{"id":561990,"date":"2026-07-22T05:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:40:34","slug":"less-than-half-of-air-fryer-users-clean-them-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561990\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than half of air fryer users clean them every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than half of people who own air fryers clean them every day, according to a survey.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, which was carried out by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), also showed that 7% of daily users only clean their air fryer once a month, with 3% admitting to never cleaning them.<\/p>\n<p>Research carried out by the CCPC shows that air fryers are a relatively safe appliance, but there can be fire risks if they are not used properly or cleaned regularly.<\/p>\n<p>CCPC Director of Communications Gr\u00e1inne Griffin said a build up or grease or oil can be an issue with a product that reaches &#8220;really extreme temperatures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on RT\u00c9&#8217;s Morning Ireland, she said liners are not a replacement for cleaning an air fryer properly.<\/p>\n<p>She also cautioned that how an air fryer is cleaned is important, adding that &#8220;some of the things that we&#8217;ve seen on social media, people popping dishwasher tablets in air fryers, kettles of boiling water, turning them on&#8221;, are not advised and are &#8220;potentially very dangerous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stock photo shows a person holding an air fryer basket with uncooked food inside\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024b99b-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAir fryers are a relatively safe appliance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2025\/0710\/1522833-consumers-warned-to-stop-using-certain-tower-air-fryers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Last year, 60,000 air fryers were recalled due to a risk of overheating.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CCPC carried out a product safety investigation into air fryers earlier this year, and found no significant concerns among the variety of models tested.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said that incidents can and do occur and urged people using air fryers to follow the manufacturers&#8217; instructions, keep them in a well-ventilated area and clean them regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Air fryers should not be immersed in water and they should not be placed against a wall or other appliances when in use.<\/p>\n<p>The CCPC survey of 1,011 people, carried out with IPSOS B&amp;A this month, found that 73% of those surveyed owned an air fryer, with 41% of them using it every day, but only 44% said they were cleaning them every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than half of people who own air fryers clean them every day, according to a survey. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-561990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}