Comment on Eternal fire

• Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You also don’t have to waste energy heating up a whole oven

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  • bababu@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    but isn’t a conventional oven insulated better?

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    • Luccus@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For programmers: Air fryers have perfected the race to idle.

      For everyone else: Probably, but the insulation may not matter as much. Heating up a traditional oven takes anywhere from 15 to maybe 5 minutes, if you got a really powerful one. During that time heat escapes the device.

      Meanwhile air fryers usually heat up in about a minute and get the actual cooking done faster.

      So unless you a broiling something for a really long time, air fryers may still come out on top, just because they get done quicker, saving energy in the process.

      Oven pizza is a 22 minute job. My air fryer is done after 9.

      There’s also something about air volume and thermal mass, but you get the point.

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What’s more, my oven sucks up to 3kW and has a 72l volume of air to heat up, from what I see most air fryers are between 1 and 2 kW and hold 4-7l of volume… The scales are pretty different, insulation or not (air fryers have less surface area for heat to escape from, also).

        I don’t have one, but I use my bread machine a lot 'cause it uses a fraction of the power of my oven, aside from kneading automatically.

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• 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.

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• fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Especially on 230V circuits this is a big plus. It’s hot in a minute when my oven takes 12 minutes.

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