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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where did the recent air fryer trend come from anyway?

Clearly you don't own an air fryer

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok, sooo it's not like a deep fryer and I feel like I can't be the only one to learn that lesson. I battered up some cod, set it for 15 minutes, and ended up with flat fish pancakes. It's really a mini convection oven.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you didn't read the manual at all, huh?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

No but if you’d used breadcrumbs they come out great. It’s not a fryer, but it will elevate any oven-style “fried” food, like oven fried chicken, oven fries, etc. nothing wet, it will just blow it off.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah it just turns out that convection ovens make great bagged frozen fries.
I wish my normal oven was a convection oven so I didn't need an air fryer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a fancy oven with convection but it takes a while to heat up and often I just want a couple servings of fries.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are just not getting it. No lengthy preheat times and you can stick a handful of fries in it to go with your sandwich and it will be done in under 10 minutes. Not inefficient if it can run for less than half the time of a big oven

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not just the fries, it's great for toasting the sandwich too 😋

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish my normal oven was a convection oven so I didn't need an air fryer.

Here, pretty much everybody has a convection oven. I wish I understood why air fryers are so popular here.

I've heard one argument: "Mine can stir the fries"

[–] Croquette 9 points 1 year ago

It is a small efficient oven that is easy to use.

It is great to re-heat food and the texture of the re-heated food is a lot better than a microwave.

It's great for breaded food and takes a lot less time than a conventional oven since it heats up pretty much instantly.

For example, when I make Parmigiana Chicken, if I do it the air fryer, it takes about 15 minutes overall cooking time, including melting the cheese to a golden crips texture. If I use my conventional convection oven, it takes 10 minutes just to heat-up.

It is also easy to clean.

It does not replace the conventional oven for everything, but it does a lot of things faster with the same result. It's a big boon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Frying is all about quickly imparting heat into the surface of a food at high temperature. Air fryers mimic that by moving a much higher volume of hot air past the food -- they're "super convection" ovens.