Air Fryer Without a Nonstick Coating: What We Could Find and Where to Start
We couldn't confirm an air fryer without a nonstick coating on any part. No brand we read says every part that touches food has no coating. If you want as little coating as you can document, we'd start with the Our Place Wonder Oven, which names one coated pan.
updated November 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The short answer
We can't give you a confirmed list, because no brand we read says every part is free of a coating. The closest is the Our Place Wonder Oven: a “Chromed steel” basket and rack with no coating named, plus one coated bake pan. Glass models move the question to the plate, and for all of them we couldn't find out.
What's on this page
Why is it so hard to find one?
Very few brands describe a bare surface. So we won't hand you a tidy list we can't stand behind. What we can do is show where the coating hides and how to spot it in a manual.
How do brands word a coating?
Each of these comes from a brand's own manual:
- Breville BOV900: “The walls on the inside of the oven feature a non-stick coating.”
- Cosori TurboBlaze: “The basket and crisper plate are made of aluminum metal with nonstick coating.”
- GreenPan Bistro 9-in-1: “The Air Fry Basket is coated.” The walls, pan and crumb tray are coated too.
- Instant Vortex Plus 6 qt: “The Cooking Tray has non-stick coating.”
Many of these sit in the cleaning section, because that's where a coating matters to the brand. Start your reading there. A warning against metal utensils can be a hint too, but it doesn't prove a coating.
Which one should I look at?
Least coating we found
Our Place Wonder Oven
A stainless oven with a chromed-steel basket and rack, plus one ceramic-coated pan.
Where we'd start. Our Place lists its materials and names a coating on only one included part, the bake pan.
Good for families who want the least coating and don’t mind an oven shape or a coated bake pan they can leave out.
Coating: Has a coating
- The brand lists a stainless oven and a chromed-steel basket
- The brand’s FAQ says the inside is made without PFAS “(including PTFE)”
- The bake pan has a ceramic nonstick coating
- Chromed steel is plated, not stainless; the brand doesn’t say uncoated
- Accessories are not dishwasher safe; no steel wool
See the full materials list
Full materials list
Our Place Wonder Oven
| CoatingHas a coatingOnly the bake pan is named as coated, and the basket is chromed steel. | |
|---|---|
| Basket | “Chromed steel”, not stainless steel1 |
| Inside | “Stainless steel”1 |
| Coating, per the company | Bake pan: aluminum with “nonstick ceramic coating”. The brand’s FAQ says it’s made without PFAS “(including PTFE)”1 |
| Outside | The brand lists the oven as “Stainless steel”; the outer shell isn’t listed separately1 |
| Size | “13 qt” in the specs, “12-liter” in the FAQ1 |
Where this comes from
- 1Our Place, Wonder Oven product page. company website, checked November 2, 2026.
- 2Our Place, Wonder Oven user manual (silent on materials; copy hosted by QVC). manual, checked November 2, 2026.
Which one should you get?
If you want the least coating on paper and an oven shape is fine
Our Place Wonder Oven · Has a coating
View(paid link to Amazon, opens in a new tab)Ad · paid link · check price & delivery on AmazonIf you'd rather have glass around the food and accept that the plate needs a closer look
Ninja Crispi · We couldn’t confirm
View(paid link to Amazon, opens in a new tab)Ad · paid link · check price & delivery on AmazonIf you want a glass bowl in the budget price class and will ask about the rack yourself
NutriChef 5.8 Qt · We couldn’t confirm
View(paid link to Amazon, opens in a new tab)Ad · paid link · check price & delivery on AmazonIf you want to read about a fully metal air fryer
- Our Place Wonder Oven: the oven is “Stainless steel”, the basket and rack are “Chromed steel”, and the bake pan has a “nonstick ceramic coating”. Chromed steel is not stainless, and the page doesn't say the basket has no coating. See the Wonder Oven page.
- Ninja Crispi: a glass container, so the bowl isn't the question. The plate is. A snippet of Ninja's FAQ mentions a nano-ceramic coating on the plate, which we couldn't confirm. Ninja's category page lists “PFAS- & PTFE-free” under cooking surfaces. See glass air fryers.
- NutriChef 5.8 Qt: the brand's page lists a “Non-stick Basket Surface”. Matching it to this listing is our guess.
- Fritaire Glass: the brand's page says “Food-Contact Coatings: None” and calls its 304 stainless accessories “Non-Coated”, with a “Tempered glass” bowl. We couldn't match that page to the Amazon listing. See the Fritaire Glass*.
What should I check before I buy?
- Each part. Basket, plate, rack, pan and walls. One bare part doesn't settle the others.
- The metal. Stainless, chromed steel and aluminum are different.
- The words. “Nonstick”, “ceramic” and “coated” all point to a coating.
- Cleanup. Brands name easy cleaning as the reason for the coating. See why food sticks.
Where this leaves you
No air fryer we looked at is confirmed to have no coating. If you want as little as you can document, start with the Our Place Wonder Oven* and read its materials list first. If you'd rather have glass, ask about the plate. See every model in the material table. If the label word worries you more, read what “non-toxic” means on an air fryer.
Common questions
Is there an air fryer with no nonstick coating at all?
We couldn't confirm one. No brand we read says every part that touches food has no coating. If you find a manual or spec sheet that says so, send it through our imprint page.
How can I tell if an air fryer has a nonstick coating?
Read the cleaning section of the manual first. Search for “coating”, “coated”, “non-stick” and “nonstick”. If it says nothing, ask the brand in writing. A manual that never mentions a coating doesn't prove there isn't one.
Is a ceramic air fryer basket free of a coating?
No. Ceramic names a coating, not a bare surface. Cosori's TurboBlaze manual describes “aluminum metal with nonstick coating”, and Typhur lists an aluminum alloy basket with a ceramic coating.
Does a metal insert remove the coating question?
No. It changes what the food sits on, and the rest stays as it was. Several manuals warn against add-ons the brand doesn't sell, so read yours first.
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Where this comes from
- 1Breville, BOV900 instruction book, p. 29
- 2Cosori, TurboBlaze CAF-DC601-KUS user manual, pp. 7 and 17
- 3GreenPan, BISTRO 9-in-1 user manual, p. 4 (copy on ManualsLib)
- 4Instant, Vortex and Vortex Plus 6 quart user manual, p. 25 (copy on ManualsLib)
- 5SharkNinja, glass air fryers category page
- 6Our Place, Wonder Oven product page
- 7Typhur, Dome 2 product page
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Stainless Steel Air Fryer Editorial Team
We are the team behind Stainless Steel Air Fryer. We read what the companies say and explain it in plain English. We don’t run lab tests, and we say so when we couldn’t find something out.