Air fryer for a big family?

[Pommelegible]

I’m going round in circles on this.
We mostly use our oven for a roast or a freezer meal of fish and chips. Occasionally pizza and about once a month I bake a cake. For all of these apart from cake the oven is full and I try to time the cake so it’s in while the oven is already hot or is about to be used for something else. I understand that air fryers use less energy but to cook enough food to feed us all I assume I’d have to run it multiple times which would then possibly not use less?
Does anyone have one for a larger family and is it worth it?

Watching this as have exactly the same issue. Really want one but see little point if I can only prepare one part of the meal at a time.

My mum has a ninja foodie dual (9.5ltr), seeing how much comes out I wouldn't be able to feed our family of 8 just with that. Biggest I've seen is 12ltr capacity.

Not sure about energy consumption, larger capacity units will use more and may not be more economical than a traditional oven. You'd have to do the math to figure out if it's worth the bother.

It doesn't sound like it would be worth it for you. We most often use ours to make chips for 2-3 people or a meal for a single person (or two small kids). It's more economical than running an entire oven for that small amount of food.

For pizza, roasts, lasagne, big pans with loads of veg/sausages etc we just use the oven.

Ninja foodi - I’ve got the 14 in 1 (as it was discounted even further with my blue light card). It does everything! I can cook entire meals in it. It’s super fast and cheap to run. Smart reader averages at about 38p (cost per hour) when it’s running. I’ve never had to run it that long to make a meal. Lots of groups on Facebook with meal ideas but upshot is if you can cook it in an oven or on the hob you can cook it in the ninja.

@ChillyB

Ninja foodi - I’ve got the 14 in 1 (as it was discounted even further with my blue light card). It does everything! I can cook entire meals in it. It’s super fast and cheap to run. Smart reader averages at about 38p (cost per hour) when it’s running. I’ve never had to run it that long to make a meal. Lots of groups on Facebook with meal ideas but upshot is if you can cook it in an oven or on the hob you can cook it in the ninja.

Can you cook a full meal for 6 or 8 in it all in one go?

I had the largest Tefal actifry .. well I've had two bases and multiple lips and paddles and tops and handles. Like Trigger's broom it was. Now I've got a Gourmia. I miss the stirring action which made for the best chips ever but the Gourmia is brilliant for loads of other stuff, and much quicker than the Tefal.

@pommeeligible it’s capacity it to serve 6. I think I could cook for 6 in it yes (we’re a family of 3). The central pot is 7.5 litres so that would easily cook for 6-8 if you were doing stews, casseroles , chilli etc.
The air fry pot is smaller though so if I was air frying chips for example I might need to do two batches of chips and keep warm (will be quicker to cook them in two batches than all at once I think) but that would also be the case with a standard deep fat fryer. I’ve had three chicken breasts on the top rack and there are two shelves so yes the rack could deal with six portions of meat too.

Thank you @ChillyB

The ninja 15/1 grill and air fryer.
It's expensive but bloody brilliant

We are a family of 5 with 3 teens. We use our 6 litre one as an extension of the oven rather than instead of.

We use it all the time but more for snacks or the veggie teens protein to keep it separate. It doesn't even hold a whole pack of chicken wings