My Actifry blog

[Kif]

In fact I don't have a blog or a log or even a diary - but I do have an Actifry - and this seems as good a place as any to catalogue successes and failures using it.

Day 1: vegetable chow mein (sliced onions and peppers 3 mins - then shredded green cabbage - then added cooked noodles and stir fry sauce).

I forgot to write down how long I set it off for - but the cabbage got a bit singed (I cooked quicker than my frying pan). The noodles defeated the paddle - they ended up pushed around rather than turned - so some of them became too crispy (not burnt - but a bit like eating dried noodles iyswim)

Day 2: frozen chips and breaded fish chips worked well - but I gave them 5 mins more than the Actifry cookbook suggested. I set the fish off on the 2:1 tray for the time in the packet - and it was too long. Actifry cooks quicker than the oven!

Day 3: reheating pasta bowl of cold Penne and a knob of butter. 7 mins. Lovely piping hot soft pasta. A bit greasy - it needs less fat than pan frying. I think a few more minutes would have given it some nice crisp bits - but DC like their pasta soft - so a success.

This is interesting as I'm considering getting one but seems expensive for something that is predominantly just for chips

Day 4: Full English for DS2 . (Well - he ordered sausage bacon and beans - he didn't fancy eggs, and we were out of tomatoes).

(Fat) sausages in the bottom layer for ten minutes (no oil). Then I added half a tin of beans to the bottom, and layered bacon on the top, and gave that another 5 minutes.

Very satisfactory. Sausages were cooked but not browned (a few more minutes would have done it). Bacon crispy.

Watching this with interest. I'd like to get more use out of my actifry, as we don't eat chips very often

Would frozen scampi work (I know, fine dining indeed )

I have the double decker one - and they would totally work on the top layer.

Don't know if the paddle would knock the paddle off on the bottom layer...

Day 5: sausage (and mash cooked the regular way). Pack of sausages nearly defrosted 10 mins in the bottom. Then a pack of veggie sausages joined them on the top layer for another ten minutes.

I know the oven can also cook sausages - but I think the Actifry is my sausage cooker of choice now - because they cook quicker than the over and are even all over - and genuinely effortless (all my experiments are basically leading up to teaching DC to fix some easy food for themselves)