I'm considering getting one. Are they a meme or is there any use for them besides french fries? Saw something about making bread in them but highly doubt it, has anyone here tried that? Any good recipes for them?
They're awesome! Next time though you need to post this to reddit.
i have the air frier toaster oven. it’s not good. it gets covered in oil and smokes. do not recommend
>>21971787They're okay, they can't do everything like some people claim they do but the few things they can do are amazing. French fries and wings are 10/10 in them. Also they don't heat your whole house up like an oven does.That being said I've never had a toaster oven that wasn't a $15 piece of shit so I don't know how it would compare to a fancy one. I can't imagine an expensive toaster oven is worth it.
>>21971787It is what it says in the title: it gets you a result similar to frying but with air instead of oil. In some cases it can also be a mini convection oven, though are many cases where you're better off just using an oven. If you do get one, don't get one of the shitty little egg-shaped ones with the drawer like in your pic; get yourself a big oven-style one with a rotisserie attachment and it will be the best tool in the world for poultry, fries, and roasts.
>>21971787If you eat lots of little things that would normally be fried then this is the device for you. Ive used it for leftover fries and chicken and pizza rolls and it was better than my toaster oven.
>>21971816>don't get one of the shitty little egg-shaped ones with the drawer like in your pic; get yourself a big oven-style one with a rotisserie attachmentI'm kind of in a budget, but can get one for cheap due to a promo. I'll try and see what I can get similar to that. >>21971901>If you eat lots of little thingsAll I have at home is an induction stovetop like pic related, a coffee maker and a popcorn maker, that's why I'm looking to get more stuff. Should I just save and get a toaster oven then?
>>21971807The expensive ones are just bigger
>>21971787I bought one of >>21971794 these while living overseas. They don't advertise them as "air fryers" where I was so I didn't even know it was one. I just thought I bought a "convection oven".It was great. I really miss it. Couldn't afford to bring it home with me and I ran out of space in my storage locker (which I have to go back and clean out), so I ended up leaving it for my landlord. I hope he didn't just throw it out. He was kind of an asshole for the last year after he got divorced. I guess his wife was the one handling everything for the previous years that I lived there, and she was great.
>>21971919Me >>21973393 again. I agree with that >>21971816 Anon that the stainless-steel oven-shaped ones (bottom of OP's pic) are better than the little plastic egg ones (top of OP's pic).The eggy ones are kind of annoying. It's what I have now. Convenient for cooking tendies in it, and I just take the whole basket back to my room to eat them. Line it with parchment paper so the oil doesn't get all over the basket.BUT you can't really take yourself seriously when using one. I feel humiliated by it when I had perfection before.
>>21971787Air fryers and countertop mini-ovens are luxuries. They aren't necessities when most places have an oven preinstalled. And the cost of buying a new appliance is literally worth years of using the oven which itself will probably outlive the mini appliance until you need to buy a new one.They aren't a meme; they truly are convenient when you use them for what they're good at. If you like making frozen foods crispy, air fryers are good at that (don't overload it). If you get the ones that look like a normal countertop convective oven (the fans are placed differently so I wouldn't exactly call them a conventional "air fryer"), the capacity might be bigger and they heat your food pretty close enough to a normal air fryer that you wouldn't complain. Your normal oven can do everything they can do, but using it for smaller items might be considered less convenient for some. You do you. I love the cheap countertop oven from my parents years ago that I use to reheat foods. Would I ever get a newer, bigger one? Maybe one day, idk. I don't feel I need it right now. But I'm sure I would love it if I did get it.
>>21971787They're for frozen stuff like fries and appetizer type stuff that you'd bake or fry that's not wet or soupy or big. Stuff that cooks up in 10 minutes or less. People use them for all sorts of shit though, it's a fad. It will pass. They're especially popular on /ck/ because it's so many lonelyfags just cooking nuggets for themselves.
