Nearly 176,000 Gourmia countertop air fryer ovens sold at Target stores across the United States are being recalled because their spring-loaded glass French doors can snap shut unexpectedly while people are reaching in for hot food — a defect the company says has already burned 40 users on their hands or wrists. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) posted the recall, No. 27-069, on Thursday, November 5, and its instruction to owners is blunt: stop using the oven immediately and contact Gourmia for a free repair kit.
The recall is being carried out by The Steelstone Group LLC, doing business as Gourmia. It covers one specific model — the Gourmia Stainless Steel 9-Slice Digital Air Fryer Oven, model number GTF7530 — and the CPSC figure for the number of units is 175,951. Because the oven was sold for almost five years at one of America's biggest retailers, the recalled machines sit in kitchens in every state, including the California, New York, New Jersey and Texas homes of many Awaaz Punjab readers.
The hazard: doors that close on their own
According to the CPSC, the oven's spring-loaded French doors can close unexpectedly when bumped while a consumer is retrieving hot food, posing a burn hazard to hands and wrists. Gourmia has received 57 reports of the doors closing unexpectedly while people were taking food out of the oven, and 40 of those reports involved burns — in most cases as hot glass or metal met skin while food was being lifted out.
How to check whether your oven is recalled
The recalled units carry model number GTF7530 and UPC code 810002862779; the model number and UPC appear on the packaging, and the model number together with date codes running from 3021 to 0126 is printed on a label on the back of the unit. If the label on the back of your oven shows model GTF7530 and a date code in that range, it is part of the recall — whatever store receipt you may or may not still have.
Source: ConsumerAffairs, 'Consumer product safety recall roundup for November 06, 2026,' Nov. 6, 2026
The ovens were sold exclusively at Target — at Target stores nationwide and on Target.com — from October 2021 through June 2026, for about $150. They were not sold by other major retailers, so a Gourmia 9-slice digital air fryer oven bought anywhere other than Target in that period is a different question; the model and date-code check on the back label is the deciding test the CPSC gives.
Stop using the recalled oven right away, even if its doors have never closed on their own. Contact Gourmia for a free repair kit by mail: call toll-free 888-834-0092, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or go to gourmia.com/recall.asp (or Gourmia.com and click 'Recall Information'). The kit contains an added doorstop and installation instructions, and kits are expected to arrive by mail in about two to four weeks.
The remedy is a doorstop, not a refund
Owners are not being offered a refund or a replacement oven under this recall. The remedy is the free repair kit — an added doorstop, described in reporting on the fix as a magnetic doorstop, plus the instructions to install it. The CPSC's bottom line matches the company's: do not go back to cooking with the oven until that doorstop is fitted, because the hazard is in the doors themselves, not in how the oven is used.
Source: Techlicious, 'Gourmia air fryer oven sold at Target recalled after burns,' Nov. 5, 2026
Why a five-year-old kitchen appliance matters
Countertop air fryer ovens became a default appliance in American kitchens during the years these units were sold, and a recall of this size — more than 175,000 machines, 57 documented door incidents and 40 burns — is a reminder that a recall notice is only useful if it reaches the second, third and fourth owners of a product: ovens bought in 2021 or 2022 may have been gifted, resold or moved into rental homes and student housing since. The identifiers that settle it are printed on every unit, and checking takes a minute.
Source: ConsumerAffairs, 'Consumer product safety recall roundup for November 06, 2026,' Nov. 6, 2026
What happens next
The recall stays open while Gourmia mails repair kits to owners who contact it; there is no deadline in the CPSC notice for requesting the kit. Owners who were burned by a door closing unexpectedly can also report the incident through the CPSC, whose notice records the 57 reports and 40 burn incidents as the basis for the action. For everyone else with a GTF7530 on the counter, the sequence the regulators set out is simple: check the back label, stop using the oven, order the free kit, and wait for the doorstop before cooking with it again.