Recommendations for new air fryer?

clive0510

newsgroupmonkey_ said:

Sadly, I did the "buy cheap, buy twice" thing with a Tower cheapy from Lidl.
Lasted about 14 months. We use it at least twice a day (we both work from home and do lunch like chicken and so on plus dinner, breakfast etc.)

Bought a Ninja A300 in what we thought was a sale at £150. They're now available apparently for £125 (this is a google link, so no idea who these folk are)
https://premiumhomestore.co.uk/home/3-ninja-af300uk-76l-foodi-dual-zone-air-fryer-2400w-622356236133.html

Ninja really are the Daddy of Air Fryers.

The ninja are certianly very smart looking. I guess also they are well made. do they do a small one person ninja?

searchlight123

travis-powers said:

I have the ninja, absolutely love it!
 Ironically my wife insisted on two ovens when we did the kitchen but we hardly use them I find the air fryer cooks quicker and tastier.

haha. I could have written that. Just had a lovely new kitchen fitted with double eye level ovens that will probably never see the light of day due to my wife's love affair with her Ninja!!!

flo22

clive0510 said:

newsgroupmonkey_ said:

Sadly, I did the "buy cheap, buy twice" thing with a Tower cheapy from Lidl.
Lasted about 14 months. We use it at least twice a day (we both work from home and do lunch like chicken and so on plus dinner, breakfast etc.)

Bought a Ninja A300 in what we thought was a sale at £150. They're now available apparently for £125 (this is a google link, so no idea who these folk are)
https://premiumhomestore.co.uk/home/3-ninja-af300uk-76l-foodi-dual-zone-air-fryer-2400w-622356236133.html

Ninja really are the Daddy of Air Fryers.

The ninja are certianly very smart looking. I guess also they are well made. do they do a small one person ninja?

Do not buy small you will only end up buying a bigger one.  Just remember all air fyers are small compared to an oven

travis-powers

tonygold said:

travis-powers said:

I have the ninja, absolutely love it!
 Ironically my wife insisted on two ovens when we did the kitchen but we hardly use them I find the air fryer cooks quicker and tastier.

haha. I could have written that. Just had a lovely new kitchen fitted with double eye level ovens that will probably never see the light of day due to my wife's love affair with her Ninja!!!

Christmas and Sunday roasts!

Silvertabby

travis-powers said:

tonygold said:

travis-powers said:

I have the ninja, absolutely love it!
 Ironically my wife insisted on two ovens when we did the kitchen but we hardly use them I find the air fryer cooks quicker and tastier.

haha. I could have written that. Just had a lovely new kitchen fitted with double eye level ovens that will probably never see the light of day due to my wife's love affair with her Ninja!!!

Christmas and Sunday roasts!

I still use my normal oven for cakes and other baked goods, and will use it for the Christmas turkey - but I, too, am in love with my double-pan Ninja!

pattycake

I’ve had a small Mo Health air fryer for about a year. I almost immediately thought I should have got a bigger one.  I’ve now upgraded direct with Ninja for a limited edition copper trim two drawer version.  Black Friday offer with 10% off for signing on their mailing list, £179.99 free delivery.  It’s a beast!  It only arrived a couple of days ago and I’ve yet to get to grips with it but I’m excited by the possibilities.

Albermarle

Just as a counter to all the positive comments. Putting aside convenience, speed and the fact they cook some foods really well, I am not at all convinced about the saving money argument.

As far as I can work out if you put the oven on for an hour, it will use say 3KW for the first 15 mins and then about 1KW for the next 45 mins. So about 1.5 KWH in total.
I think a typical  air fryer is rated around 1.5 Kw but might cook the same food in half the time, so 0.75KWH - a saving of 0.75KWH . A saving of 21p.
Use it 5 times a week - One whole Pound saved , maybe £1.50 to be generous.

Cost of decent airfryer  as above £180. Up to a 3 year payback, by which time most air fryers need replacing as I understand it.

Happy for anyone to dispute the back of a fag packet figures 

Longwalker

Albermarle said:

Just as a counter to all the positive comments. Putting aside convenience, speed and the fact they cook some foods really well, I am not at all convinced about the saving money argument.

As far as I can work out if you put the oven on for an hour, it will use say 3KW for the first 15 mins and then about 1KW for the next 45 mins. So about 1.5 KWH in total.
I think a typical  air fryer is rated around 1.5 Kw but might cook the same food in half the time, so 0.75KWH - a saving of 0.75KWH . A saving of 21p.
Use it 5 times a week - One whole Pound saved , maybe £1.50 to be generous.

Cost of decent airfryer  as above £180. Up to a 3 year payback, by which time most air fryers need replacing as I understand it.

Happy for anyone to dispute the back of a fag packet figures 

Im with you on that, the savings cant be counted until you pay back the cost. I dont see much reduction at all in electric usage 

However I do have the Ninja AF400 and the 15 in 1 and I use both or at least one, daily Yesterday had yoghurt on in the 15 and used the dual for the bacon butties at lunch and then for croquette potatoes and mushrooms for the supper 

flo22

I do think that when you get an air fryer you do start to cook differently.  For example before I had an air fryer I would never really pop the oven on to do a pizza for lunch but I have the mini pizzas which I pop in the air fryer for 6 mins.  Also with the Ninja 15 in 1 it's easy to flip from pressure cooker to air fryer.  Basically it just changes what you cook and how you cook.

OP - incidentally there is a bit of a bargain cheapy air fryer on QVC today https://www.qvcuk.com/cooks-essentials-4l-digital-air-fryer.product.822850.html?sc=PRODFEED