Why the FUCK did you guys tell me air fryers were a meme?

we aso told you sneed oils were a meme too

It's sour grapes. It's sour grapes because you're all poor and can't afford a quality air fryer, isn't it?

>>21465700 (OP)
because they're just a $200 hot dog cooker.

>>21465716
I have a cheap one and it's great other than the toxic plastic fumes it probably creates.

>>21465724
I haven't used my oven since I got an airfrier 7 months ago

>>21465724
mine's a teriyaki chicken thigh cooker

>>21465700 (OP)
because they are. they're just plastic coated convection ovens. you can't even cook a 14" pizza in that stupid person basket ffs.

>>21465735
said it best, they're cool but they're awful to use. the safe ones are just smaller ovens

>>21465700 (OP)
It's the baking equivalent of the microwave. Cooks things much faster but much lower quality. It's mainly for lazy college kids and man children who never learned how to cook. An actual oven is always going to produce better results.

>>21465736
So you make meals from the kids' menu?
When it's Thanksgiving, are you gonna air fray the turkey in quarters?

>>21465700 (OP)
Because it's a little convection oven for poors.

does a full size convection oven get it as cwispy?

I don't think convection ovens are as common in US as UK anyway. never used one

>>21466185
This is a terminology problem, and it's why everyone gets so fucking confused. American ovens do not circulate air. They just don't, the little fan in them is for temperature regulation, and it only runs when required. They poop out hot air to drop the temp. There is no air circulation in a convection oven. The heat rises yes, but that is VASTLY different from what an air fryer does.

An air fryer is a broiler heating element and a fan that circulates hot air VERY fast, for the entire duration of the cook. Unless the oven was built with this feature in - and you'd hear it blast a loud ass fan doing it nonstop - your oven will not perform the drying feature that air frying does. The combination of air circulation and hot air works like an amped up food dehydrator, and it dries the surface of the food quickly. This provides the crisping effect.

Toaster ovens with a fan can do this, or if they contain an air fry mode. BUT if they do not have a fan and use "convection" aka radiant heat, they will not crisp the items being cooked, except as what you get from the oven-food temp differential.

/cook/lets take advantage of this terminology problem and dunk on air fryers, despite them being a useful tech. Especially since they use FAR less power and have much less waste heat in the kitchen.

I don't recommend the cheap plastic ones, it's better to get a combo device that does multiple things. Saves counter space and ensures it doesn't get put up and forgotten.

>>21466185
I have a large (shitty) convection oven and a small cheap air fryer. The air fryer will cook home fries in about half the time and they will be crispier.

>>21465700 (OP)
>>21465708
What do you think 'meme' means? It can't be food ingredients and cooking equipment. You need to consult a dictionary.

>>21466308
>they will be crispier.
crispier on the outside AND less dehydrated overall

>>21466310
any unit of culture can be a meme

>>21465700 (OP)
Doesn't heat up the house.

Should have done your own research

>>21466749
Now what's this. Air fryers doesn't melt cheese?

>>21466310
Let me guess your definition, anon. Is it
>le funni picture XD
How close to the mark am I?

>>21465736
>i bought an oven, i dont even use my oven anymore

>>21466308
I have an expensive Thermador oven that was like $15000 new and my air fryer still does what it does better than my oven. Even if it didn’t, heating up an air fryer takes like 2 minutes, vs 30 minutes to an hour for the big oven.

Of course, an oven can do more things than an air fryer, but it’s not going to beat it at the one thing it is specifically designed to do well.

>>21465700 (OP)
Not a meme, but avoid the basic-bitch ones with Teflon cooking baskets. Buy one with an all steel wire basket.

Air fried sausages have changed my life (to the tune of about 30 pounds)

>>21467039
this, my basket's all chipped up so I use airfryer liners to avoid eating the non-stick but I'm sure I'm just replacing it with microplastics from the liners
>>21467048
what do you do with them?

how much does a good one cost?

ITT: retards who think FAT BAD because they utterly refuse to use beef tallow instead of "vegetable" oil or some other shit tier cooking oil/fat

>>21467157
deep frying at home is the worst, even if your schizo post were relevant

>>21467162
Lmao you dumb niggers eat lazy trash food and think it makes you healthier

>>21467162
This.

>>21467202
Literally just put a lid on it

>>21466923
i think the cheese was just added after

>>21465700 (OP)
lmfao buying a tiny plastic oven like a slave, ngmi

>>21467162
cooking something in a glorifed toaster oven doesn't come close to the results of deep frying no matter how much you like to pretend it does. may as well just stick to frozen tendies rather than waste your effort doing a three stage breading like that. deep frying is simply superior (despite being a hassle)

>>21467202
I was expecting a classic oil + water explosion, that was quite the cool headed handling of the situation.

>>21467202
just put the lid back on and turn off the hob idiot

>>21467469
this is also why you don't preheat a pan before putting the oil and don't put a fucking lid on while the oil heats up. what did this numb nuts think he was doing? making stew?

>>21465700 (OP)
My oven is an air fryer

>>21467157
honestly its a lot of effort, less effort to shallow fry in the oven vs on the top and its still a hassle. pic was done in lard in a cast iron frying pan in the oven, few months later oven caught fire guessing from all the fat spotlets accumulating on the element over the years

>>21467048
>sausages

Why for those not use a piece of high tech called a "pan"? Scalable for efficiency (if you have less sausages use a smaller one), quick and fries your sausages to perfection.

>>21465700 (OP)
>Mmhmmm micro plastics.