Capacity settles the comparison before features do
Capacity is the number that decides most air fryer and multicooker purchases, because it sets how much you can cook in a single pass. Across the air fryer and multicooker data held on this site, bowl capacities run 2 to 40, a span wide enough that a model at one end and a model at the other are not close substitutes.
Daewoo Electricals sells a halogen air fryer oven at 17, which sits in the middle of that span and suits a household cooking a main dish plus sides. GASTROBACK's multi air fryer is listed at 8, at the compact end of the scale. That suits a small kitchen or a smaller household, but it means more cooking cycles when the whole family eats at once.
Use the air fryers and multicookers rankings to see capacity and price side by side before you narrow to a brand. Then check the figure against your counter depth and your usual batch size, not just your appetite, in the Daewoo Electricals review and the GASTROBACK review.
Price, and how to read an entry figure honestly
Every price here is a purchase price paid in a single transaction rather than a recurring plan fee, so the comparison is a one-off spend you set against how long the machine should last.
Daewoo Electricals publishes an entry price of £14.99, an entry-level model at £24.99 and a flagship at £179.99. A caveat worth naming: the flagship figure comes from the company's espresso machine, not from an air fryer or multicooker, so read it as a brand-wide ceiling rather than a price for the category you are shopping in.
Across the data on this site, entry prices run €0.89 to €1,567.78. A spread that wide means a cheap model and a costly one can look interchangeable in a listing, so put capacity, wattage and program count next to the price before deciding which end of that range you want.
GASTROBACK has no comparable price figure in our data, which leaves its position on this measure open. The GASTROBACK review is where to look for the current figure rather than inferring one from the capacity.
Power draw and the socket behind it
Heating performance scales with power, and power is also the field that decides whether the machine is comfortable on a kitchen circuit. Across the data, wattage runs 200 to 3,040.
The Daewoo halogen air fryer oven is rated at 1,300, a mid-range figure for this category that should heat a basket briskly without overloading a normal kitchen socket. Daewoo Electricals also lists catalogue-wide power figures of 35 to 450, which is a reminder to read the rating on the product you are actually buying rather than a brand-wide range.
Two checks are worth making. Confirm the rating against the socket and any extension lead in use, and treat the lowest-wattage machines in the rankings as the slow options. The same capacity and wattage fields are the ones to compare in the ZWILLING review and the Exquisit review if you widen the brand list.
Programs, and why the count alone misleads
Program counts across the data run 4 to 300, and this is the field most often over-read. A high total may mean a long list of genuinely different cooking modes, or it may mean a generous set of timer and temperature steps around a single heating method.
Read the mode list, not the total. A machine offering separate bake, grill, roast, dehydrate and reheat modes gives you flexibility; one that offers only presets leaves you guessing at temperatures.
Daewoo Electricals' product types air fryer, blender and stand mixer show a broad small-appliance range rather than a single specialist line. Among its reference models the company lists a halogen air fryer oven and a multi-function air fryer microwave, and the microwave is the closest thing in the range to a full multicooker because it combines several cooking methods in a single cavity. That is the model to weigh if you want a single appliance to replace an oven and a grill as well as an air fryer.
Warranty, support and the spare parts question
The Daewoo halogen air fryer oven carries 3 years of warranty, and Daewoo Electricals offers support through email, chat and help centre, which covers the routes most owners actually need.
The gap to watch is spares. Daewoo Electricals does not run a spare parts shop, so a failed heating element or control board is more likely to mean a replacement than a repair, and a long warranty matters less when the long-lived fix is unavailable. Ask about parts availability before you commit, not after the fault.
Who stands behind the unit matters too. Daewoo Electricals is registered in GB as Eurosonic Group Limited and lists its market as GB, which concentrates support in a single market. GASTROBACK is registered in DE as Gastroback GmbH. Confirm which entity handles a claim on the specific model, since that decides the process when something goes wrong.
Where the two brands land
Daewoo Electricals is the broader bet: a mid-span air fryer oven at 17, a 1,300 heater, a 3 year warranty and a catalogue that reaches into blenders and stand mixers. Its entry price of £14.99 puts a first machine within easy reach, though the flagship figure to ignore is £179.99, which belongs to the coffee range.
GASTROBACK is the compact bet: its multi air fryer sits at 8, from a German company whose listed strength in our data is espresso, drip and grinder machines. Its grinder is built in, a detail that matters for coffee buyers rather than for fryer shoppers, which tells you where the engineering attention sits.
Whichever way you lean, the air fryers and multicookers rankings place both against the rest of the field on capacity, price, wattage and program count, and the Daewoo Electricals review and GASTROBACK review cover the ownership details that a specification table leaves out.