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:
Well I hope not. My point is people want to make as if and air fryer is some new invention that suddenly make better food. It is only a small oven that use less electricity for small things. All the healthier no oil, better crispier food is just marketing BS.
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Fully agree. I don't know where the notion of suddenly comes from, as I have had one for nearly 10 years now. I use it for convenience, not for saving on oil or electricity per se.
 
Tim_vb said:
someone got triggered, you can say the same think about a microwave vs a stove and oven. Seriously though its a small fast, efficient oven that works better than a microwave when cooking and reheating food, join the cult and see how much your life improves...no more soggy pies and pizza slices...no more waiting 10 mins for the oven to warm up
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LOL you the only noob that want to compare it with a microwave. Why? Nobody else compared it to a microwave?
Microwave is something totally different and has its own pro's and cons. You use it for the pro's
 
SlinkyMike said:
Have a question about these: if you already have a large convection oven, does the Airfryer eventually pay for itself via savings on the cost of preheating a large oven?

We have gigantic 6 burner SMEG that takes 20min to get to 200C. Bit much just to roast a chicken IMO.

So I reckon it's energy cost savings mostly in my circumstances. I imagine there is little difference in the actual utility of an Airfryer vs a convection oven but I could be wrong, any comments?
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No that's not true at all. Food in an Airfryer can be stacked unlike a convection oven. You can also take out the basket and rearrange the food as needed. Heat is also transferred at a much higher intensity due to a smaller size and better circulation.
 
Cius said:
The oven takes a lot longer than the air fryer and does not produce the same crispy finish. I have tested extensively. For instance when we roasted a chicken in the past it was always in the oven. It took about 60 to 90 minutes. The air fryer does it in less than half that time for well less than half the electricity cost, and it tastes so much better. Our chicken is now like the woolies ones. Crispy on the outside and very juicy on the inside. I cannot go back to the oven for cooking certain things. Anything like chips, crumbed chicken, fish, and many other meals come out better in the air fryer, take less time, and costs me less in electricity. Whats not to like? The oven we mainly use for baking now and Pizza's.
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Well then you don't know how to cook or maybe how to use your oven. Does Woolies use an Air fryer?
I'm not saying an air fryer is bad. I have one and use it often.
An air fryer is just and small oven. It is made for small things and mostly for 2 people, where it will save electricity and heat up faster because it is smaller. Nothing more nothing less.. And air fryer has a element, the same as your oven and and a fan that circulate the air, the same as most new ovens,
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Well then you don't know how to cook or maybe how to use your oven. Does Woolies use an Air fryer?
I'm not saying an air fryer is bad. I have one and use it often.
An air fryer is just and small oven. It is made for small things and mostly for 2 people, where it will save electricity and heat up faster because it is smaller. Nothing more nothing less.. And air fryer has a element, the same as your oven and and a fan that circulate the air, the same as most new ovens,
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Lol yeah no you can stack food on top of each other. I doubt you really have an airfryer or even know how to use it properly because you're just spewing hogwash verbal diarrhoea. Or you have some el cheapo knockoff.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Well then you don't know how to cook or maybe how to use your oven. Does Woolies use an Air fryer?
I'm not saying an air fryer is bad. I have one and use it often.
An air fryer is just and small oven. It is made for small things and mostly for 2 people, where it will save electricity and heat up faster because it is smaller. Nothing more nothing less.. And air fryer has a element, the same as your oven and and a fan that circulate the air, the same as most new ovens,
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Imagine if it was possible for there to be technological advances in food preparation. Or should we all go back to cooking over open fires seeing as original is best?

Our airfryer makes food for a LOT more than 2 people.
 
backstreetboy said:
Lol yeah no you can stack food on top of each other. I doubt you really have an airfryer or even know how to use it properly because you're just spewing hogwash verbal diarrhoea. Or you have some el cheapo knockoff.
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Yes buddy, go stack your two drumsticks on to your 4 slices of potato with a thin layer of herbs is they can fit.
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With oil prices shooting through the roof there WILL be a huge saving vs oil frying of chips and chicken or even overn roasting because the airfryer heats up quickly.

If you have Gas that might be still a cheaper option not sure how the gas prices work out on the big ovens.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Well then you don't know how to cook or maybe how to use your oven. Does Woolies use an Air fryer?
I'm not saying an air fryer is bad. I have one and use it often.
An air fryer is just and small oven. It is made for small things and mostly for 2 people, where it will save electricity and heat up faster because it is smaller. Nothing more nothing less.. And air fryer has a element, the same as your oven and and a fan that circulate the air, the same as most new ovens,
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This statement is almost entirely wrong on one big point. The air circulation in an air fryer is vastly different to an oven. Take a look upwards in the air fryer and compare the fan size to the tray size and do the same for the oven. Air flow is 4 to 5 times higher in an air fryer which completely changes the way it cooks. Easiest place to show it is cooking something like McCain skinny fries. On a tray in the oven it takes significantly longer, and the chips come out dry, rather than crisp. Cooking is also often uneven in the average oven with some being burnt and others not cooked well enough. In the air fryer cooking time is about half that of the oven and the chips taste as if they where oil fried rather than dried out in the oven. Cooking tends to be more even too. Crispy on the outside, while still retaining more moisture inside. Have experienced the same for everything we have switched over to the air fryer.

Things like home made wedges do sometimes stick together and then the ones in the middle of the sandwich do not cook properly but we have found that if we give the air fryer tray a good shake now and then even that stops happening.

Only things that you bake work better in the oven for me. Anyway, I have no issue if you don't like it. Your choice. I just disagree with the inaccurate nature of your comments saying they cook the same. They do not. Ovens work primarily on radiant energy from the element. Air fryers work more from the circulating hot air.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
LOL you the only noob that want to compare it with a microwave. Why? Nobody else compared it to a microwave?
Microwave is something totally different and has its own pro's and cons. You use it for the pro's
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Nay.... it's better than a microwave because it browns your meat, crisps your pies and melts all the cheese on your pizza slice in 2 mins
 
Herr der Verboten said:
What is a microwave?
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Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz respectively.[1][2][3][4][5] Different sources define different frequency ranges as microwaves; the above broad definition includes both UHF and EHF (millimeter wave) bands. A more common definition in radio-frequency engineering is the range between 1 and 100 GHz (wavelengths between 0.3 m and 3 mm).[2] In all cases, microwaves include the entire SHF band (3 to 30 GHz, or 10 to 1 cm) at minimum. Frequencies in the microwave range are often referred to by their IEEE radar band designations: S, C, X, Ku, K, or Ka band, or by similar NATO or EU designations.
 
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