Do Cuisinart air fryers have PFAS?
Cuisinart air fryers average 15 out of 100 on PFAS Authority's PFAS and toxin screen across the 8 Cuisinart air fryers graded as of October 2026, level with the 15 out of 100 median for the 32 other air fryers brands graded alongside it.
Cuisinart air fryers average Bad on our four-band scale. None of them clear our buy threshold. That is above 41% of the air fryers brands we grade.
PFAS Authority is a scoring system, not a laboratory. We do not test products ourselves. Grades are model-based, built from published ingredients, materials, certifications, brand disclosures and third-party lab results where they exist. See the rubric.
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What Cuisinart says and does about PFAS
Cuisinart sells both kinds of nonstick. Independent testing by the Ecology Center found PTFE on a Cuisinart stainless skillet with its QuanTanium nonstick interior, and a silicon dioxide ceramic coating on a Green Gourmet skillet, matching that line’s PTFE-free label. We could not load Cuisinart’s own chemical disclosure pages to confirm which current models it lists as containing PFAS.
- Independent testThe Ecology Center’s 2020 testing found PTFE on the Cuisinart Classic Stainless Steel 8 in Non-stick Skillet, sold with a QuanTanium non-stick interior. Ecology Center ↗
- Independent testThe same testing found a silicon dioxide coating, a type of ceramic, on the Cuisinart Green Gourmet Induction 8 in Skillet, consistent with its PTFE-free label. Ecology Center ↗
- Brand statementCuisinart has described its GreenGourmet hard anodized cookware coating as completely free of PTFE and PFOA. Cuisinart (archived page) ↗
Sources checked September 14, 2026. A brand statement is the company’s own claim, which we report but have not verified. Our grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests.
Which Cuisinart air fryers contain PFAS? Poor and Bad, we’d swap these
- nonstick-coated basket (coating type unspecified)
- Teflon-type coating fume emission (thermal degradation). If the basket coating is Teflon-type coating or…
2 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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- Stainless steel body; interior cooking surface unspecified (likely nonstick coating, type undisclosed)
- Teflon-type coating fume risk (nonstick coating). Interior coating type is undisclosed. Teflon-type…
3 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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- Nonstick-coated cooking basket (composition unspecified)
- Teflon-type coating/Nonstick coating fume risk. Coating composition is unconfirmed. If Teflon-type…
4 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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- Nonstick-coated interior (composition unspecified)
- Teflon-type coating thermal decomposition and fume inhalation. If the nonstick coating contains conventional…
4 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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- Non-stick coated basket (composition unspecified)
- Teflon-type coating (Teflon) fume inhalation risk. If coating is Teflon-type coating-based (unconfirmed)…
5 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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- Non-stick coated basket (composition unspecified)
- Teflon-type coating thermal degradation and fume release. If the coating is Teflon-type coating-based…
5 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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- Nonstick-coated cooking basket; specific polymer unspecified
- Nonstick coating degradation and fume risk. If the coating is Teflon-type coating-based and overheated or…
4 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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- Non-stick coated basket (type unspecified by brand)
- Teflon-type coating fume risk (thermal decomposition). If the non-stick coating is Teflon-type coating-based…
3 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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Graded higher than the Cuisinart average of 15.
- borosilicate glass, bare uncoated
- We found no PFAS statement from the brand
- Thermal shock and fracture
2 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
- borosilicate glass
- We found no PFAS statement from the brand
- Aluminum leaching from base/housing
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- glass bowl, stainless steel exterior
- We found no PFAS statement from the brand
- Thermal stress and glass breakage
2 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.
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