To take the air fryer on holiday?

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The idea just came to me this morning when I woke up. We’re going on a weekend break tomorrow. We will eat out most of the time, but I thought it could be useful for lunches/ snacks in particular. Maybe also for dinner when we arrive, as we probably won’t be bothered to go out anywhere after the drive.

It might help keep the cost down and make it a bit healthier.

I’m not sure if they’d have rules about this but I could always hide it in a cupboard or something. They don’t produce anY smoke or steam so I can’t see it being a problem with the fire alarm.

Has anyone else done this?

Was going to say yes absolutely (we take ours every time) until I saw hotel. No I wouldn’t cook in a hotel.

Oh no not in a hotel. I've taken it in static caravans as the oven always takes forever but that's set up with extractor etc. it will mark the wall behind it and set off the alarm.

If you need to heat anything in a hotel, you need an electric lunchbox box. It's like a mini slow cooker but only really for reheating things so it will do a pre made macaroni and cheese or a ready meal or beans and sausages out of a tin for the kids. Or reheat home made things.
No smell or mess. Tiny bit of steam out of top at most.

Almost certainly the case. Because nobody would read that OP and suspect for a moment that the OP was not going to self-catering accommodation.

I assume that as the OP hasn't returned that this thread is a piss take

YABU it's a hardworking appliance it deserves at least four weeks off a year.

Not to a hotel. Pot Noodles all round if your being really cheap.

The only electrical items you should take and use in hotel rooms are hairdryers - I don't use them but my mum does and she says she's never come across a decent HD - include straighteners. Chargers for various electrical devices - phone, fitness tracker/smartwatch, tablet etc.

In hotel rooms, I have had takeaways, salad boxes from salad bars in supermarkets, pastries - both savoury and sweet and pots of prepared fruit.

@Auburngal I hate hotel hair dryers. 90% of them are cheap and nasty, maybe it's the way I dry my hair but the number of times my hair has been sucked into the back of hotel hair dryers.

@Needanewname42 - we provide Dyson hairdryer at our holiday rental. So not everywhere have cheap crap

I'm sure there was once a thread where a poster wanted to take her slow cooker with her to hotel at Disneyland Paris and cook a meal during the day. I think the top tip was you could boil eggs in the kettle but having an electric cooking device on was a no no.

We always bring our cafetiere and decent coffee as hotel coffee is invariably rubbish, but that doesn't need plugged in.

You must be the other 10%!😀

You would be surprised.
Last year we all ended up outside our hotel at Butlins Bognor at 2am as some idiot decided to cook bacon in their air fryer.
I am on butlins Facebook groups where people talk about bringing their air fryers, toasters and fridges into hotel with them - its mental!

Self catering, yes absolutely. Hotel, that’s bonkers!

Your on holiday order room service or a takeaway

No.
That's very bad form.

I can’t even fathom going away for just a weekend and taking an air fryer and sitting in your hotel room making your lunch, then hiding it in a cupboard. Carrying it through reception. If money is that tight take some packed lunches with you and put them in the mini fridge. But taking your air fryer to a hotel for a weekend, is utterly bonkers. I mean who wants to sit in their hotel room cooking when on holiday. 😱

Don’t get me started on those ones that are attached to the bathroom wall and have a plastic hose. I managed to melt the hose once. My hair is really thick.

@KimberleyClark - shame on me for laughing 🫠 😂

But yes those are the pits at drying hair but at least they don't sook your hair in the back.
I usually give up on them. My local pool has them. Nightmare things.

Huh?

You're going away for a weekend, arriving Friday night.

So that's Friday dinner, plus two breakfasts, two lunches and Saturday night dinner. 5 meals.

You're eating out "most of the time".

You're staying in a hotel.

And you want to take an airfryer for meals and snacks??

What on earth are you going to do in this airfryer?

Are you really going to return to your hotel for an airfryer snack in the middle of the day?

I can't understand what you're saying.

Don't be so ridiculous. Of course it will leave a smell in the room. Even the very best of them will still smell to an extent.

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Ok folks, you’re probably right. I wasn’t thinking straight. It was one of those ideas that comes but then when you think about it a bit more, becomes rather ridiculous.

Money is not an issue, but I just find eating big greasy meals all day, every day a bit much. I thought a little air fried something might break up the monotony. I also don’t count sticking a few chips in an air fryer as ‘cooking’.

I obviously would hide it in a suitcase or something, not parade it through the reception area like a trophy!!

Yes if self catering but no if in a hotel. They do make a good breakfast with sausages and hash browns.

You don’t have to choose anything big or greasy.
And where would you get the chips from? And what would you serve them on? Aren’t chips also a bit greasy? Would you throw the rest of the bag away?

You really hadn’t thought that through at all had you?! 😂

We don’t have an AF but even if we did it wouldn’t be coming on a SC trip anywhere with us. We don’t take anything with us when we SC - no teabags, no cafetière, no washing machine…

I always take my air fryer! The accommodation I stay in usually has a gas oven, that I don't trust with timings etc. I stay in a caravan for long weekends.