Air fryers

[skotl]

What would you recommend?

Discussed at length over here: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/air-fryers.124963/

 

[striker]

How much are they? How long before it saves that amount of electrickery? Will it be worn out before that
About £250, dunno and dunno!
But we like it! Food cooks quicker, tastes better (less dried out) and is healthier due to using less oil, fat drops to the bottom like grilling but doesn't taste as dry.

 

[Wedg1e]

So which ones would you buy...assuming they are available?

No idea

Seemed like a better option than overheating the pan full of oil that I did last December, filling the house (and me) with a thick acrid smoke. Luckily it didn't ignite, but I ended up in A&E with AF. Anyway I thought the air fryer might be a good idea but this thing can't even cook half-decent chips, let alone all the other things they're supposed to 'fry'.
I've tried hotter, colder, longer, shorter, but the usual result is hard as nails on the outside, half-raw inside and tasting like a polystyrene ceiling tile (I imagine).

 

[angellonewolf]

if your passing this way i will do bag of chips out of our air fryer

its the tefal with the moving arm deos great chips not as good as deep fryed but more than better than oven chips

 

[slim_boy_fat]

No idea
...but this thing can't even cook half-decent chips, let alone all the other things they're supposed to 'fry'.
I've tried hotter, colder, longer, shorter, but the usual result is hard as nails on the outside, half-raw inside and tasting like a polystyrene ceiling tile (I imagine).

Have you tried a different type of tattie? I find Maris Piper or Roosters best.

 

[Wedg1e]

Have you tried a different type of tattie? I find Maris Piper or Roosters best.

Maris Pipers all the way
Although I did have to make do with some Aldi 'wonky spuds' (nothing wonky about them, but I doubt they'd sell many if they used the words 'rotten' and 'holey' on the bag) - cooked exactly the same.

 

[Bobupndown]

My wife bought me (herself) one for Christmas a couple of years back. Apart from preferring something more car related for presents it is really good and get a lot of use. It's very quick and convenient. Last weekend I was left unsupervised at Saturday tea time and so had to fend for myself. Cooked a steak, mushrooms and onions in a traditional pan. Peeled and cut proper chips, boiled them for 10 mins, dried them then whacked them in the air fryer with a little oil for 20 mins. The nicest chips I have tasted in ages

 

[daleyd]

We've got a Ninja one, had it since last christmas - the type that does slow cooking, air frying, pressure cooking etc. It gets used a lot in our house, in fact it's replaced 2 other kitchen goods that actually didn't get used that much (Slow cooker, fryer)

The air frying is very good - gets food crisper and in a much quicker time than the oven, and chips just need a light coating of oil - slow cooker is good, pressure cooking and then roasting a whole chicken is great (Juicy meat, crispy on the outside and again much quicker than the oven). It can also do dehydrated stuff like tomatoes, fruits etc

It's doubtful it would ever "pay for itself" but it's much quicker (And presumably therefore cheaper) than the normal oven and the food that comes out of it is different, whether you prefer it or not is up to you (We do).

 

[Bobupndown]

Bobupndown wrote:
My wife bought me (herself) one for Christmas a couple of years back. Apart from preferring something more car related for presents it is really good and get a lot of use. It's very quick and convenient. Last weekend I was left unsupervised at Saturday tea time and so had to fend for myself. Cooked a steak, mushrooms and onions in a traditional pan. Peeled and cut proper chips, boiled them for 10 mins, dried them then whacked them in the air fryer with a little oil for 20 mins. The nicest chips I have tasted in ages

Bob,

As most would have been cooked, like yours, elsewhere than in the ‘air-firer’, I would likely do the whole meal by having boiled tats instead of chips. Maybe even a couple of croquettes from the freezer instead of boiled tats.

That would mean all mine could be cooked on gas - at much reduced cost than electricity. The way I like my steak would mean the whole meal could easily be arranged to be ready at approx the same time.

Plenty of ways to cook, we all like different things. For me 9 times out of 10 I'd have chips with my steak

 

[DAPPH]

Bobupndown wrote:
My wife bought me (herself) one for Christmas a couple of years back. Apart from preferring something more car related for presents it is really good and get a lot of use. It's very quick and convenient. Last weekend I was left unsupervised at Saturday tea time and so had to fend for myself. Cooked a steak, mushrooms and onions in a traditional pan. Peeled and cut proper chips, boiled them for 10 mins, dried them then whacked them in the air fryer with a little oil for 20 mins. The nicest chips I have tasted in ages

Bob,

As most would have been cooked, like yours, elsewhere than in the ‘air-firer’, I would likely do the whole meal by having boiled tats instead of chips. Maybe even a couple of croquettes from the freezer instead of boiled tats.

That would mean all mine could be cooked on gas - at much reduced cost than electricity. The way I like my steak would mean the whole meal could easily be arranged to be ready at approx the same time.

We lightly cook the steaks on both sides in the preheated air fryer , take them out & let them rest whilst the chipped parboiled ( 4.5 min ) spuds are being done ,
It consistently gives us the best medium rare steaks & oil reduced chips we've ever had if they're done like that .

Talking of electricity, savings of eight or more years at least four times a week @ 1 kw for a max of 1/2 an hours time including preheat against gas or electric to do the same task . We used to use a 47 kg cylindder of propane a year before we got the air fryer , cost the till then was about £56 a cylinder .
After the airfryer arrived we use a cylinder every 30 months or so now , last 47kg cylinder cost us £79 in July this year a week later they'd hit £83 .

If we used the air fryer during good solar PV generation, it costs us nothing and we get paid for the electricity it uses.