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Where did the recent air fryer trend come from anyway? (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wish my normal oven was a convection oven so I didn't need an air fryer.

Here, pretty much everybody has a convection oven. I wish I understood why air fryers are so popular here.

I've heard one argument: "Mine can stir the fries"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

It is a small efficient oven that is easy to use.

It is great to re-heat food and the texture of the re-heated food is a lot better than a microwave.

It's great for breaded food and takes a lot less time than a conventional oven since it heats up pretty much instantly.

For example, when I make Parmigiana Chicken, if I do it the air fryer, it takes about 15 minutes overall cooking time, including melting the cheese to a golden crips texture. If I use my conventional convection oven, it takes 10 minutes just to heat-up.

It is also easy to clean.

It does not replace the conventional oven for everything, but it does a lot of things faster with the same result. It's a big boon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Frying is all about quickly imparting heat into the surface of a food at high temperature. Air fryers mimic that by moving a much higher volume of hot air past the food -- they're "super convection" ovens.