To hate my air fryer

[Champagneforeveryone]

Ugly great bastarding thing that it is, taking up counter space and taunting me with its wasted potential 🧐

We bought a Ninja because everyone said they were the best. A man even accosted DH in John Lewis while we were carrying it out like our first born child to tell him how amazing it was.

Except it's not...

We don't eat a lot of freezer food so that's not been a benefit. I've tried things like chicken breasts but they just came out pale with a tough outer skin. I'm too scared to try bacon in case it's a similar travesty. Sausages were ok, but truthfully not any different to cooking them in the oven. I'm a little disillusioned, but perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Why is the feckless contraption supposed to be so much better than, you know... an actual oven?

You need to know how to use it. It’s not just for chips.

I love mine as it means I now have healthy hot meals for lunch instead of sandwiches. For example the other day I cooked a piece of salmon, sweet potato, spicy chickpeas and halloumi. Added some salad once it was finished. No preheating of the oven. All done in about 12 minutes…

There are some good air fryer cook books for inspiration..

You don't need to use a noisy fan or open a window and freeze to death, of you use an air fryer

We have recently bought one. Still getting to grips with it.

The hype around “dehydrated beef” is mental. People amazed that if you gently heat a joint through at a third of your usual 180 temp, that somehow you get a medium rare outcome.

sadly many believe that said beef is actually somehow dehydrated by a magical setting.