Will an air fryer change my life?

Our neighbour gave us one he never used, we hardly used it so have it someone else...l don't get the whole air fryer love. I have an oven, it works fine.
Although maybe if l had kids abd had to cook quickly it might be an advantage

It's a really useful addition. It's not a gadget you buy and don't use. Ours is used every day. I love that the pan goes in the dishwasher. I also love that liners are inexpensive and go in the bin. Minimal mess, minimal clean up. Good results.

Very convenient.
Chips, fish, fish fingers, bacon, burgers, all done in 10 mins.
Get a 2 drawer.

Also I love it for roasting veg - I throw a handful of tomatoes in and have roast tomatoes in about five minutes. Or I throw loads of veg in to roast then make them into ratatouille.

And it cooks sausages so quickly.

I was an air fryer sceptic but got a massive one after my teenagers put pressure on. I'm a good cook who loves cooking and didn't think I'd like it BUT...

It's amazing. It's just so much easier eg to roast a chicken breast fast and cheaply while I'm wfh so I can have a chicken salad for lunch with zero fuss. Quick and easy to wash up, and economical to run. No heating up required, unlike the oven, or fat spitting and needing to be watched like using a frying pan.

My rugby playing son uses it all the time to cook himself great hunks of protein, and I use it as an extra mini oven when cooking for all the family (there are five of us at home).

I honestly cannot recommend it more.

Jamie Oliver is on channel 4 cooking with air fryers now I expect there's a series on demand

@downwindofyou

When a fresh baguette or loaf is a few days old and has lost that nice crunch, you slice it and put a few drops of water on the bread areas.

Bake in the oven for a bit and the middle goes nice and soft and outside goes crispy again as if it's been freshly baked.

Chicken skin side down or it burns too much

Bored of lunch on Instagram is all air fryer or slow cooker meals

Not particularly 'easier' although Im not clear what you mean by that. In my case becuse its eye level its much easier for me, no more bending down to the oven but then we have one like a small oven so there is space inside

Quicker and cheaper, food more crispy, more functions for different things

It's not particularly easier...I'm not a complete convert but for some things it saves putting the big oven on for.

We had beef burgers chips and salad last night. In the airfyer oven chips for 2 come out quicker and crispier, the burgers weren't as nice as on a bbq but they were nice and cooked with no extra fat, I put some onions I. With them and they were nice too. We cook burgers once in a blue moon.

I've used it to do big baked mushrooms, nice as a side and not worth putting the big oven on for and they come out well.

I cooked chicken thighs with cider and mushrooms on the hob, probably could have done something similar in the airfyer but didn't as I wanted that slow cooked down sauce...had to be the hob.

Um, just put it in without the drawer divider. A tiny bit of one edge of a pizza will be a bit curved if it's a big round one, the oblong ones fit perfectly.

I don't really understand why it's so much easier than just using an oven or a frying pan?

ROTFLMAO

TBH I dont think there is one

Loads of celeb ones, but tbh using an air fryer is very intuitive. If you can cook without instructions on the outside of a pack, you will be grand with the rule of thumb, reduce the temp my 10% and the cook time by 20% or whatever it is

My advice it dont set timers and walk away, be there, open a drawer, look what is happening and adjust accordingly. Usually it the temp needs adjusting

This was why I didn’t want one. We have nothing utilitarian or ugly on any kitchen surface. Our kids bought one for my husband but only on the proviso it would be living in the utility room.

It gets used as far as I can tell, but I don’t think it’s changed anyone’s life.

I've had mine a few weeks and I'm definitely a convert. I've used if for really good jacket potatoes (I do microwave them for a bit first), halloumi, roast broccoli, sausages (take ten mins and come out perfect, nice and brown), homemade chips, paneer cubes, roast cabbage. Homemade fish cakes too - always need loads of oil to get them to fry crispy and could never get them crispy in the oven, but the airfryer did it and with no oil.

Yes, it's also handy for fish fingers, chicken nuggets etc but I use it far more for other stuff. Agree it's not a replacement oven due to size but it does do a lot. I haven't bought any of the sort of attachmenty bits you can use to expand the use even more yet either

Sorry I dont know why those links come up like that

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Air-Fryer-Cookbook-super-easy/dp/0711287597/ref=sr_1_9?crid=1MDELP3GDNBJC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BLbo_AVJw5kktP0Sz1BPMwlejdJM6e5FT36wAyADwXlfJM_dVEz2CTv4-LmhRZ1i9Tg2qe9t_wndofhz9vbSQ6n3A7uZk7p0fH0QifyPwNONhKZd57ATM_sMYR4DPhTYHnQYZIZUtz9f0UakWsESBNse3Eo62PH13o4CHwbIQD8Ucqpg9Eh1gXCTOaE-pZQsFSEOcz3ysvAECFGA7tTgL1UXvsTMoXVUDue1w8Qa0_I.LY35r-U8vxt2fPBaJkKII4yLUE3BLlTYYRDyh-MzZiI&dib_tag=se&keywords=airfryer+cookbook&qid=1731189238&sprefix=airfry%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-9

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Air-Fryer-Easy-Everyday-super-simple/dp/0711298130/ref=pd_bxgy_d_sccl_2/258-4141663-6965616?pd_rd_w=8xJau&content-id=amzn1.sym.02820c73-8608-4218-9735-1554b4beb596&pf_rd_p=02820c73-8608-4218-9735-1554b4beb596&pf_rd_r=WGPE8M6WY0C55R83XRKP&pd_rd_wg=vei5H&pd_rd_r=3492d242-0a2d-41e3-887e-18d4e87ebc5f&pd_rd_i=0711298130&psc=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Easy-Air-Fryer-Recipe-Book/dp/0578259133/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AHER85PHN59C&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Oxa-HffknugiiRlZ8dt7dw.LGDRPK9ePAfFKX2jXec4rHHApMub3NyEzLwWbCCo8oU&dib_tag=se&keywords=yoder+cathy&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1731189313&s=books&sprefix=yoder+cathy%2Cstripbooks%2C100&sr=1-1

Plus countless youtube videos and channels, plus the series Jamie Oliver did

Speedi on speedi meals for the default 10 mins (plus preheating which it does automatically) does rice perfectly at that ratio

I cook rice a lot even on its own. Ratio i use is 1 in 2 i.e 1 part rice 2 parts liquid. I generally add another 1/4 liquid. Stops anything sticking. E.g. 1 cup rice 2.25 cups liquid.

Whats your ratio of liquid to rice in that situation. We have the combi and still trying to get rice right. Tonight was perfect but other times I have done the exact same thing and its not cooked it on 'cook' but has by the time its been on keep warm for a while, bizarre.

This!