Nearly 176,000 Air Fryer Ovens Sold at Target Have Been Recalled — And the Danger Hits When You Reach for Hot Food

The timer beeps. You swing open the two glass French doors on the stainless air fryer oven, lean toward the hot tray, and brush a door with your arm on the way in.

Both doors slam shut on your hands.

That is the hazard now at the center of a federal recall covering nearly 176,000 countertop ovens sold at Target — machines people have been pulling weeknight chicken, fries and leftovers out of for years. Forty of those owners have already reported burns to their hands or wrists. The company says a free fix is coming in the mail. Until it arrives, the instruction from regulators is blunt: stop using the oven tonight.

When Dinner Meets the Doors

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the oven’s spring-loaded doors can close unexpectedly when they are bumped. The danger is not a fire or a short. It is the most ordinary kitchen moment there is — retrieving food that is still blistering hot — while the glass doors come in after your wrists.

The commission says there have been 57 reports of the doors closing unexpectedly while people were taking food out. Forty of those reports involved burns to hands or wrists.

Those are not abstract complaint numbers. They are people who opened the doors, reached for dinner, and came away with burned skin because the appliance closed on them mid-grab.

The Oven That Lived on Target’s Aisle for Years

The recalled product is the Gourmia Stainless Steel Digital 9-Slice Digital Air Fryer Oven, model GTF7530, UPC 810002862779. It is a stainless steel unit with two spring-loaded glass front French doors and metal handles — the kind of countertop appliance that looks tidy enough to leave out and powerful enough to stand in for a second oven on a busy night.

The model number and date codes 3021 to 0126 are printed on a label on the back of the unit. That back label is how owners confirm whether the oven sitting on their counter is on the list.

Target sold it hard and long. The CPSC says the ovens were sold at Target stores nationwide and on Target.com from October 2021 through June 2026 for about $150. That is nearly five years of shoppers walking out of Target — or clicking “buy” at home — with the same French-door air fryer oven.

About 175,951 units are covered.

Brooklyn’s Name on the Box

The importer is The Steelstone Group LLC, doing business as Gourmia, of Brooklyn, New York. The ovens were made in China.

On November 5, 2026, the CPSC posted the recall under number 27-069. Coverage followed from USA Today, FOX 5 NY, EatingWell and Techlicious — the kind of consumer alerts that travel fast because the product is common, the price is everyday, and the injury pattern is easy to picture the second you hear it.

The mystery for most owners is not whether a burn hurts. It is whether the shiny stainless box they have used without drama for years is suddenly the one that can close on their wrists.

Check the Label Before the Next Beep

The recalled product

• Gourmia Stainless Steel Digital 9-Slice Digital Air Fryer Oven
• Model: GTF7530
• UPC: 810002862779
• Look: stainless steel; two spring-loaded glass front French doors with metal handles
• Check the label on the back of the unit for the model number and date codes 3021 to 0126

What to do

• Stop using the oven immediately
• Contact Gourmia for a free repair kit by mail — an added doorstop plus installation instructions
• Do not use the oven again until the doorstop is installed
• No receipt is needed to request the kit
• Kits are expected to arrive in about two to four weeks, according to Techlicious, which describes the added part as a magnetic doorstop

How to reach Gourmia

• Toll-free: 888-834-0092, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Online: http://www.gourmia.com/recall.asp, or go to Gourmia.com and select “Recall Information”

The Fix Arrives in an Envelope

Here is the second turn. Target is not sweeping every oven off every counter. Gourmia is not collecting them for a full replacement as the first step.

The remedy is a free repair kit mailed to owners: an added doorstop and the instructions to install it. Techlicious reports that the doorstop is magnetic, that the kit ships in roughly two to four weeks, and that owners do not need a receipt. The CPSC’s bottom line matches the company’s: stop using the oven right away, and do not go back to cooking with it until that doorstop is on.

For an appliance that spent nearly five years on Target shelves at about $150, the “recall” looks less like a product being yanked from existence and more like a hardware patch arriving after the fact — while 40 burn reports sit in the federal file as the reason nobody should wait.

Leave the Doors Closed Tonight

The ovens are still in kitchens across the country. Some were bought in 2021. Some were bought this spring. Many have been used hundreds of times without a door ever slamming shut on a hand.

The CPSC’s warning does not ask owners to guess which unit will be next. It asks them to treat every GTF7530 on that date-code range as one that can.

So when the timer goes off tonight, the safest move is not a careful grab. It is leaving the doors closed, finding the label on the back, and calling Gourmia before anyone reaches into heat again.