CN215383335U

CN215383335U - Air frying pan

Info

Publication number: CN215383335U
Application number: CN202120635474.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王旭宁; 王金铜; 魏家星; 杨开清; 刘孝碧; 苏荣清
Original assignee: Joyoung Co Ltd
Current assignee: Joyoung Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-03-29
Filing date: 2021-03-29
Publication date: 2022-01-04
Anticipated expiration: 2031-03-29

Abstract

The utility model relates to an air fryer. The hot air in the existing air fryer has the problem of turbulent flow, which affects the cooking efficiency. The electric cooker comprises a shell with a built-in cooking cavity, wherein a hot air cavity is arranged at the top of the cooking cavity, a hot air assembly is arranged in the hot air cavity, a fryer assembly is arranged in the cooking cavity and comprises a cooker body, hot air generated by the hot air assembly is input into the cooking cavity to cook food materials in the cooker body, a hot air channel communicated with the cooking cavity is arranged at the periphery of the hot air cavity, a contraction section is arranged in the hot air channel, and the hot air generated by the hot air assembly is accelerated to be discharged into the cooker body after flowing through the contraction section so as to be converged inwards along the inner wall of the cooker body. Set up the hot-blast passageway of taking the contraction section between hot-blast chamber and culinary art chamber, can carry out the accurate guide to the hot-blast of hot-blast intracavity production, prevent the hot-blast condition that takes place the turbulent flow, can also utilize the contraction section to promote hot-blast velocity of flow, through shortening hot-blast single circulation long time promote heat transfer efficiency, it is long when effectively shortening the culinary art, promote culinary art and experience.

Description

Air frying pan

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the field of food processing, in particular to an air fryer.

Background

The existing air fryer comprises a shell with a built-in cooking cavity, a hot air cavity is arranged at the top of the cooking cavity, a hot air assembly is arranged in the hot air cavity, the hot air assembly comprises a fan and a heating piece, a fryer assembly is arranged in the cooking cavity, the fryer assembly comprises a pot body, and hot air generated by the hot air assembly is input into the cooking cavity to cook food materials in the pot body. The hot-blast pot body that can flow into downwards of hot-blast subassembly production because can't carry out accurate guide to hot-blast for hot-blast can stop because of protection casing and gridion and form the turbulent flow in the culinary art intracavity, lead to hot-blast velocity of flow to reduce, and then influence heat transfer efficiency, influence culinary art and experience.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the defects of the prior art, the utility model provides the air fryer, the speed of hot air flowing along the inner wall of the fryer body is increased by arranging the contraction section in the hot air channel, the hot air is ensured to be gathered to the middle part of the fryer body, and the cooking efficiency and the use experience are improved.

The utility model is realized by the following modes: the utility model provides an air fryer, includes the built-in casing of culinary art chamber, the top of culinary art chamber is equipped with hot-blast chamber, hot-blast intracavity is equipped with hot-blast subassembly, hot-blast subassembly includes the fan and generates heat the piece, the culinary art intracavity is equipped with explodes a pot subassembly, explode a pot subassembly including the pot body, the hot-blast input that hot-blast subassembly produced cooks the chamber in order to cook the internal edible material of pot, hot-blast chamber periphery is equipped with the hot-blast passageway that leads to with the culinary art chamber, be equipped with the shrink section in the hot-blast passageway, the pot body is gone into with higher speed after the shrink section of flowing through to hot-blast edge pot internal wall assembles inwards of hot-blast subassembly. Set up the hot-blast passageway of taking the contraction section between hot-blast chamber and culinary art chamber, can carry out the accurate guide to the hot-blast of hot-blast intracavity production, ensure that hot-blast energy carries out the circulation flow along pot internal wall, prevent hot-blast condition that takes place the turbulent flow, can also utilize the contraction section to promote hot-blast velocity of flow, through shortening hot-blast single endless length of time promote heat transfer efficiency, it is long when effectively shortening the culinary art, promote culinary art and experience.

Preferably, the contraction section is arranged in the middle of the hot air channel, and hot air in the hot air cavity is accelerated and discharged outwards after flowing through the contraction section. The width of an air inlet communicated with the hot air cavity of the contraction channel is larger than that of the contraction section, so that the hot air flowing through the contraction section can increase the flowing speed due to the Venturi effect.

Preferably, the width of the contraction section is smaller than the width of the air inlet of the hot air channel. The venturi tube is formed by the contraction section with different local widths and the air inlet, the flowing speed of the venturi tube is improved by increasing the pressure of hot air, and the heat transfer efficiency is improved.

Preferably, the width of the contraction section is smaller than the width of the air outlet of the hot air channel. The wider air outlet is arranged to facilitate hot air to be discharged from the hot air channel in time, and the fact that the subsequent hot wind energy passes through the hot air channel in an accelerated manner is ensured.

Preferably, the casing is internally provided with an air guide cover forming the top wall of the cooking cavity, the middle part of the bottom surface of the air guide cover is upwards sunken to form an air heating cavity, the cavity opening of the air heating cavity is provided with a protective cover, and the periphery of the top surface of the protective cover and the periphery of the bottom surface of the air guide cover are encircled to form an annular hot air channel. The wind scooper is used for guiding hot air to flow downwards, the protective cover is arranged below the wind scooper, the protective cover can be enclosed with the wind scooper to form a hot air cavity, food materials in the cooking cavity can be effectively prevented from entering the hot air cavity, and the hot air component is protected. The protective cover periphery sets up and encloses with the wind scooper periphery at interval and form annular hot air channel, has both ensured that hot-blast can pass through hot air channel and to each direction even diffusion, can also guide hot-blast blowing towards the internal wall of pot, ensures that hot-blast can flow and assemble to well along the internal wall of pot, ensures that each region on edible material surface all receives hot-blast, promotes culinary art effect.

Preferably, the hot air channel is obliquely arranged from top to bottom outwards, so that hot air flows through the hot air channel and then is conveyed downwards along the inner wall of the pot body. The hot air channel can guide hot air to flow downwards and outwards, so that the hot air can be conveyed to the inner wall of the pot body, the hot air is ensured to have downward kinetic energy, the hot air is ensured to flow downwards along the inner wall of the pot body and to be gathered towards the center of the bottom of the pot body, and the bottom of the food material is ensured to be uniformly cooked.

Preferably, the vertical projection of protection casing falls into in the pot is internal, and the periphery of protection casing forms the lower edge of hot-blast passageway air outlet, guarantees through the size of restriction protection casing that hot-blast can break away from the air outlet after with the contact of pot inner wall, and then guarantees that hot-blast energy flows along hot-blast inner wall, effectively prevents the hot-blast condition of taking place to flow out the pot body, promotes the heat transfer efficiency between hot-blast chamber and the pot inner chamber.

Preferably, the middle part of the protective cover is provided with a vent hole. The vent hole forms a backflow channel for air in the cooking cavity to flow back to the hot air cavity, and therefore the hot air assembly can be ensured to be continuously supplemented with air flow.

Preferably, the fryer assembly comprises a grill arranged in the fryer body, a turning channel is formed by enclosing between the periphery of the grill and the inner wall of the fryer body, and hot air flowing downwards along the inner side wall of the fryer body is accelerated to converge towards the middle part of the fryer body after passing through the turning channel. The user of the turning channel receives the vertical airflow flowing along the inner side wall of the pot body and guides the vertical airflow to be converted into the transverse airflow flowing to the middle part of the pot body, so that hot air can be conveyed to the middle part of the pot body, and the cooking efficiency is improved by increasing the contact with the bottom surface of the food material.

Preferably, the inner side wall of the pot body forms an annular guide surface which is inclined inwards from top to bottom. The annular guide surface can guide hot air to flow downwards and can guide the hot air to turn inwards gradually, and the loss of large kinetic energy caused by overlarge direction change of the hot air in the turning channel is effectively prevented.

Preferably, the periphery of the top surface of the grill extends upwards to form a surrounding edge, the surrounding edge and the annular guide surface are surrounded to form an engaging channel, and hot air discharged from the hot air channel is conveyed to the transfer channel through the engaging channel. The surrounding edge can play limiting displacement to eating the material on the gridion, can also lead the face cooperation to form with the annular and link up the passageway, ensures that the hot-blast energy of hot-blast intracavity is carried completely to turning to in the passageway, and then upwards flows back to hot-blast chamber along pot body middle part to this forms circulating air current, promotes culinary art efficiency through maintaining the hot-blast velocity of flow.

Preferably, the bottom wall of the pot body is upwards bulged to form an air guide, and hot air from the steering channel is upwards conveyed after being converged along the air guide. The air guide piece can convert hot air flowing along the circumferential direction of the bottom surface of the pot body into hot air flowing towards the middle of the bottom surface of the pot body, and the flow velocity of circulating air flow is effectively improved.

The utility model has the beneficial effects that: set up the hot-blast passageway of taking the contraction section between hot-blast chamber and culinary art chamber, can carry out the accurate guide to the hot-blast of hot-blast intracavity production, ensure that hot-blast energy carries out the circulation flow along pot internal wall, prevent hot-blast condition that takes place the turbulent flow, can also utilize the contraction section to promote hot-blast velocity of flow, through shortening hot-blast single endless length of time promote heat transfer efficiency, it is long when effectively shortening the culinary art, promote culinary art and experience.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an air fryer in accordance with an embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a schematic partial cross-sectional view of an air fryer in accordance with a second embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a fryer assembly according to a second embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a fryer assembly according to a third embodiment;

in the figure: 1. the deep fryer comprises a shell, 11, a fan, 12, a heating element, 13, an air guide cover, 14, a protective cover, 2, a deep fryer component, 21, a pan body, 22, a grill, 23, a steering channel, 24, an annular guide surface, 25, a surrounding edge, 26, a connecting channel, 27, an air guide element, 3, a hot air channel, 31 and a contraction section.

Detailed Description

The essential features of the utility model will be further explained below with reference to the drawings and the detailed description of the specification.

The first embodiment is as follows:

the present embodiments provide an air fryer.

The air fryer shown in fig. 1 is composed of a shell 1 with a built-in cooking cavity, a hot air cavity is arranged at the top of the cooking cavity, a hot air component is arranged in the hot air cavity and comprises a fan 11 and a heating part 12, a fryer component 2 is arranged in the cooking cavity and comprises a pot body 21, hot air generated by the hot air component is input into the cooking cavity to cook food materials in the pot body 21, a hot air channel 3 communicated with the cooking cavity is arranged at the periphery of the hot air cavity, a contraction section 31 is arranged in the hot air channel 3, and hot air generated by the hot air component is accelerated to be discharged into the pot body 21 after flowing through the contraction section 31 so that the hot air is converged inwards along the inner wall of the pot body 21.

In this embodiment, the cooking cavity top is equipped with the chamber that generates heat, set up hot air component in the chamber that generates heat. Set up hot-blast subassembly at culinary art chamber top, both made things convenient for circulation of air between hot-blast chamber and culinary art chamber, can also effectively prevent to cook edible material and fluid and the contact of hot-blast subassembly of chamber bottom, play the guard action to hot-blast subassembly.

In this embodiment, the hot air assembly includes a fan 11 and a heat generating component 12, the heat generating component 12 is annular and is disposed adjacent to the fan 11, when in use, the heat generating component 12 is powered on to generate heat, the fan 11 extracts air in the cooking cavity and forms an air flow towards the heat generating component 12, and the air flow forms hot air for cooking food materials by absorbing heat when flowing through the heat generating component 12.

In this embodiment, the hot wind chamber may downwardly input the hot wind generated by the hot wind assembly into the cooking chamber. Hot air can radially outwards flow in a circumferential rotating mode under the action of the fan 11, turbulence is formed after the wall surfaces of the cooking cavity are contacted, hot air cannot rapidly flow circularly along a unified path, the hot air cavity cannot obtain sufficient air flow supplement, heat generated by the heating part 12 cannot be timely conveyed to food materials, the condition that the temperature of each region in the cooking cavity is inconsistent is further caused, the cooking degree of each region of the food materials is inconsistent, and the cooking effect is influenced. For this reason, set up hot air channel 3 between hot air cavity periphery and culinary art chamber, hot-blast the flowing into culinary art chamber through hot air channel 3 of hot air intracavity production, hot air channel 3 plays the guide effect to hot-blast, ensure that hot-blast can upwards flow back to the culinary art intracavity after flowing along the inside wall and the diapire of pot body 21 in proper order, can guide hot-blast formation circulation route in the culinary art intracavity, ensure to cook each regional temperature keep unanimous in the intracavity, and then guarantee to eat each regional ability of material surface and evenly cooked, still promote hot-blast velocity of flow through reducing the turbulent flow, make the heat that generates heat piece 12 produces can be transmitted to eating on the material fast effectively, prevent that the heat from gathering for a long time and taking place the condition of outside scattering and disappearing in the part, promote heat utilization efficiency, reduce the energy consumption.

In this embodiment, hot-blast chamber periphery is equipped with the hot air channel 3 that leads to with the culinary art chamber for hot-blast ability in the hot-blast chamber is through hot air channel 3 evenly to dispelling the heat all around, ensures to cook each regional internal energy of chamber circumference and obtains balanced hot-blast, and then reduces the temperature difference between each regional of culinary art chamber.

In this embodiment, a contraction section 31 is arranged in the hot air passage 3, and hot air generated by the hot air assembly is accelerated and discharged into the pot body 21 after flowing through the contraction section 31, so that the hot air is converged along the inner wall of the pot body 21. Through set up the contraction section 31 in hot air channel 3 and promote hot-blast velocity of flow for hot-blast can effectively promote the velocity of flow after flowing through contraction section 31, both ensure that hot-blast energy flows along predetermineeing the circulation path, prevent to produce the condition of a large amount of turbulences because of striking each other between each way air current, effectively promote hot-blast velocity of flow in addition, promote heat transfer efficiency.

Example two:

in contrast to the first embodiment, the present embodiment provides a specific air fryer structure.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, a hot air channel 3 communicated with the hot air cavity is arranged at the top of the cooking cavity, a turning channel 23 is arranged at the bottom of the cooking cavity, and a vent hole is arranged in the middle of the bottom wall of the hot air cavity. The air fryer guides the hot air through the hot air passage 3, the turning passage 23, and the air guide 27 so that the hot air can flow along a preset circulation path. Specifically, when the hot air flows along the preset circulation path, firstly, the hot air generated in the hot air chamber flows into the cooking chamber along the hot air chamber and flows downwards along the inner side wall of the pot body 21, then the hot air turns in the turning channel 23 and flows inwards along the bottom wall of the pot body 21 in a converging manner, and then the hot air concentrated at the center of the bottom of the pot body 21 is turned into an upward flow under the action of the air guide 27 and flows back to the hot air chamber through the vent hole after the heat transfer of the food materials is completed, so as to form a hot air supply source for reheating.

In this embodiment, the cross section of the hot air channel 3 is annular, so that hot air energy is uniformly dispersed into each circumferential region of the cooking cavity, and the cross section of the turning channel 23 is annular, so that the turning channel 23 can effectively receive the hot air flowing downwards along each circumferential section of the inner side wall of the pot body 21, and the hot air can be gathered at the middle part of the bottom surface of the pot body 21 and flows back upwards.

In this embodiment, the contraction section 31 is disposed in the middle of the hot air channel 3, and the hot air in the hot air cavity is accelerated and discharged outside after flowing through the contraction section 31. Hot air in the hot air cavity is received through the air inlet by the hot air channel 3, and is exhausted outwards along the axis direction of the air outlet after being accelerated by the contraction section 31, so that hot air can flow rapidly along a preset circulation path, and the heat transfer efficiency is improved. Specifically, the width of the contraction section 31 is smaller than the width of the air inlet of the hot air channel 3, and the width of the contraction section 31 is smaller than the width of the air outlet of the hot air channel 3. Set up the width of differentiation at air intake, contraction section 31 and air outlet department for hot air channel 3 can utilize the venturi effect to promote hot-blast velocity of flow, and then ensures that hot-blast energy flows along predetermineeing the circulation path. The efficiency of receiving hot air by the hot air channel 3 is improved by enlarging the width of the air inlet, so that the hot air can automatically flow into the hot air channel 3 after being thrown out by the fan 11; the width of shrink section 31 is less than the air intake width for can lead to atmospheric pressure to rise because of cross sectional area reduces when hot-blast flowing to shrink section 31 by the air intake, simultaneously, because hot-blast intracavity hot-blast continuous pouring air intake into, make the hot-blast flow direction air outlet that can accelerate under the circumstances that self pressure increases in shrink section 31, and arrange outward fast along air outlet axis direction.

In this embodiment, the fryer assembly 2 includes a grill 22 disposed inside the pot 21, a turning channel 23 is formed by the surrounding of the grill 22 and the inner wall of the pot 21, and the hot air flowing downwards along the inner side wall of the pot 21 is accelerated to converge towards the middle of the pot 21 after passing through the turning channel 23. The grill 22 is overlapped on the bottom wall of the pot 21 so that the periphery of the grill 22 and the side wall of the pot 21 and the bottom surface of the grill 22 and the bottom wall of the pot 21 are not contacted with each other, thereby forming a circular turning channel 23. The turning channel 23 comprises an inlet which is adjacent to the inner side wall of the pot body 21 and is arranged upwards and an outlet which is adjacent to the bottom wall of the pot body 21 and is arranged horizontally, when the electric cooker is used, the turning channel 23 receives hot air from the air outlet of the hot air channel 3 through the inlet, and the hot air is conveyed towards the middle of the bottom surface of the pot body 21 through the outlet after turning is completed in the turning channel 23, so that the hot wind energy is guaranteed to be smoothly conveyed to the lower part of food materials, and the bottom of the food materials is heated.

In this embodiment, a larger space is provided between the periphery of the top surface of the grill 22 and the inner side wall of the pot body 21, and the distance between the periphery of the grill 22 and the inner side wall of the pot body 21 is smaller, so that when hot air flows into the turning passage 23 from top to bottom, the hot air forms a venturi effect due to the sharp reduction of the cross-sectional size of the passage, and the kinetic energy of the turning loss of the hot air is eliminated by the rising flow rate of the hot air, and the hot air is rapidly converged toward the middle of the bottom surface of the pot body 21.

In this embodiment, a wind scooper 13 forming a top wall of the cooking cavity is disposed in the casing 1, a bottom surface middle portion of the wind scooper 13 is recessed upward to form a hot air cavity, a protective cover 14 is disposed at an opening of the hot air cavity, and an annular hot air channel 3 is formed between a top surface periphery of the protective cover 14 and a bottom surface periphery of the wind scooper 13 in an enclosing manner. The wind scooper 13 can be matched with the protective cover 14 to hide and protect the hot wind assembly, can guide hot wind to flow into the hot wind channel 3, and can prevent heat in the hot wind cavity from diffusing outwards to ensure normal operation of electrical components in the air fryer. Specifically, the protective cover 14 is suspended below the air guiding cover 13, so that the periphery of the bottom surface of the air guiding cover 13 and the periphery of the top surface of the protective cover 14 can enclose to form the hot air channel 3.

In this embodiment, the hot air channel 3 is inclined outward from top to bottom, so that the hot air flowing through the hot air channel 3 is delivered downward along the inner wall of the pot 21. The hot air channel 3 with specific width and orientation is obtained by adjusting the peripheral outlines of the air guide cover 13 and the protective cover 14, so that the contraction section 31 in the hot air channel 3 can be used for accelerating hot air, and the hot air channel 3 which is obliquely arranged downwards can be used for guiding the hot air, thereby ensuring that the hot air flows downwards after being evacuated to the top edge of the inner side wall of the pot body 21, and leading the hot air to flow along a preset circulation path.

In this embodiment, the vertical projection of the protection cover 14 completely falls into the pot body 21, specifically, the air outlet of the hot air channel 3 is located in the pot body 21, so as to prevent hot air from flowing into the cooking cavity located in the space outside the pot body 21, and improve the heat transfer efficiency between the heating element 12 and the food material by increasing the amount of hot air input into the pot body 21.

In this embodiment, the ventilation hole is formed in the middle of the hood 14, so that the hot air chamber can draw air in the pot body 21 through the ventilation hole.

In this embodiment, the inner side wall of the pot body 21 forms an annular guide surface 24 which is inclined inward from top to bottom. The hot air from the hot air channel 3 flows downwards along the annular guide surface 24 to the turning channel 23, so that the gradual and slow turning of the hot air is realized, the kinetic energy loss is reduced by reducing the amplitude of local turning, the high flow speed of the hot air can be maintained, and the heat transfer efficiency is further ensured.

In this embodiment, the bottom wall of the pot 21 is upwardly protruded to form an air guide 27, and the hot wind from the diversion channel 23 is upwardly transported after being converged along the air guide 27. The rotating fan 11 drives hot air to rotate in the circumferential direction, the flow velocity of the hot air along a preset circulation path is influenced, and therefore the air guide 27 is arranged on the bottom wall of the pot body 21, the air guide 27 plays a role in steering and guiding the hot air, specifically, the hot air flowing along the circumferential direction of the pot body 21 is turned into to be gathered in the radial direction after contacting with the air guide 27, the hot air flowing horizontally along the bottom wall of the pot body 21 is turned into to flow upwards after contacting with the air guide 27, so that the hot air can be gathered inwards as soon as possible and flows upwards through food materials, the heat loss along the way is reduced by shortening the time length for the hot air to flow from the heating element 12 to the food materials, and the heat transfer efficiency is improved.

Other structures and effects of the air fryer in this embodiment are consistent with those of the embodiment, and are not described again.

Example three:

in contrast to the second embodiment, the present embodiment provides another specific structure of the grill 22.

As shown in fig. 4, the peripheral edge of the top surface of the grill 22 extends upward to form a peripheral edge 25, the peripheral edge 25 and the annular guide surface 24 enclose a joining channel 26, and the hot air discharged from the hot air channel 3 is delivered to the transfer channel through the joining channel 26. The top edge of the surrounding edge 25 and the annular guide surface 24 surround to form an inlet of an engaging channel 26, the bottom edge of the surrounding edge 25 and the annular guide surface 24 surround to form an outlet of the engaging channel 26, the engaging channel 26 receives hot air flowing downwards along the inner side wall of the pot body 21 through the inlet and conveys the hot air into the turning channel 23 through the outlet of the engaging channel 26, and the hot wind energy is ensured to flow along a preset circulation path.

Other structures and effects of the air fryer in this embodiment are consistent with those of the second embodiment, and are not described again.

Claims

1. The utility model provides an air fryer, includes the built-in casing of culinary art chamber, the top of culinary art chamber is equipped with hot-blast chamber, hot-blast intracavity is equipped with hot-blast subassembly, hot-blast subassembly includes fan and the piece that generates heat, the culinary art intracavity is equipped with explodes a pot subassembly, explode a pot subassembly including the pot body, the hot-blast input that hot-blast subassembly produced cooks the chamber and in order to cook the internal edible material of pot, a serial communication port, hot-blast chamber periphery is equipped with the hot air duct who leads to with the culinary art chamber, be equipped with the shrink section in the hot air duct, the hot-blast pot body of discharging with higher speed after the shrink section of flowing through of hot-blast subassembly production to make hot-blast along the internal wall of pot inwards assemble.

2. An air fryer according to claim 1, wherein the constriction section is disposed in the middle of the hot air passage, and the hot air in the hot air chamber is accelerated to be discharged outside after passing through the constriction section.

3. An air fryer according to claim 2, wherein the width of said convergent section is less than the width of the inlet of said hot air channel; or the width of the contraction section is smaller than the width of an air outlet of the hot air channel.

4. The air fryer according to claim 1, wherein a wind scooper forming a top wall of the cooking cavity is arranged in the housing, a bottom surface of the wind scooper is recessed upwards to form a hot air cavity, a protective cover is arranged at an opening of the hot air cavity, and an annular hot air channel is formed between the periphery of the top surface of the protective cover and the periphery of the bottom surface of the wind scooper in a surrounding manner.

5. An air fryer according to claim 4, wherein the hot air passage is inclined outwardly from top to bottom so that the hot air passing through the hot air passage is delivered downwardly along the inner wall of the fryer body.

6. An air fryer according to claim 4, wherein the vertical projection of said protective hood falls entirely within said pot body; or, the middle part of the protective cover is provided with a vent hole.

7. An air fryer according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the fryer assembly includes a grill disposed within the fryer body, the periphery of the grill and the inner wall of the fryer body enclosing a turning passage, whereby hot air flowing down the inner side wall of the fryer body is accelerated to converge towards the middle of the fryer body after passing through the turning passage.

8. An air fryer according to claim 7, wherein the inner side wall of said pot defines an annular guide surface that slopes inwardly from top to bottom.

9. An air fryer according to claim 8, wherein the grill has a peripheral edge extending upwardly from the top surface thereof, the peripheral edge and the annular guide surface defining an engagement passage, the hot air from the hot air passage being delivered to the transfer passage through the engagement passage.

10. An air fryer according to claim 7, wherein the bottom wall of said pot bulges upwardly to form a wind deflector, and hot air from said turning channel is upwardly conveyed after converging inwardly along said wind deflector.