Our (electric) oven and hob are both crap, the oven in particular. It needs replacing really but that’s not going to happen this year at least.
Been thinking about air fryers and instant pots etc for a while, and then obviously there’s lots of talk about them being more energy efficient which is a bonus, though something to make life/ cooking easier and quicker and not having to use my dickhead of an oven much is the main driver.
As much as I Google I can’t quite work out if its an air fryer we need, or an instant pot, ninja foodie or whether they are the same thing!! If an ninja then which one?
We do have a slow cooker which does get used though that too has seen better days (knob fallen off so you have to twizzle the metal bit and hope you’ve hit the right setting). So whatever we get might also be a replacement for that.
Just DH and I with toddler DD (who at the moment happily eats pretty much the same as us with occasional tweaks) We don’t eat meat very often (I don’t at all) at home, but do eat fish.
Things we currently use the oven for -
pasta bakes
homemade pizza - DH’s pet project so quite a regular thing, not sure if we need to invest in an actual pizza oven to keep him quiet!
salmon or white fish of some kind
attempts to grill prawns/ halloumi etc (woeful with our grill)
fish stew in casserole dish
Fritattas- finishing off on top
roast vegetables various ways
veggie sausages - either as traybake
jacket spuds (really don’t like them from microwave)
fruit crumbles
baking - love to bake and try to do so with DD regularly but the twatty oven does put me off
Things we can manage on hob but open to anything that makes life easier:
rice
curries
veggie chillis and stews
daal
soups
pasta Sauces
I like the look of the ninja dual and the tower air fryers which I think would do a lot of the oven stuff? To cover all the above would we need something like that AND and instant pot/ pressure cooker type thing?
What would you get? If you eat similarly what do you use/ recommend?