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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It’s more like adding a leaf blower to it, but yeah it’s just a glorified convection oven.

Lots of modern ovens come with the feature, but you can’t just air fry in any old convection oven.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Plus it doesn’t take 15 minutes to preheat

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You also don't have to waste energy heating up a whole oven

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but isn't a conventional oven insulated better?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For programmers: Air fryers have perfected the race to idle.

For everyone else: Probably, but the insulation may not matter as much. Heating up a traditional oven takes anywhere from 15 to maybe 5 minutes, if you got a really powerful one. During that time heat escapes the device.

Meanwhile air fryers usually heat up in about a minute and get the actual cooking done faster.

So unless you are broiling something for a really long time, air fryers may still come out on top, just because they get done quicker, saving energy in the process.

Oven pizza is a 22 minute job. My air fryer is done after 9.

There's also something about air volume and thermal mass, but you get the point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

What's more, my oven sucks up to 3kW and has a 72l volume of air to heat up, from what I see most air fryers are between 1 and 2 kW and hold 4-7l of volume... The scales are pretty different, insulation or not (air fryers have less surface area for heat to escape from, also).

I don't have one, but I use my bread machine a lot 'cause it uses a fraction of the power of my oven, aside from kneading automatically.

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