Gourmia Recalls 175,951 Air Fryer Ovens After Doors Burn 40 People

About 175,951 Gourmia air fryer ovens are under recall because their doors can swing shut on the person taking dinner out. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on November 5, 2026, covering the Gourmia Stainless Steel Digital 9-Slice Air Fryer Oven, model GTF7530. The CPSC's number for the campaign is 27-069, and the importer is The Steelstone Group LLC, doing business as Gourmia, of Brooklyn, New York.

The hazard is mechanical, and it's specific. The oven's front carries two spring-loaded French doors with metal handles. Bump the unit while a door is open and the door can close unexpectedly, onto a hand or wrist that's reaching inside or pulling out a hot tray. The CPSC doesn't describe an electrical defect, a fire risk or a heating failure. The door is the defect.

The injury count is what lifts this recall out of the routine pile. Gourmia has received 57 reports of the doors closing unexpectedly while consumers retrieved food, and 40 of those incidents involved burns to hands or wrists. That's a burn in roughly seven of every ten reports the company holds, a ratio most appliance recalls never approach, because the failure happens at the exact moment skin is closest to the heat.

Checking a unit takes a minute. The model number GTF7530 and the UPC 810002862779 appear on the packaging, and the model number and date codes sit on a label on the back of the oven. Units with date codes from 3021 to 0126 are covered. An oven that doesn't carry that model number isn't part of this recall, whatever its doors do.

Every recalled oven came through one retailer. The ovens were sold at Target stores nationwide and on Target.com from October 2021 through June 2026, for about $150. Five years of sales through a single chain means the owners are findable in principle, but a countertop oven changes hands, moves to a dorm or a rental kitchen, and loses its box, so the back label is the check that actually works.

The remedy is a part, not a replacement. Owners should stop using the oven immediately and contact Gourmia for a free repair kit, a doorstop component with instructions for attaching it, sent by mail. Gourmia takes requests at 888-834-0092, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time, and through the recall page on its website. The CPSC notice doesn't say how long kits take to arrive, so the oven sits idle until one does.

A doorstop is a modest fix for a five-year product run, and owners will judge it by whether the doors behave afterward. Until the kit is installed, the commission's instruction is plain: don't use the oven. A $150 appliance that burned 40 people at the moment of ordinary use doesn't get the benefit of one more careful try.

The recall also lands in the middle of the appliance's selling season. A 9-slice air fryer oven is a holiday-list item, and Target sold these units for five straight years, which means a share of the 175,951 are wrapped in closets right now as gifts that haven't been opened. The model number travels with the box, so a recipient who hears about the recall can check the packaging before the oven ever reaches a counter.