tower Air fryer-any good.

clive0510

basically as title suggests saw the tower air fryer advertised on one of those shopping channels. and apparently it does everything except change the babies nappy. they cooked some home made chips in it, in a thimble full of oil. so just wondering, any good or just another gadget to sit in the spare room. this by the way is not the same as a halogen cooker. different all together.

McKneff

You can cook anything in this that you can do in an oven, bake bread, chips, 
Sausages, crisp up ready made Yorkshire. Bake eggs. Fry onions in a bowl 
And in 3 years I have never used a drop of oil in mine. 
Shop around though, the prices vary enormously for the same machine.  and buy a digital one rather than a manual one with grease collecting knobs
You won't regret it

clive0510

thanks for the reply. thats excellent. i seen one on shopping channel for £40. or amazon for 30. not sure if they are manual or digital. thanks for the info.

Sandtree

McKneff said:

You can cook anything in this that you can do in an oven, 

Then why use it rather than an oven?

chrisw

Ours was used about 3 times and now resides in a box in the garage. It was very noisy and whilst the food may have been healthier, it didn't taste quite the same.

clive0510

Sandtree said:

McKneff said:

You can cook anything in this that you can do in an oven, 

Then why use it rather than an oven?

because as Mckneff suggests it will do same job as normal oven. but its supposed to be healthier and one assumes cheaper to run.as its a fraction of the size of a conventional oven.

Sandtree

clive0510 said:

Sandtree said:

McKneff said:

You can cook anything in this that you can do in an oven, 

Then why use it rather than an oven?

because as Mckneff suggests it will do same job as normal oven. but its supposed to be healthier and one assumes cheaper to run.as its a fraction of the size of a conventional oven.

Its meant to be healthier than a deep fat frier but dont see how it can be any healthier than an oven... all depends on how much oil you add.

As to cheaper? It is certainly smaller but its also no where near as well insulated. Cannot say which is cheaper to run but the Mrs’ air fryer is physically warm on the outside after 20 minutes of running (so wasting energy) whereas our smaller oven (and bigger for that matter) is still room temp only on the outside so isn’t losing heat.

Since getting our smaller oven, which is a combi steam/conventional oven, the air frier has just sat taking up a considerable amount of cupboard space as shes discovered steaming things tends to taste better plus if you do want crispy the “0% humidity” setting does seem to create more crispy than the air frier created with the same amount of oil.

Mutton_Geoff

Probably end up in the back of a cupboard along with the Breville sandwich toaster.

maxmycardagain

Mutton_Geoff said:

Probably end up in the back of a cupboard along with the Breville sandwich toaster.

and the George Foreman thingy and foot spa?

Eldi_Dos

Along with 2020 calendar.

greyteam1959

Load of overpriced rubbish.
And a right !!!!!! to clean.