/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17004076
Biggest psyop in cooking appliance history.

>>17004076
>>17004084
not at all

>>17004076
Is there any benefit over a microwave or toaster oven?

>>17004398
smaller & cheaper

>>17004076
I like it and use it daily.

>>17004076
to bad you cant fill them that full without middle being raw.

>>17004076
works good if you like crispy foods anon and don't want to heat up oil or a whole oven. "air fryer" is a bad name they should have called it a "counter oven"

>>17004076
> I cannot get over my irrational hate for these small, cheap, convection ovens.

>>17004461
>counter oven
>Can't bake

>>17004398

vs microwave - drying; fries, pastries, tendies/nuggets and other crumbed stuff, all comes out hot and crispy - unlike microwave which will make them all soggy.

vs toaster oven - faster, better capacity. You can load 2/3 of the tray (not AS much as in OP's photo, but say, 1/3 less), toss a little mid-way through air-frying, and you have a good heap of the goods you were making done.

OTOH it is possible to over-dry pastry stuff (like pizza leftovers); in that case the toaster oven is better. And it is slower than microwave, and less versatile - pretty much useless for soups, stews etc.

>>17004492
Not enough power and heat distribution for serious baking like bread or cakes, but mini-muffins or cupcakes? Totally works.

Enjoy your melted plastic, I guess?

>>17004084
fpbp. only cooklet retards buy these useless faggot contraptions

>>17004076
The best appliance for people who can't cook.

>>17004595
This. Nothing says “I can’t cook” more than an appliance that applies heat to food/ingredients.

>>17004076
>>17004084
>>17004419
Joke's on you, I didn't buy it. I got it for free. And it's comfy having the ability to cook at 200C without preheating the oven for half an hour just for a single serving that needs 5 minutes to bake.

>>17004628
>Nothing says “I can’t cook” more than an appliance that applies heat to food/ingredients.
Probably the stupidest post on here today. Well done, retard.

>>17004651
>And it's comfy having the ability to cook at 200C without preheating the oven for half an hour just for a single serving that needs 5 minutes to bake
So a toaster oven? That can't cook everything a toaster oven can?

>>17004628
there’s nothing wrong with it per se, but I have never known someone who owns one of these who knows how it works and why it makes food so crispy, which shows that they don’t understand the underlying principles of cooking. I’ve literally heard people say “you HAVE to get one anon, it’s like magic, it makes fries crispy like nothing else!” which just isn’t true, they just don’t know how to use the convection setting on their oven.

sure it’s slightly faster for crisping up small batches of food or cooking like a single pastry, but I’d rather save valuable counter space and just use the oven whenever I need to do something like that, which is rare, and I think most people who know what they’re doing would feel the same.

>>17004656
I don't have a toaster oven. I just recently moved out of my parents' house. I have a shitty oven from the last residents and this air fryer we received once for free from some event.

>>17004663
>I should use this inferior device taking up counterspace because it was free
Should have sold that garbage and used the money to buy a toaster oven, actual retard. You cooklets are truly subhuman.

>>17004671
How is one superior to the other?

>>17004680
>spoonfeed me basic comparison info I can easily find online
unbelievable...

>>17004690
I should have known better than to try and get useful information from a frogposter. How foolish of me.

>>17004659
>someone said they like their new plastic toy
>therefore they must not understand SCIENCE like me
Do you actually believe those people LITERALLY think that an air fryer works through magic? How do people with this level of autism actually make it through they day without hurting themselves?

>>17004702
why r u posting a mentally ill boy in a wig

>>17004513 meet >>17004478

>>17004690
You made the argument, you explain why. That's how arguments work my brainlet friend.

You are just saying:"lol ur stoopid" like a little kid.

This is why I love /ck/.
Nothing pisses me off more than other people buying things I don’t approve of. But IRL people get all bitchy when I correct their purchases.
But here, everyone agrees with me that it’s those people who are inferior retards.
I love you, bros.

>>17004656
Yeah, mostly. Larger capacity than a toaster oven, and faster, and less hassle with spreading your food thin so it's all evenly fried, but in general if you already have a toaster oven and want to upgrade, get an honest convection oven; the air fryer is barely an upgrade in many respects and a downgrade in a couple others (any bread/pastry stuff can easily be dried to a rock).

>>17004722
>"you have to explain IN DETAIL why I'm retarded"
>(s)he thinks a bitchy tone compels online strangers
lmao... are you even sentient?

>>17004725
You sound like a working class chump. I bet you thought it would be a great "investment", how you would wake up to a warm, healthy breakfast to start off your long day. Maybe, you even had a couple thoughts about all the other nifty little uses you could find for the thing, how it would help you cook healthier meals in general, shed a couple pounds off the old gut, boost your confidence around work and with the ladies. Yeah, maybe that slow cooker would start your life cooking again, wouldn't it? I can see your strained hands holding the box and reading through it carefully at the store. A little bit pricey, but you're the type of guy who thinks everything is more than you can spend, aren't you. And look what happened to you. Look what the slow cooker did to you. Fucked you over, and made you clean it like a useless bitch. You don't even fucking like oatmeal. Piece of shit, you've been repeating those three words your whole life, haven't you. Yeah, how was work after that piece of shit fucked you over? I bet it was on your mind the whole day, you probably didn't say shit to nobody. Can't be telling people about your mistakes. How your little fix yourself plan, failed you. Don't want people to start thinking you're the failure. You're the piece of shit, all along. You don't want that do you? You don't want to be the piece of shit everybody secretly whispers about, do you? Was your father a piece of shit like you? I bet he never had a slow cooker. He had a woman, a house, a damn good job. I bet it's slow cooking you the fuck alive, isn't it. Comparing yourself to him. How one day when all the steam runs our of your life, you'll discover how you're nothing more than burnt shit to be scrapped off and thrown in the trash.

>>17004659
Oh, hello. I own one.

A fan propels air through a heater spiral, heating it to oven temperatures and forcing it around and through food, then blowing it out the back of the device alongside with any steam given out by the food (so it gets crispy, not soggy). The forced air circulation distributes heat faster and more efficiently than a classic (radiative) oven / toaster oven, and is more efficient at removing moisture (which may be desired or not). It's the same principle as a convection oven, except miniaturized and made significantly cheaper.

That's about it regarding the science of air fryers. Now you know someone who owns an air fryer and knows how it works.

>>17004749
based
>>17004755
gay

>>17004755
pleased to meet you anon. let’s kiss

>>17004076
Our toaster oven already has a convection mode but the Mrs. insisted we get one
These are just upright convection ovens

I thought they were complete gimmicks until my girlfriend bought one and now I use it several times a week. It's so much better for reheating food than a microwave that makes everything all soggy or the oven which usually just dries stuff out, especially fried food.

>>17004656
Its more lile a convection oven

It just works.

>>17004076
Faster than using the full size convection oven, better results than microwave.

Cope crunchlet.

>>17004746
Why do frogposters love dog dick

>>17004651
a fucking $30 toaster oven ($50 for one with convection) will cook at 450F (toast/bake/broil) and have a shitton more utility, including cooking a whole 12" pizza. you can cook anything in them an air fryer does including chicken nuggers, 4 whole chicken legs/thighs, a rack full of bacon, cakes, cookies etc. unitaskers like air fryers are a fucking meme.

>>17005146
why don't people just... you know... use the oven?

>>17005249
takes a long time to preheat

My griller broke in my shitty old aussie sunbeam stove that came with the house and I haven't missed it at all wtf is the point of these gay things? I have a microwave and fanforced oven and induction top

>>17005278
>t. retard
It really doesn't.

>>17006446
>t. Retard
It really does.k42d0

>>17004076
i got one as a gift and I like it for fries and wings. almost comes out restaurant style.

>>17005146
Don’t be a retarded ass faggot, you faggot ass double-retard.
>muh cheap X is better than your less cheap Y
Not for certain things, triple-faggot ass bitch.

>>17006460
>5 minutes is a long time
lmao...

>>17004656
>preheating for half an hour.

what potato oven do you have where you need wait for that long?

>>17004084
it's just a mini convection oven, right?

>>17004076
Serious question, do these things actually work for cooking raw, breaded food? Would the results be anything similar to deep frying?

I have one. It is really nice. My old appartment in Tokyo had a fish oven and I think the air fryer did a better job of making fish or hot dogs or whatever. It makes things crispy, but frying french fries, like in the picture, or mozarella sticks... I think deep frying is better for foods that are traditionally deep fried.

>>17008221
No, it's literally just a tiny oven. It does not replicate the effects of hot oil on food, the term "Air Fryer" is all marketing. It's similar to a very clean oven.

>>17004076
A student's best friend