Air fryer

It appears that many have never tried baking in a conventional oven. Cooking and cleanup needn't be messy but many don't seem to be aware of the ease with which foods can be baked (followed with easy cleanup). If an air fryer really, really does an overall better job than conventional baking, please provide some specifics. I'll buy one.
 
I like mine. My favorite is fried porkchops. Mix up the coating in a ziplock bag: pork rind panko, parmesan cheese, smoked paprika, salt, pepper.

Pork chops (the good bone-in kind) go in the bag, shake-n-bake style, then into the air fryer.
 
We air fry in a Ninja Foody but it does much more than that. Pressure cooker, slow cooker and electric cook pot to brown stuff in.
 
They have their place and use, especially when it's hot out & you don't want to turn on the oven. They're good late night when you have the conventional munchies late at night, but you must know what it's good for and what it's not. You can't air fry a 15# turkey at 02:00, but chicken nuggets are good to go. My daughter took hers when she got her own place, but it worked for everything we needed fried. And expensive is not necessarily better. Like a pressure cooker, live & learn, experiment. Each has their own place & purpose.
Interestingly, just today I told the Mrs. Refrigeration to have the offspring they can gift me one at Christmas. Sarah's worked great for our use before she took it with her.
 
Got a Ninja for my mom two years ago and she never used it- she ended up giving it back to me. I've never used it- sits in the cabinet. Maybe one of these days I'll drag it out?
 
I noticed Instapots are starting to hit the resale shops and are being sold for $5-$10 (along with bread machines and rotisseries). I think air fryers will there before too long. I'll try one then. I don't mind throwing out a $5 appliance.
 
We have a low end air fryer and after a little practice makes great healthy fried chicken and less healthy french fries.
 
MY advise it to measure the exact space for it inthe counter top, then go shopping for one! Mine is from Costco and is a single door (lke an oven). All the French door models were too wide!

We had inch thick pork chops tonight. The auto setting for "Meat" did them perfectly! (350F for about 15mn.) Only 3 large Chops fit on the trey, but we only eat two now, I'll probably bone the other into eggs for a hash tomorrow night, if we're hungry after the church picnic!

Ivan
 
rockquarry said:
It appears that many have never tried baking in a conventional oven. Cooking and cleanup needn't be messy but many don't seem to be aware of the ease with which foods can be baked (followed with easy cleanup). If an air fryer really, really does an overall better job than conventional baking, please provide some specifics. I'll buy one.
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6 minutes to cook frozen food for my grandchildren vs 30 minutes in a conventional oven. Clean up is wipe down, just as it is with a sprayed on cookie sheet unless something spills on the cookie sheet and bakes it in.
 
I ruined a few meals until I figured out what it was good for and what it wasn't. Similar to the microwave on that account, there are some things the microwave does well, some that it doesn't. You just have to learn which is which.
 
Air Fryer is an oxymoron. One fries in oil and bakes in air. I suppose I am a cantankerous cook. Ok, a traditional cook. Good ingredients, simple methods and some learning did the trick. Mom insisted that boys learn to cook and it's served me well. Sharp knives, cast iron cookware and a gas stove is all I need. Yeah, I've fallen for the latest gadgets but I keep going back to the basics.
 
Krogen said:
Air Fryer is an oxymoron. One fries in oil and bakes in air. I suppose I am a cantankerous cook. Ok, a traditional cook. Good ingredients, simple methods and some learning did the trick. Mom insisted that boys learn to cook and it's served me well. Sharp knives, cast iron cookware and a gas stove is all I need. Yeah, I've fallen for the latest gadgets but I keep going back to the basics.
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Nothing wrong with basics as they continue to work well. Eventually even a few of the "upgraders" will figure this out.
 
tlawler said:
My wife bought a large countertop Emeril Lagasse model a couple of christmases ago. It looks like an oversized toaster oven. We cook everything in it that will fit. No need to fire up the range oven except for large roasts and turkeys, etc. I also found that it makes an excellent brass drier. It holds three tiers of the mesh baskets, and I've put about 750-800 10mm cases in it at one time.
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Got the same one. I love it. Only use My big oven at Thanksgiving.
 
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