What do you cook in your airfryer?

Gintotmelinda wrote: »

Thanks all for your replies
It is a halogen oven.

Gintot

In that case you can cook in the usual way, or stick anything from the freezer in it. My Dad uses his at least 4 times a week, and I have not even used mine (purchased at least 7 years ago!) once

I did try to make scones in Dad's once and they did not turn out well. I suspect the error was mine and not the oven's. I'm sure there is a thread about halogen ovens somewhere on OS.

Generally (not here in particular) there does seem to be a bit of confusion or misinformation with what is an "air fryer" or a "halogen" and I have seen people mix them up.

Disclaimer before I go further: I have neither and never have!

I'm excluding these 'treat/sandwich' type makers although they would be ideal for a few things too in some cases (things not intended to go into them!) , I want to discuss those later actually as I have a few thoughts to share.

Air fryer is just that, no light it is more or less a hot air heater I suppose, no visible heating elements. Can make a bit of noise.

Halogen are the ones that light up usually very bright!

I think both have advantages and disadvantages.

Some of the air fryers just have a basket and some have a paddle, one well known one at least. Now I wanted to mention something I learned a year or so ago about this 'brand' and its positive:

Apparently you are not meant to use it without the paddle, but there are obviously a couple of sizes of the machine. There is or was at one point a snacking type one that had a grid instead from what I understand, this might not of been sold in the UK.

Now the interesting thing here is some enterprising people discovered that the 'grid' was available as a spare part (expected!) and would actually fit one or more of the UK models, so you could remove the paddle and use it that way with the 'grid' instead even though as far as I am aware at least this was not a "supported" option as it was not intended for those models.

I think the manufacturer now may offer a grid or something for these having realised there might be a demand ? But I've not checked on it...

I do note the cheaper models that are in the usual places, I say cheaper as in 20-40 rather than 80-150 ( !) but the former is a lot for me anyway, some models certainly one manufacturer and model did not sell said model on their own site, and it took ages to find a manual for it, merely out of curiosity. Not saying there is anything amiss with that, it was almost as if the 'model' was made for said 'usual places' somehow. It was one of the types with a pull out drawer, although there are a lot of those about now of various brands I know.

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Thanks for the advice above AndyCF, I didn't realise that the two are the same thing. Talk about being sucked in by the marketing!Presumably the energy consumption is higher than the first one you bought?

Hope it does help. As I say I do not own or have owned either.

But I *have* seen (not here, generally) some say they have an air fryer and when you actually see it, it is a halogen 'thing' , the last one I saw was the one you see advertised or did see quite a bit on early morning 'teleshop' type tv, with the hinged lid with the bulb in, it looks a bit like a giant wide diameter glass tube.