How to coat items in corn flour for the air fryer without making kitchen a total mess

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Like a total mess

Never known anything like it, its not even like normal flour, over my hands, the bowl, the spoons, the tongs the worktop, my top, the air fryer, everything

And when do you put the oil on, before or after the cornflour? How do you do that, I normally coat things with my hands or in a sandwich bag, but how would I do that if its got the flour all over it?

I would just put cornflour in a zipped bag and forget about the oil.

What's the oil for?

Just coat in a zip lock bag and into the airfryer

Coat in a zipped bag, tip into airfryer from bag (onto paper or a silicone container thingy). Use a spray oil once in airfryer.

Part of the marinade and so you dont get raw dried cornflour on the item

It was tofu, it needs a lot of flavour and oil to get it nice in my view, although this is my first time with the cornflour

You spray things usually that go in the airfryer if they're not particularly oily anyway

I just cube tofu and put it straight in the airfryer - no cornflour or oil needed. Same with paneer.

Coat in bag, let it stand for a few minutes for cornflour to draw moisture out of tofu then drizzle oil once on sheet of whatever you're resting it on.

I normally do mine. In the oven as I have it on for other things and just do it all in the roasting tin I use. It doesn't need a lot of cornflour, tbh.

I will do this as well, Im doing lots of experiments but have been constantly disappointed with tofu over the years (pre air fryer)

What I will say is that my little snack was crispy and crunchy like you get in restaurants so the cornflour is something different to just sticking it in

I don't spray things before putting them in the airfryer

I do put oil on things that will go dry, who wants a bit of dry aubergine or potato

Or tofu, just dried up

Anyway, this video is quite helpful

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