Gourmia, the brand name of The Steelstone Group LLC of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling about 176,000 stainless steel 9-slice digital air fryer ovens, 175,951 by the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s count. The glass French doors can swing shut when bumped as someone reaches in for hot food. The company has 57 such reports, and 40 ended in burns to hands or wrists.
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Recall number 27-069 was announced on Nov. 5. The oven is model GTF7530, UPC 810002862779, with a date code between 3021 and 0126 on a label on the back. Target stores and Target.com sold it for about $150 from October 2021 through June 2026, and it is made in China.
Model GTF7530 and the back-label date codes
The CPSC notice describes the oven as stainless steel with two spring-loaded glass front doors and metal handles. The model number and UPC appear on the packaging, while the model and a date code sit on a label on the back of the unit. Date codes from 3021 to 0126 mark the recalled range, which at a glance spans roughly the product’s whole sales run. Reporter Suzanne Kantra’s write-up at Techlicious quotes no one but adds practical detail drawn from the recall: no receipt is needed, the oven does not have to be returned, and Gourmia says the repair kit should arrive two to four weeks after a request.
Gourmia sells small kitchen appliances, and the importer of record is The Steelstone Group LLC, doing business as Gourmia, of Brooklyn, New York. The CPSC lists China as the place of manufacture. Spread across the sales window from October 2021 to June 2026, the 175,951 ovens average out to roughly 3,000 units a month through Target alone, which is a steady retail volume for a single model at about $150. Target carried the oven in stores nationwide as well as online, so owners who bought it in person or through the website are equally covered, and the CPSC lists no other retailer.
Fifty-seven door closures and forty burns
In the agency’s words, the oven doors can unexpectedly close when bumped, posing a burn hazard to consumers retrieving hot food. Gourmia has received 57 reports of the doors closing unexpectedly during that moment, resulting in 40 burn incidents to hands or wrists. Nothing in the notice describes a fire or a heating-element fault; the hazard is mechanical, tied to spring-loaded doors and the hot interior behind them. Broadcast coverage, including a FOX 13 report on the 175,000-plus ovens, relayed the same figures and noted no Target statement. Neither the CPSC page nor the coverage quotes a Gourmia or Target spokesperson, so the central claims rest on the federal notice.
The numbers imply that most door closures that were reported to the company ended in a burn: 40 injuries from 57 reports, or about seven in ten. Hands and wrists are the exposed parts when someone slides a tray out or pulls food toward the front of a hot oven, and a door that swings shut at that instant presses glass and metal against skin that is already near the heating elements.
A repair rather than a refund
The remedy listed is repair. Owners are told to stop using the oven immediately and contact Gourmia for a free repair kit by mail. The kit adds a doorstop, with installation instructions, so the doors cannot snap closed on a hand. Requests go through the company’s recall page or by phone at 888-834-0092, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Until the doorstop is installed, Techlicious advises owners to keep the oven unused, matching the CPSC instruction to stop using it immediately. A repair kit is an unusual choice for an appliance sold at roughly $150, since many recalls of that class offer refunds. Here the notice offers none, which leaves owners who no longer want the oven with only the kit. The fix is also physical, which means its success depends on owners installing the doorstop correctly once it arrives in the mail, with the instructions the company includes. Nothing in the notice sets a deadline for requesting the kit, and none of the sources read describes a cost to the owner.
Complaints about similar problems with any kitchen appliance can be filed with the CPSC through SaferProducts.gov, the agency’s public database. The notice leaves one point open: it does not say whether the 57 reports were all tied to the same hinge or spring design, or whether the doorstop was tested against bumps from different directions. Owners who prefer not to wait for a kit have one safe interim option in the notice’s wording: stop using the oven immediately. The CPSC offers no instruction about handing the oven back, and no receipt or proof of purchase is described as necessary.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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