The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 is a basket-style air fryer with an advertised 7-quart (6.6 L) capacity and a ceramic-coated cooking basket and tray. It features a touchscreen control panel with six cooking modes and presets for foods such as chicken, steak, salmon, fries, and vegetables. You can manually adjust the temperature from 120 °F to 400 °F (49 °C to 204 °C) and set the cooking time. It has a single cooking chamber and doesn't come with a temperature probe.
Our Verdict
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 is decent for making French fries. It delivers fairly consistent results with frozen fries and similar foods like hash browns, with most pieces developing a crispy exterior without overcooking. However, it struggles to cook thicker, moister foods like fresh-cut fries or home fries as evenly. The basket can accommodate several portions, although its cooking surface limits how much you can spread out in a single layer.
Produces crispy, evenly browned fries.
Large basket can accommodate several servings.
Very few fries come out overcooked.
Some fries can remain slightly undercooked.
Limited cooking surface makes larger batches difficult to spread out evenly.
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 is decent for making chicken wings. It should do a good job of crisping precooked wings, given its strong performance with fried foods, and its basket holds several servings. However, you'll need some patience when cooking fresh or raw wings, as they take a while to cook. Most develop a crispy exterior mostly on one side, resulting in somewhat uneven browning.
Large basket can accommodate several servings.
Can develop crispy skin on chicken wings.
Limited cooking surface makes larger batches difficult to spread out evenly.
Chicken wings crisp mostly on one side.
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 is decent for air frying, although it performs better with some foods than others. It's particularly effective at preparing frozen fried foods like French fries and should handle similar snacks like onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and spring rolls well. Chicken wings are more challenging as they need consistently high heat to crisp up, and the temperature tends to fall below the selected setting. Chicken breasts and other lean meats should fare better, although temperature fluctuations can still make cooking times harder to predict.
Produces crispy, evenly browned fries.
Offers several cooking modes and food presets.
Fixed fan speed and limited maximum temperature.
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 offers good cooking capacity thanks to its spacious basket, which can accommodate enough food for around three to four people. However, the cooking surface is somewhat limited, so you may need to prepare foods that require a single layer in batches to ensure even cooking.
Large basket can accommodate several servings.
Limited cooking surface makes larger batches difficult to spread out evenly.
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 has good cooking speed. It preheats in just a couple of minutes and cooks frozen snacks like onion rings and mozzarella sticks fairly quickly. However, thicker foods like chicken drumsticks take considerably longer.
Preheats very quickly.
Quickly prepares frozen snacks like tater tots and spring rolls.
Slower to cook thicker cuts like bone-in chicken thighs.
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 has a reasonable footprint and occupies a fair amount of counter space. If you don't have much open counter space, you'll need sufficient storage to keep it out of the way when it's not in use.
Reasonable footprint for a large-capacity air fryer.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 is only available in Black, with a 7-quart cooking basket and a ceramic-coated cooking tray. You can also see a photo of the label on our test unit.
If you come across another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update our review.
Popular Air Fryer Comparisons
The Dreame AeroFusion AF30 is a large-capacity air fryer that handles French fries well, though its performance is less consistent with foods like chicken wings. It produces more evenly cooked fries than the similarly sized Chefman Crispinator 8 Qt., but the Chefman offers more flexibility with its higher maximum temperature and adjustable fan speed. Despite its spacious basket, the Dreame AF30 doesn't have much more usable cooking surface than the smaller COSORI TurboBlaze, which also does a better job crisping chicken wings. The Dreame can accommodate larger portions than the compact Ninja Pro AF141, although the Ninja cooks wings faster and maintains a more consistent temperature. Its single large basket is convenient for preparing one dish at a time, but it doesn't offer the same flexibility as the Ninja DualZone Pro DZ950, which has two independently controlled cooking chambers for preparing different foods simultaneously.
If you prefer something that takes up less counter space, see our picks for the best small air fryers. For models with enough room to prepare meals for the whole family, check out our recommendations for the best large-capacity air fryers. You can also browse our list of the best air fryers for French fries if getting crispy, evenly cooked fries is your main priority.
The COSORI TurboBlaze is better overall than the Dreame AeroFusion AF30. It does a much better job of crisping chicken wings on both sides and offers a wider temperature range and adjustable fan speeds. The Dreame has a larger basket, but both models provide almost the same amount of cooking surface, so you won't necessarily fit much more food in a single layer. The Dreame does preheat faster, though, making it convenient when you want to get to cooking quickly.
The Ninja Pro AF141 is slightly better overall than the Dreame AeroFusion AF30, but the Dreame is more practical for preparing larger portions. The Ninja maintains a much steadier cooking temperature and takes less time to cook foods like chicken wings, making it a good choice for quick everyday meals. However, its smaller basket can feel limiting when you're cooking for several people. The Dreame gives you more space to work with, although it takes up more room on your counter.
The Chefman Crispinator 8 Qt. is a slightly better all-around air fryer than the Dreame AeroFusion AF30. Its higher maximum temperature and adjustable fan speed give you more control over different recipes, and it cooks chicken wings faster and crisps them more evenly. However, the Dreame produces more consistently cooked fries, with fewer overcooked pieces. It also recovers more quickly from temperature drops when you add food to the basket.
The Ninja DualZone Pro DZ950 is much better overall than the Dreame AeroFusion AF30. Its two independently controlled cooking chambers let you cook different foods at separate temperatures, and it delivers noticeably better results with both fries and chicken wings. It also has an integrated temperature probe for monitoring meat as it cooks. The Dreame takes up less counter space and has one large, uninterrupted cooking area, giving you more flexibility for foods that wouldn't fit comfortably in either of the Ninja's individual baskets.
Test Results
It has a decent amount of cooking surface area. There's enough room to spread out a few servings of fries, chicken wings, or vegetables, but larger quantities will likely need to be cooked in batches to avoid overcrowding. The single tray has a ceramic coating that helps prevent food from sticking.
It has a spacious cooking basket that can hold several servings at once, but its relatively shallow design can be limiting for taller foods, such as a whole chicken. The basket has a ceramic coating to help prevent sticking. There's only one cooking chamber, so you can't cook different foods at separate temperatures at the same time.
This isn't the most versatile air fryer. It offers six cooking methods, including a Steam Fry mode that adds moisture during cooking. Its temperature range tops out at 400 °F (204 °C), though, which limits your options for recipes that need higher heat. There's also no way to adjust the fan speed, and it lacks a temperature probe for monitoring meat as it cooks.
- Air Fry: 350 °F, 15 minutes
- Steam Fry: 350 °F, 15 minutes
- Grill: 400 °F, 15 minutes
- Bake: 320 °F, 15 minutes
- Toast: 400 °F, 5 minutes
- Reheat: 320 °F, 10 minutes
This air fryer is great for preparing fried foods. It makes golden-brown, crispy fries with very little risk of overcooking them. Most fries cook evenly, though a few can come out slightly underdone.
This air fryer is okay for cooking things like wings and other meats. It renders a decent amount of fat from chicken wings, but struggles to crisp the skin evenly. Most wings come out crispy mostly on one side, and very few develop a crispy exterior all around. This is partly because the cooking temperature often drops below the selected setting, making it harder to maintain the high heat required to crisp fattier cuts. Leaner meats like chicken breasts or pork tenderloin may fare better since they don't require such high temperatures, although temperature fluctuations can still make cooking times harder to predict.
This air fryer is convenient for cooking foods like frozen fries, tater tots, and small appetizers fairly quickly. Thicker foods like chicken wings and bone-in chicken thighs take considerably longer, though, so you'll need to allow more time for those meals.
This air fryer preheats very quickly. However, it doesn't have a preheat reminder, so you'll need to keep track of when it's ready yourself.
It has decent temperature stability. It recovers quickly after the initial temperature drop when you add food, so you won't have to wait long for it to get back up to cooking temperature. The temperature does swing quite a bit throughout cooking rather than staying close to the selected setting, though.