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, 5.7L

I have updated this review as Dreo customer support has been in touch and explained technical issues had prevented them receiving my emails. That aside once the issue had been found the issue was very swiftly and effectively resolved. They did not ask me to update this review, however I felt it was only fair to do so. I can now rate the product as I suggested as a full 5 stars, though I would ask them to improve spares support in the future. This would have been 5 stars but without UK customer support it only gets 3 This is a really good product and does the job very well, i took the gamble on a start up unkown to me brand and it paid off. The only problem and to me it is a big one is the lack of UK customer support. There is a design issue with the perspex front panel on the basket that can lead to the mounts breaking away. I have tried to order a replacement and there is never any stock and the UK customer support email address goes unanswered. It is a great air fryer but its long term use might be limited but the lack of support.

I bought this after my old air fryer bit the dust - and due to using it every day decided to go for a high-end option. I do not regret it at all. The Dreo cooks way better than my old air fryer and is easily at the same level as the high end Ninja air fryers - but with the addition of the smart app to monitor progress and load recipes. I have found their customer service to be superb with quick responses to any queries I've had. I hghly recommend this combi fryer - it's a real stand out appliance. A few friends have now also bought them and agree they are great.

I thought the claims about what it can do were probably over exaggerated, to my pleasant surprise they aren't some of the recipes may require slightly tweaking but all in all it cooks food perfectly without you having to constantly keep an eye on things (which I did with the first 5 or 6 trials) allowing you to concentrate on whipping up a soup or preparing a salad to go with your Chefmaker main course, the app is really great once you get used to it, (it could do with some work and perhaps being tweaked for European weights and measures in metric and temp in Celsius) I think the app will improve once they start selling as many units as they do at the other side of the pond, the probe cooking is my favourite because it really seems to control the temperature perfectly turning out meals as good as most restaurants and I'm not making this up try the salmon recipe in the app using the probe you'll be amazed at the result, so I highly recommend this device

It’s very easy to use The steaks are fantastic The probe function ensures everything is cooked thoroughly The niggles are nothing serious Some of the menu items are spelt for the US market I thoroughly recommend it

We absolutely love this air fryer, if you can call it that. The Dreo is so advanced that we have barely scratched the surface of its features so far. The main cooking modes for meat joints, chicken, and steaks have yielded perfect results every time! The water spray and slower cooking times make a significant difference. We love it!

I have not used it as when the box containing the air fryer arrived items were missing. As I’m abroad on holiday at the moment I have not been able to sort out the issue

This is so much more than a bog standard air fryer, it's not an airfryer as such eventhough it has this feature. It's like having a chef in your kitchen. I love a steak and when I choose Chef Mode on my thick cut rib eye done med/rare I have to say it took all the guess work out and was better than a steak I've had at Miller & Carter. The Dreo comes with its own app to download so if you wanna check on progress of food and you are not in Yr kitchen then it will let you know when food is ready or you can check how much longer you can linger in another part of your home. Fabulous little oven and I wish I'd got this before I purchased the Power XL as the Dreo is far more superior for sure.

I’m in Australia, but since Dreo refuses to ship here, I had to order via the UK Amazon site. I even pointed out that their UK model is fully compatible with Australian electricity—it only needs a simple plug change—but they still wouldn’t sell it to me. So, I bought it from the UK, used a forwarding service, and had it delivered to Australia—and it worked perfectly! The unit cooks pork knuckle to absolute perfection—juicy inside, with a crispy, crunchy crust. Best money I’ve spent. It’s just a shame that Dreo’s customer support wouldn’t help themselves to another sale. They could have made this so much easier! Even after receiving the unit, I contacted them again to let them know it works fine in Australia and suggested they update their UK technical specs to reflect 5.5 litres and 240V. But instead, they’ve just copied and pasted the US specs onto the UK site. Now, I am trying to order a replacement temp probe, knowing they are lazy and do the bare minimum to help their customers.

Very good

I have had the Dreo over a year now and I absolutly love it. It makes perfect steak after perfect steak. I much prefer the souvide mode. I make chuck roast in it, I've made briskett, salmon....all come out perfect. This is way, way better results than a normal air fryer. I recently had an issue with the temperature probe as the plastic piece kind of melted and wasn't working correctly anymore. I contacted Dreo to see how I could buy a new one and Lindsay in their customer service actually arranged for me to get one at no charge! I was totally surprised and I have to say I'm beyond impressed with this companies product and now their service too! Buy it.... and thank you Lindsay and Dreo for your help!

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

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.

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).