Air Fryers?

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We just got a Ninja Foodi multi cooker from Amazon and have hardly used our oven since. It makes the most delicious baked potatoes and cooks a chicken in an hour. We cooked chips last Saturday they were very successful too, we used very little cooking oil. It has 14 functions but I don’t think we will use them all. We were able to pay in interest free instalments and know that if we have a problem Amazon will deal with it.

Thank you so much Grannynannywanny for that link. It is full of interesting info. Ninja was mentioned several times in a positive way. Looking at Amazon I had been put off somewhat by reviews on Amazon saying that the customer service was dreadful. I will look at them again. Tefal was mentioned and I saw another by Vortex . I must find somewhere to look at them as I would like an idea of what impact they will have on my kitchen top!!! Thank you Doodledog for your suggestion about a rack and the pressure cooking idea although I had a pressure cooker many years ago which scared the life out of me.

Oh, and if you are planning to use it as a pressure cooker a lot, you might want to go for the 15 to 1, as it has an automatic pressure release feature which would be handy. That model was an extra £100 when I got mine, though, and I think the only differences are the automatic thing and a meat temperature probe in the more expensive one. As I have an Instant Pot pressure cooker I didn't think it was worth the extra.

I have a Ninja Foodi 14 in 1, and am just getting used to it.

You could cook fish and chips in it by using a rack, with the fish on the top and chips in the air fry basket. I've made a countess pudding, which is a sort of cake, and that turned out well, and I've just air fried a whole chicken for a salad, and that went well too. The Ninja Foodi has pressure cooker slow cooker functions as well as the fryer, but I prefer to use my existing one. That may just be that I am used to them, though, and friends who went straight to the Ninja before getting PCs or SCs say that they work well. Actually, I steam crisped the chicken, which is a sort of cross between pressure cooking and air frying, and it is very juicy.

I got mine to save fuel, and although we haven't had a bill since I got it, I'm sure it will. They are small to heat up, and the chicken only took about 40 mins (it was a very small one) from start to finish, whereas it would have been at least an hour from turning on the oven to taking it out.

Lovetopaint037 this hopefully is the link to a recent thread about air fryers. I love mine and have used it daily since I bought it a couple of months ago. It’s a fairly basic Tower 4.2litre. Supposed to be family size but it wouldn’t hold the meal you describe. Perhaps the more multi function ones are what you’re looking for and someone might be along to offer suggestions.

www.gransnet.com/forums/aibu/1306688-Your-fav-Air-fryer-recipies