The TRUTH about Air Fryers

I think you missed a gigantic point about the airfrier: it doesn’t deep fry! Once you remove the deep frying part of the French fries, they’re not so unhealthy after all, they’re basically baked potatoes. And that is true for most veggies that are made in the said appliance It’s basically a fast oven, which is super helpful, especially for people with little time to cook (which is most people, let’s be honest)

An air fryer is just a small oven that doesn't require preheating. Their ability to make small portions makes them basically a microwave for things that you want to be crispy. Very, very useful for people who live in small apartments and aren't cooking for many people at a time. Their versions of fried foods don't even taste good unless you paint the items with a very heavy coat of oil, so I don't use it for that, but it opens up a lot of more advanced weekend/special occasion meals so they can be done on a weeknight. I think you missed a lot of points with this video.

As a dude with a wife and no kids, the air fryer is our second oven. Great for crisping up veggies while the oven is cooking the main course and the stovetop is holding all my pots and pans. If we were to ever move back to NYC and into a large shoebox, the air fryer is the one appliance i will always ensure I have. I might be the minority that uses it almost every night, but it has always been used more than our coffee maker or our instant pot which both reside on top of our fridge.

Air fryers are the microwaves of this generation. I use mines daily. It's the best way to reheat most foods that aren't liquidy. It cooks food super fast. It's the most convenient way to cook foods from frozen like breakfast sausage.

Also got an air fryer two years ago, and completely replaced my countertop toaster, and almost entirely my normal oven besides for full pizzas. It's amazing for cooking protein for me and my partner , and make vegetables edible. Never thought of it's ability to use less energy so that's a great perk to think of now. It is the single most used appliance in my kitchen next to the refrigerator.

I got an air fryer during Black Friday sales. It had nothing to do with "being healthier" or with "fried foods." This past summer saw a month long heatwave where I live and I struggled to find ways to cook without heating up my home. I don't mind steam cooking in a microwave, or trying to use a pressure cooker or a slow cooker, but it still limits your options (especially when your fall back recipe is baked chicken).

I’m not very big on fried foods, but use my air fryer in place of my oven and microwave quite often. It’s great for heating up things like leftover pizza, refreshing bread/rolls, baking potatoes, roasting veggies, and stuff like that. I also like that I can easily unplug it between uses, unlike my oven.

Definitely use the air fryer for more than just healthier fried food. It’s basically a convection oven that actually fits in my apartment. Just used it as a dehydrator recently to dehydrate some chilis to make chili flakes

I recently moved out and bought myself a cheap ~50$CAD air fryer and i have to say.. its my main cooking tool. I don't have a microwave, just a stove, and this thing works wonders. The reheat function is just like using a microwave but without soggy foods at the end, and its just so versatile that i use it way more than my full sized oven most of the time. To each their own, for personal use cases~ ☺

As a single person who live in an apartment an air fryer is great. I don't have to use a whole bunch of energy for cooking for one. Also it means in the summer I don't have to turn my oven on when it's really hot outside.

This is the first air fryer I have ever owned. It works well youtube.com/post/UgkxD4Qeo-HRLxMfom_PDinM_SBfes00q… and, if you use the proper supplied silicone tray, keeps the food separate from the oil\grease of cooking. I cooked pizza, hamburger, lasagna, etc all with good results. (I also purchased some paper inserts to cover the silicone trays, just not to have to clean the trays.) Recommended. Just make sure to REMOVE the PAPER INSERT below the air fryer tray before using the air fryer! And yes, I have experienced a bit of an "electrical"-type smell after cooking items. It seems to have gotten less with time and did surprise my nose the first time I smelled it.

I've never really treated air fryers as their title and always treated it like what it is: a miniature oven. This makes it such a useful appliance to have ESPECIALLY in a small apartment where I don't wanna heat the whole place up cooking dinner just for myself because I wanted to bake a single small filet of salmon. It's also great for multitasking if I do decide to use the oven itself. One part of the dinner cooking in the oven and one in the air fryer. Every single person I've met in college so far owns an air fryer and uses it religiously when they aren't ordering uber eats

I use my airfryer for everything. I got one when I lived in a student studio where I only had two burners. I still use it for veggies, meat, potatoes, to warm up leftovers, to bake cookies, brownies and cakes! Also I have a “XXL” one and I can cook my whole dinner within it! I am never going without an airfryer!

I got an air fryer last year and it's been indispensable for me ever since! I don't cook big meals at home so not having to fire up my entire oven to make one small thing was perfect! It saves me money on my electric bills and allows me to cook small portions in half the time I used to! Tbh the time saving element alone makes it worth the purchase if you like hot food and don't really enjoy the sogginess of microwaving! Thanks for the video as always FP 😀

It’s basically called the rebound effect in one of my courses. It’s that greater efficiency of appliances results in us using them more than we would otherwise aka having more fried food than before. That doesn’t mean air fryers are bad, but that you should be conscious of your usage of your fryers.

Mmm I understand your point and I totally agree, however, I use mine for cooking the very same stuff I used to cook in a pan (chicken, salmon, meat, vegetables) and if you have your timings right, you don't need to sit in front of your pan watching over your food constantly, this allows me to do other things in the meantime and get the same result every single time. Also, I find it so convenient to clean instead of having a pan, utensils and full stove full of grease, I only have to put some water and soap inside the air frying turn it on for a bit and just like that everything goes away. Usually I really like cooking but hate to clean up afterwards, this has helped me save money because when I'm tired or lazy, I can't no longer justify ordering food because cooking like this is way easier, healthier and most of the times even better.

In the UK the utility price is now so insane that I have repurposed my oven as a cupboard and my air fryer is my oven. I do live alone and got an air fryer as a goft last year, but I'm pretty sure my £40 cheapy one from Asda has made its money back in savings by now had I paid for it.

I usually agree with you on most conclusions of a topic. This one I wholeheartedly disagree. I used one back when they originally came out well over 5 years ago. I moved out of that house and didn’t own it so I lost the ability to use one until recently. I purchased one with the strict purpose of bringing it to work and leaving it in the break room. A week after I brought it , everyone started using it. I love it so much especially at work when i want to heat up my food and want it to be crispy rather than soggy from the microwave. As well i love that i can smaller portions for myself as a single man living in a small apartment, at this point I don’t even use the oven anymore. By the time an oven is preheated and ready to be used, the food would have been cooked in the air fryer. You guys definitely missed the mark on this one.

I am a single woman who hates to cook and eats a very healthy eater. I LOVE my air fryer. I can roast veggies with a spray of Pam. Not fat free, but less fat than if I roll them in fat, and most important, it is really fast.

My wife and I's most used kitchen appliance has absolutely been our Air Fryer. We use it to roast vegetables, make granola cereal, dehydrate fruits, and of course make food we would otherwise deep fry. It has also been such a wonderful item to have when reheating food. I can't recommend one enough to people living in small spaces without an oven.