Help! How do I use my Nutri U AirFryer

Can you look up instructions on your tablet?

I don’t have an air fryer, so can’t help, sorry.

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Calendargirl as far as I know a tablet like mine (Samsung) cannot scan a QR code, or any other code.
As for my phone, I only make about 1 call in a month - its useful for receiving messages about appointments - but basically I use it for emergencies.
Luckily so far - unused for that. [crossed fingers]

Just use it like a small oven. Companies are starting to put air fryer instructions on food now.
I have a handy chart to convert oven temperature and time to the AF equivalent. I never use the preset buttons just adjust the temperature and time and remember to turn the food at half time.

Before I had one I thought they were fryers that used less oil, they are mini ovens. Think of it as an economical high-powered oven, Pittcitys’ chart is all you need.

Some things are much better cooked in the airfryer, baked potatoes, frozen chips, fish, toasted sandwiches , cakes for example.
I even do boiled eggs in mine, two eggs, no water just put them in for 7 mins on 180 degrees. I have not found anything that I cannot cook in it.

I am thinking if getting an air fryer but dont really have the room, either on a worktop or in a cupboard.
DH takes up two corners with his meds and his four tins of biscuits, three coffee jugs….. yet he suggests moving the bread board from where I keep it. I dont think we will be getting one somehow.

Got a small chicken (poussin) and roast potatoes in mine at the moment and while we eat them, the baked apples for pudding will be in there cooking. I am cooking the sprouts and stuffing in the microwave.

One roast dinner without using the cooker at all. Gravy is boining water poured on gravy granules plus chicken stock cube using any

I’ve found the instruction manual online, if you hit this link you should see it come up in the list. There is also an app you can download for recipes etc for that model. www.google.co.uk/search?q=philips+nutriu%2Fairfryer+instructions&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

I’ve decided not to be frightened by mine. Most of the instructions that came with mine don’t seem to cover the sort of food we cook. We tend to cook from scratch. So I’m just going for it and experimenting.
Today it’s roast potatoes. I have watched a few utube videos but they are so long winded.
Thank you pittcity I will print that out.

I am another who has printed out pittcity's list.

I am in the same situation as PamelaJ, I tend to cook from scratch and I am beginning to realsie that my cooking and eating pattern is not really suitable for cooking in an air fryer.

My airfryer booklet, gave a very short list of suggested items and their cooking times and while the roast dinner I did today was cooked through, I think it needed more cooking than I gave it and I had it in the airfryer for a period shorter than recommended - now I have seen a recommendation. Never mind, what we didn't eat is currently in the slow cookery being turned into stock and probably enough chicken meat to make a very nice soup.

Thank you Pittcity for the very useful table.
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Today my DH pointed out an article called proof you CAN cook your entire Christmas dinner in an air fryer.
Quite helpful for a novice like me.
But she didn't say how she kept the first items warm while she was cooking the rest!
Did she use her oven on low?
Doesn't that rather defeat the object?

I bought one, read up on it for meal ideas, looked at it for a week and sent it back. I cook from scratch the majority of the time and just couldn’t justify the space v the amount of use it would get. I’m using the microwave/grill and slow cookers a lot more instead.

Excuse my ignorance, are air fryers all about fried food? Do you have to use oil all the time in them?
I’ve not got one but keep seeing them advertised.

I did roasted cauliflower in mine last night, I will not be cooking it any other way again.

Broke the cauli into florets, and sprayed with oil, salt, pepper, chile flakes and lemon juice. 180 degrees 15 mins.

As far as I know the idea is that they hardly use ANY oil.
I've done a lot of research and they seem to recommend spraying oil onto things like roast potatoes.
The name Air fryer is a misnomer. They cook by hot air.
You seem to only be able to cook one thing at a time - so keeping food warm is difficult without using some other appliance.
Like Jacjacsy I cook from scratch.
On sunday I googled 'How to cook Yorkshires in an AirFryer' and it told me to 'preheat the Afryer to 180 degrees and take out the required number of puddings from the freezer'!!!
I pride myself on my real Yorkies!!
I need a good cookery book - any recommendations?

I think it helps when you get past the word "fryer". It will better than oven fry but I find it best as as a substitute for a grill or an oven. I expect others have other comparisons too.

That’s helpful thank you. I cook from scratch usually and use my slow cooker 3 times a week.

I use mine when it would be a waste to put on the oven, such as for a couple of sausage rolls or croissants.
Sausages or bacon for sandwiches is another favourite here and it crisps up bread a treat.

If you're cooking a full dinner you won't save anything over bunging it all in the oven.

Don't use the light oil sprays or olive oil as they damage the non stick coating and be careful with light foods that may get blown by the fan into the heating element and burn.

Pittcity
By 'light' do you mean the foods sold as slimming aids? Like 'light butter', 'light cornflakes' etc?

ExDancer

Pittcity
By 'light' do you mean the foods sold as slimming aids? Like 'light butter', 'light cornflakes' etc?

No, foods that don't weigh much so may get blown around by the air fryer eg slice of thin bread possibly

I meant something like poppadoms. The photo isn't mine!!

I think you need to consider what food you eat before deciding whether you need an airfryer.

Airfryers are ideal if you are what I call a dry eater, by that I mean you often cook chicken pieces, hamburgers, sausages, baked potatoes, lumps of food. If, like me, you prefer wet food; casseroles, stews etc, then you are better off with a slow cooker.

I have got an airfryer, quite small, £20 in the sales and I really do not use it very much, for pommes parmentier, chips. I tried cooking a small chicken and roast potatoes in it, but found it fiddly and needing constant attention. In an oven I just put chicken and spuds in it and go off and do something else for an hour. It took nearly as long in the air fryer and I was constantly, turning it over to make sure it browned properly.

I am not going to say whether one is better or worse than the other. They are two entirely different appliances and, personally, I use my slow cooker far more frequently than my air fryer.

I cook everything from scratch and love mine, although I do have a Ninja which has several other functions apart from air frying. I can easily cook a roast dinner in mine without constantly having to check or turn things. I rarely fried food beforehand - as a few people have pointed out, don't think of these machines as actually 'frying' food. I love making everything from stews and casseroles and risotto (in a fraction of the time it would take using conventional cooking methods) to soups, jams, bread, cakes etc. It's a myth to suggest that people who use air fryers aren't cooking from scratch or that they're only making things like burgers and chips.