What part of your Christmas dinner will you cook in the air fryer?

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I made a list of food I need for this year’s Christmas dinner (all the traditional stuff) and I thought to save some time I should make use of the air fryer. The only obvious thing to cook in there is the sausages/pigs in blankets. I don’t use it much apart from occasional fish fingers so I might be missing something. What will you use the air fryer for this Christmas?

I usually cook Yorkshire's in there but as the oven will be on I'll do them in there last minute.
Probably the Quorn roast.
Following with interest.

I'll probably not use it Christmas Day as will have the oven on anyway and can work everything out timings wise..

Boxing day leftovers tho is a different matter.

We'll do a beef joint and then while it's resting the stuffing balls.

Possibly the roast potatoes as I think they benefit from being a bit hotter than anything else.

Cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire if anyone wants one

I could do the stuffing in there. That’s a good idea. I don’t do Yorkshires!

Roast the parsnips

Christmas will be the first time I’ll be using my actual oven this year. :-)

Sprouts! We do them in the air fryer every few days anyway, they're amazing.

Roast potatoes. Have tried it already and they're very good 🙂

Other root veg and stuffing we'll probably try out too.

I wouldn’t have thought of sprouts!

My potatoes wouldn’t crisp last year in the oven so finished them off in the air fryer and they were gorgeous. Will use it for pigs in blankets and yorkshire puddings.
Only have a small oven so good to have some extra capacity.

Most of a roast dinner - there’s only two of us - plus a nut roast in the ‘big oven’.

100% the roasties

Second the sprouts - we popped some in with chopped up bacon and some thyme last year, yummy

Beef will be done in the ninja dual on dehydrate for 6 hours, did this last year and it was perfection 👌
Pigs and stuffing will be done in the tower 3 shelf Airfryer.
Gammon in the slow cooker overnight.
Everything else will be hob/oven :)

Roast potatoes

Stuffing balls, pigs in blankets and I'll probably crisp up the roasties in there if I've had to keep them warm for a bit.

Air fryer noob here- question about pigs in blankets- do you have to arrange them in a single layer or can you chuck loads in the bucket on top of each other and they’ll still work? A cooking about 50 PIB so if I have to do single layer it’ll take forever.

I imagine you'd have to keep stirring up the pigs in blankets if you had quite a few in.

Thanks- yeah I don’t want to accidentally create a pigs in blanket loaf 🤣. Might be easier to use air fryer for parsnips and potatoes and do PIB in oven on trays

Pigs in blankets, toast tatties and parsnips.
Will use SC and hob for everything else.

How do you do the sprouts in there?

I tried pigs in blankets but they stuck to the bottom / fell apart when I tried to move them around a bit.

I will probably only use it for the pre-lunch nibbles, like prawns and mini samosas type of thing.

I find roast pots in there really crispy when they come out, but then seem to lose their crispness