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Like most here, I use mine for pretty much every thing, got it from Costco £50, easy to use loads of features, and in this day and age uses a lot less energy than conventional oven, cut the info below from a BBC article:
6. An air fryer does use less energy than a conventional oven
Producer Simon cooked two same-weight chicken legs and two same-weight jacket potatoes – one in the oven, one in the air fryer (being careful to make sure other appliances were switched off at the time of cooking). Then he compared his smart meter to see how much energy was used. The team compared the electric air fryer to an electric oven to give a like-for-like comparison of energy use.
"The chicken took about 35 minutes to cook in the oven and the smart meter told me that I used 1.05 kilowatt hours of electricity." Converted to cash, that's 21.04p. "The air fryer took 20 minutes to cook the chicken and my smart meter read a usage of 0.43 kilowatt hours of electricity." That’s 8.6p.
It took around an hour to cook the potato through properly in the oven. That was 1.31 kilowatt hours, or 26.25p. "But the air fryer took much less time," says Simon. “Thirty-five minutes for the jacket spud.” That used 0.55 kilowatt hours (11.02p).
The conclusion? "Cooking in the air fryer uses less than half of the energy required to cook the chicken or the jacket potato in the oven," says Greg. "So, cooking in the oven costs more than double what it costs in an air fryer."
Arnold Layne wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:24 pm
Lidl doing a Daewoo 4L for 40 green queens from Monday, is that any good and is it big enough for a family?
I have a super-cheap one. It requires a slightly different approach (for instance, if you don't dry your potatoes before frying, they will ALWAYS come out bad) but once you figure it out, it's great.
Normally when Mrs CRS buys a kitchen gadget it gets used for a bit then ends up in the cupboard gathering dust forever and a day. Our air fryer has yet to see the inside of the kitchen cupboard since we bought it about 6 weeks ago.
-DL- wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:05 am
We have a Ninja Foodi MAX AF400 9.5L Dual Zone on the way. These better be bloody worth it.
i bought one of those too , tbh its sat in the garage for most of its life with us , more the fact that we cant be bothered , over the convenience of our oven in the kitchen .