My wife and I have an Elite by Maxi-Matic. We love it. It cooks almost everything we use our oven for (not including your large dishes and meats, obviously), without having to wait for the oven to preheat, without heating up the house (we live in Louisiana and it's HOT!!), and it makes things crispier. My wife doesn't have a gall-bladder so we don't fry a whole lot. We used to bake our fries, fish sticks, cheese sticks....things like that. The air fryer is great in that regard.