How many 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 did I eat?🙀
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so you sauteed the pumpkin can contents? after freezing them—so presumably with a bit less water to start?
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They look great, I'ma drooling here, and... I just ate!!! Hahaha... ;)
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I need to put an air fryer on my wishlist..
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Hubby does about 70-80% of all meal prep cooking. And 99% of the grocery shopping. I cooked 3x a day and shopped for nearly 40 years. After retirement and commitment to weight loss I surrendered. He loves to cook so it keeps him busy!
Mercifully he is mostly on board with my need to eat healthy. Even does some weighing and measuring so I can log my food. The only drawback is not all meals are what I would choose. But hey - I don’t have to be involved in the process. Come to the table and eat!
A few times a month I’ll cook some throwback favorites.
He does breakfast and lunch - our”big” meal. I make my own late meal which is light. Generally salad or cereal and yogurt.Today lunch was air fried pork loin, salad, Lima beans and cauliflower rice….
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sounds like a nice meal! @yakkystuff, if buying an air fryer, my own take knowing what I know would be:
— look for an elusive option that hits above 400F as the max temp.
— being able to see without interrupting the cooking process (they pause when you pull out the "basket") is very desirable.
— the idea of separate sections SOUNDS good; but more often than not i've just wanted a larger single surface.
So to me, if I were buying one, I would be looking for something that looks closer to one of the toaster ovens as opposed to the ones that look like fryer baskets.
In general I've used it, more so than say the creamie machine, but WAY WAY less so than the microwave or the water boiler or the coffee maker ;-)1 -
so you sauteed the pumpkin can contents? after freezing them—so presumably with a bit less water to start?
I defrosted the frozen pumpkin in the microwave, and it had separated. I mixed back together.
Figured the pumpkin pak as a carb swap for shredded potatoes, but it mixed in more as a sauce to the veggies, egg and diced ham that was cooked similar to a breakfast hash or country breakfast.
I just prefer my egg scrambled in instead of sunnyside up over the hash.
Dinner, rustic homemade chicken mac&cheese. Veggies changed to broccoli cauliflower medley with some of the stock I made today.
Air fryer - larger space, got it. Pav, did you get shelf other inserts?
Somewhere someone mentioned a Ninja with a glass basket. Seemed ok but someone else send they were having trouble getting their chicken nuggets crispy.
Thoughts?
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Other people might have different opinions.
Issue #1: either of the two baskets is opened… heating and fan stop for BOTH.
Issue #2: top temperature appear to ME to be less hot / less effective than I would expect from 400F in terms of "crisping" / "broiling"
Issue #3: So how do you load a basket?
You have to get it out. And place things inside. Let's NOT ding the basket for not being 100% flat when placed on a table. Still it takes time to place things inside it!
Or you have to place the food on a parchment paper that you've pre-measured and transport it into the basket.
Faster load. Easier to clean up. But it cuts down on the air circulation which creates the convection effect.
Now you want to place extra racks (which you probably can get for this design because there is a lot of space that is essentially unused in these deep baskets).
But this means you will be juggling two levels of stuff you're carefully placing into your basket while no heat is blasting into your setup and your mini oven remains open and losing any and all heat it had accumulated.
And then you repeat all this for a second basket… so what was the point again of all of that pre-heating you were waiting for?
so….. basically the "fastest" way would be to quickly dump a bag of whatevs into the basket and then shake the whole thing to move things around… emulating a "deep fryer" basket that you're shaking as it cooks…. albeit with a lower temperature… and still a pause or interruption to the heat every time you do your shaking, or checking
Personal opinion (and totally looking forward to others interjecting their own viewpoints): but something closer to a standard convection oven with even, possibly, a broil function on top, will achieve way better results.
And sure… separate baskets are a great concept to cook different things I guess… but in the end, more often than not, I am cooking many of ONE thing, or I'm cooking things that can commingle as far as I am concerned and the separation doesn't really help me much at all.
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Yes.
Was also browsing convections.
Mom had one of the chicken rotisseries, Ronco set it & forget it, back in the day. Eventually ended in closet with other infrequently used gadgets - a quesadilla maker, rice maker, food dehydrator, toaster oven with broil, waffle/sandwich maker, sausage maker gadget to stand mixer with many attachments, and the usuals food processor, chopper, popcorn air, french coffee press.
The espresso & toaster remained countertop.
Roasted these whole (sides randomly poked like baker potatoes) alongside the mac&cheese, so set for eats a few days.
Usually roast these at 350f, but did 380 tonight, everything cooked quicker, LoL
After they cooled enough to cut, cut off top quarter, cleaned and put the other slim side into the cleaned out space.
Transferred the chicken mac&cheese to a glass bowl so it would cool and I can get it in fridge sometime tonight! Not pretty topsy turvy from random debarking, LoL
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Yooly, lucky you that Mr is into cooking! Mine does the grill and certain meats, but would live on heat & eat cans of this or that & tuna sammies...
Mostly, need to reduce sodium for him, which seems to take more scratch cooking… and quadruple dishwashing.
I don't know how, but I seem to have used everything today... Tomorrow will beat it back in the dishwasher.
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these look nice!!!!
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Man, I LOVE my air fryer! I have a convection/steam oven, but decided to get the air fryer as well last year. I like the two compartments (just cook for myself, so sizes are small) so that I can cook two different things at once. I find the baskets super easy to use, and like that I can take the whole basket with me, not juggle a hot sheet pan. I also find that the smaller surface area allows more crisping than my convection oven does. The air can circulate faster in the air fryer.
I don't mind the short stop when I open the basket to check the food - it's not really long enough to disrupt the cooking. And, I actually don't preheat my air fryer - it heats up fast enough it doesn't make a difference.
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Call me a heretic but I still think the oven does a better job than an air fryer. Just tastes better when done slower. Hubby would vehemently disagree. And of course I have unlimited time.
Hubby uses a silicone liner in the air fryer. There are also pre-done parchment liners available - much like coffee filters.0
