Air fryer costs

Spoonie_Turtle

debitcardmayhem said:

Anyone found an air-fryer that can do roast rib of beef ,  roast potatoes, roast parsnips, and the obligatory yorkie puddings. I find it sad that the art of cooking has been lost for the convenience and “money saving” on an oven stab,stab press ping. Proper food does not need to be expensive in fact and is far more nutritional than packaged convenience foods and often cheaper since you get more meals from £ / lb easy meals.

I think you might be confusing air fryers and microwaves …

(Although you can of course cook food from fresh in a microwave - for a while when I was not too ill to prepare my own food one of my favourites was leek, courgette, soya beans and a salmon fillet all cooked together in a microwave.  I started the veggies cooking then added the salmon later as it took less time than they did from raw.)

Mstty

This time of year, no scrap that anytime if year if you max out your oven cooking a few meals, desert, roast the joint to then enjoy for the next few days it's the most efficient use of the space the oven provides.

If you are just going to use one maybe two shelves then this is where a decent bigger air fryer comes in for efficiency.

Think of them as kettles if you need a full kettle use the oven if half a kettle use the air fryer.

This time of year you also probably don't want a 2000w+ heater in the form of an oven in the kitchen.

Krakkkers

Absolutely, i will use my large oven to cook multiple items at the same time when i can.

But with solar panels there are more times when i can use the air fryer for free.

debitcardmayhem

Spoonie_Turtle said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Anyone found an air-fryer that can do roast rib of beef ,  roast potatoes, roast parsnips, and the obligatory yorkie puddings. I find it sad that the art of cooking has been lost for the convenience and “money saving” on an oven stab,stab press ping. Proper food does not need to be expensive in fact and is far more nutritional than packaged convenience foods and often cheaper since you get more meals from £ / lb easy meals.

I think you might be confusing air fryers and microwaves …

(Although you can of course cook food from fresh in a microwave - for a while when I was not too ill to prepare my own food one of my favourites was leek, courgette, soya beans and a salmon fillet all cooked together in a microwave.  I started the veggies cooking then added the salmon later as it took less time than they did from raw.)

Nope the start of my post can an air-fryer roast beef etc… the second part was about saving money and a comment about convenience foods and the “modern way” of cooking, although I can see where you may be confused about me talking about the stab,press ping. I was really talking about air-fryers. But I often confuse myself at my age.

debitcardmayhem

Krakkkers said:

Absolutely, i will use my large oven to cook multiple items at the same time when i can.

But with solar panels there are more times when i can use the air fryer for free.

We use our oven, dishwasher and washer for free many times , but air fryers are good for somethings especially frozen chips, time for chip butty 🍟

CSI_Yorkshire

debitcardmayhem said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Anyone found an air-fryer that can do roast rib of beef ,  roast potatoes, roast parsnips, and the obligatory yorkie puddings. I find it sad that the art of cooking has been lost for the convenience and “money saving” on an oven stab,stab press ping. Proper food does not need to be expensive in fact and is far more nutritional than packaged convenience foods and often cheaper since you get more meals from £ / lb easy meals.

I think you might be confusing air fryers and microwaves …

(Although you can of course cook food from fresh in a microwave - for a while when I was not too ill to prepare my own food one of my favourites was leek, courgette, soya beans and a salmon fillet all cooked together in a microwave.  I started the veggies cooking then added the salmon later as it took less time than they did from raw.)

Nope the start of my post can an air-fryer roast beef etc… the second part was about saving money and a comment about convenience foods and the “modern way” of cooking, although I can see where you may be confused about me talking about the stab,press ping. I was really talking about air-fryers. But I often confuse myself at my age.

People not cooking every meal in an oven does not equal the downfall of society.

ArbitraryRandom

This time of year my air fryer is great. I'm eating more things like chicken or similar with salad so turning on the main oven (or even using the grill) is a waste of time and energy. 

It's a decent size, so I can cook a whole (medium) chicken or a 12 egg Spanish omelette/tortilla and have the rest cold (or reheated in the dreaded ping box!) over the next few days.

Over winter I also found it good for weekday meals - If I cooked a roast and trimmings at the weekned I could use it to make bubble and squeak or do some fresh stuffing/yorkshires/pigs in blankets to go with my cold cuts mid week. Stretched the roast out a few more meals and made those meals more interesting... which seems like 'traditional cooking' to me

Astria

ArbitraryRandom said:

This time of year my air fryer is great. I'm eating more things like chicken or similar with salad so turning on the main oven (or even using the grill) is a waste of time and energy. 

but of course only if your main oven is electric. If I'm cooking chips or other things that I want crispy, then I generally cook them in the air fryer as it seems like better equipment for the job, but most other things I still cook in my gas oven because it still beats the air fryer in cost, and I've just had an email through saying that from July, gas will reduce to 7p/kWh, so an air fryer then can work out to be significantly more expensive than an oven.

My solar panels are currently running my office, background appliances, and air conditioning. I'd have to get more panels and change the inverter to run the air fryer as well, probably not worth the cost.

Krakkkers

Switch off other stuff for a while, its what i do.

mmmmikey

debitcardmayhem said:

Anyone found an air-fryer that can do roast rib of beef ,  roast potatoes, roast parsnips, and the obligatory yorkie puddings. I find it sad that the art of cooking has been lost for the convenience and “money saving” on an oven stab,stab press ping. Proper food does not need to be expensive in fact and is far more nutritional than packaged convenience foods and often cheaper since you get more meals from £ / lb easy meals.

I do just that in one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ridgemonkey-Connect-Griddle-Granite-Standard/dp/B0BSNVNBJK/ref=sr_1_12?crid=3FXIVB6QV57TY&keywords=ridgemonkey&qid=1687353708&sprefix=ridgemonkey,aps,146&sr=8-12

It's a perfect size for one and works on the gas hob at home. You just have to use your imagination and cooking skills. Ovens are by and large energy inefficient and expensive for one person and there are lots of devices that can save money without in any way adversely affecting the quality or nutritional value of what you cook in them.

If anything, I suspect that the craze for air fryers has encouraged people to rediscover the art of cooking as they experiment with what they can cook in them.

All IMHO of course