Air fryer or steam mop

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Have an Amazon voucher I got for Christmas and can't decide whether to get an air fryer or a steam mop. Have two kids under 4 so would be nice to have an easy way to clean the floors etc but for some reason think an air fryer will be the answer to all life's problems? Anybody have either, or both, and have an opinion about it?

I found steam mops a waste if time. They kinda just smell musty after a while

Go with the air fryer

Definitely the steam mop. Very hygienic and floors dry really quickly. I put cleaning pad in washer and drier after every use. Highly recommend..

I'm in the market for a new steam mop - following for recommendations!

Well, you’ll find it difficult to cook Cajun chicken with a steam mop so on balance I’d go for the air fryer 😂

Oh no some good points have been made for both sides and now I'm still confused haha. I've some more thinking to do. Thank you though for the advice so far! Can anybody recommend a decent brand/model of steam mop as I'm not even sure whats good spec?

How's your water? Is it hard? My steam cleaner clogged up with lime.

My air fryer on the other hand is amazing.

@picklemewalnuts very good point actually, would never even have thought of that. Should be okay though as I'm in Scotland

Steam mop is a novelty, if you lived near me you could have mine 🤣🤣

Good old bucket and mop is better

Defo a air fryer

I agree that steam cleaners don't last, they also leave my gloss ceramic tiles streaky so I have to buff them with an emop. So I,might as well just clean them with the emop. But airfryers aren't much good either IMO. They don't make food taste fried at all. It all just tastes baked which make sense because they are essentially just small fan ovens.

If it were me I'd abandon both these ideas and go for one of these. They get incredibly hot and make perfect thin crispy 'Pizza Express' style pizzas in about 2 minutes (I use tortilla wraps as a base) as well as being excellent for home made flat breads and roasting veg. Much more fun than an Airfryer.

www.amazon.co.uk/G3Ferrari-Delizia-1XP20000-Express-Pizza-Maker/dp/B00KR8LZ3Q/ref=pd_all_pref_1?psc=1&pf_rd_p=0b287dfd-17bb-473b-878d-27964fab82e6&pf_rd_r=Q9FXNQEM3AMB8B0449FA&pd_rd_wg=oK2es&pd_rd_i=B00KR8LZ3Q&pd_rd_w=oqPXl&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&pd_rd_r=314f1eed-d833-493c-ad8f-bd36d7ddf268

I like steam mops better than swilling dirty water from a bucket around the floor but they are forever dying on me - Vax, Morphy Richards, Black and Decker.
I now bought a Shark and am hoping it will last a bit longer.
They are the most temperamental of electrical appliances - probably because they are awkward to prop up when unplugging / getting more water, and they fall on the floor and must have delicate innards and won't work again. Feckers.

I don't have an AirFryer - am tempted but I don't have kitchen space.

I hate steam mops, what a faff and waste of energy. They don't seem to last long before they break either. I bought my E-cloth Deep Clean Mop 3 years ago and have never looked back.

DH bought an air fryer in November and we've only used our oven about 5 times since then. It's brilliant. Ours is a Ninja Foodie, which DH had been looking at for years before I caved and let him buy it (he has form for buying kitchen gadgets that don't get used). We use it every day.

So my advice is an E-cloth mop and an air fryer!

I have both and hardly use air fryer now. The steam mop is used 3 times every week. I have had several but Morphy Richards ones break very quickly so avoid those. I have now settled on an Aldi one which does the job well and was cheap. The mop head just goes into laundry every time it is used. It does not smell but I bought some lemon liquid you can add to water to leave a nice lemon smell. A teaspoon full in each full water tank. Buy spare mop heads.

Neither.

Steam mops are a good idea in essence, but they generally don’t last, so they’re a bit of a false economy.

Air friers are just gadgets really. If you have a fan oven then you will get the same results and keep your kitchen space.

I had a steam mop which I thought great but the hard water clogged it up ,, I haven’t replaced it so it would be an air fryer for me

Ahh, seems to be very specific person to person but general consensus seems to be that the steam mop is good in theory but will likely stop working, and the air fryer won't cook much different to the oven and I'll miss the kitchen space.
I think maybe I might not bother buying either

I tried a steam mop but must have bought the wrong kind.
Now I use a spray mop and I’ve never looked back. It’s so quick and effortless to get going (nothing to plug in/boil/wait around for) that I actually use it instead of exhausting myself thinking about it.
Cheap enough to still afford an air fryer!