Air fryer v oven

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I think I'll get a second-hand one in a year or so.  It'll be dirt cheap and barely used.

Just the same as my rowing machine and breadmaker after lockdown, and the panini press and ice cream machine before that.

moneysaver

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Deleted_User said:

Noticed a slight drop in leccy usage.

How much £ is "slight"?

Enough to payback to £100-£200 spent on the air fryer?

The typical electric oven would use 40p per day, if the air fryer uses a "slight" amount less, say 5p, then it will take 2000 days for a £100 air fryer to break even - 5.5 years. For a gas oven nearer 15 years. £200 air fryer 11 years / 30 years at said rate.

Can't really claim money saving without hard data - have you got numbers on the "slight"?

Good post.

  I was looking at this very thing this morning.  The other thing to factor in is how long the AF will last, doing some research this morning seems to indicate somewhere between 6mths to 3yrs depending on the quality of the AF.

So people need to factor that in the cost to replace it, at the most every 3yrs. I was thinking about getting one but not convinced it will save me anything, it may cost more in the long run.

I remember my elderly mum used to have a halogen oven & it generally only lasted about a year, so she was buying new ones every time.

 Moneysaver

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ariarnia said:

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*It makes enough mess inside with congealed oil just cooking chips. I can imagine the horror of tring to clean the baked on residue from chicken, beefburgers, sausages etc!

ours goes in the dishwasher with everything else. 

Crikey! How big is your dishwasher?

I could put the pan thingie in mine, but not with anything else on that shelf.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've been scraping mine with a white scourer and degreaser, I'll try dishwashing it next time.

ariarnia

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ariarnia said:

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*It makes enough mess inside with congealed oil just cooking chips. I can imagine the horror of tring to clean the baked on residue from chicken, beefburgers, sausages etc!

ours goes in the dishwasher with everything else. 

Crikey! How big is your dishwasher?

I could put the pan thingie in mine, but not with anything else on that shelf.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've been scraping mine with a white scourer and degreaser, I'll try dishwashing it next time.

ours has a base and a basket so the food is lifted up from the bottom of the air fryer for air circulation. that also means things like sausages dont spit because there not sitting in fat so its only really the pans that need cleaning. these two bits come appart and fit next to each other on the top shelf of the dishwasher. there about the same size each as my big mixing bowl. 

but also i use liners (an 8 inch round or square silicon cake tin is great with space for air around the sides) sometimes which cuts the washing (like using tin foil on a grill tray)

Nebulous2

wittynamegoeshere said:

SMcGill said:

When I am not using it, I just store it in the main oven so it is out of view.

Genius! It would never have crossed my mind to use my oven as storage

Great as long as nobody switches it on.  Sounds like the receipe for an incident to me.

I had an acquaintance with a serious alcohol problem, and some rich relatives. One of them gave him £3000 in cash and he decided to hide it from himself to stop him drinking it. A plan I never entirely understood, but it seemed to make sense to him.

He put it in the grill - and then came home from the pub, decided to cook something and incinerated all his money..... 

I don't do much of the cooking, but I don't put on the oven without looking in it first, partly to ensure the shelves are where they need to be for whatever I will be heating. It's more awkward to relocate them after they are hot. 

dander

moneysaver said:

 The other thing to factor in is how long the AF will last, doing some research this morning seems to indicate somewhere between 6mths to 3yrs depending on the quality of the AF.

I don't think some of these assumptions on lifetime cost are fair. 6 months would surely be a faulty appliance and under guarantee. My experience is I bought an absolute  bottom of market air fryer for £30 about 3 years ago. At the time I'd heard that they were essentially mini-ovens so I liked the idea, but wasn't sure if I'd use it loads, so just bought the cheapest version i could find as a trial. It worked faultlessly that whole time, and I totally converted to air-frying, but it was only 2l and I was keen to get a little bit more space for cooking, so I have just spent £54 to upgrade to the next size up. So in 3 years we're talking £84 spent on airfryers and I see no reason to believe I won't still be using the current one 3 years or more from now. So I'm currently averaging under 8p per day on applicance cost and that's dropping all the time. If I hadn't upgraded and continued using the original, I'd be at under 3p a day.

Whether it saves me electricity is a whole different question - I'm sure it does like for like, but I also find it so handy and convenient that I think I use it far more than I ever used the oven. I'll use it to warm up scones, croissants etc that I would never have turned the oven on. I'll use it to cook things I might otherwise have put in the microwave. I'll put meat in it that I might otherwise have used the grill for. I'm probably more likely to have foods like breaded fish because it cooks them so well. Potentially I might actually use more electricity, but I'm now only rarely heating up a big box of air that will disperse as un-needed heat into my kitchen.

wild666

In a week my electric used 0.95 kWh's of electric for my Ninja air fryer. It's only on for 10 minutes to crisp up the skin on a jacket potato and cook the pie or chicken breast so it's certainly cheaper than the oven that I was using around 0.7 kWh per day or more. I also have a one plate induction hob to cook fresh carrots when I want them. My cooker has become the resting place for the air fryer.

Lou76

I bought the Ninja 11 in 1 during their summer sale, a few months ago.  Between the sale price, and the 10% Blue Light Card discount, I saved over £100 - cost me £179.

I live alone, and was using my electric oven for quorn nuggets, cooking chilli on the hob, frying a couple of sausages here and there...

It must be saving money on electricity, as I no longer preheat the oven for 30 minutes, after I wander off and get distracted, to cook half a dozen nuggets for 15 minutes.

Instead, I bung them straight in the Ninja (don't bother preheating) and they're cooked in 10 minutes.

Chilli I make in half the time, using the pressure cooker setting.

Have made yoghurt in it, without the faff of making in a slow cooker, where you have to periodically takes its temperature etc. 🤣

It's anyone's guess how much electricity I'm saving, and how long such savings will take to recoup the cost of the machine, but the convenience, and time saving, is worth it for me.

Ally_E.

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ariarnia said:

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*It makes enough mess inside with congealed oil just cooking chips. I can imagine the horror of tring to clean the baked on residue from chicken, beefburgers, sausages etc!

ours goes in the dishwasher with everything else. 

Crikey! How big is your dishwasher?

I could put the pan thingie in mine, but not with anything else on that shelf.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've been scraping mine with a white scourer and degreaser, I'll try dishwashing it next time.

You can get lining paper for air fryers, most people I know use them for ease of cleaning https://amzn.eu/d/dfg3KL8

They come in different sizes and shapes to suit different air fryers 

dander

Lou76 said:

It must be saving money on electricity, as I no longer preheat the oven for 30 minutes, after I wander off and get distracted, to cook half a dozen nuggets for 15 minutes.

This is such a good point - the air fryer pings off as soon as it's done. Saves so much accidental leaving the oven on!