Bought an air fryer - now what do I do with it?

[Yoyoyo1]

I've bought the 2 litre Tower budget air fryer. Can someone recommend books or websites that give me some ideas and instructions. Could I cook paneer in it - I usually fry it?

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Never touch it.

Place it on a special pedestal, and worship it for the god that it is.

Alternatively, just bung any stuff in it that you would normally put in an oven.

Take it to the tip

Useless fucking things

Thank you - mixed responses!

They're poorly named, it's basically a mini oven.

Exactly as Bertie says. It's a mini oven, so cook anything in it that you'd normally bung in the oven (that would fit)

So in my upright fryer I do all the beige stuff, plus most meats - eg a chicken, or lamb chops (steaks I do in my other airfryer as it has a thermometer you stick in the meat so it's perfectly cooked - but it's a ninja so flat and not tall enough to do a chicken in)

My youngest uses it to bake cakes and chocolate fondant (completely reproducible environment, so perfect gooeyness every time), it's also great for roasted nuts/pumpkin seeds as (if it's like mine) you can pull the basket out and give it a shake very easily.

We use ours for little things that aren't worth putting the oven on for eg a garlic baton cut into 3 fits in easily or roast potatoes with cold meat for a midweek meal. We bought it to replace an old deep fat fryer that had gone yucky, but I don't think it makes great chips. I am still enjoying trying things out with it, and it is very economical - I did roast chicken thighs in 20 mins where I would have had the oven on for an hour.