If you actually cared about space you wouldn’t have an air fryer and a rice cooker. You would use a convection oven and a pan respectively. Also how is it any easier to do boiled eggs? Surely the hardest part is peeling it. Rice cookers I can see being useful because they avoid cleaning pans with rice stuck to the bottom all the time.
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 months agoAgreed on all of these points.
The major difference in effort is to carry the smelly deepfryer to the garage because no way would we keep that on the counter top and cramped storage tiny kitchen.
While the air fryer has can easily live on the counter’s top especially with all the extra stuff it can do. (The Easiest soft Boiled eggs ftw) we keep it right next to the equally life saving expansive rice coocker. Workspace is a plank on the stove, who needs pans and pots? (Exaggeration)
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 8 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Each their own executive dysfunction i guess,
I do care a lot about space but i cant hold a job and cook a semi healthy meal everyday. So i barely used the space and just ate junk food and takeaway. Sacrificing the space for these devices means a decent meal can be optained with no more then 5 min of prep and wasting for a “ding”, no concentration required.
On some days just dealing with finding the right pan or pot and remembering that oh shit i have sm on the fire is believe it or not a challenge for me personally.
For boilder eggs i just trow em in the air fryer for 6min and there consistently perfect.
Once their on my plate most of my personal executive dysfunction disappears, i never struggled opening eggs up.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I am a bit lost on what you can do with one that an oven can’t. I get they are slightly faster and more energy efficient, but functionally I thought they were basically the same. What am I missing?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Technical abilities aren’t all that different towards an oven but convenience is at least compared to my conventional oven
Airfryers are alot quicker. modern models dont even require preheating so there is much less need to plan ahead.
The results is also much crispier (from trying to simulate a fryer) so some stuff intended for oven actually tastes better from an airfryer, i find more and more boxes of fried stuff like chicken nuggets that are intended for air fryers that ovens used to struggle with. (At least subjective tastewise) there is one exception which is pizza, i am rather peculiar in how i like my pizza.
bonus is energy efficiency but admittedly the real major reason i and my household love it is the super low bar of a quick easy meal where before we defaulted much more to junk.
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yes, it’s good to cook rice in a, [checks notes], pan.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Are you saying you have never cooked rice in a pan?
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’ve fried already-cooked rice in a pan, but when I cook rice it’s in a pot. Have you cooked rice in a pan?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ok I love my air fryer but I do not understand the love for rice cookers. It’s just so easy to cook rice already. The hard and annoying part is washing the rice
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
The difference is the cooker consistently makes better rice then anyone i know, we imported it from Asia and holy fuck have they perfected the science of rice cooking.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But does it pilaf? I like to toast my rice in a seasoned oil a little bit before cooking it. Ideally with spices similar to what are in the curry or beans going with it