Breville Halo Health Fryer - personal product review

**This product review is my own opinion and I have not been paid or provided with any other form of inducement. **

The Halo Health Fryer VDF065 – Breville

I was brought the Halo Health Fryer by the Guv'ner, who decided we needed to eat more healthily and reduce our fatty intake.  As with all Guv'ner's we men folk listen and obey....

The Arrival

The Halo arrived yesterday morning by a very kindly white van man, I was pleased with how well packaged it came.  Included with the Breville Halo is a selection of low-fat frying recipe ideas for starters, mains meals and desserts. When cooking oven chips and frozen foods, the Halo requires no oil at all.

We, ooo’d and aaa’d over the Halo’s unique bowl design and its removable paddle means you can cook not only chips, but delicate foods like fish, vegetables and fruit.  Because of the rotating bowl and paddle being easy to remove the Halo comes with a roast rack which means this machine is capable of baking, sautéing and Roasting a whole joint.

Having passed the instructions to the Guv’ner to read we set up the Halo and argued over what to cook in it first.

The Guv’ner won and we settled on Chips, Sweet Potato Chips with Italian Seasoning.

The one element we did notice was that our little Halo was like a mini lighthouse – we turned all the lights off in the house and it still lit the way for us.  So not only does it cook it also steps in as a light.  A bonus to any household…and possibly a money saver too for those scrooges among us.

The Technical Bit

As with all reviews I can bore you with the technical, regale you with how the halogen heating element in the Breville Halo low-oil fryer gives an instant heat source, so there's no waiting for it to pre-heat. The element also illuminates the inside of the bowl so you can view your foods cooking progress.

However, I feel that Breville do a much better job than ever could so we’ll leave them to the technical bit.

What I will say is…

...it's brilliant very easy to use, and take apart to clean.

I have now cooked a couple of recipes that are in the instruction booklet and they are easy to follow and above all tasty.

Oh, and the Sweet Potato chips with Italian seasoning were also a massive hit last night.

Chef Dave’s Top Tip

If I could only impart one piece of advice it would be: if you are grilling chicken in this add some paprika to the skin as it can look very pale when cooked and slightly unappetising.

Where can you buy one??

These are now widely available and range in price from £99.00 to £69.00 you could also buy these on eBay.  However, we bought our one from Tesco and I would say it was mid-range in price.

Chef Dave's Rating
I personally would give The Halo Health Fryer a top rating of 4 stars out of 5 - the Guv'ner would give it 5 out of 5.