Posted on 12/27/2020 7:12:20 AM PST by mylife
The air fryer certainly had a dramatic, messy year, but it’s not her fault. All she wanted to do was serve up hot and crispy food in record time, but all the pedants of the world wanted to talk about was how she was “just a small convection oven” that “didn’t really fry anything.”
That may be true, but a small convection oven that heats super quickly and turbo-crisps your food is very valuable, especially if your oven doesn’t have a dang convection setting. (Also, my oven does have a convection setting, and it takes twice as long to get those same, gloriously crispy results). If you end up being the proud owner of a new air fryer this holiday season, you should christen it with one of the following.
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Yeah bet all the settings and sub menus confuse me.
Where the hell is Ron Popiel? I want to “set it and forget it”
We cooked a 14lb, Cajun marinade injected bird in one instead on the deep fryer and it was awesome. Also cook whole chicken and game hens. Delicious and moist.
The type we have is a pyrex bowl and cleaning is simple
Biggest drawback I see is even though a “12 quart” air fryer mine isn’t big enough. It is however several years old and there is now a new generation of these appliances with features like multiple racks and some can be loaded with food from the front.
Having said all that a couple of things we like are Turkey loins or pork loins. Both come out well.
Also, if you do any kind of seafood you must brush on a light coat of oil....especially shrimp, with no oil they turn to rubber. Fish fillets with old bay seasoning or salmon with a salmon seasoning all turn out well.
What model do you have?
I’m neither a ‘stoner’, nor a ‘dirtbag’ (at least, I don’t think so, certainly not for the former and hopefully not for the latter). As I live in ‘shared accommodation’, there is no oven. I have a Ninja Foodi Grill, which is a grill, it also bakes, roasts, and air fries. I like its versatility and, along with an Instant Pot pressure cooker and a microwave, I really don’t need to use the two induction elements in the basement kitchen.
The only downside is that, while the machine is advertised as being ‘smokeless’, it does smoke and set off thecfire alarm sometimes.
Well, my older than Biden mother has the thing sussed out pretty good and she has had it only 2 1/2 months.
Smores.
Fried air?
Eight minutes per side @ 400 degrees, a perfect medium rare one inch thick new york steak.
We use ours for bacon all the time. No smoke and I like that there’s no splatter. I do pull the pan out part way through to make sure it’s not sticking to the bottom and to rearrange the strips after they’ve shrunk a bit being partially cooked.
You just have to make sure there’s room for air circulation around the strips.
Works great!
Don’t tell me.
A bomb?
Or a missile?
Wait, it could be both!
Has anyone tried an Instant Pot Pressure cooker?
I have a new 6 qt Dash. Two simple dials, one for temp, the other for time. Breaded chicken tenders were first attempt...PERFECT!
My wife uses one all the time.
Of course her Mom used one all the time back in the 1950s in Cleveland - she did have one explosion but no injuries. Some property damage. Back then I think that kind of stuff didn’t immediately bring in BATF and tort attorneys.
No, but I use one of the newer safer pressure cookers frequently. Got a 7 lb. pork but from our butcher yesterday and made pulled pork. One hour in the pressure cooker.
LOL, I certainly did not take that comment by the author seriously...people who aren’t “stoners” or “dirtbags” also desire that food taste better than it does.
Stoners, of course, have a lower threshold of “tastiness”!
See???
That happens to me all the time on FR!
Now...we must get to the root of this, HighSierra5...tell us about your mother.
Thank you...:)
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