Your air fryer could be SPYING on you! Which issues urgent warning to users that popular kitchen cookers listen in to conversations and send data back to China [Video]

20:32 EST 04 Nov 2024, updated 02:52 EST 05 Nov 2024

Air fryers are without a doubt the must-have kitchen gadget at the moment, with celebrities from Sir Mo Farah to Drew Barrymore confessing their love for them.

The appliance uses hot air rather than hot oil to cook foods, offering a quick and healthy alternative to deep-fat fryers.

However, new research might have you reaching for the oven instead.

Experts from Which? have warned that several popular air fryers are spying on unsuspecting users.

The consumer champion analysed three air fryers sold in the UK and found that all three demanded permissions to listen in on users’ conversations.

‘Our research shows how smart tech manufacturers and the firms they work with are currently able to collect data from consumers, seemingly with reckless abandon, and this is often done with little or no transparency,’ said Harry Rose, Which? magazine editor.

The findings follow a string of terrifying stories of the kitchen …