Some thoughts on my new Air Fryer

BlueBelle

B9exchanged I’m puzzled you say you have a combined air fryer that does everything for about the same price as floradora but floradora didn’t say how much her air fryer cost ??
I have one that cost about £30-40 and it air fry’s
I enjoy using it and it only takes marginally more room than a kettle

Mine was reduced to just under £50 .

Thank you for explaining. I've read 10% faster, am considering.

Today being cool damp, lovely heat off the cooker all day.

I live alone and only use my oven when I know it will be full ie: when my children &co come round for a meal (usually with a baked pudding!) or I am actually baking-often cakes, pies etc for the three of them and their families. I never use it for just myself as I have microwave, slow cooker, pressure cooker and air fryer etc for the bits I cook. I certainly save money on my bill just by using the oven so little as I can see the difference on my meter!

I make home made meat and chicken pie etc for my husband then freeze. Then after thawing it takes 10 mins+to heat the oven then 45 mins approx to slowly reheat them ready for eating. I am finding now i have just purchased my air fryer its taking very little time to reheat ready for eating. Must be saving us a fair amount of gas.

I live alone now and have an airfryer but still have much to explore with it. However one of the things l like is if I buy or make a pie, putting it in the airfryer on bake at 3/4 of the time suggested for an oven gives me an excellent result. No good using a microwave as it heats it and the pastry can be soggy. Have one of those george forman kind of grill which I use to grill sausages but again it would squash the pie but the bake on the airfryer is great.

I used a pottery dish M0nica- and it cracked in half so what's your secret?

Hi everyone, I am really interested in comments and suggestions regarding AF's. I am on my third! The first was a single drawer, the 2nd a double drawer (1/3 & 2/3) sizes. Both from QVC which is great as you can try and return which I did. I now have a Instant vortex, I saw this and thought it was the best of all worlds as it has 2 drawers which cook separately and you can also sync cook however, you can remove the divider and use it as one large oven. It AF's roasts, bakes, grills and dehydrates. Only thing not so good is if you need to shake something you shake both drawers. I am still a novice but have achieved roast pots, fish, pies,scones and crumble. Not sure on veggies yet. All suggestions appreciciated

We bought cheap one from the middle of Lidl a year ago just to see how we would like it. The oven is hardly on at all now when it is just the two of us; the cooking time is less, plus there is no heating up time as with an electric oven. It is great for fish, jacket potatoes, roast veg, and my husband uses it to cook a rasher or two of bacon some mornings.

I got a small airfryer a few years ago and loved it, so just after Christmas I treated myself to an oven type one with shelves. There are just the two of us and I haven't used the main oven since. I find that airfryer, slow cooker and microwave are all we need. Old oven is used for storage.

I had a basic air fryer which l used occasionally. I recently bought a Ninja Speedi, which is all singing all dancing . It does everything. I absolutely love it and haven't used my oven since buying it. I can do a whole meal in 15 minutes. A
consudwred purchase l know but l feel it was worth every penny of the £200.00 l paid for it.

Not sure why B9exchange causes you to be 'puzzled'Bluebell. Floradora9 obviously paid less than her daughters purchase of £200.00 , so you get so much with your air fryer according to price. One for less than £200.00 would do what Floradora's does. Quite simple really.

But if you had got the ninja you could have got rid of all the others because I can pressure cook roast bake dehydrate etc in my ninja mine is supposed to be for a family and they is just me lol I was thinking if family come. I’ve had mine ages in fact I love it that much I’ve also got the soup/blender maker and the kettle and the knife block set lol

I pressure cook my veggies and meats my jackets for ten minutes then 15 minutes in the oven of my ninja that’s when I’m also doing my yorkies they come out huge i do a lot of homemade bread scones etc too I got mine also from Qvc. My dishes from wilko and amazon but if you do egg on toast butter your bread before you crack your egg on top otherwise it will slide off my first thing I made lol it only takes 2 minutes

madeleine try sausages in your air fryer, really delicious!

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My husband wants an af that does it all,says how it's cheaper to use (ie if dgc want a pizza for tea it takes longer to preheat oven than it takes to cook) I argue we already have a slow cooker & microwave & the type he wants is around £150. Also (& I apologise if I'm being really thick) I honestly don't get how roasting a chicken for example in less time than you would in an oven means the meat is safe to eat?

Also useful for those part baked baguettes 5 mins at airfry and. Croutons for soup, I use home made bread cut into cubes, spray with oil and use hottest setting for 6 minutes.
Obviously do a lot more but these are two things I would resent heating up a whole big oven for.

^I honestly don't get how roasting a chicken for example in less time than you would in an oven means the meat is safe to eat?

Quite simple, you take the chicken out of the air fryer, after cooking it for, I forget how many minutes shorter than usual, put a probe in to to check its cookedness, as you would when you put it in a large oven - and discover that the chicken is fully cooked through as throughly as if it had been in a larger oven for longer.

A cooked through chicken is a cooked through chicken is a cooked through chicken. How long it took to reach that stage is irrelevant and why should a thoroughly cooked through chicken cooked in an air fryer be any less safe than a throroughly cooked chicken cooked in a conventional oven?

M0nica is right - it doesn't matter what method of cooking you use, it's easy enough to test whether a chicken (or anything else, for that matter, is fully cooked through). For example, I can use my Ninja to cook a whole chicken in around half-an-hour using the pressure cook function followed by air crisp to crisp up the skin. The meat would literally be falling off the bone.

I have a Tefal genius af thinking that the paddle would save having to give everything a shake as it cooked but I’m now feeling quite flummoxed by how to use it for anything except chips! Any gransnetters got one and make good use of it for lots of things?

If I had an airfryer I wouldn't have any worktop space as they all seem to be enormous.

Love my air fryer, gets used every day

Susie42

If I had an airfryer I wouldn't have any worktop space as they all seem to be enormous.

Quite. Seems same to me.

Are there any particular favourite makes? I would like one but I am afraid of choosing the wrong type/make. Any recommendations would be appreciated (if allowed). There are just the two of us, but we do eat quite a lot!

I was happy with a small Remoska, until I got my Tower air fryer, which is really a very fast mini oven. (Drop down door, and 9”sq shelves) It cost just under £100. The Remoska is banished. I can now make fast and delicious crispy food, as it is a hot dry heat, with a thermostat, unlike the Remoska, which was slow and tended to stew meat rather than roast it. But, the Remoska uses 400 watts I think, the Tower is 2k. but isn’t heating constantly, and cooks better and faster and grills. Swings and roundabouts.

Ps It’s about 10 x 12 inches base, 15 inches high, needs space round it for air.