It’s more like adding a leaf blower to it, but yeah it’s just a glorified convection oven.
Lots of modern ovens come with the feature, but you can’t just air fry in any old convection oven.
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expatriado@lemmy.world 5 days ago
the air frier is such a marketing genius, they used an established technology, the convection oven, packed it small and brand it as healthy, now everyone has it
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Xabis@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Plus it doesn’t take 15 minutes to preheat
Damage@feddit.it 5 days ago
You also don’t have to waste energy heating up a whole oven
bababu@feddit.org 5 days ago
but isn’t a conventional oven insulated better?
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I had one that took a few minutes to preheat, and others that you just toss the stuff in.
But yeah, it’s a marginal time with that one I would just start it and than go grab what I want to cook and it’ll be ready by then usually.
fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Especially on 230V circuits this is a big plus. It’s hot in a minute when my oven takes 12 minutes.
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I like them cause they cook faster and crisp better than convection ovens. A leaf blower, like the other person said.
Air fryer, automatic pressure cooker, and electric smoker: three appliances that every home cook should own to step up their meal game. Your food will taste so much better.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Ew, corpse eating. When will people realise that these disgusting religious practices aren’t okay to talk about in public? Nobody likes your corpse eating cult.
Comment105@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Kill yourself and donate your body to culinary science.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I’ll bite (pun semi- intended) how is it religious?
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
There’s no way a person who bases their decisions on scientific thinking would eat corpses. Not unless they were in a situation of absolute desperation. A person who bases their decisions on scientific thinking would determine there’s a very high chance killing is bad, and would just eat plants instead. Even if it cost an extra four dollars per grocery trip.
Corpse eating happens because of tradition and dogma. Because “that’s the way we’ve always done things.” We indoctrinate children into this blood cult and normalise violence the same way some religions normalise genital mutilation or ritual sacrifice of humans. Hells, the thanksgiving turkey, which is served in the literal shape of its corpse rather than being butchered or processed, is a ritual sacrifice.
A religion is not defined only by worship of gods, or else Buddhism would not be a religion. A religion can be defined by dogmatic, ritualised, inhumane practices taught to children from birth in the name of tradition. That’s what carnism is. I’ve never seen a defence of carnism that didn’t speak to some idea of “the natural order” or “tradition” or “the gods made them to be our food”, or some other religious nonsense.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s an improvement on established technology. The “healthy” angle is that it has a drip tray. For some reason that has more marketing potential than: cooks quicker, with less energy, and a smaller device.
RGB@lemmy.today 5 days ago
I got one not because it’s healthy but because it’s literally a small oven for when I don’t want to heat the whole big oven
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Im seriously considering getting rid of my oven and replacing it with an air fryer and portable induction hotplates.
Only problem is that a frozen pizza wont fit in an air fryer and thats like the only thing I actually use the over for!
dingus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Stupid question but why do you like need to get rid of your oven specifically? Can’t you just not use it? It’s already basically built into the counter space for most residences.
RGB@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Sell it I guess.
Zorque@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There’s plenty of larger tabletop convection ovens that will fit most frozen pizzas. Unless you’re making a world record size pizza, you should be fine.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If you don’t do Thanksgiving then this is honestly viable. Literally the only reason my big ass of an exists at this point is for a turkey because even though I got one of the probably largest countertop air fryers I could find where I can fit whole roasted chickens and do baking and other stuff it won’t fit a whole ass turkey and I don’t think I would want one that could that would be just a little bit too much counter space
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 days ago
Like a toaster over?
queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Yeah but it has a fan.
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 days ago
No, not like a toaster. Over.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 days ago
10-4. Over.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Toaster ovens were also a thing.
Facebones@reddthat.com 4 days ago
I use my air fryer basically for fries and thats it. I have a convection oven that’s like 1/3/ 2/3 though that is fuckin KILLER for this reason. It saves on energy only heating the top, The top bit preheats in a couple minutes max, and it fits basically everything except maybe a cake or something. Since my breakup ive had to pull out the divider one time.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
which is why I have a toaster oven. Way easier in the summer.