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If you get very good pre cook fries (the M&S are top notch and cheap) and air fry them they are incredible.
I prefer the oven style air fryer rather than the ones with drawers.
So all the time, I ....
1) Joint a good chicken. Watch a video if you never have. It's easy.
2) Marinade...
I use mine so much it's now falling apart.
Personally go for the oven variety, rather than the drawer types.
There is nothing particularly "gadgety" about them. They are a just small and highly efficient convection oven. They do not fry with air.
A few things are a bit rubbish (I find they...
I had a halogen air cooker a while back when my kitchen was being replaced. With the modern air fryers they gone back to basics and the non drawer types (which I recommend) are just a very very small convection which heat up instantly.
On the chicken front, I gave up trying to cook one whole...
It's a thread about air fryers.
If you like your chicken wings, here is a tip. Buy a load (they are VERY cheap) and marinade in the fridge in salt, pepper and the air fryer trick of baking powder for a few hours. Just a few teaspoons.
This really crisps up the skin in an air fryer environment...
Yes it is superb, I have two. Just a simple small convention oven that heats up instantly.
It's worth pointing out there a number of things calling themselves an "air fryer". I like the ones like the Tower that are just a bloody effective convection oven that heats up instantly.
Yes there is a thread on here about saving energy where I posted, but that wasn't the reason I bought one.
I did a bit if research and went for the ones that are just a small oven without the drawers. I have a couple one here and one at my mums house.
I rarely turn the oven on now. I cook a...