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polle@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Can someone can explain why airfryer hype so hard? I cant find the difference to an oven with air circulation, that mostly everyone already has.
idk. We used to have a toaster oven, but my wife insisted on replacing it with an air fryer. I liked the toaster oven more.
plus, good god, the whole house smelled like burned plastic for hours after warming it up the first feqw times. That can’t be good for anyone.
It’s great for up to 3 person household, as using convection oven mean slower cooking time. I could do roasted potato for under 15 min(not including the boiling part), but for convection oven it’s gonna be 45min or more. The small size and the way hot air directly blow at the food makes it a superior cooking ware for small portion.
The result of the food also closer to deepfry than baking. Though it’s not gonna be as crisp as deepfry, but it’s also not gonna be as dry as oven bake.
I have a convection toaster oven/air fryer, and even that is way better than my oven.
Whatever the baking instructions are normally, I can cut 25% of the time off (actually have to or it will burn), plus I don’t have to bother preheating it, unless the cook time is very short.
Plus it uses way less power than the fullsize oven. The one I have takes forever to preheat and has to be set 25 degrees higher, and the convection function doesn’t seem to make any difference because the fan blows. As in it sucks, and I don’t mean the air behind it.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
faster because smaller volume
Zink@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Yep, and we recently switched out our old “air fryer” to replace it with a toaster oven that has convection and an air frying mode. But it can do toaster oven stuff like bake and broil pretty well, and with a wider tray than any air fryer basket.
Our big oven is pretty good too. It has a convection fan and various modes and whatnot. The air frying toaster oven literally duplicates functions it already gives us, but it’s worth taking up a large kitchen gadget spot just for the speed and efficiency including sometimes not heating up the house. (I’m in the US, air fryers and toaster ovens use 120V 15A outlets while the oven is on 240V 30+A.)
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I really want a toaster oven. just not enough to have bothered to buy one
I’ve got an air fryer that I use pretty often, but a toaster oven would be more useful to me. good to know there’s ones with convection / air frying ability now, neat
I’m lucky to have tons of counter space for gadgets. and yeah not running the oven in the summer is fantastic, as I like it cooooold in the house