Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38]

• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  so an air fryer is more like a small convection oven?

  if you want the steam to escape, you can just open the oven door for a few seconds and there it goes.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    also the air circulation is more intense in an air fryer, and it’s a smaller enclosed space which is easier to keep at a high temperature. both of these also help food cook more evenly.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wonder if I could DIY an air fryer with a heat gun, a metal box, and a PID controller.

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hmm. Diluting the air will be the hardest thing: A run off the mill heat gun will do 600C at 2000W in a concentrated stream, if you regulate it down to air frying temperature you’ll get very little total power so you’ll want to cool it down by pulling in additional ambient air instead. But with that out of the way… add a metal box and a timer? The heat gun already regulates the temperature.

        …and all that made me wonder and apparently there’s no culinary heat guns which would be a smart choice because they’d pay attention for all materials to be food-safe. But there are hobbyists reporting great results using standard heat guns instead of the usual torch. Not, to be honest, that you’d expect standard lighter gas to be food-grade, of course.

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