Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Air fryer yay or nay

I don't need another useless kitchen gadget but I have been seeingsome positive reviews of these things. Any input?

Nay

It's good for one or two people, does things like french fries, chicken breasts, shrimp, tater tots, etc. well. Broccoli and other vegetables are good out of them. Tradeoff is, another gadget to clean and store.

I have had one for three days.
So far, frozen breaded things that we used to put in the oven cook much faster and taste much better.
Eggrolls
Battered fish.
Spanakopita
Tonight - breaded shrimp & chicken nuggets

The one we have was the largest we could find at the time. Works great, but to small to be practical. Most times we would have to make two batches of whatever for just the wife and I. If you get one make sure its big enough to do what you want.

Yay. Mainly use mine for wings, also chicken strips, fries, etc. way easier and cleaner than the deep fryer.

I already own a instapot I see they make a airfryer adapter I need to do some research on this one

I have a bunch of retired leather hunting boots. When I want, dry, characterless food, I just go gnaw a bite out of one of them.

FWIW the millennial metros seem to really love the air fryers. Its their most recent fad, now that paying $45 to go to a former chuckie cheese for axe throwing is falling out of favor.

We just got one as well at Christmas. Works well but I prefer the regular fryer for taste. Hate that it sits on my counter. More clutter

Maybe for some frozen fries or something like that otherwise I like hot grease for fish and nutz and such.

Yay. They are easy to use, easy to clean, and work well. My 11yo digs it because he can cook all kinds of stuff in it. And he isn't the "chef" type. Just hungry all the time.

Absolutely.

Best appliance I've bought in a long time

I use mine to make great tacos. Put olive oil on one side of a tortilla and fold with the dry side in. Put taco meat and cheese inside, hold closed with a clothes pin and cook in air fryer until outside is slightly brown. Take out and put lettuce, tomato, hot sauce, etc inside. Really good and kind of healthy.

Also use it for fish. Rinse fresh fish and coat with Andy's Fish Breading and air fry till crisp. A lot healthier than oil fried and tastes great.

Agree with all the above like anything frozen and battered as well as frozen french fries.

Mine is a 6 quart and is fine most of the time for 2 but sometimes I wish it was bigger.

I have two young kids and a wife who doesnt know how to cook so they use the air fryer a lot. If you dont fall into either of those situations, I would say a stand alone air fryer is not wirth it. They are simply a convection oven, on steroids. I also never ate that fried shiat until the kids came along.

That said, we have a Breville Smart Oven Air. It is a big appliance that sits on the counter 24/7. At least it looks decent.
The Smart Oven Air has replaced our toaster, electric pizza/toaster oven for frozen pies, and crockpot. We have had it for about 14 months and I can count on two hands how many times I've used our big oven since. The Breville fits 12" cast iron pans, frozen pizzas and a standard 9x13 pan. It heats up super quick, and is super convenient being on the counter. I greatly underestimated the convenience of this oven.

Yes, skeptical at first but works good for frozen frys, tots, fishsticks, chicken nuggets, taquitos, stuff the grandkids like, better than the oven or fryer, wife does homemade chicken strips ect.

The other thing I didn't know if I'd like is an instapot, I use it all the time.

Those two items keeps your kitchen cleaner and less pans to clean, less time.

Kent

Take a look at the toaster over/air fryer combo.

The wife loves it. I eat what comes out of it.

My wife has an electric wok that she uses almost daily. We don't need another appliance.

It's a nay from me unless you really like french fries and frozen onion rings. Neither of which are good for me anyhow. Wife is a gourmet cook and we use the thing minimally. I hate that heavy oil smell stink in the house.