Air fryer with smoking agent holder

An air fryer, comprising:

• a housing enclosing a cooking chamber and having a cooking chamber opening through which food to be cooked is inserted;
• a heating element for heating the cooking chamber;
• a closure for closing the cooking chamber opening;
• a motor and a circulation fan;
• a transmission connected to the motor for supplying torque to the circulation fan;
• wherein the circulation fan is mounted to turn about an axis and is disposed in a transfer passage separated from the cooking chamber by a bounding wall, where at least part of the bounding wall extends at one axial side of the circulation fan, the transfer passage having an inlet at an opposing axial side of the circulation fan opposite the one axial side and extending via an outlet into the cooking chamber;
• a transfer passage aperture in the housing that leads into the transfer passage;
• a cover for closing the transfer passage aperture, and
• a smoking agent holder that is open for dispensing smoke and insertable through the transfer passage aperture into a receiving portion of the transfer passage,
• wherein the smoking agent holder comprises a tray and the cover is fixed to and/or integral with the tray, such that sliding the tray into the transfer passage aperture closes the transfer passage aperture.