checked. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kogan 10L Dual Zone Flex Drawer Air Fryer
2. Dick Smith listing of the same unit

• Knowing the substrate is carbon steel is genuinely useful — it tells you what is left when the coating goes. It does not tell you what the coating is. [1]
• “Removable, dishwasher-safe components” on coated carbon steel. Dishwashing is the standard way to destroy a non-stick coating, and no coating type is named to justify the claim. [1]
• Polycarbonate is named in the outer housing. Kogan makes no BPA statement anywhere on the page, and polycarbonate is the polymer the BPA question was invented for. It is a non-contact part, but the silence is odd given how cheap that claim is to make. [1]
• Kogan’s own-brand air fryers make no PFAS-family claim at all. Its Ovela cookware line, same company, claims “Free from harmful chemicals like PTFE and PFOA”. Two disclosure standards under one roof. [1] [2]

Sources (2)

1. Kogan 11L Double Stack Air Fryer
2. Ovela 5 Piece Granite Non-Stick Set — “Free from harmful chemicals like PTFE and PFOA”

• “Cold rolled sheet” describes how the steel was formed, not what grade it is. It is more than most retailers give and less than a specification. [1]
• “Dishwasher Safe: Yes” on a coating that is never identified. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• Kogan’s company-level position on product safety names no standard: “All the Kogan branded products available on the Kogan.com platform must comply with our extremely high product safety standards”. Those standards are not published. The third-party element is “inspected by third party professional inspectors during production” — production QC, not materials testing. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Kogan 6L XL Digital Air Fryer
2. Kogan ESG — product safety and quality

• “Non-stick” is a property, not a material. Ceramic sol-gel and PTFE are both non-stick and they are different things. [1]
• No PFOA or PFAS claim is made at all on the Australian page. That means they cannot overclaim — but it also means a shopper trying to avoid fluoropolymers gets no answer either way. [1]
• Two year warranty stated, exclusions not detailed on the product page. [1]
• Sibling brand context: Cosori air fryers were recalled in the US over fire risk in 2023 and affected units reached Australian retailers. We could not confirm an ACCC recall number for the Australian arm of that, so we are noting it as US-recall-with-Australian-exposure rather than an ACCC recall.

Sources (1)

1. Ninja Air Fryer 4.7L Pro, SharkNinja Australia

• SharkNinja’s Australian page calls the containers “thermal shock resistant containers designed for safe, non-toxic cooking and storage”. “Non-toxic” is attached to the glass. The two coated inserts are not mentioned in the same breath. [2]
• This is the recurring trap in glass air fryers, and Australia has a documented case of it. CHOICE bought the Kmart glass air fryer and found it shipped with “a non-stick tray insert”, while “the images on Kmart’s website show what appears to be a steel mesh tray”. Their advice was to buy a stainless replacement tray separately. [3]
• Naming borosilicate is genuinely good and rare — Kmart names the glass on a $9 lunchbox and not on its $20 oven-rated storage set. [1]
• Country of manufacture not stated. No third-party testing cited. [1] [2]

Sources (3)

1. JB Hi-Fi — Ninja Crispi
2. SharkNinja Australia — Ninja Crispi
3. CHOICE — Healthy Choice vs Kmart glass air fryers

• Breville’s own manual for the BOV860 states “The walls on the inside of the oven feature a non-stick coating for easy cleaning”. So the cavity is coated too, and that coating is not named either. [2]
• The same manual says “To extend the life of your accessories, we do not recommend that these be placed in the dishwasher” — an acknowledgement that the coatings degrade, attached to coatings that are never identified. [2]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement on the product page or in the manual. [1] [2]
• Myer sells it for $799, thirty dollars above Breville’s own price, and publishes no material information at all. Myer product pages render no description, specification or material text — across fifteen listings from $10 containers to this, we found none. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Breville Australia — BOV905
2. Breville BOV860 instruction book — the coated oven cavity
3. Myer — Breville the Smart Oven Air Fryer XL

• The product page makes no non-stick safety claim of any kind — not PFOA-free, not PFAS-free, not ceramic, nothing — on an appliance whose central function is a non-stick basket. That is unusual, and it cuts both ways: nothing to overclaim, and nothing to check. [1]
• No country of manufacture on the product page. [1]
• No third-party testing published. [1]
• Brand recall history, for context rather than against this model: Breville has had ACCC recalls on other appliances, including the BPR200 Fast Slow Cooker over unexpected pressure release and scald risk. No recall found for the BOV860. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer BOV860, Australia
2. ACCC recall, Breville BPR200 Fast Slow Cooker

• A named alloy sitting exactly where a food-contact disclosure belongs, describing the part you never eat from. We score the food-contact surface as unstated, because it is. [1]
• No non-stick statement of any kind, so the page does not even concede a coating exists on a 10-litre basket fryer. [1]
• Kogan’s own category page and product page showed different prices for this unit on the day we checked — $84.99 against $79.99. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA claim. No country of manufacture. No dishwasher guidance. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Kogan 10L XXL Digital Air Fryer

• Tefal is open about PTFE elsewhere. Its cookware commitments page argues “PTFE is an inert substance with no effect on health, even in the case of ingestion” and notes it is used to coat pacemakers. Whatever you make of that, the company is not hiding the polymer — it just does not put it on the product page. [2]
• Tefal’s standard claim across its range is “0% PFOA, 0% lead, 0% cadmium”. Three noughts, none of them PTFE, which is the compound actually in the pan. [2]
• Betta’s own spec field is applied inconsistently. Two other Tefal air fryers on the same site, at higher prices, have no PTFE row at all — the field is simply blank. [3] [4]
• Housing material, country of manufacture and any third-party testing: none published. [1]
• One-year manufacturer warranty, against a two-year norm for Ninja, Philips, Breville and Smeg in this category. [1]

Sources (4)

1. Betta listing — the “Removable pan PTFE” spec row
2. Tefal cookware commitments — its PTFE position
3. Betta, Tefal 8.3L Dual Easy Fry Essential XXL — no coating row
4. Betta, Tefal Dual Easy Fry & Grill 11L — no coating row

• CHOICE’s workaround, in their words: “If you are looking to avoid non-stick materials, you can find a stainless steel air fryer tray online for $10–$30.” A $99 appliance that needs a $10–$30 part to do what its category implies. [2]
• The Kmart listing does not mention the tray at all — not its existence, not its material, not its coating. The glass containers are named as glass but not as a type; the comparable Healthy Choice glass fryer ships a stainless crisping tray and says so. [1] [2]
• The only certification-shaped statement is “Tested to applicable Australian electrical safety standards and certified as compliant”. That is electrical safety. It says nothing about what touches food, and no certifying body is named. [1]
• Twelve-month warranty. Country of manufacture not stated, as on every Kmart product we checked. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — Portable Glass Air Fryer
2. CHOICE — Healthy Choice vs Kmart glass air fryers

• Sold with the line “Healthy way for frying without oil”. The health framing rests entirely on a release surface the page will not name, heated to 200°C. [1]
• Testing, verbatim: “Tested to applicable Australian electrical safety standards and certified as compliant” and “Durability and performance testing carried out prior to QA approval”. The first is electrical. The second is the vendor testing itself. Neither names a body. [1]
• Target Australia’s own-brand kitchenware is Anko — the same house brand as Kmart, both Wesfarmers’ Kmart Group. Buying the Target version instead of the Kmart one gets you the same supplier. [2]
• Twelve months. Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Target — Anko Air Fryer 5.75L
2. Kmart Group Ethical Sourcing Code, hosted on Target’s domain — “Kmart Australia, Target Australia and Anko Global”

• “Provides a healthier method of frying” — the same unsubstantiated framing over the same unnamed coating. [1]
• “Durability and performance testing carried out prior to QA approval” is the manufacturer testing its own product. It is offered on the page in the position where independent testing would go. [1]
• No PFOA claim. Worth noting, because Anko’s frypans do carry a PFOA-free claim — the air fryers, where the coating gets hottest, do not even make the easy claim. [1] [2]
• Twelve months. Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Target — Anko Air Fryer 5.3L
2. Target — Anko Anodised Non-Stick Frypan 24cm, which does claim PFOA-free

• The claim is “DiamondForce™ coating is PFOA-free and safe for everyday use”. PFOA is a legacy processing aid phased out of cookware manufacture years ago, so the claim is close to costless. It does not exclude PTFE and does not exclude PFAS. [1]
• “2x more durable than traditional non-stick cookware. Scratch tested and compared to traditional non-stick coating” — no laboratory, no standard, and “traditional non-stick” as the comparator baseline. [1]
• The third-party marker on the page is a “WeMoney People’s Choice Award” for “Best For Value”. That is a consumer-finance award, not materials testing. [1]
• Sunbeam markets this coating aggressively on one range and says nothing at all on another. Its AFP6000BK multi-zone oven, sold at Myer for $249, discloses only that the parts are dishwasher safe and “Made in China to Sunbeam’s specification” — and that is from the user manual, not the listing. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Sunbeam Alinea Pro DiamondForce 6L Air Fryer
2. Sunbeam AFP6000BK Multi-Zone Air Fryer Oven user guide

• This is the same trap as the Kogan 10L and the Breville: a real material named in the position where a food-contact disclosure belongs, describing a part you never eat from. [1] [2]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• One-year warranty on a $399 appliance — the shortest-to-price ratio in this category. [1]
• Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Betta — Westinghouse 25L Digital Benchtop Air Fryer Oven
2. Kogan 10L XXL Digital Air Fryer — the same exterior-as-disclosure pattern

• This split — ceramic claimed for the small insert, nothing said about the basket — recurs across the category. Russell Hobbs does the same thing with its 5.5L Satisfry: “Ceramic crisping plate: Yes”, basket surface unstated. [1] [3]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement on either retailer’s listing. [1] [2]
• Ninja’s own Australian support desk names the coating for a different model — the AF160 basket and crisper plate are “made of aluminium and have a Ceramic Non-stick coating, It is Teflon and PFOA Free”. That statement is about the AF160 and does not carry across to this model. “Teflon-free” is also a claim about a trademark rather than a chemistry. [4]
• Country of manufacture not stated by Ninja or either retailer. [1] [2]

Sources (4)

1. JB Hi-Fi — Ninja AF300
2. Betta — Ninja Foodi Dual Zone
3. Betta — Russell Hobbs 5.5L Satisfry, the same plate-not-basket split
4. Ninja Australia support — AF160 FAQ

• Across all three Contempo air fryers — $69, $79 and $99 — the only material word used for the food-contact surface is “non-stick”. Not once is the coating identified, and not once is PFAS, PFOA or PTFE addressed either way. [1] [2] [3]
• The viewing window material is not stated, and neither is the housing. [1]
• No warranty, no dishwasher guidance and no country of manufacture on the product page. A manual is linked but its contents are not surfaced. [1]
• Big W’s parent group does have a PFAS policy — POL.088, PFAS Policy V2, updated May 2025. It is listed by name on the supplier portal and hosted behind a supplier login, so its scope cannot be checked from outside. [4]

Sources (5)

1. Big W — Contempo Digital Window Airfryer 5L
2. Big W — Contempo Digital Dual Air Fryer 8L
3. Big W — Contempo Digital Slimline Air Fryer 8L
4. BIG W vendor portal — POL.088 PFAS Policy V2 listed by name

• The page advertises Dehydrate and Proof — long, low cycles with food resting against an unidentified coating for hours rather than minutes. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• No warranty, dishwasher guidance or country of manufacture published. [1]
• “draw divider” is Big W’s own spelling on the live page. Small thing, but it is a supplier-copy tell — and supplier copy is where material fields go to die. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Big W — Contempo Digital Dual Air Fryer 8L

• Ten pre-set functions, a viewing window and a flip alert are all specified. The coating is not. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement, consistent with the rest of the Contempo line. [1]
• No warranty, dishwasher guidance or country of manufacture on the page. [1]
• Big W’s own-brand disclosure is consistently thinner than the branded goods beside it. Decor names “Tritan” on a $5.75 bottle; Brilliant Basics names nothing on a $5 one. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — Contempo Digital Slimline Air Fryer 8L
2. Big W — Decor Quad Bands Tritan Bottle 750ml

• Every material field is empty. No body metal, no basket, no coating, no housing, no lids. On an $85 appliance. [1]
• “Tested to applicable Australian electrical safety standards” plus in-house QA is the whole of the testing story, and neither touches materials. [1]
• No care instructions at all — not even the boilerplate “clean according to given instructions” that the other Anko fryers carry. [1]
• Also sold by Kmart under the same Anko brand. Same group, same supplier, same silence. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Target — Anko Twin Air Fryer 9L
2. Kmart Group Ethical Sourcing Code — Kmart, Target and Anko Global are one group

• Across four Kmart air fryers, the words PFAS, PFOA, PTFE, BPA, non-stick, ceramic and coating appear a combined total of zero times. [1] [2] [3]
• The basket is offered as easy to clean, with no instruction on how to clean it and no disclosure of what would be worn away if you cleaned it wrongly. [1]
• Kmart does publish a PFOA-free claim — on its $7 frypans. The claim is made where the coating is coolest and withheld where it is hottest. [4]
• Twelve-month warranty. Country of manufacture not stated on any Kmart product we checked. [1]

Sources (4)

1. Kmart — 7.5L Air Fryer
2. Kmart — 5L Air Fryer Black
3. Kmart — 4L Air Fryer Space Saving
4. Kmart — 28cm Aluminium Non-Stick Frypan, which does claim PFOA-free

• Kmart sells a second 5L fryer at $29 in “Silver Look” with identical capacity, identical wattage and identical dimensions, differing by 100g of stated weight. Neither discloses a material. “Silver Look” is itself doing work: it signals metal without claiming it. [2]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• No dishwasher guidance for a basket whose material is unstated. [1]
• Twelve months. Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 5L Air Fryer Black
2. Kmart — 5L Air Fryer Silver Look

• The page will tell you the maximum weight of food to the tenth of a kilogram and will not tell you what that food sits on. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• Also listed by Betta as part of the Anko range with the same absence of material information. [1]
• Twelve months. Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Kmart — 4L Air Fryer Space Saving

• The only dishwasher claim on the page is inside a customer review — “all the internal components are dishwasher safe”. That is a shopper’s sentence, not Kogan’s, and we do not score it. [1]
• Kogan’s 45L oven is the same story one size up: the only material words on the whole page are “Double glass door”, with the glass type unstated, while “All accessories are removable and dishwasher-safe” is claimed for accessories that have no stated material. [2]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• Kogan’s largest and most expensive air fryers have its thinnest material disclosure. [1] [2]

Sources (2)

1. Kogan 30L XXXL Digital Air Fryer Oven
2. Kogan 45L XXXXL Digital Air Fryer Oven

• That article opens “To find out what materials we use for the parts that come in contact with the food in the Philips Airfryer, please read the article below” — and then the body does not load. No Philips product page links to it either. [2]
• The 9L dual-basket model at $399 is the same: no coating named, and the only care guidance is “No scrubbing or soaking” — which implies a fragile coating without ever saying what it is. [3]
• The 2000 Series 4.2L on Philips’ own Australian site names no basket material, no coating, no PTFE/PFOA/PFAS/BPA status and no country of origin. [4]
• Two-year warranty, which is the category norm. Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (4)

1. Philips Australia — 3000 Series Airfryer 7.2L
2. Philips support article XC000021623 — heading renders, body does not
3. JB Hi-Fi — Philips 3000 Series Dual Basket 9L
4. Philips Australia — 2000 Series Airfryer 4.2L

• 220°C is stated precisely. The material that reaches 220°C is not stated at all. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• The 5.5L model in the same range does better, but only just: “Ceramic crisping plate: Yes” is a spec-sheet checkbox with no chemistry, and it covers the plate rather than the basket. [2]
• Two-year warranty. Country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Betta — Russell Hobbs 8L Satisfry Digital Air Fryer
2. Betta — Russell Hobbs 5.5L Satisfry

• Ninja’s other Australian listings at least reach “ceramic” or “non-stick”. This one reaches neither. [1] [2]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• No care guidance, no dishwasher statement, no country of manufacture. [1]
• Two-year warranty, which is Ninja’s consistent standard across the range. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Betta — Ninja DoubleStack XL SL400
2. JB Hi-Fi — Ninja AF300, which does say “ceramic coated” of the crisper plates

• The baking pan in particular is almost certainly coated, and nothing is said about it. [1]
• Sunbeam sells its DiamondForce coating hard on another range and says nothing at all here. Same brand, two disclosure standards, one catalogue. [2]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. [1]
• One-year warranty. Country of manufacture not stated on the listing. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Betta — Sunbeam 22L Multi Function Benchtop Oven & Air Fryer
2. Sunbeam DiamondForce collection