Air fryers….

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So I got one for Christmas
Tell me what you cook in yours?

My friend makes the best jacket spuds so I’m looking forward to those!
Can I cook burgers in them?

I have been reading recipes online but hoping you lovely people will have some good ideas

This thread is good timing, DH has decided we are getting an air fryer in readiness for kitchen rip out. Any recommendations? I don't need one that that is a combi pressure cooker type as already have one.

Will definitely be trying eggs in it.

I bought a ninja dual zone air fryer. It's amazing! We had a small tower air fryer that I bought years ago and it took a real battering so I thought I'd splash out. DS uses it to prepare himself beige snack food. We haven't had it that long but so far sirloin steaks, jacket potatoes, sausages, bacon, chicken breasts, warmed through croissants (3 mins, really crisp and flaky), homemade chips, roasted tomatoes and a whole roast chicken have all been really good. It doesn't need preheating and also has a dehydrate setting so I'm going to try and make some snacks for the dogs!

I love ours! One of my dc has Asd and he will suddenly be very hangry. This is perfect to whizz him up a quick snack. Use it religiously for chips, the frozen homestyle chips come out amazingly, like gastropub chips!
I finish off jacket spuds in there, start in microwave. Basically, it is a small oven that heats up mega fast. I am tempted to try a whole chicken in it but I'm scared it won't be thoroughly cooked.

Oh and crispy chicken wings! I gave them 8 mins in my instant pot first to cook through then coated in Frank's hot sauce and air fried them until they were crispy.

Bacon when you come back from exercise and need to shower, 12 mins and doesn't need supervising bloody love mine.
Also tenderstem broccoli done in the bacon fat

I love mine! So useful for freezer food and easy to use. My ten year old can use it and make fish fingers and waffles etc without supervision. Or cheese and ham toasties, cheese on toast etc.

For "real" food it's great for spicy roast cauliflower, halloumi, roast potatoes, marinaded chops (pork or lamb) . It does good bacon and sausage , and I've done a very decent spatchcock chicken. In the summer its an absolute boon for kebabs and chicken thighs to cook before throwing on the bbq- it doesn't heat up the room or you like an oven or hob top does.

I have an enamel oven dish that fits within mine that I use to cook wet things in it- It's used to brown up mac n cheese or cauli cheese, make a corned beef pie, or cheese and potato pie etc. Stuffed peppers and tomatoes.

I would say that the assertions that cakes can be made in it are false. They'll always be cracked as the heat source is far too direct in my experience.

Have already used mine three times since I unwrapped it.

I’d had an inkling one might be amongst my presents so made sure I ordered plenty of potatoes (not usually something I eat much of) and the homemade chips and skin-on baked potatoes have been a rare wonder. It also revivified some slices of rather dried out fruit loaf - dashed under a cold tap first.

It’s very strange not having a recipe booklet in the package. The website was pretty useless too, and I lack the patience for YouTube recipe following. Give me a book I can use at my own pace. So I don’t know how much I’ll actually use the thing once I’m past the novelty stage. Though broccoli is a good shout. And maybe fish.

I definitely haven’t experienced any lessening of taste in food so far - and that’s speaking as someone who won’t have a microwave in the house …

I live alone so it's perfect for me, I've got a tower one with three racks. So far I've cooked sweet potato fries, roast pots, jacket pots, roasted veg, stuffing, macaroni cheese, pasta bake, baked cabbage, eggs, part baked bread, toast, salmon fillet, pies, sausages .. pretty much most things. Great to toast in too. I cooked my Christmas dinner in it this year, super quick and economical.

We got £50 one from cost Co, love it.

It just fills quick cooking gap when oven is too big.
Whatever the cook time is at least half it.
I really like it for roasted tomatoes, crisping up jacket potato skin, quickly doing children lunch, home made snitzel was extremely nice in it.
It's small though but I'm very happy with it.

We use a deep fat fryer to make things like roast potatoes, chips from potatoes rather than oven chips, onion rings. How do they turn out in an air fryer? Are they more like baked oven chips, surely they can't be as crispy as when deep fried in oil?

I would really like to move away from the deep fat fryer but I'm worried they just won't be the same.

Knitter I love mine but it is not a deep fat fryer and won't make things taste like deep fried. It is a more like a fast small oven .

I’ve never in my life owned a deep fat fryer! Surely you must need whole lakes full of oil?

(I was probably put off deep frying for life by the fireman who came to talk to my class at school. Must have been about 8 at the time; his descriptions of the devastation caused by burning oil were just indelibly horrifying. In my entire adult life I’ve never used more than a few millimetres of oil for any type of frying.)

Clearly I have a complicated relationship with potatoes. For most of the year I pretend they don’t exist, (because I like wearing the clothes I have, rather than clothes in the shops two sizes bigger) until I get a craving for a baked potato. I don’t buy oven chips so only encounter chips (with great excitement) when I eat out. (And how often has that been, recently?) Fully admit some of the best moments of the past twenty years have been spent in Edinburgh, walking back from the theatre and picking up chips for the last bit of the journey home. Bliss …

Love my Ninja Dual Airfryer. It's great as it has two drawers. I'm vegetarian, so this helps. It has the rehydrate function to the pp who is interested in this.

Literally it is different to a deep fat fryer.

This week, we have mostly been cooking/heating
Croissants for Christmas breakfast
Roasters
Mince pies
Chicken wings
Jacket pptatoes (microwaved first, then baked).

My teens love it as they just throw something in and it cooks quickly.

I'm reading that fry light and other sprays are really bad for them?

@TueWed

I'm reading that fry light and other sprays are really bad for them?

Yes, have heard this too, that they can damage the coating, so we use a small amount of olive oil/liners.

@TueWed

I'm reading that fry light and other sprays are really bad for them?

Tesco sell olive oil in a spray container that is just pure olive oil, no additives like fry light.

I have this one and love it www.amazon.co.uk/COSORI-Electric-Temperature-Reminder-Function/dp/B07N8QY3YH/ref=sr_1_4?crid=24P4KV72LQCC7&keywords=air+fryer&sprefix=Air%2Caps%2C110&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1640773506&sr=8-4

Not a brand I’d heard of but apparently well known in America. I’d stumbled across an air fryer YouTube channel where the woman has this one and said it was the best she’d had.

I do stuff like chicken breasts, salmon, potatoes, chips. Seems tastier and a nicer texture than oven cooking. Quicker as well.

@CovidCorvid

I have this one and love it ]]

Not a brand I’d heard of but apparently well known in America. I’d stumbled across an air fryer YouTube channel where the woman has this one and said it was the best she’d had.

I do stuff like chicken breasts, salmon, potatoes, chips. Seems tastier and a nicer texture than oven cooking. Quicker as well.

I saw her videos last night and have just ordered this one. We just moved and the oven here is a nightmare and this one seems to be very well regarded.

I’m certainly getting on well with it and would recommend it.

@TalkToTheHand123, if you cut part baked baguettes into slices and spread with garlic butter on one side and cook in air fryer for a minute or two - they are delicious!

I've been looking at buying an air fryer, but I'm confused.
I don't want an instapot thing, but an actual air fryer.
Can someone here advise on what to look for? There seem to be so many different items out there that seem to be an air fryer, plus this and that.
The ones I were looking at seemed to be like a drawer that you put food in?
Help please.

@OhGiveUp

I've been looking at buying an air fryer, but I'm confused. I don't want an instapot thing, but an actual air fryer. Can someone here advise on what to look for? There seem to be so many different items out there that seem to be an air fryer, plus this and that. The ones I were looking at seemed to be like a drawer that you put food in? Help please.

Look at the one I linked to earlier. It’s just a fryer.

Thanks @CovidCorvid can you recommend? What can I cook in it?
Sorry for the questions, but I want to be sure that I'm not wasting money 🙂

Mine melted!! Across the back. It was on a worktop, not against a wall, nothing on top of it. It melted! They say it's a malfunction and not usually something that happens but it's worried me about getting another