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Our daughter gave us a toaster oven/air fryer (Original Post) yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 OP
A neighbor said onion rings are fabulous in their air fryer. rubbersole Dec 2022 #1
Don't try to... 2naSalit Dec 2022 #2
Bone-in chicken happybird Dec 2022 #3
I second "happybird" 🤣 cilla4progress Dec 2022 #4
A bird with crispy skin is the happiest bird, lol! happybird Dec 2022 #5
You bet! cilla4progress Dec 2022 #7
I'll be trying your baked potato recipe also. KS Toronado Dec 2022 #10
Baked potatoes come out awesome Freddie Dec 2022 #11
Italian seasoned bread crumb chicken nuggets. aeromanKC Dec 2022 #6
Wings! Meatballs... lisa58 Dec 2022 #8
I use my Power XL 8 in 1 for many recipes & love it onetexan Dec 2022 #9
Chicken wings are great. Grumpy Old Guy Dec 2022 #12
Try pizza vercetti2021 Dec 2022 #13
Use it all the time snowybirdie Dec 2022 #14
If that is like the Breville (or equivalent) BumRushDaShow Dec 2022 #15
Roasted vegetables! Callalily Dec 2022 #16
We've had one for two years and we love it. ificandream Dec 2022 #17

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)
2. Don't try to...
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:21 AM
Dec 2022

Do coconut shrimp, that has to happen in a real fryer or an oven, it just doesn't come out right.

I like to cook up a whole package of breakfast sausages and freeze them for individual use.

happybird

(4,608 posts)
3. Bone-in chicken
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:24 AM
Dec 2022

Boneless comes out a little dry, but bone-in stays juicy inside with perfect crispy skin.

I cook chicken thighs in the air fryer at least once a week. Heavily coat them with whatever seasoning you like, spray with cooking oil, set the timer for 18 min, and flip the thighs after 10 min. Delicious! And super easy. I’ve done them with curry powder, italian seasoning, 5 spice... whatever strikes my fancy, and every time they have turned out great. Depending on what else I am making, sometimes I’ll dump the drippings into the sauce. It works especially well in sauce for pasta.

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
4. I second "happybird" 🤣
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:29 AM
Dec 2022

Also air fryer baked potates. Rub olive oil and salt on jackets. Crispy skins. Flaky moist interior!!

happybird

(4,608 posts)
5. A bird with crispy skin is the happiest bird, lol!
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:34 AM
Dec 2022

I’ve not tried baked potatoes in there yet, but definitely will after reading your post. Thanks!

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
7. You bet!
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:45 AM
Dec 2022

Im going to try all your spice selections. We've stuck mostly with a delicious one our daughter served us - Chef Paul Prudhomme's Poultry Magic.

Can't tell you all what's in it - it's "proprietory'. Salt, garlic, paprika, onion and "spices". 😀

But it's good!

KS Toronado

(17,252 posts)
10. I'll be trying your baked potato recipe also.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:59 AM
Dec 2022

Mainly use mine for onion rings and tater tots, time to expand my horizons.

Freddie

(9,267 posts)
11. Baked potatoes come out awesome
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 04:18 AM
Dec 2022

Great in the summer when you don’t want to heat up the kitchen using the oven.
Hot dogs are great in the air fryer too.

lisa58

(5,755 posts)
8. Wings! Meatballs...
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:08 AM
Dec 2022

I made hot Italian sausage tonight. I gave myself the ninja grill-air fryer for Christmas during the pandemic because I missed going out for wings. So glad I did. Have fun experimenting- happy new year

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
9. I use my Power XL 8 in 1 for many recipes & love it
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:16 AM
Dec 2022

Bake, airfry, grill, toast, broil & several more options. I dont use my oven much anymore except for large pizzas.
Google air fryer recipes & u w find a galore of them.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
13. Try pizza
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 05:21 AM
Dec 2022

Makes it a lot more crispier if you like your like crust a lot more done than just kind of doughy. If you can! Our new range oven had an air fryer built in

snowybirdie

(5,229 posts)
14. Use it all the time
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 06:27 AM
Dec 2022

Made meat loaf and scalloped potatoes the other day. Google what ever dish you'd like to make adding words air fryer and dozens of recipes come up. Frozen appetizers good too.

BumRushDaShow

(129,069 posts)
15. If that is like the Breville (or equivalent)
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 07:12 AM
Dec 2022

I have one and literally, except for when I cooked a turkey a couple months ago (not for Thanksgiving), I have not used my regular oven in a year.

My Breville (Smart Oven with air fryer) fits up to 9x13 pans (at least those without large handles) and most of the pans/baking dishes that I use can fit in there (including a 3.5 qt dutch oven with lid). I haven't tried a skillet yet but the long handle might be the limitation (maybe an 8" could go in mine but haven't tested). I can fit a full 10-cup bundt pan in there (just tried it). The past year, I even found some small (13" x 8 1/4" ) USA Pan cookie sheets that will fit right in the slot if I take the rack out and I have been doing my cookie baking with those (and they sell the small pre-cut parchment sheets that go perfectly on those). So any kind of baked goods work well (I even made some spinach/feta spanokopitas in there last year and plan to make an 8"x8" pan of corn bread today). Pies also work in there and I have even made quiches (in pie plates) using it.

I have also made a pot roast in there (slow cook in an oval dutch oven with a low temp using the Roast function that has an adjustable temp and timer up to 2 hours that you can just add more time to if not done yet).

What I have had to do is keep a running list of times/settings for things I frequently cook as my regular oven is not a convection type and the Breville has different convection settings (or an option to not use convection at all), so I have had to adjust some times.

What is great is that some types of cooking will really shine with that convection option so you get a wider variety of outcomes from the use of it. If yours has that basket for air frying, one of the tips I have seen (and have used on occasion) is a non-stick insert to go in the basket to make clean-up easier. And regarding clean-up, I discovered the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser sheets a couple years ago and those have worked great to clean the inside and the glass front.

The air-fry is obviously great for things like (potato) fries but that means any types of food that normally gets fried (including deep-fried), including other veggies (I make air-fried match-stick parsnips to get them crispy versus roasted) work great in there. One of the things to make sure to do for the veggies since you are not deep-frying, is to still get some kind of light layer of oil on the food, and that usually means a spray/squirt while it is in the basket or what I often do, coating the veggies in a bag with a little oil and seasoning and then putting it in the basket. Periodic spritzing the stuff in the basket with some kind of oil when checking/turning (if needed) helps to brown it on the outside and seal the moisture on the inside. I've also tried bacon in it for the heck of it despite not being a bacon person (have to play around with the timing and temps to get it the way you like).

There are more and more books of recipes appearing that are aimed at air-fryers but note that the standalone "air fryers" operate differently from the toaster oven air fryers (one of my sisters gave my other sister a Ninja air fryer for Christmas so now they both have that type but I prefer my toaster oven/air fryer because it is more versatile for me).

ificandream

(9,373 posts)
17. We've had one for two years and we love it.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 10:54 PM
Dec 2022

Our favorites are breaded chicken strips, French fries, salmon and fresh shrimp. For New Year's Eve tonight, we did homemade pizza for the first time. Came out very nice. We may do that again.

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