Chinese Air Fryers May Be Spying on Consumers, Which? Warns (infosecurity-magazine.com)

the next thing will be the wifi-AI-smart-toilete-paper-unroller, that spies on your sh*tting behaviour. That offers much more details about one's consumption habbits (read it as: what goes out, must once have gone in) and - of course - offers the best opportunity to push adverts in times, when almost everyone is holding the mobile for sure.

Won't buy.

The question that immediately comes to mind is why anyone really wants a connected air fryer?

An air fryer is really just a convection oven --- a resistance heating element with a fan for circulation.

Time and temperature are the basic controls.

Easy rule to avoid this sort of thing: don't buy network-connected devices that have no actual need to be network-connected. If you encounter a situation where that's unavoidable, don't set up the network connection or (if you're really pressed) firewall the thing off entirely.