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Also, AirFryer. Fryers have oil, right? Oh, this one doesn't. Air??? Air Fryer?? Not an oven. Not a fryer? I don't own a fryer anyway, they are gross with al

by jmacd 4y ago

Also, AirFryer. Fryers have oil, right? Oh, this one doesn't. Air??? Air Fryer?? Not an oven. Not a fryer? I don't own a fryer anyway, they are gross with all that oil. This fryer uses no oil?????!!!! My oven doesn't use oil either. But it's not a fryer! And then it gets bought.

izzydata 4y ago
By definition you can't fry something without oil. The food would need to have some oils inside of it already or you would have to use at least a little bit of oil to fry the food. But you could fry something in an oven by putting oil on it too. Otherwise you are just baking it.
- tarotuser 4y ago
  Exactly. If you ever have opened up an "air fryer", it's literally just a circular electric stove element with a metal fan above it blowing down. Any way you look at this device, is substandard, not frying, and best saving your money elsewhere.
  - nerdawson 4y ago
    If it works and is capable of cooking your food better and faster than a standard oven, who cares what’s inside?
  - seized 4y ago
    Strongly disagree. Maybe it's not "frying" in the sense of a big bucket of boiling oil, but there is a huge array of cooking that is vastly faster with my air fryer. Roasting veggies, roasted potatoes, frozen foods like fries, things like that. I can be done with a batch of fries before my oven has even gotten to temperature. Massive time savings.
  - majikandy 4y ago
    Haha. Funny, but doesn’t match widespread opinion. Personally it is the best money I have ever spent in my kitchen. Fantastic results. Food often even better than fried, oven baked, pan fried or grilled. I explicitly choose my air fryer for certain cooking even though all those other options available to me. So the opposite of substandard to be honest… there must be a word for that?
  - err4nt 4y ago
    You can use oil - that works too!
majikandy 4y ago
And then you try it, still confused how this can fry. And after the first couple of cooks, you don’t care anymore and wouldn’t give up this gadget! For me the USP is the slide in and out basket, ability to do a little shake. The convenience of that over a tray in the oven and the washing up and the turning and the burning one side of the items… is priceless

by jmacd 4y ago

izzydata 4y ago

By definition you can't fry something without oil. The food would need to have some oils inside of it already or you would have to use at least a little bit of oil to fry the food. But you could fry something in an oven by putting oil on it too. Otherwise you are just baking it.

tarotuser 4y ago
Exactly. If you ever have opened up an "air fryer", it's literally just a circular electric stove element with a metal fan above it blowing down. Any way you look at this device, is substandard, not frying, and best saving your money elsewhere.
- nerdawson 4y ago
  If it works and is capable of cooking your food better and faster than a standard oven, who cares what’s inside?
- seized 4y ago
  Strongly disagree. Maybe it's not "frying" in the sense of a big bucket of boiling oil, but there is a huge array of cooking that is vastly faster with my air fryer. Roasting veggies, roasted potatoes, frozen foods like fries, things like that. I can be done with a batch of fries before my oven has even gotten to temperature. Massive time savings.
- majikandy 4y ago
  Haha. Funny, but doesn’t match widespread opinion. Personally it is the best money I have ever spent in my kitchen. Fantastic results. Food often even better than fried, oven baked, pan fried or grilled. I explicitly choose my air fryer for certain cooking even though all those other options available to me. So the opposite of substandard to be honest… there must be a word for that?
- err4nt 4y ago
  You can use oil - that works too!

majikandy 4y ago

And then you try it, still confused how this can fry. And after the first couple of cooks, you don’t care anymore and wouldn’t give up this gadget! For me the USP is the slide in and out basket, ability to do a little shake. The convenience of that over a tray in the oven and the washing up and the turning and the burning one side of the items… is priceless