the air frier is such a marketing genius, they used an established technology, the convection oven, packed it small and brand it as healthy, now everyone has it
I got one not because it’s healthy but because it’s literally a small oven for when I don’t want to heat the whole big oven
Im seriously considering getting rid of my oven and replacing it with an air fryer and portable induction hotplates.
Only problem is that a frozen pizza wont fit in an air fryer and thats like the only thing I actually use the over for!
Stupid question but why do you like need to get rid of your oven specifically? Can’t you just not use it? It’s already basically built into the counter space for most residences.
Sell it I guess.
There’s plenty of larger tabletop convection ovens that will fit most frozen pizzas. Unless you’re making a world record size pizza, you should be fine.
If you don’t do Thanksgiving then this is honestly viable. Literally the only reason my big ass of an exists at this point is for a turkey because even though I got one of the probably largest countertop air fryers I could find where I can fit whole roasted chickens and do baking and other stuff it won’t fit a whole ass turkey and I don’t think I would want one that could that would be just a little bit too much counter space
Like a toaster over?
Yeah but it has a fan.
No, not like a toaster. Over.
10-4. Over.
For the record, I don’t wanna hang out with you when this is over.
You forgot to say over. Over.
Wait, I have to say over even if the sentence ends with the word over?
Toaster ovens were also a thing.
I use my air fryer basically for fries and thats it. I have a convection oven that’s like 1/3/ 2/3 though that is fuckin KILLER for this reason. It saves on energy only heating the top, The top bit preheats in a couple minutes max, and it fits basically everything except maybe a cake or something. Since my breakup ive had to pull out the divider one time.
which is why I have a toaster oven. Way easier in the summer.
It’s more like adding a leaf blower to it, but yeah it’s just a glorified convection oven.
Lots of modern ovens come with the feature, but you can’t just air fry in any old convection oven.
Plus it doesn’t take 15 minutes to preheat
You also don’t have to waste energy heating up a whole oven
but isn’t a conventional oven insulated better?
For programmers: Air fryers have perfected the race to idle.
For everyone else: Probably, but the insulation may not matter as much. Heating up a traditional oven takes anywhere from 15 to maybe 5 minutes, if you got a really powerful one. During that time heat escapes the device.
Meanwhile air fryers usually heat up in about a minute and get the actual cooking done faster.
So unless you are broiling something for a really long time, air fryers may still come out on top, just because they get done quicker, saving energy in the process.
Oven pizza is a 22 minute job. My air fryer is done after 9.
There’s also something about air volume and thermal mass, but you get the point.
What’s more, my oven sucks up to 3kW and has a 72l volume of air to heat up, from what I see most air fryers are between 1 and 2 kW and hold 4-7l of volume… The scales are pretty different, insulation or not (air fryers have less surface area for heat to escape from, also).
I don’t have one, but I use my bread machine a lot 'cause it uses a fraction of the power of my oven, aside from kneading automatically.
I had one that took a few minutes to preheat, and others that you just toss the stuff in.
But yeah, it’s a marginal time with that one I would just start it and than go grab what I want to cook and it’ll be ready by then usually.
Especially on 230V circuits this is a big plus. It’s hot in a minute when my oven takes 12 minutes.
I like them cause they cook faster and crisp better than convection ovens. A leaf blower, like the other person said.
Air fryer, automatic pressure cooker, and electric smoker: three appliances that every home cook should own to step up their meal game. Your food will taste so much better.
(I mean you haven’t lived until you’ve had ribs that were smoked for 2 hours, stuck in the instant pot for 20 minutes, and then finished off in the broiler or on the grill. No other method tops this technique. Or birria that was pressure cooked instead of the traditional stove method. And now I want ribs and tacos birrias.)
It’s an improvement on established technology. The “healthy” angle is that it has a drip tray. For some reason that has more marketing potential than: cooks quicker, with less energy, and a smaller device.
Do you ever clean your air fryer?
Did Beethoven clean his piano after every sonata?
God, I hope so. Imagine all of Beethoven’s finger gunk sticking to those keys.
I knew a keyboard player a while back that didn’t like cleaning his keys, they got slick from finger oil with use and he didn’t like the little bit of extra friction they had when they were clean.
Holy fuck, how fast was he playing that he needed lube? Lmao
It’s ok, the heat will clean it. Any leftover scraps just add flavor to the next thing that gets cooked /s
Me when I’m in the sun for 30 seconds
I love my oven, has convection functions, a lot of things. Couldn’t afford it now, glad I bought it when I could!
i broke down and chipped mine out after about a year. makes a world of difference with tater tots
