Air fryers

Thanks Debsc! We probably haven't got much kitchen surface left to store a larger airfryer but it's interesting to hear what everyone thinks and how they use them. 

I have a Corsori-(18months old now) & it cooks a big chicken superbly for a Sunday roast-we sit it on foil to catch the fat. It cooks the Yorkshires to perfection but I’m not allowed to touch the roasties apparently they are oven specialities🤷🏻‍♂️🙄. Pizzas from frozen are quick & tasty too.

BBC Red Button is saying that some Air Fryers are more keenly sought after than some lottery tickets these days 

I swear by mine. Totally portable and you can do anything with them that you can do in an oven, assuming it will fit in, with half the electricity for often half the time.

We have a large one at home and it's used almost exclusively for main family meals. We also bought a smaller one that lives in the caravan and will easily cook meals for two/three. 

I gave toast a go too-not as good as the grill🤷🏻‍♂️, that could be me mind. . .Too much time in the AF I created a bread biscuit unfortunately🙄. I can’t praise it enough particularly Yorkshires geez they are so quick. In fact one of my relatives views them as pudding & slathers jam on em. When they visit it’s tea & Yorky pud for them😊

We have been considering getting one for a while, but OH was not sure that it would save money compared to using our small half oven.  Both  our ovens are fan ovens, and we only ever use the full size one if we have visitors.  And when she uses the half oven she uses it for as much as possible in that meal.

Having hesitated a couple of months back, she finally decided to go for the Lakeland double air fryer next time she had a 20% off voucher, which is now, only to find that they were unavailable and her voucher would expire before they got them in again.

However, a Range store opened near us on Friday, and they were advertising air fryers, so we went along for a look.   Place was packed out, plenty of trollies piled high, but we found a couple of different models, and settled on a Salter dual drawer model.  Slightly less expensive initially than the Lakeland one, but then there was no 20% off.

It is quite big, so we will need to organise worktop space for it.  The instruction booklet leaves a lot to be desired, particularly when it comes to pre heating.....or not.   And the table of times and temperatures is equally lacking.  

Yesterday we did fish and chips, the chips were excellent, but the fish was a bit overcooked IMO.  A thicker fillet would have been OK.

Today we did a half chicken, ready roasted so only needed to be heated through, with roasted potato chunks, which turned out very well, and cauliflower, which refused  to cook!

Because there are so many different models/sizes/power levels available, cooking times and temperatures seem to be a bit "trial and error".  OH reckons she needs to start a notebook with details of which food had which temperature and cooking time when the results are satisfactory, as the suggestions in the instructions are so poor.

We find that our Air fryer and Slow Cooker/rice cooker make excellent kitchen companions. These being the Ninja Pro Grill air fryer and the Morphy Richards multicooker and these are used both home and away. Don’t think we've used the oven more than a couple of times in last year at home or in the motorhome.  Great thing is we can use these outside when the weather allows and they are so versatile.

We got a Ninja foodi whatever in 1 when we were getting a new kitchen last February and really it's our, OK Mrs C's, go to cooker. She does everything in it and the two new ovens hardly get used. I would get a few cookbooks for various recipes

We also have a smaller other make version that lives in the caravan which again is our main cooker there too.

Kjell ours is also a Salter duel drawer model. The cook book instructions are not brilliant but others tell me their brands instruction aren’t too good either. Yes it is rather trial and error but, as we get used to it, most things are turning out ok. I’ve also thought about the notebook method. One tip I will say is that we have found that cooking at 180, instead of the 200 suggested in the instructions, gives much better results.