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If not

these things are amazing !

Just a quick dinner......breaded chicken breast filets...potatoe salad side

15 minutes at 360* and you're ready......flip once

July 4th ?

Baby back pork ribs........93 YO MIL here for dinner

She luvs these ribs

Apparently we ain’t doing something right .
So far I have yet to eat anything that impressed me .
But a lot of people think they’re the bomb .
Different strokes and all that I guess
Kenneth

I use ours to do french fires and tater tots, and to reheat fried food. That's it.

Got one for my wife after hearing her niece talk hers up.

Wife uses it quite often. I've liked the chicken of various styles she's made in it, sweet tater fries, and as the tikkanut says, quick dinners make her really happy and don't heat up the house either.

Kenneth, hopefully it's not a brand thing.

Ours has a baking feature, wife has tried a couple of things so she didn't have to use the oven. didn't like the results, might not try it much anymore.

She likes almonds for a mid-morning snack. Buys the plain one and roasts them herself in the air fryer. Loves them, doesn't have to deal with the roasted almond saltiness and no oven heating up the house.

It's one appliance I got her that she likes much much better than the vacuum cleaner.

That and wings. Worth it for wings alone.

We have a toaster/oven/air fry thing. Works great for various applications. Essentially, an air fryer is just a convection oven, but smaller. I like em.

I make do without since I rarely fry air.

People we know that have them like them but also said don't expect food to be the same as frying in hot oil.

I can see it being handy for not smelling up the house as well.

Cousins wife gave us one a year ago, haven't tried it yet.

Pork chops, chicken thighs, it does a wonderful job. It also is great for vegetables.

Takes a bit of futzing around to figure out the best way to do different stuff. The China Doll is the Air Fryer Queen now. Wings, bacon, shrimp, scallops, spring rolls, fish; she’s got all that down to a “T”. No more hideously greasy stovetop.

Some foods do best if you spray them a bit with oil. If what you’re cooking doesn’t seem “fried”, try that.

French Fries...........

secret..........

Russet taters......Long russets........

Cut in 1/4" slices length wise.........

Place in bowl & rinse.......actually 2-3 times...removes starch

IMPORTANT >>>>>>>pat dry.....before cooking..Garlic powder & Papricka are UR friends

Sprinkle above on after dry......spray with olive oil spray lightly

set air fryer (mine is default @ 360*) for 15 minutes

Shake 1-2 inside the 15 minutes

The 'pat dry in towell is important' NO soggy fries !

Best damm fries you'll ever eat

Iffin your're in Utah...I'm sure you'll be using fry sauce

Ketchup & Mayo.......not me...just ketchup !

French fries and tater tots NEED to be fried in oil to be called French fries…or tater tots. I’ve had them done in our air fryer but then I usually end up throwing them in hot grease anyway. 😁

The air fryer, like the microwave, is a great tool with a very narrow margin of specialty. I’m kind of particular about good cooking. I’m not picky at all and eat most everything except organs but I like good quality food prepared properly. I will admit that the air fryer probably has potential if one put some time and experimentation into trying different stuff but it fills a need that I don’t have so I rarely use it. We bought it for the kids several years ago when we were giving them an introduction to cooking for themselves. Since they were on a tater tot kick at the time and they really liked the Costco chicken tenders the air fryer made sense. We didn’t want them using hot oil on the stove and it wasn’t worth the propane for heating the oven for such a small amount the air fryer was perfect. I’m sure that it paid for itself in saved propane within a couple months and the kids thought it was one of the coolest presents that year considering it was something that they’d never even heard of. 👍

I'll stick to the Weber.......

For deep frying?

Funny how they are about vac cleaners and such .
Guess I got lucky , mine couldn’t be any happier with her zero turn .
My step daughter drops by time to time and whips her up something in it and thinks it’s great .
I think the easy is what she likes , you know , mind over matter 😀
Stove top has me by the short and curly’s .
But then again it took me a long time to warm up to a pistol over a revolver for carry .
Still hunt with the revolver .
Kenneth

I'm considering one for myself when I sometimes make my own meals. One of my sisters has one and she loves it even though she admits they aren't for everything. My wife won't have anything to do with anything new fangled, (to her). In fact, she's still afraid of microwave ovens which is why we don't have one.

I was looking at microwave ovens a few days ago and saw a microwave/air fryer combo for $200

$60-70 bucks.......Bezos has 'em at his store

Simple to use....spray olive oil works great

Just had breaded chicken filets.....

Baby back ribs reheated are almost better than the day of

Easy clean up too !

L I K E

I bought my wife a pair of Dyson vacuums for Christmas several years ago, one for downstairs and one for upstairs so she didn’t have to cart it up and down, she still talks about it being one of her favorite gifts. She just laughs at the comments and raised eyebrows when telling others that story. 😂