4 ms·

Asking to a pro if Air fryer worh buing he said: "think about professional kitchen. If you found something in a restaurant then can be helpful even for no pro.

• JakobH 4y ago
  My selfmade chips are way better from my air fryer than the oven.
  • OJFord 4y ago
    > My selfmade chips are way better from my [tabletop oven] than the [integrated/under-counter/floorstanding] oven Something is different - it's not that one was sold as 'air fryer'.
    • JakobH 4y ago
      My air fryer has a spinning thing in the middle, wich turns my chips around, so i would say thats a plus! But yea, it is basicly a small oven. Maybe it uses less energie.
      • OJFord 4y ago
        By virtue if being smaller it does yes - there's an argument for using as small an oven as possible for sure - but the return on investment of that for having multiple different sized ovens is bound to be longer than the product's lifetime. (I broke my oven door, rather than pay £150 plus labour opted to pay £280 for a new oven. That was a Bosch, certainly not the cheapest possible.)
        • ruste 4y ago
          Personally the return on the air fryer for me is a direct result of it being smaller. For most things my larger kitchen oven needs time to preheat. That's an additional step that isn't required when I just want to roast some vegetables / meat or heat some frozen potato products quickly in the air fryer. This time / extra step is well worth cost for me ($20 of fb marketplace).
    • deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
• mathieuh 4y ago
  An air fryer that does a good job can be had for under £100. Show me a pro-level oven in the same price range and I'd buy one of them. As it stands, I use the air fryer.
  • OJFord 4y ago
    Because they're a lot smaller? Anyway your house/flat probably came with an oven, so it's 'free'; the 'under £100' for a countertop oven/air fryer is additional. Assuming you only look at electric fan ovens (the vast vast vast majority these days) more money buys you better insulation mainly. A brand too of course (maybe better R&D/thought gone into the controls/ergonomics etc. hand in hand with that) - but not somehow better food. 'Pro-level' ones obviously cost more, buying reliability & service primarily. Still not somehow better food, don't buy a commercial oven for a home kitchen.
    • UncleMeat 4y ago
      I've never rented a place that came with a convection oven. When I recently purchased a home, the oven that was here was also not a convection oven. An air fryer is just a small convection oven that sits on the countertop. But this has real benefits. You get better browning by being close to the element. It is more energy-efficient because it heats far less air. You get the benefits of convection. They also tend to be much easier to clean. There are costs - you waste counterspace and you need to own another thing. But "just buy a convection oven" isn't an option for a lot of people.
      • OJFord 4y ago
        Interesting, where (country) do you live that that's the case? Honestly, if they didn't put separate fan temperature/time on the back of stuff (increasingly they don't actually, more and more I'm seeing fan only) I'd honestly never have known anything else existed. I've never lived anywhere with one, didn't see any for sale when I bought one (to replace broken one) a couple of years ago. (UK)
        • 4y ago
• lkiernan 4y ago
  Home ovens are also just low quality ovens. Not a good analogy. Air fryers should really be called individual ovens. They’re basically the same but more efficient