Cooking for one, replacement for main oven?

Floss

madlyn said:

wort said:

Looking at the Argos link , how easy is it to clean? I know those with drawer type come out but the fat from the chicken would spatter all over ? I’m all for easy clean up! 

I think the rotisserie attachment is bought as an addition, without that you would put it in a small tray on the shelf.  

The rotisserie comes with it. I have one and it's very easy to wipe round with a damp sudsy dishcloth after washing up, the shelves & tray are all easy wash or go in a dishwasher.

mr_stripey

madlyn said:

So my search for an alternative to using my main oven continues, I have looked at air fryers, halogen and convection ovens and mini ovens and I am baffled!
I like the idea of and air fryer with 2/3 shelves and a drop down door so I can cook a couple of things at once, but reviews say that the shelves need to be swapped around part way through.
I have also seen air fryers with a draw, but can sausages and chips be cooked at the same time? can a chicken be cooked, do roast potatoes come out the same?
I do live on my own but do also have my dad round for dinner, so it needs to be big enough to double the portions sizes.
And I don't like the idea of a combi microwave.
All in all my head is spinning.

I have the Ninja dual which has two draws and therefore two independent cooking zones which can be set to different temps/fan speeds. It is also possible to synchronize these so they "finish" at the same time.

So in your example you could put sausages in one draw (say 10 mins at 200) and the chips in the other (15 mins at 190) and the cooker "hold" the sausages for 5 minutes before starting to cook them whilst the chips have a head start so they finish together.

I've done a full roast in mine. Roast potatoes are lovely but I've found it better to par boil them first before putting in the fryer.

Remember the air fryer is really just a small convection oven - but is uses significantly less energy than a "big" oven.

I've barely used my oven at all since I brought it.

I've cooked steak and chips, cooked breakfast, salmon, sausages and chips, bologneise, chicken and all sorts in mine.

madlyn

mr_stripey said:

madlyn said:

So my search for an alternative to using my main oven continues, I have looked at air fryers, halogen and convection ovens and mini ovens and I am baffled!
I like the idea of and air fryer with 2/3 shelves and a drop down door so I can cook a couple of things at once, but reviews say that the shelves need to be swapped around part way through.
I have also seen air fryers with a draw, but can sausages and chips be cooked at the same time? can a chicken be cooked, do roast potatoes come out the same?
I do live on my own but do also have my dad round for dinner, so it needs to be big enough to double the portions sizes.
And I don't like the idea of a combi microwave.
All in all my head is spinning.

I have the Ninja dual which has two draws and therefore two independent cooking zones which can be set to different temps/fan speeds. It is also possible to synchronize these so they "finish" at the same time.

So in your example you could put sausages in one draw (say 10 mins at 200) and the chips in the other (15 mins at 190) and the cooker "hold" the sausages for 5 minutes before starting to cook them whilst the chips have a head start so they finish together.

I've done a full roast in mine. Roast potatoes are lovely but I've found it better to par boil them first before putting in the fryer.

Remember the air fryer is really just a small convection oven - but is uses significantly less energy than a "big" oven.

I've barely used my oven at all since I brought it.

I've cooked steak and chips, cooked breakfast, salmon, sausages and chips, bologneise, chicken and all sorts in mine.

Can you and have you cooked a whole chicken or joint of beef in it?

dreaming

I actually bought an air fryer nut sent it back after 2 weeks unused. I realised that I don't actually cook very much in the oven, and I rarely fry anything. If I use the oven I tend to fill it up so decided it was a false economy for me and it took up quite a bit of work surface which I can ill-afford to lose. I  did read about a woman who cooked for her family with an air fryer and she did cook a roast chicken, but her fryer was considerably bigger, and more expensive, than the one I had. FEMAIL ditches the oven and microwave for a week to use an energy efficient air fryer | Daily Mail Online

Longwalker

madlyn said:

mr_stripey said:

madlyn said:

So my search for an alternative to using my main oven continues, I have looked at air fryers, halogen and convection ovens and mini ovens and I am baffled!
I like the idea of and air fryer with 2/3 shelves and a drop down door so I can cook a couple of things at once, but reviews say that the shelves need to be swapped around part way through.
I have also seen air fryers with a draw, but can sausages and chips be cooked at the same time? can a chicken be cooked, do roast potatoes come out the same?
I do live on my own but do also have my dad round for dinner, so it needs to be big enough to double the portions sizes.
And I don't like the idea of a combi microwave.
All in all my head is spinning.

I have the Ninja dual which has two draws and therefore two independent cooking zones which can be set to different temps/fan speeds. It is also possible to synchronize these so they "finish" at the same time.

So in your example you could put sausages in one draw (say 10 mins at 200) and the chips in the other (15 mins at 190) and the cooker "hold" the sausages for 5 minutes before starting to cook them whilst the chips have a head start so they finish together.

I've done a full roast in mine. Roast potatoes are lovely but I've found it better to par boil them first before putting in the fryer.

Remember the air fryer is really just a small convection oven - but is uses significantly less energy than a "big" oven.

I've barely used my oven at all since I brought it.

I've cooked steak and chips, cooked breakfast, salmon, sausages and chips, bologneise, chicken and all sorts in mine.

Can you and have you cooked a whole chicken or joint of beef in it?

I too have the dual and yes I have cooked a whole chicken and a rack of lamb in mine, haven't got around to doing beef in it yet but a lot of people on a Ninja FB page have. The chicken takes around 50 mins.  The Ninja AF400 is bigger then the AF300, the 300 will take a small chicken. - 1.5kg or there about.

I haven't used my oven in the two months I have had the dual

Its great for things like frozen battered fish, chicken etc. Cooking part baked rolls, heating up pies, pasties etc, its all done in minutes. Ive even made cakes in it 

I also have the 15 in 1. I use that for wet cooking - stews etc and I love the PC function on it 

Floss

I've cooked a chicken in my airfryer and currently have a piece of gammon cooking on the rotisserie. I do roasties underneath too.

SecondStar

I’ve heard great things about Remoska cookers, but haven’t tried myself.

dronid

madlyn said:

And I don't like the idea of a combi microwave.
All in all my head is spinning.

A combi microwave is a small oven with options (normally) to use as a microwave or grill or convection oven or combinations of both (so you can microwave and convection oven at the same time, speeding up cooking and browning the food. However just used as a convection oven it's very effective and more economical than a full size electric oven.