Air fryer ?

[dan hufferd]

Thoughts, good bad, gimmick ? Good for fish ?

[Basfis]

We have one. Makes great fries. Does well with frozen and breaded stuff. IMO freshly cut potatoes out of the air fryer are better than most types, quick too  

Have not tried anything fresh and battered. 

[jdmidwest]

Fish, not so well.  If you use a recipe for baked fish, yes.  If you are battering fish like you drop in oil, no.  I baked some breaded flounder in it and it turned out great.  Its a convection oven, not a real fryer.

I bought one after Thanksgiving, Instant Pot version.  Does bacon well and fast.  Pork chops are great.  Chicken wings, excellent.  Bakes potatoes to perfection.  Fries are good, tater tots come out tasty, not grease bombs.  Should do hash browns the same way.  Roasts veggies pretty good. 

If you are cooking for 2, perfect.  You don't have to heat up an oven for some things you normally bake.  If you are feeding more, you may be doing several batches.  Cleans up fast.  Lots of recipes on the net.

[Fishfighter]

I think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Food tastes good and is obviously healthier than real frying.  Any measurable amount of oil in them is a no no unless you enjoy fighting fires. You can brush whatever your cooking in oil and be fine.  We've cooked burgers,  fish, steaks,  deer, sausage,  bacon, etc.  I would get the biggest one you can afford.  They are small.

I have cooked walleye fillets in mine and enjoyed it.  You will want a recipe for broiling or baking. It is essentially a broiler or convection oven except it also moves the hot air around the food. 

[fishinwrench]

We got one for Christmas but haven't experimented with it yet. 

Chicken wings and taters I can see, but can you just dip and bread your fish and have them come out crispy and yummy?   I don't see how that's even possible.  

[Boobie]

We cooked a small hen turkey(store bought) in one. Best turkey ever with golden brown skin and juicy. Too good....😋

[jdmidwest]

The flounder was dipped in egg and rolled in cracker crumbs.  It came out crisp and tasty.

I did tilapia, just rolled it in cornmeal breading like I would to drop in fryer, the breading was still like dry cornmeal when done. 

Still wanting mushrooms and onion rings in it, they should do fine beer battered.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

My experience was as mentioned, it was small.  We are a family of 5.  Time vs baking in the oven was comparable.   It took u alot of space when it was not being used.  "Fried" in oil still tastes better hands down.  Lots of recipes, but I wasn't convinced that it was any different than a convection oven, and not enough of an improvement to my conventional oven.  I ended up returning mine as the outer shell started to misform and it was getting hard to close.   This was a larger name brand in the early run of newness.   

[Gavin]

Got one as a gift & regifted it to someone who expressed an interest in one. Heck, if I want fried, I will fry it. Liquid conducts heat allot better than air.

[JestersHK]

Check out the Ninja Foodie.  It's a pressure cooker and an air fryer.  Although they are a bit big and bulky I'd pay twice as much as I did and be fine with it being a permanent counter fixture just for the chicken wings alone.  

You can take a frozen bag of chicken wings and it's 20 to 25min in the pressure cooker, then 20 to 25min in the air fryer and you now have 4lbs of restraunt quality crispy chicken wings.

We've made chicken and dumplings, clam chowder, zupa tuscana soup and they've all turned out great.  Plus it's easy enough my 14 year old can use it without burning down the house.