Air fryer liners, where the size is the whole decision and one title states a temperature
The short answer
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A silicone liner is the second thing most people buy for an air fryer, after the first burnt-on basket has been scrubbed. Seventeen of them are here, and the titles are keen on the words reusable and non-stick, which are true of every one, and quiet on the one number that decides whether a liner works.
The size, and why it is the whole decision
An air fryer is a small fan oven. Hot air comes up through the mesh of the basket and round the food, and that is the whole trick. A liner that fills the basket edge to edge blocks that air, and the fryer becomes a slow oven with a plate in it.
So a liner has to be smaller than the basket, by a centimetre or two on every side, and that means you need to know two numbers: your basket’s size, and the liner’s. Three titles here give a size in inches or centimetres. One gives the litres it fits, three to five quarts. One names the Ninja model codes it is made for. The other twelve say round or square, or nothing, and leave the fit to you.
Measure the basket across the base before you buy anything. Then buy a liner that is at least a centimetre smaller.
Solid or perforated
Fifteen of these seventeen are solid: a pot, a tray or a mat with a raised edge. Two are perforated, a mat with holes.
That is the most important difference on the page. A solid liner stops fat dripping through the basket and keeps it clean, and it also stops the air that makes food crisp. Chips on a solid liner come out pale and sitting in fat. Wings, salmon, anything with a marinade, and anything you want to keep its juices, are fine on a solid liner and it saves the scrubbing.
A perforated mat is for the crisp things. It keeps the mesh clean and lets the air through, and it is the one to reach for when the whole point is the crunch.
What one title says about temperature
One title states a rating: 220 degrees, on a mat sold for putting a hot dish down on. Sixteen say heat resistant and give no number.
Silicone bakeware is generally good to about 230 degrees, and an air fryer tops out around 200, so a real silicone liner has a margin. The word resistant on its own does not tell you the liner is real silicone or that it has that margin. If you can find the number in the listing photographs, it is worth the look.
Food safe, and the grade nobody names
Two titles say food safe or BPA free. None names a grade. Food-grade silicone is a tested thing, LFGB in Europe and FDA in America, and a liner made to it does not smell and does not leach. A liner that is not made to it sometimes smells of plastic when it is new.
If a new liner smells, wash it, bake it empty in the air fryer for ten minutes, and wash it again. If it still smells, do not cook in it.
Two in the pack, and the Ninja question
Five titles are sold in pairs. If your air fryer has two baskets, a Ninja or one of the many shaped like one, two liners is the minimum, and one title here names the Ninja models it fits, which is the most useful single line on the page. Buy that one if you own the machine it names.
For a single-basket machine a pair is still handy, one in use and one in the dishwasher.
The odd ones out
One title is not a liner but a magnet clip that holds a paper liner down. It exists because paper liners lift into the heating element when the basket is half empty and can catch, which is the strongest argument on this page for silicone.
One is a roast rack with a drip liner underneath, sized for an eight to ten inch basket. It lifts a chicken or a joint off its own fat, and it is the one accessory here that changes what an air fryer can do rather than how easily it cleans.
One is a countertop mat rather than a liner, sold for putting the hot basket down on. Useful, and not what most people came for.
What none of them says
Thickness. A thin liner folds, tears at the corners and stains. A thick one lasts years. No title gives a millimetre.
Whether it is dishwasher safe. One says so. Silicone generally is, and sixteen titles could have said it.
What it will not do. No title says that a solid liner costs you crisp, which is the one thing to know before you buy one.
The kitchen scale guide covers the other cheap thing that makes cooking repeatable, and it has the same problem: the number that matters is the one the titles skip.
What I would actually do
For most air fryers, the round pot that says what it fits in quarts and says food safe. Check your basket against the three to five it names.
For a dual-basket Ninja, the pair that names the models. It is the only title here that has done the fitting for you.
If you want chips to stay chips, the perforated mat, bought in your basket’s size. It keeps the mesh clean without getting between the air and the food.
For a roast, the rack. It is the one thing on this page that makes the air fryer better rather than easier.
Whichever you buy, measure the basket first, and take the liner out when you want crunch.
Side by side
Prices in GBPUSDEUR. Each row carries the date its price was read.
| Product | Price | Why it is here | Where to buyLink |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best overall Air Fryer Silicone Liners Round Food Safe Non Stick | £2.99$3.85€3.52checked 18 Oct 2026 | The one title that states what it fits in litres, three to five quarts, and says food safe, on a round pot that replaces paper | Check opens in a new tab |
| For a dual-basket Ninja 2Pcs Air Fryer Silicone Liners Reusable 2 Basket | £8.33$10.80€9.81checked 18 Oct 2026 | Two liners sized for two baskets, and the only title on the page that names the models it fits | Check opens in a new tab |
| If you want crisp Reusable Non Stick Silicone Air Fryer Liners | £3.94$5.27€4.65checked 18 Oct 2026 | Perforated, so the air gets through, and sold in the basket sizes it fits rather than as one size for everything | Check opens in a new tab |
What a title here can settle
- Solid or perforated. Fifteen of these are solid pots, mats or trays and two are perforated. Hot air in an air fryer comes up through the basket, and a solid liner sits across that. A perforated one lets it through, which is why food browns on a perforated mat and steams on a solid one.
- A size, on three titles, and litres on a fourth. A liner has to be a centimetre or two smaller than the basket on every side or the air cannot get round it. One title names the Ninja models it fits, which is the most useful thing any title here says.
- Two in the pack, on five titles, is what a dual-basket air fryer needs, and it is what makes a liner a habit rather than a thing you wash and forget.
- Reusable silicone, on all seventeen, against the paper liner most people buy first. Paper lifts into the element when the basket is not full, which is why one title here is a magnet that holds paper down. Silicone does not lift.
What to read twice
- A liner costs you crisp. The crunch on air-fried chips comes from the mesh basket and the air under it. Put a solid silicone pot in the way and the chips sit in their own fat on a plate. Use one for wings and fish and marinades, and take it out for anything you want crisp.
- One title states a temperature. 220 degrees, on a mat. Silicone bakeware is generally good to about 230, and an air fryer runs to 200 or so, so the margin is real; but sixteen titles saying heat resistant with no number are asking you to take it on trust.
- Food safe is on two titles and a grade is on none. Food-grade silicone is a specification with a test behind it, LFGB in Europe, and none of these names it. A new liner that smells is one to wash and bake empty once before it meets food.
- Not one title says how thick it is. Thin silicone folds, tears at the corners and stains from the first curry. Thick silicone lasts years. The photographs sometimes show it; the titles never do.