The rise in popularity of the air fryers is the most absurd thing I have ever witnessed.

It's literally a fan oven, but it's smaller and goes on your kitchen countertop.

All kitchens already have a fan oven, but people are going crazy over one that is smaller and takes up more of your kitchen space.

People are so fucking dumb it's unreal.

It’s nice to reheat fries and pizza. Also does salmon really well.

>>21474343 (OP)
2018 called, says it has a cease and desist order on OP for making this thread, yet again. Call your lawyer, man.

>>21474343 (OP)
>It's literally a fan oven

it's cheaper to run, faster to preheat, faster to cook. it's a more efficient fan oven.

I’d like to add that it’s really good for people who are learning to cook as a crutch. Some people are cooklets.

>>21474358
>It’s nice to reheat fries and pizza
Pleb, but you can do it in the oven.
>Salmon
Air fryers are not actually frying. Salmon should be FRIED, not baked.
>>21474362
sybau
>>21474365
>more efficient
For small portions maybe. Who the fuck buys an appliance to heat up a plate's worth of food.

It’s quicker dough

>>21474343 (OP)
>Takes away the preheat
It's good for personal cooking
Oven obviously for big ass parties and shit that don't fit in the airfryer

>>21474374
>For small portions maybe. Who the fuck buys an appliance to heat up a plate's worth of food.

single people. did you really need me to answer?

>>21474343 (OP)
My mom bought an air fryer when they were first coming out, way before the trend. We made fries and they were unbelievably crispy, they were indistinguishable from fried.
Fast forward 8 years and now everyone has them but they seem to suck now, the food comes out like it was cooked in an oven.
It might just be the rose tint but I swear air fryers used to better, the food actually seemed fried.

>>21474374
>For small portions maybe. Who the fuck buys an appliance to heat up a plate's worth of food.
lucky ass gf having cunt

>>21474396
Air fryers can be found in the kitchen of every middle class family. Not exactly a neet incel appliance.

The funniest thing about air fryers is that Americans drive massive pick up trucks and SUVs for no reason that just liking big cars but then they'll tell you air fryers are cheaper and more efficient than ovens.

>>21474402
how much food can a microwave heat up? they're found in every kitchen worldwide.

>>21474399
A lot of "air fryers" that are on the market now are just toaster ovens/counter top convection ovens that they have changed the packaging of to get on the trend. Here's an example- this is a halogen oven model I have. I needed to buy one recently because the one I'd had for five or so years had broken. It turns out they are now slapping the "air fryer" label onto them, despite them never having been marketed as such until now.

Now, all air fryers are just convection ovens at the end of the day, but the thing that used to set them apart was the very high temps and extremely quick fan speeds that meant you could almost simulate actual deep frying. Now, it is just a trendy label, because I guess there are no standards as to what you can sell as an "air fryer".

>>21474414
forgot to attatch pic. This is the model of oven I have that they are now selling as an "air fryer"

>>21474413
Microwaves are also used to defrost, to heat up ingredients for cooking, reheat food, and microwave meals. Everyone needs one for at least one reason.

>>21474414
This explains why every time I've heated air ""fried"" food it's tasted like regular convection oven cooked food.

>>21474421
what if someone wants to cook a single porition but doesn't want it to be a soggy mess cooked in a microwave. you can have families that don't all eat at the same time, or maybe only 1 person in home and they don't want to heat the entire oven. air fryer has a use purpose that sits between an oven and a microwave. it's small and efficient like a microwave but cooks like an oven.

>>21474343 (OP)
If you are looking for an air fryer, I strongly suggest getting one with two compartments. This will allow you to cook the protein in one of them, and a side dish in the other simultaneously. Personally, I like the Cosori Turbo Power Pro. Its vertical design is perfect for small kitchens, and unlike the Ninja one it has the heating elements and fans on the top, achieving perfect results. Americans abstain, your pathetic 110V power plugs are barely enough to power even a single air fryer, never mind a double compartment one.

if you're single and lazy get one, if you have to cook for more than one average adult and actually want to enjoy what you cook leave it on the shelf.

>>21474581
ERM.... IT'S 120V SWEETY....
In reality though higher voltage doesn't strictly mean more power. that air fryer (and most anything you have) can be ran on a 30A 120v outlet, you'd just need a bigger gauge wire.
There's not many appliances I can think of that use over 1800w anyways. That being said I'd still prefer to have 240v outlets.

>>21474362
Did you warn it what's about to happen in two years?

>>21474431
Put it in the pan with a teaspoon of oil?

>contrarian boomers itt

lmao I use mine every single day, it's amazing. If I am cooking for more than two sure I'll use an oven. But I can now use the oven and the air fryer at the same time. There is no way to better reheat leftovers. You can put frozen food in the combo versions and they cycle microwaving/convection to quickly defrost and cook whatever food without it turning tough. Absolutely goated piece of hardware. I can only imagine the people against it are so poor they don't have any more room in their tiny kitchens to store another appliance..

>>21474924
>There is no way to better reheat leftovers

The pan...?

What are some good brands of air fryers?

>>21474399
Which brand did your mom get?

>>21474343 (OP)
you might as well complain about toasters because you can literally get way better toast by frying bread in oil/mayo on a pan
honestly i don't get why there wasn't some massive rollout of overengineered ranges that contain 50 different features, there's so many fucking extremely useful gadgets (microwave, air fryer, pressure cooker, sous vide, slow cooker, smoker [they have indoor ones now], dehydrator, yogurt maker, steamer, etc.) i can't believe that they haven't been building them into your typical stove for the past 20 years.

>>21474974

>3.5mm headphone jack
too unrealistic

>>21474924
I can use a pan and even oil to actually fry, takes about as much time.

>>21474374
It’s the new microwave cooking for one. I recommend baked potatoes

>>21474343 (OP)
SINKS are bullshit

The rise in popularity of the sink is the most absurd thing I have ever witnessed.

It's literally a bathtub, but it's smaller and goes on your bathroom countertop.

All bathrooms already have a bathtub, but people are going crazy over one that is smaller and takes up more of your bathroom space.

People are so fucking dumb it's unreal.

>>21475052
>still hung up on the word "fry"

let it go, no one gives a shit about that. we all know they are not actually frying.

What are the best frozen brands to buy for tendies, wings etc???

>>21474804
This air fryer uses 2800W

heating up a huge oven for everything always felt retarded

>>21474343 (OP)
You're fucking bullshit.

>>21474374
how about i bake my cock in your ass, faggot

>>21474343 (OP)
you're tellin me this thing fries air?

>>21474374
>An entire appliance to heat up a plate
Microwave industry in shambles.

>>21474343 (OP)
I'm not waiting for my normal oven to preheat when I can instantly use my airfryer.

>>21476079
You have to pre heat the air fryer too

I had one of these before I sold my house and downsized considerably. Got rid of it along with a lot of excess shit.
It WAS good for salmon and steaks, I never used it to cook frozen stuff like nuggies or fries, if I wanted that there was a perfectly good Wendy's just down the road.

My main concern is a mostly plastic appliance that's 400° in less than a square foot of space. After a few uses it would smoke, A LOT. Don't trust it, same as I no longer trust seafood boil bags or oven turkey bags. I'm done using plastic in my cooking. Glass, wood, and steel only, it was good enough for my forebears, it's good enough for me. Fuck all this trendy shit

Autists should have their internet access restricted.

>>21474343 (OP)
Those plastic tub air fryers are kind of a meme but still have limited usefulness. What you really want is a mini convection oven with air fryer functions, aka a mini convection oven. Those are great.

>>21476130
ironically, air fryers are a very reddit/techbro thing.

>>21474343 (OP)
It’s just a convection oven but it does cook in a particular way which makes things more crispy.

>>21474418
This one is pretty much the immediate ancestor of the air fryer. Its functioning principle is identical. Such halogen ovens were super common 20 or so years ago.
Air fryers replaced them primarily due to 1) convenience (cleaning that big glass bowl is a bitch, and some are too big for dishwashers); 2) speed (air fryers "fry" faster due to smaller volume, meaning quicker heating, and higher airflow, meaning consistently higher temperature); 3) size (most people don't need a full-size halogen over's capacity anymore).

>>21474343 (OP)
>All kitchens have a fan oven
Convection ovens are rare in the USA.
Conventional ovens are the norm, be they gas or electric.

A countertop oven or air fryer is still useful because they don't draw as much power, heat up faster, and don't warm your house as much as using a full sized oven.

>>21476301
>Convection ovens are rare in the USA.
holy shit that's weird
in europe you can't even buy conventional ovens any more

>>21474374
>Air fryers aren't frying

Toss the taters in some oil before shoving them in there and they do indeed fry up nicely.

>>21476303
Think they never took off because they were pretty expensive compared to conventional ovens and they were mainly electric. While electric ovens and ranges are common now, gas stoves and burners were the standard for pretty much anybody with a house until well into the 80s and you don't just flip from gas to electric overnight, so it was boomers getting new homes and Gen Xers mainly changing that up.

Even then pretty much 100% of recipes were built with conventional ovens in mind and you got a change cook times and temps a bit for convection ovens.

The more baffling invention was definitely the very short lived refrigerated oven. The concept was you prepped your meal, put in an oven that stayed refrigerated until time to cook, then it got hot using convection, cooked the food, then kept it warm all based on timers.

Pitched as an item for working moms or some shit. It failed spectacularly because it was twice the price of a bad ass oven and if you had that kind of cash you were just eating out constantly or the wife was a stay at home mom anyway.

>>21476301
Nigger fucking what?
Most ovens you buy now have convection fans, even ranges have them.
Is this another one of those "Americans don't have these" post?
Fucking hell, rent free for sure kys

convection oven = mediocre fart
airfryer = jet engine

>>21474343 (OP)
>People are so fucking dumb it's unreal.
I agree. OP is as dumb as a fucking bag of rocks.

My oven does not have a fucking fan. It even claims to be "convection" like you retards spam. It will not render ANY fried food I place into it crispy. It is just a hot box to bake stuff in. Meanwhile, my air fryer DOES have a fan in it, that runs nonstop, to get shit nice and crispy. It works a real treat on frozen fries, tendies, egg rolls, fried shrimp, pretty much anything pre-fried and frozen.

Even better is I got a combo one, so it's a nuke box, mini oven, and air fryer. So no counter space wasted. That sucker is great for warming fast food that got cold.

>>21474407
Because it is due to no preheat time. I have to wait minutes for oven preheat. Air fryer "says" you should, but fuck that food goes right in and it works. That's many minutes of my time saved. And I have an SUV so I can haul shit and tow a trailer, which I periodically need. I don't live in a city where I can pay illegals to do everything for me.

>>21474974
Cost and lack of interest. Americans are too goyslop indoctrinated to cook at home, the cooktop is just for looks. Hence why all the cooktops are sleek glass designs with lines printed on them, and old ass tech under the hood.

I mean fuck the original 20s coil shit that used bimetallic strips is still around today, and that is still in use for IR tops. Only recently with the inductor cooktops has ACTUAL innovation happened (like temp control), and that hasn't stopped them from scamming people with less copper in them than advertised.

You would think someone would have merged all the cooking tech into one big device. But nope.

To be fair, my range does have a wok holder and griddle attachment. But that is as advanced as it comes.

>>21476327
>refrigerated oven

>>21476384
I'm American and he's right, that's why recipes still use conventional oven temperatures and times.

>>21476611
>My oven does not have a fucking fan. It even claims to be "convection" like you retards spam
you are poor and got a cheap one or got scammed
>And I have an SUV so I can haul shit and tow a trailer
you don't haul shit nibba your groceries and shit will fit in the back of any honda civic or toyota corolla

>>21476384
Go to lowes or any other appliance dealer, conventional electric ovens are more common.

Hilariously, the new way convection ovens are being marketed is as "air fryer style" ovens.

>>21474374
People who cannot attract a mate and produce offspring.