Air Fryer
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Dave H.
Revolutionary relativist
I thought the same thing about getting a rice cooker.
Until I got one.
Edit: Well, and equivalent thing - I didn’t think the rice cooker would do chips!
Doesn't clinch the deal. We eat more rice than chips. And a rice cooker is a lot cheaper than an air fryer.
Used it every week and then replaced it with something else ? That is a deal breaker !
Dave H.
Revolutionary relativist
Mine wasn’t. It was a birthday-present-to-self kind of thing, and I thought sod it, if I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it properly.
So I got one of these.
My OH is generally against spending money on anything at all, yet alone that much on something to cook rice when we have perfectly good saucepans in the cupboard. Yet even she now (only semi-ironically) comments on how great it is virtually every time we use it.
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russel
./_dazed_and_confused
I don’t like the taste, or rather lack of it, from shop bought oven chips but figured out how to make my own and not have to buy an air fryer, basically I was banned from doing so. Just chip the spuds, dry them put them in a bowl then put a small amount of oil in and mix them up until evenly covered, bung them in a microwave for five or six mins, chuck in oven on baking paper at 220C middle shelf no fan, turn a couple of times and about twenty five minutes later lovely chips and no mess.
We got a Tefal ActiFry a few years ago. Huge and useless. Chips were rubbish and we ended up giving it away. Last year we tried a Cosori air fryer due to the great reviews on Amazon. not so huge and does a good job with sausages but not much else. Like the Tefal, rubbish at chips. I don't think we've used it for months so just sits taking up space.
I do like the Remoskas, though, low power consumption, do pretty much anything an oven can do (meat joints, baked spuds etc all good), but I still wouldn't bother putting chips in it. And don't get me started on juicers.
I do like the Remoskas, though, low power consumption, do pretty much anything an oven can do (meat joints, baked spuds etc all good), but I still wouldn't bother putting chips in it. And don't get me started on juicers.
Mullardman
Moderately extreme...
I have no interest in frying Air.
david ellwood
Kirabosi Kognoscente
Just bought a ninja air fryer.
Really impressed!
Really impressed!
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
It would appear Jay Rayner agrees with you.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...-fryer-they-are-dull-dry-and-very-sad-as-am-i
mykel
Perpetual Hack.
Chips / Fries - whatever you want to call them are rubbish unless a great vat of hot fat is involved. Air fryer does better than a bog standard oven in my experience. Edible yes, but they are not really the same food. If done properly, they come out closer to roasties.
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
had superb roast spuds today, the key is not to overload, hence the part crisp skin.