Do you use an AirFryer?

Do you use an AirFryer?

  • Yes - regularly

    Votes: 160 51.6%

  • Yes - occasionally

    Votes: 52 16.8%

  • No

    Votes: 92 29.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 1.9%
  • Total voters
    310
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
I know, that's what I said. It has a purpose for something quick and small for one or two people. but this sudden craze about how great food you make is it, is just ridiculous, you could make the same or even better in a normal oven for the last 100 years
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Lol my oven takes ages to get up to temp and then if you open the door it loses the heat and need to get up to temp again. Not to mention it takes a minute just to switch off. Then there's the cleaning. Two baskets vs the whole oven, rack, oven plate and casserole.
 
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Maillard reactions will only occur once enough water has evaporated. The way air fryers are designed, with baskets and directed airflow, this happens more rapidly and from more than one direction vs a regular oven. The element is also oversized and high powered in proportion to the small space it heats. Things crisp faster. Philips even has the air circulation design patented iirc. Yes, you could say that it’s still fundamentally the same technology, and I couldn’t argue, but the same could be said about cd vs Blu-ray.

Let’s call air fryers high definition convection ovens then.
 
Nike7 said:
Maillard reactions will only occur once enough water has evaporated. The way air fryers are designed, with baskets and directed airflow, this happens more rapidly and from more than one direction vs a regular oven. The element is also oversized and high powered in proportion to the small space it heats. Things crisp faster. Philips even has the air circulation design patented iirc. Yes, you could say that it’s still fundamentally the same technology, and I couldn’t argue, but the same could be said about cd vs Blu-ray.

Let’s call air fryers high definition convection ovens then.
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LOL someone believed the sales pitch
 
Yeah got a 8l Midea, was on special. Use it almost every day, remember it's just a convection oven. But it makes cooking things you'd normal use in an oven in half the time.
 
Yes. Easy. Small. And fool proof.

You can't burn the food, at worst u can only dry it out.
 
I don't have an air-fryer but people are so enthusiastic about them that I'm thinking about getting one.

Currently I do all my frying in cast iron pans and I am a huge cast iron fan. Not sure how easily I can move on: cast iron is part of my identity.
 
3WA said:
I don't have an air-fryer but people are so enthusiastic about them that I'm thinking about getting one.

Currently I do all my frying in cast iron pans and I am a huge cast iron fan. Not sure how easily I can move on: cast iron is part of my identity.
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Air fryers don't actually fry.
 
Lupus said:
Oh you can burn it, it's just a convection oven.
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I'm sorry but unless you put something flammable in. It won't burn. It's just heating up the air at the temperature you set it at.
 
3WA said:
I don't have an air-fryer but people are so enthusiastic about them that I'm thinking about getting one.

Currently I do all my frying in cast iron pans and I am a huge cast iron fan. Not sure how easily I can move on: cast iron is part of my identity.
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Get an induction cooker. Cheers.
 
Lupus said:
Air fryers don't actually fry.
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Yeah, but my understanding is that the use case is the same, right? Where I'm currently frying a russian or chicken breast, these things will end up going in the air fryer?
 
3WA said:
Yeah, but my understanding is that the use case is the same, right? Where I'm currently frying a russian or chicken breast, these things will end up going in the air fryer?
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Yeah they would, but don't expect it to be like a deep fried Russian. Rather treat it like an oven.
 
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