Another success for the Airfryer.

I treated myself to a Ninja Multi cooker, which is proving very useful. It air-fries, grills, baked, dehydrates and has a separate lid for pressure cooking. The first meal I made was a chicken curry and rice. Turn on the cooker and set the temperature to saute the onions, ginger, garlic and curry powder etc. then add chicken and saute to seal. Pressure cook for 2 minutes with 125ml water, then quick release the steam. Add tinned tomatoes or liquid of choice, place the rack in the cooker and put a small dish on the rack with 1 cup rice and 1 cup water. Pressure cook for 2 minutes and release the steam slowly. It was cooked really well. The meat was nice and tender and the rice fluffy. You would have to have all your ingredients ready before starting though.
It makes really good roast potatoes in the airfryer. I am still getting used to it but it does save a lot of cooking time. It is expensive but I think it will pay for itself with the fuel saved pretty quickly.

Thanks Elegran. All very useful as I can now forget the Halogen over as I am only five feet tall at most. I now find the kitchen sink is a little too high. I will get another table top oven and try to get one with a fan. Less glass to clean anyway!

Reading this with interest. I don't have one yet but am looking into it. We don't have the same energy crisis here as the UK, but with cooking for only 2 of us I do find warming up the oven a bit wasteful.

It would be helpful to know if you have the oven-type or the basket type of air fryers. I am eyeing up the Ninja Foodi 2-basket.

CanadianGran there was a thread recently about the type of air fryers we bought, the cost and why we bought that model. It may be of some use to you, giving you the fors and againsts- mainly for.

In the last few days I have used my Ninja Max air fryer to cook

Cheesy filled jacket potato, crispy fish cafe and green beans
Sausages and half a part cooked baguette to make a hot dog
Ready made fish cake
An apple cake
Pork chop with mushrooms and smashed potatoes
Fish fingers and oven chips
Steak, jacket potato, mushrooms, parsnips and corn on the cob

I only used my over to bake a large lemon drizzle cake to take to a meeting.

Sorry, ready made fish pie

Having read the tips I must have another go with mine. In the winter I did find the pressure cooker function very useful especially for soup made with chicken carcass.

I’ve sent my ninja 9 in 1 back unused. I think I got a bit caught up in the ‘must have’ but on closer analysis I’ve realised it would rarely be used.
We have two slow cookers, a microwave, rarely eat chips, pies, ready prepped food or bake, our main meal is cooked from scratch.
I’ll just use the slow cooker more than I do now and make more use of the microwave.

Thank you Jaxjacky you have brought me down to Earth.
Air fryers do sound very tempting, but like you I have a slow cooker, and microwave, also a pressure cooker, three types of oven (big, small and slow) and also a soup maker.
Enough is enough - I could spend a fortune “saving money”.

Mine is the very simplest Ninja.
It only has four functions, airfryer, roast, reheat and dehydrate.
I will never use the latter and so far haven’t used roast.
It is mainly airfryer and worth the cost to me.
I mostly cook for myself and my GD cooks during the week for herself.
I use it for chicken breasts. Salmon fillets, chops, sausages etc, single things which cook beautifully in minutes.
A larger multifunction one would be too much , I don’t need that.
They will soon be 25 functions in one pot and a degree in logistics to be able to use them.

Another warning with Ninjas is that they can suddenly give an Error code which means it has died. This usually happens when they are just out of guarantee.

dragonfly46

Another warning with Ninjas is that they can suddenly give an Error code which means it has died. This usually happens when they are just out of guarantee.

I bought mine from John Lewis, same price as other places but JL give a two year guarantee so if mine does give up after a year, I’m covered!

It’s worth looking at Lakeland for electrical items as I recently bought a food processor with a three year guarantee, even better than JL, and again the same price elsewhere.

I've had an electric pressure cooker for about 7yrs and I bought an air fryer oven (shelves not basket) just over a year ago. Between these two appliances and my microwave I've not used my main oven in well over a year, I'm inclined to say that it's more likely that I've used it 3 times in as many years.

I use my small appliances now hardly ever using the oven
Small reminder:
Check you've not left anything in the oven on a tray etc.
I've just found some mummified stuff I forgot
Oh the shame!

I have a very small kitchen with very little worktop space so have hummed and haahed a lot about getting an airfryer. First question is are they easy to clean without a dishwasher, second question, are they very heavy. Thanks.

My mum was a great slow-cooker user and one of the main thing she always did was hot stock to get it going, never take lid off when in use this adds 1 hour to cooking time every you do

I’m still trying to incorporate the Instant Pot into my cooking before getting an air fryer.

I still don’t get on with it as well as my old-fashioned stove top pressure cooker!

I’m desperately trying to buy a large air fryer but they’re like rocking horse droppings at the moment.
If anyone know where I could get one ….. ?

Has anyone used a pie maker? I'm contemplating getting one, the type that cooks two pies at a time. Yet another device that could cut down the need for the oven. I have a combination slow cooker/pressure cooker and an air fryer.

missdeke

I have a very small kitchen with very little worktop space so have hummed and haahed a lot about getting an airfryer. First question is are they easy to clean without a dishwasher, second question, are they very heavy. Thanks.

I imagine the different types vary in terms of your questions. I have a Tower Airfryer, which weighs about 3 kg - but I don’t move it about - it sits on the worktop. I haven’t got a dishwasher - this model is easy to wash by hand. It cost about £48 from Amazon.

I cook everyone mine. Eggs hard boiled, well not boiled haha I do pizza and baked eggs with mushrooms and onions, quiches just everything. I often put stuff in tin foil and wrap it, such as veg and noodles with chicken breast … beat thing I ever purchased. I have the ninja 15 in 1 now, and it’s worth every penny. It’s better than I ever expected.

Willow68

I cook everyone mine. Eggs hard boiled, well not boiled haha I do pizza and baked eggs with mushrooms and onions, quiches just everything. I often put stuff in tin foil and wrap it, such as veg and noodles with chicken breast … beat thing I ever purchased. I have the ninja 15 in 1 now, and it’s worth every penny. It’s better than I ever expected.

Everything not everyone ?

Danma, B and M have them here in the fens, east anglia, half price. T
We use ours on a regular basis, they are very easy to keep clean.
I wash them by hand, not sure if they can go in the dishwasher.

I bought a small one when I was having trouble getting calor propane for my cooker. I have only used oven once since then... I do wish that I had bought a bigger one even though there is just me.

Depending on the size of your air fryer don't overload it. That's what I found with my sweet potato fries and frozen oven chips. Also give it a good shake, like our Mums did the chip pan, a couple of times. Or even turn them over.