Does anyone have one of those airfryers?
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I do. I bought mind during the Christmas specials last year and we instantly became best friends! I have the Power Airfryer XL 5.3qtz. I'm very picky when it comes to food taste. My food has to taste good and be well seasoned. I've enjoyed everything I've made with mine. I also carry seasoning from all over the world. I've made grilled chicken wings, grilled a whole 5lb chicken, grilled baby
potatoes with Italian seasonings, BBQ spare ribs, fried plantains with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, made friench fries and sweet potatoe fries with just 1 tablespoon of olive oil, baked cornbread, made pita chips from tortilla wraps, egg frittata with vegis etc. I enjoy experimenting with mine.
Use YouTube and Pinterest to find many healthy recipes.9 -
I've got the Philips xl airfryer and you dont use any oil, food comes out perfectly.5
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I also have the Power XL and love it. Empanadas, turnovers, pot pie, fried/blackened fish, calamari, shrimp,turkey legs, endless list. I use a spritz of olive oil or coconut oil spray on foods like yucca or plantain.2
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Yes, I bought a gowise air fryer after reading this recent thread:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569656/air-fryer-a-wonderful-thing#latest
My ultimate conclusion is they're a waste of money. Get a good toaster oven or good convection oven and you'll get roughly the same results. It's just a toaster oven with a fan. It cooks fast because of the convection, but it does not, in any shape or form, make things come out anything near "fried" beyond what a toaster oven can do.10 -
I have one. It's the Philips analog model. Absolutely love it. I have the pan and the grill and the kabob rack. I use all three accessories. The food tastes great. I especially love sweet potato fries, grilled salmon, pork chops, and Tuscany chicken. I highly recommend the Philips and am not paid to say this. If you have a good quality air fryer, the food does tastes fried. You get what you pay for; that's why Philips is the best.4
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I have one and we cook chicken wings with no oil, they are juicy on the inside and crunchy on the outside. We use it for sweet potatoes, pork ribs it's awesome...1
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I have a Phillips Air Fryer and it's in use almost every day. I use it to make chips and crisp up the skins on jacket spuds that I've microwaved and its great for the other halves breaded things like scampi and fish fingers. I've found that it smokes a little if I'm cooking really fatty things like sausages or bacon in it but it's very versatile and I even do apple crumbles in there.
As my one is a relatively small air fryer I tend to use the Halogen oven for anything bigger like whole chickens or if I want to pop a cake or chops in
Definitely a welcome addition to my kitchen and doesn't take up too much counter space3 -
I have the phillips xl and love it too. I do usually put my chips in a bag and coat with a little oil just to get a more authentic deep fried type chip. But no oil comes out ok too.3
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Thank you for your answers! I think I will be buying one in the very near future. I already bake items in the oven that are supposed to be fried, such as french fries or samosa, as well as chicken etc. So I hope the air fryer will add a bit of crispiness and be quicker and use less energy than the oven.
However I am mostly cooking for myself and the Philips xl seems a bit big for one person.
Also, does anybody know if I can bake precooked bread buns in an air fryer?0 -
Thank you for your answers! I think I will be buying one in the very near future. I already bake items in the oven that are supposed to be fried, such as french fries or samosa, as well as chicken etc. So I hope the air fryer will add a bit of crispiness and be quicker and use less energy than the oven.
However I am mostly cooking for myself and the Philips xl seems a bit big for one person.
Also, does anybody know if I can bake precooked bread buns in an air fryer?
You can cook anything you would cook in a toaster oven. So yes. It is literally a toaster oven with a fan. Physically, and literally. It is a heated coil with a fan above a non stick bin that helps swirl the air around.
The bin size of the smaller air fryers are pretty narrow, even for one person, if you're going to get one, get the larger one. Just don't be shocked when food doesn't come out "fried" so much as "toasted". Air fryers make a pretty big claim that they fall short on.2 -
Geocitiesuser wrote: »Yes, I bought a gowise air fryer after reading this recent thread:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569656/air-fryer-a-wonderful-thing#latest
My ultimate conclusion is they're a waste of money. Get a good toaster oven or good convection oven and you'll get roughly the same results. It's just a toaster oven with a fan. It cooks fast because of the convection, but it does not, in any shape or form, make things come out anything near "fried" beyond what a toaster oven can do.
Yes to all of this.
I told him but he would not listen haha
Lol I guess I am the same... as I just ordered one. I will come back and tell you my experience in a few days! 0 -
I highly recommend the Philips regular size analog. Watch for it on Amazon for great price. It tastes like "fried" if you use the Philips.1
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Many people say just buy a toaster oven. Read the reviews in Amazon.4
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The philips air fryer is a heated coil with a fan. It is physically and literally a toaster oven with circulated air. Food is not capable of tasting "fried" unless it is seasoned/battered and cooked with a liquid fat. At that point a toaster oven would yeild a very similar result.
There is nothing magical here.3 -
I was looking at these too... What about the ones that use oil? Is that just the same as oven cooking with a bit of oil then? Pah!0
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The theory is that the fan drives the air much faster than in a conventional fan oven, so creating faster transfer of heat to the food, so less moisture loss and crispier results. I have never used one so I don't know how successful it is. I can easily imagine there's a huge difference between cheap versions and the real deal.0
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Geocitiesuser wrote: »Yes, I bought a gowise air fryer after reading this recent thread:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569656/air-fryer-a-wonderful-thing#latest
My ultimate conclusion is they're a waste of money. Get a good toaster oven or good convection oven and you'll get roughly the same results. It's just a toaster oven with a fan. It cooks fast because of the convection, but it does not, in any shape or form, make things come out anything near "fried" beyond what a toaster oven can do.
You've had to be doing something wrong because my air fryer fried chicken is amazing. Crispy and delicious just like fried chicken should be. And I'm from the south, so I've had my share of fried chicken. I can do SO much more in my air fryer than in a toaster oven!5 -
Geocitiesuser wrote: »The philips air fryer is a heated coil with a fan. It is physically and literally a toaster oven with circulated air. Food is not capable of tasting "fried" unless it is seasoned/battered and cooked with a liquid fat. At that point a toaster oven would yeild a very similar result.
There is nothing magical here.
Totally need a dislike button here.
I have made numerous things in my AF that taste just like they were deep fried. Not sure why you are hating on the AF so badly, maybe you have good reason, but you can't equate an AF and a toaster oven - so totally not the same.3 -
I love my air fryer! I don't understand all the hate toward air fryer's. Even my husband, who loves fried foods, was impressed with french after they came out of an air fryer!2
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I have a 2 people household after the kids moved out and believe in down sizing my appliances as well. The large ones were too big for my personal use plus use up a lot of space . I bought the smaller Black and Decker during thanksgiving sales last year which is still making more fries than I should eat :-) but I use it a lot . I do not bake sweets in it but i use it for meat balls as well as veggie burgers ,chicken Breast , Pork tenderloin etc. Bakes faster with lower heat . There are a ton of links and ideas on Pinterest . I even use it to warm up frozen baguette and it turns out great . Unless you have a family to feed I would go smaller . ( this is from a "seasoned" cook )0
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we LOVE,LOVE,LOVE our air fryer. The most used appliance in our kitchen!!1
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I own the Nuwave Brio air fryer which is a 3.5 quart capacity. A friend recommended it to me a while ago and finally made the purchase a little more than six months ago. One of the best kitchen appliances I own! Love it!
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SeptemberRain81 wrote: »Geocitiesuser wrote: »The philips air fryer is a heated coil with a fan. It is physically and literally a toaster oven with circulated air. Food is not capable of tasting "fried" unless it is seasoned/battered and cooked with a liquid fat. At that point a toaster oven would yeild a very similar result.
There is nothing magical here.
Totally need a dislike button here.
I have made numerous things in my AF that taste just like they were deep fried. Not sure why you are hating on the AF so badly, maybe you have good reason, but you can't equate an AF and a toaster oven - so totally not the same.
Really misleading. If you batter something of course it's going to retain the flavor. The physical components of an air fryer are a toaster oven with a fan. Take with that what you will. I battered some chicken and it came out crispy in my air fryer too, but the results were barely different from using an oven. In fact pan frying on a ceramic pan will yield a crisper more flavor full product because of the higher heat and better carmalization of sugars and fats.
A solid product should be able to withstand a pragmatic real world review without needing a "dislike" button.
The airfryer might be a great buy who don't have general cooking skills that can't get the same results in a pan or oven.2 -
So I got my air fryer and tested it on chicken breasts and rissois (portuguese fish croquettes).
First, it does not fry the same as a deep fryer.
The chicken breasts, seasoned as when I cook them in the oven, were ready in 15 minutes, had a nice color and where juicy and tasty, a bit as a pan fried chicken breast.
The croquettes were tasty and slightly crispy, I did coat them in canola oil, but their color and crispiness were not the same as when I deep fry them. I think the temperature is not high enough. They were ready in 10 minutes.
So from my very limited experience:
cons: it does not deep fry as a real deep fryer. More like pan fried, and even then, pan frying gives a more "golden" color.
pros: it uses way less oil than the deep fryer or pan fryer: yay for calories! it is very easy to clean! it is faster and uses less energy than the oven. The food is less dry too.
For now I am happy I bought it. Thank you for your reviews, positive (made me buy it and gave me ideas) and negative (managed my expectations).2 -
Italiandiva38 wrote: »I own the Nuwave Brio air fryer which is a 3.5 quart capacity. A friend recommended it to me a while ago and finally made the purchase a little more than six months ago. One of the best kitchen appliances I own! Love it!
That chicken looks so tasty I have to try fries on mine, see if they are as golden. 0 -
I have a 2 people household after the kids moved out and believe in down sizing my appliances as well. The large ones were too big for my personal use plus use up a lot of space . I bought the smaller Black and Decker during thanksgiving sales last year which is still making more fries than I should eat :-) but I use it a lot . I do not bake sweets in it but i use it for meat balls as well as veggie burgers ,chicken Breast , Pork tenderloin etc. Bakes faster with lower heat . There are a ton of links and ideas on Pinterest . I even use it to warm up frozen baguette and it turns out great . Unless you have a family to feed I would go smaller . ( this is from a "seasoned" cook )
Yes, I bought a smaller model because I am only cooking for myself and I don't like re-heating food, specially fried food (bye, bye crispiness). I hope that I will be able to use it on frozen bread (until now I felt guilty heating the whole oven for a bun, so I baked several, then ate several). So many ideas!!0 -
Italiandiva38 wrote: »I own the Nuwave Brio air fryer which is a 3.5 quart capacity. A friend recommended it to me a while ago and finally made the purchase a little more than six months ago. One of the best kitchen appliances I own! Love it!
That chicken looks so tasty I have to try fries on mine, see if they are as golden.
They were delicious!0 -
I highly recommend the Philips regular size analog. Watch for it on Amazon for great price. It tastes like "fried" if you use the Philips.
No no it does not. Come on. Here is a test. Put your hand inside you so called "fryer" and see if you get burned. Now do the same into a pot of hot oil (actually dont do this) but you see what the difference is and why the air fryer will never be a real fryer?
Seriously? If you could put your hand inside the air fryer while it's on, you most assuredly will be burned. I preferred a more meaningful test. Actually comparing the results of a deep fat fryer to an air fryer. Wings, hot dogs, french fries, turkey breast, "fried" chicken. For my taste and my money, the results were identical except I didn't have nearly the clean up with the air fryer. But hey...that's my taste and my money. If you or anyone else don't think air fryers perform as well as a deep fat fryer, then I applaud your decision not to get one.0 -
Aren't the airfryersTeflon coated? I wouldn't think that would be the healthiest way to cook food.0
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YUM! lets get cooking!0
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