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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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