• Emerald@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Where did the recent air fryer trend come from anyway?

    Clearly you don’t own an air fryer

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      11 months ago

      Ok, sooo it’s not like a deep fryer and I feel like I can’t be the only one to learn that lesson. I battered up some cod, set it for 15 minutes, and ended up with flat fish pancakes. It’s really a mini convection oven.

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        11 months ago

        No but if you’d used breadcrumbs they come out great. It’s not a fryer, but it will elevate any oven-style “fried” food, like oven fried chicken, oven fries, etc. nothing wet, it will just blow it off.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah it just turns out that convection ovens make great bagged frozen fries.
        I wish my normal oven was a convection oven so I didn’t need an air fryer.

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          11 months ago

          I have a fancy oven with convection but it takes a while to heat up and often I just want a couple servings of fries.

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            11 months ago

            People are just not getting it. No lengthy preheat times and you can stick a handful of fries in it to go with your sandwich and it will be done in under 10 minutes. Not inefficient if it can run for less than half the time of a big oven

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              11 months ago

              The negative I always hear is people think you can only cook processed food like fries and chicken fingers. But it also works well with less processed food like chicken

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                11 months ago

                Mine has a rotisserie function and I’ve made some great roasts in there

                It also has a popcorn basket and imo the popcorn turns out better than stovetop

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          11 months ago

          I wish my normal oven was a convection oven so I didn’t need an air fryer.

          Here, pretty much everybody has a convection oven. I wish I understood why air fryers are so popular here.

          I’ve heard one argument: “Mine can stir the fries”

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            11 months ago

            It is a small efficient oven that is easy to use.

            It is great to re-heat food and the texture of the re-heated food is a lot better than a microwave.

            It’s great for breaded food and takes a lot less time than a conventional oven since it heats up pretty much instantly.

            For example, when I make Parmigiana Chicken, if I do it the air fryer, it takes about 15 minutes overall cooking time, including melting the cheese to a golden crips texture. If I use my conventional convection oven, it takes 10 minutes just to heat-up.

            It is also easy to clean.

            It does not replace the conventional oven for everything, but it does a lot of things faster with the same result. It’s a big boon.

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            11 months ago

            Frying is all about quickly imparting heat into the surface of a food at high temperature. Air fryers mimic that by moving a much higher volume of hot air past the food – they’re “super convection” ovens.

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        11 months ago

        It’s really a mini convection oven.

        Yes but more so. I don’t think there’s any objective criteria but where a convection oven blows hot air over food to brown it all around, sn air fryer blows more to crisp the food

        And for me the convenience is key. Like a microwave, just click a few buttons and wait for it to beep

        My only problem is the lack of recipes. A few processed snack foods have directions, but I’m still figuring out how to vobvert instructions for real food. “subtract 20° and 20% of the time” is inconsistent

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          It’s nice that some freezer food is coming with air frier instructions. Lots of trial and error before that.

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          Usually I just go with whatever the instructions are for toaster ovens if they don’t have air fryer specific, I don’t think I’ve ever really had any issues doing it. If there are only conventional I go with that temp but check it early and add time if needed.