What's wrong with the Kalorik air fryer oven?
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on October 15, 2026 that it is telling consumers to immediately stop using Kalorik MAXX and MAXX Advance air fryer ovens with French doors. The spring-loaded glass doors on these countertop ovens can, in CPSC's words, "suddenly close on consumers' arms while the oven is on, causing burns." CPSC says it has received reports of burns from the doors snapping shut, including at least one left with scarring consistent with a second-degree burn.
The ovens were sold nationwide at Walmart, Home Depot and other retailers, and online at Kalorik.com and Amazon.com, from April 2020 through January 2024 by the original importers, and again after June 23, 2025 by the brand's current owner.
Why isn't there a recall?
Here's the part that makes this one different from a normal recall notice: there isn't one. The original importers have gone out of business, so they can't run a recall. The company that owns the Kalorik brand today has declined to take part in one. CPSC's only instruction to owners is to stop using the oven and dispose of it under local hazardous waste rules.
That leaves homeowners holding a working countertop appliance with nowhere to send it back, no refund check coming, and no repair kit in the mail. It's a reminder that a brand name on an appliance doesn't guarantee anyone stands behind it years later — importers close, brands change hands, and a product can outlive the company that is supposed to answer for it.
What do you do with it now?
Don't donate it, resell it, or hand it down with the door still working the way it was built to. A spring-loaded door that slams shut on an arm is just as dangerous in a neighbor's kitchen or at a yard sale as it is in yours, and passing along a known hazard just moves the risk instead of removing it.
Check with your city or county on where small appliances go for hazardous waste disposal — some take them at a household hazardous waste drop-off, others want them at a transfer station. If getting a bulky oven, or a stack of other appliances and junk that have piled up with it, out of the house and to the right facility is the part you don't want to deal with, that's what 24/7 Express Handyman Service's appliance removal service is for: the crew hauls it out, and any landfill or transfer-station fee is billed at cost from the receipt.
This one isn't a job for a repair — there's no fixing a door that's designed to swing shut under spring tension, and 24/7 Express Handyman Service doesn't take on appliance repair. What the crew can do is get the thing out of the kitchen safely once you've decided it's done.