radhuni
Sous Chef
I want to buy an airfryer. It is totally new appliance will you please suggest about it?
I have never heard of them. Picture please? How does it work? More info?
It's a countertop oven that lets you "oven fry" food. It's not a fryer, really.
"Using Rapid Air technology, the Airfryer circulates hot air around a metal mesh cooking basket, requiring little or no oil as it fries, bakes and grills. The starfish design on the bottom of the Airfryer facilitates air circulation, ensuring your favorite foods cook evenly."
I agree that the basic design principle is based on the concept of the convection oven, so it really is more like "baking" that "frying", BUT in practice, the small size of the Airfryer relative to the heating element and the size of the fan means that the heat is really concentrated and the fan much more effective at vaporizing the oil droplets into a very small space, so good crispy results can be obtained that would be impossible if you baked the same items in a normal convection oven. Baking foods, eg, spring rolls, chicken kievs, etc, in a convection oven that were really meant to be fried will often result in a disappointing un-crisp coating, sometimes too soggy and sometimes hard like cardboard. But in the Airfryer they turn out really crispily.
Frozen "already-prepared" supermarket foods for frying, eg, various frozen crumbed and battered foods, will not require any additional oil at all. In addition, excess oil inside these foods are collected into the tray underneath. Fresh foods with their own fat, eg, chicken wings and pork belly, etc, will not require any additional oil for cooking. Fresh foods without their own fat will require 1 or 2 seconds of cooking oil spray, or otherwise, you can add a maximum of one tablespoon of oil mixed into the crumb mix for the entire batch.
My favourite food to cook in the Airfryer is Roast Duck Breast. I just rub Chinese five spice powder all over the deboned duck breasts, then lightly sprinkle the skin side with a little bit of salt, and put them into the Airfryer for 22 minutes. Too easy to get yummily bubbling golden crispy skin! I am 100% sure that I cannot get these same results in my convection oven.
The only slight inconvenience that I have found with the Airfryer is that fresh meats can leave some bits stuck onto the wire mesh, but I just use a small brush to scrub the mesh on both sides, and every once in a while when I am feeling obsessive, I use a clean toothbrush to scrub the rim underneath the wire mesh as well.
My sister and cousin have bought their own Airfryers after trying the Roast Duck Breasts I cooked for them at a party. I have also cooked 12 of these Roast Duck Breasts for 40 people to eat as part of a lunch. Everyone said they tasted great and many people asked me how I got the skin so crispy, and I gave all the credit to the Airfryer, because honestly, how can I take credit just for rubbing on some Chinese five spice powder and sprinkling on a little bit of salt? Even the Chinese people at the lunch were saying that they thought my Roast Duck Breasts tasted better than the Roast Duck fresh out of the oven at the Chinese BBQ shops.
We have a TFal ActiFry that we have used a few times but for the past year has been sitting in a cupboard. I can't say I would recommend this particular air fryer as the only thing it seems to do well is french fries. They won't taste like fast food fries but they aren't bad. And you can't use it for freshly breaded, floured or battered foods. The coating will come off. (the paddle knocks the coating off)
I think the Phillips model might have been a better choice but I don't see how it could cook anything better than I can do in our convection microwave or oven.
Thank you for your review on the Tfal. It had crossed my mind about that paddle knocking coated items off.Cooking in a circle might spin me twice round baby twice round. Like a record baby twice round, round round.. You know. (good luck getting that tune out of your mind for the rest of the day.) Doesn't sound like much fun. Inconvenient if you want to cook a steak.
I'm also looking at the Big Boss models on Amazon. Phillips to.
I wish the YouTube videos would show a little more info on the products.
Were planning a long vacation on the road soon.One of these would be perfect for when were tired of eating out and just want to stay in our suite and cook in for a few nights.
Can they be used with an AC Adaptor. In the truck.If we decide to stop at a park for a quick picnic lunch?
Thank you
Munky.
I think maybe we need to open a new air fryer cooking board. This one looks to be no longer active.
I'm new to air fryer cooking and would like to discuss recipes and shortcut procedures, and so on with others who are totally in love with air fryer cooking. I don't need to discuss purchasing models. I'm past that point. I want to discuss recipes and a multitude of how-to-do's. I am a single person household and basically cook for one, with left overs.
Please advise if I should look for an air fryer forum elsewhere. Thanks.
CB