How to know if an air fryer is made with toxic materials or not?
Which ones are toxic and which ones aren't?
I am interested in buying one but this whole thing is holding me back because it apparently is very common for manufactures to coat the basket with toxic shit that gets in your food.
Do you guys not have ovens?
Air fryers are so much faster and energetically efficient
Yes, because they're smaller. Air fryers are just miniature convection ovens, the term is a marketing gimmick. I would rather have a single oven I can use to bake and cook meals of varying sizes than buy a lump of plastic that's going to take up space in my kitchen and can only cook a few portions at a time that I have to take apart and clean every time I cook anything.
I still don't understand why it's not called an air oven. Isn't that what it is?
People like fried food and most kitchens already have an oven. However, if you buy this product you now have an AIR (wow, no oil needed?) FRYER*
*miniature oven
Because you don't understand is how they're able to get away with marketing this as some sort of novel new must buy product. You're not stupid, most people don't understand that. Most people probably don't even know their oven has a convection setting or what that even means. It's just how marketing works.
It's an convection oven. It's not the same thing as a regular oven.
The marketing was originally that it made food similar to fried, but with less fat.
>oven has a convection setting
Never seen this or the mythical self-clean function. Mine just has top, bottom and top and bottom.
It kinda makes it more similar to roasted with the fan on
These small convection ovens were originally sold to bars that didn't have full kitchens to pump out some "fried" bar food. Which is where the air fryer name came from.
Air fryers are much faster and more efficient and they have plenty of space to cook for 1-2 people. They also give off less heat which can be nice if you're trying to keep your kitchen cool in peak summer. The space thing is the only real issue I see but if you have the cabinet space for it it's a non issue. I got one as a gift and we use it occasionally, no complaints
A while back I was really tempted to get one but I was worried I'd start eating too much junk food, like throwing in a chicken breast and some fries every other day. Are they good for anything except making quick snacks? They seem too small to meal prep but ideal for near effortlessly making a portion sized meal quickly.
Air fryer is a meme.
Get a nice toaster oven and a spritzer for olive oil.
Heating an entire oven for a snack for one person is inefficient and slow. Countertop toaster oven is quicker and more convenient.
maybe you should get a wife and have some kids so you arent always eating for one, then it will be more efficient to use your oven to feed a family instead of one guy
Just use baking paper for air fryers if you're that worried.
just buy one with stainless steel basket
Look for stainless steel or ceramic. I had to go with a ceramic finished one by Ninja because I have birds and the Teflon/pfoa coating if burned will kill them.
Search for non-pfoa coated air fryers. It's tough but they exist. Or go for the toaster oven looking one.
ninjachads, we're back
Just use an oven with the fan on you fricking nonce
Idk but they say it makes chicken yummy and im gettin one too
>Muh portions
It contains up to 3-4l capacity thats 2-3 yummy chicken breasts u fat morons
"airfryers" are just convection ovens.
There are convection ovens that looks like those mini toaster oven they have in japan.
That's just an convection oven OP. Google for that instead, and buy something that looks like those toaster ovens things that they have in Japan.
Almost all air fryers are made out of plastic. Just use a real oven.
>shit in food
>air fryer
The "shit" i am talking about is the metals that often get used to coat the inside of the basket
Go for stainless steel
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deus vult
>Fried chicken eyes looking into my soul, judging me for being hungry.
pretty sure teflon hasn't been toxic since the 2010s, but if you are still worried, go for ceramic or use tinfoil to avoid the food touching the teflon
>put foods into plastic and teflon-coated chamber that is heated to the point where plastic leeches chemicals and then doused in muh seed oils
>worried about toxins
Plastic and teflon are the toxins i am talking about moron