Philips Airfryer - anyone have?

Polymathic said:
Apart from reheating chips is there anything that an air fryer make that is not mid?
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Not "mid"?

An airfryer does a good enough job at cooking and reheating food, but nothing really best in class... except maybe sausages. For just about everything else the traditional way still tastes better.
 
bwana said:
Not "mid"?

An airfryer does a good enough job at cooking and reheating food, but nothing really best in class... except maybe sausages. For just about everything else the traditional way still tastes better.
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Well I will agree. The only thing that I have found the air fryer doing better is chicken pieces. Obviously not if you want to place them in a dish with a sauce. But chicken pieces covered in a rub(not some sweet marinade) and cooked with a crispy skin, you just can't beat an air fryer.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Well I will agree. The only thing that I have found the air fryer doing better is chicken pieces. Obviously not if you want to place them in a dish with a sauce. But chicken pieces covered in a rub(not some sweet marinade) and cooked with a crispy skin, you just can't beat an air fryer.
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You can cook chicken pieces just as well in an oven and in terms of versatility, a good oven has an airfryer beat hands down ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
bwana said:
You can cook chicken pieces just as well in an oven and in terms of versatility, a good oven has an airfryer beat hands down ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Well I am a big advocate for ovens being superior to air fryers, but trust me, my oven's fan is not strong enough to get the same crispiness and juicy inside than an air fryer for chicken pieces. It will beat Nando's any day.
 
backstreetboy said:
Yeah no an oven can't beat an airfryer in speed and efficiency.
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I cooked a 8kg turkey, 2kg gammon, roast potatoes, roasted veg, and candied yams the other day in the oven. If you'd care to demonstrate, not discuss, how you would do the same thing, in a similar amount of time, in your airfryer I'll concede you might be right.
 
bwana said:
I cooked a 8kg turkey, 2kg gammon, roast potatoes, roasted veg, and candied yams the other day in the oven. If you'd care to demonstrate, not discuss, how you would do the same thing, in a similar amount of time, in your airfryer I'll concede you might be right.
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How long did that took?

EDIT: and what about the other 364 days when it's not thanksgiving?
 
backstreetboy said:
How long did that took?
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The turkey take [sic] the longest at about three and a half hours. It was a decent sized bird. You'd be hard pressed to fit both legs in an airfryer without help.

 
backstreetboy said:
You can sell things these days. People buy secondhand goods all the time. Your goodbye is someone else's good buy.
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One day, I will make use of it. Inshallah. Or I will probably give it to someone in family (or friends if they don't mind) rather than selling it for peanuts.
 
bwana said:
They're useful. Like Voltaire said - The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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Looking at how people go ga-ga over this, I am sure airfryer must be useful in many types of cuisine.

However, I think I am too traditional to learn new ways, at least in this respect. I realized this only after hearing the whirr.. of Airfryer for first time. :cool:
 
surface said:
Looking at how people go ga-ga over this, I am sure airfryer must be useful in many types of cuisine.

However, I think I am too traditional to learn new ways, at least in this respect. I realized this only after hearing the whirr.. of Airfryer for first time. :cool:
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They're the 21st century version of the microwave.
 
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