Abstract: A hot air grill comprises a base having a vertical portion and a horizontal portion, which are hingedly connected with one another. A transparent casing for food to be cooked sits on the horizontal base portion and has an opening in one side to receive a heating assembly mounted on the vertical base portion. The casing comprises two deeply dished like halves which are assembled one over the other with the upper half inverted and a metal joining strip between their edges. Each casing half has in one side a semicircular opening which together form a circular opening to receive the heating assembly. The heating assembly comprises a radial type fan on the shaft of a motor mounted in the vertical base portion, a heating coil surrounding the fan and a cover having a central opening through which air is drawn in from the casing and then discharged from the periphery of the fan back into the casing after passing over the heating coil.