Air Fryers….honest opinions!

We hardly use the oven now, only large cakes and visitors. We also have a Ninja 9 in 1, use it for croissants or bacon and sausages for breakfast, stews or chops for dinner, roast chicken, chips, croquettes, crumbles, pies, jams, virtually anything you would use an oven or a hob for. When we invited friends round for a barbecue and it poured, we sat in the conservatory with the Ninja in the middle of us, and cooked the food in it, they said it was so much fun! When we first got one it sat on the worksurface for weeks, but once you get started you won't look back!

I bought a small one as its only me and honestly I've not often used my oven since. Anything I can cook in the oven goes in the airfryer apart from cakes and batch cooking dishes as they don't fit. It cooks most things quickly and things come out tender and crispy. I wouldnt be without it and when this one dies I'll buy a bigger one to take larger meals that i can then freeze for another time.

chicken roasted in 60 minutes not 50. I've cooked all sorts in it

I didn't want one but bought a ninja double stack. Honestly it is much better than I expected. Croissants take 4 mins for example (I imagine this is the same in just 'normal' air fryer) a chicken is roasted within 50 mins, frozen food - stuff like spring rolls etc crisp up lovely in it. I am a complete convert

I gave in and purchased a basic Lakeland air fryer.

I use it for sautéed potatoes, chips, fish fingers and chicken gougons when GC are here. It’s also ok for cooking a few sausage rolls or mince pies from frozen.

Other than the above it’s in the laundry out of the way.

I have one, but it's a Ninja Food 9-in-1, which has many other functions than just air frying, such as pressure cooking, slow cooking and so on. I think it's a great piece of kit. Both my son and daughter have 'normal' air fryers and they use theirs a lot. You can cook a very wide range of foods in them - even the basic ones.