I would like an airfryer

I'm not very good at using gadgets but we don't like oven chips and I do like to cook fish & chips occassionally so I got an airfryer. Airfryer chips are much better than oven chips, they're not quick but not much trouble. I have been a bit more adventurous with it recently, makes incredibly crispy fried chicken using the tiniest hint of oil. Also good for cooking frozen party foods, don't have to wait for the oven to warm up.And easy to clean. Mines probably a 6 litre,I sometimes need to batch cook things but it doesn't take up too much space on the worktop.

There are some excellent YouTube channels showing how to use an air fryer and worth a watch when it's a new machine. Found a recipe for air frying doughnuts that I'm going to try at some point

I have a Ninja Foodi 9-in-1 and use it on a daily basis. Almost certainly the most useful kitchen gadget I have ever owned. I used the pressure cooking function to cook the turkey crown on Christmas Day - 250ml of stock with bay leaves, onion and carrot, 12 minutes pressure, then into the oven for half an hour to brown off. It was the most succulent, moist turkey I've ever cooked.

I made roast beef in my ninja foodi.
The Salted Pepper YouTube channel has a recipe to use the grill setting. I was sceptical, but tried it . My husband thought it was the best I'd ever cooked. I will say I was impressed.
I use the air fryer setting for sausages, chops, bacon, sauté potatoes, chips, and to air fry root vegetables. It's the best machine I've ever owned!

I love my Ninja to air fry just for the two of us - bacon, sausages, burgers, chicken pieces, chips, fish cakes. I also air fry whole chickens and gammon joints - doing a gammon joint at the moment. Saves a lot of mess in the oven too, it's much easier to wipe a bit of fat out of the Ninja bowl and wash it than it is to clean the oven racks and oven. It's pricey unless you use some of the other functions so an air fryer is probably a better deal.

Thankyou everyone for your advice , I went to Lidl and in the middle of Lidl was the very airfryer I was researching. At a fraction of the cost. I got a Tower 4ltr. £29.99. Now to take it out of the box and give it a try.

This thread has come at a good time. I’m staying with DD until the New Year and her Ninja Foodie is arriving today! I will be interested in the air fryer function because I’m thinking of getting one. I already have a King Pro electric pressure/slow cooker which helps to cut down on oven use when cooking for one.

Oooh I do love a good gadget!

I have a Ninja Foodi, which has the air fryer function as well as all the others (pressure cooking, dehydrating, yogurt making, baking etc) and absolutely love it. I rarely fried anything before, but it's great being able to do stuff in the Foodi without having to add fat or oil.

My cousin was gifted with one six months ago and she says it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

My air fryer was a Christmas present to myself. I live on my own and my electricity bills for using a large electric oven were horrendous. My Pro Breeze (made in London and not China) has helped to solve that problem.

I spent hours online researching and decided I would buy a cheapish one and see how I got on with it.

They are huge and cannot be placed under the cupboards on a worktop surface because the outside becomes very hot as does the base so I had to buy a couple of trivets to keep it off the worktop surface. It needs space around it because of the heat.

Mine is the best thing since sliced bread but because the food inside needs space I do use the hob. Feel free to PM me because there are fors and againsts.

I had one but was unimpressed. It was huge and took up more bench space than I could spare. It was a 10 litre one and was dome shape. It seemed to take as long as cooking in the conventional way. Have been tempted to try a smaller one and see if it is better. However I am looking at buying a new oven and that has an air fryer built in.

I have 2. Well, one of them is actually a function of the Ninja foodi 7 in one pressure cooker and air fryer. The other is a Tower air fryer. I use them on a daily basis. They free up room in the oven if you are making a big meal. The Tower air fryer is just a small one, but I can put eight sausage links in it. It makes enough sautè potatoes or chips for two of us.
I didn't think I needed either appliance, but I wouldn't be without them now.

I've had two, and they're brilliant. Particularly for cooking for one or two - they're just tiny ovens really, and so use far less electricity than heating a whole cooker oven.

My first was a Wilko cheapy, just to see how I got on. Brilliant! One day the cooker oven blew up half way through a small joint, and I finished cooking the meat very successfully in the air fryer.

My second was a Tower, and was equally as good.

My third is currently packed away pending a house move in a couple of weeks.

Two caveats:
1. in both Wilko and Tower, the non-stick lining began to peel off the base. As it happened to both, I'm disposed to think it was my fault, though I don't know why.

2. In both cases they only had one hour timers, so if I was making anything that took longer, I had to be around to turn the timer back round again. On the other hand, this makes them quite useful for people who might go off and forget they've left it on.

Best things I've ever bought for the kitchen!