The roast potatoes are better mixed with the oil before going into the machine, you can add rosemary, etc, or take out the crisper but maybe slightly reduce oil. A *little* water under the crisper can be helpful as it makes steam which keeps things juicy, and helps clean the machine but this is for foods with a little more fat, like lamb or pork, etc.

cool, was looking for such a review, thanks

Also for an average 10kwh home storage battery, thats a 10% saving which is a lot - especially important in the winter when you don’t have much solar to top it up. Switch a condenser or vented tumble dryer to a heat pump one too and you could probably save 25% of your battery capacity when both are used. That could avoid you needing to expand your battery capacity

We have talked about an air fryer so it was good to see a genuine test. My battery Solar se up is designed to work on off peak charge and solar as appropriate for the time of year. The savings therefore are all at 7.5p which makes the savings very small taking a long time for any payback and taking up more worktop space We have recently replaced our condenser tumble dryer with a heat pump and the saving are substantial 400Wh v 3kWh which is not only a running cost saving but much less of a drain on the batteries therefore less chance of tripping over into peak rate later in the evening before 11.30 We went foe a Miele which was about £300 more than a Samsung because it has heat exchanger cleaning from the front avoiding a strip Down at the rear which is not covered by the warranty I like your videos, clear and concise

Just bought the flexdrawer fryer after our Cosori fryer broke thanks for the info!

Cooking 101, always give the potatoes a good shake in the saucepan after par boiling so the surface is roughed up, makes for a crispier potato.

Done the same test myself use the air fryers all the time now, get your self someting to spray the oil and toss the spuds with some semolina, flower and a bit of salt and they will be perfect😊

Big fan of the Ninja range. Never felt comfortable using the pressure cooker, with the Ninja one pot cooker it makes it so simple. Can also use 2 at once and stay under my inverter limit, so veg in one Ninja in pressure cooker mode and meat/fish/quorn in other 😊

We've got a twin drawer Vortex air fryer (similar to a a Ninja) & use it alot. Not done a complete roast chicken in it yet but I do use it for chops, steaks, chicken thighs / legs, sausages, bacon & roast pots etc. Definitely cheaper than an oven & much quicker with very short warm up time. The only snag we've found is that because we use it a lot the AF drawers are always in the dishwasher waiting to be cleaned. We could therefore do with a spare set of drawers. Still finding different ways to cook different types of food with it but you are right, nothing beats an oven cooked roastie.

Well,, you make me smile... You certainly found the long way around to measure your energy. I don't think you did too badly with the cooking but I bit more practice, to perfect your technique might help... 🙂

Good video thankyou

Maybe you could mute the soundtrack every time you say ‘Hey Siri’ for those of us watching on iOS devices? 😂😂 It’s carnage out here!

Great video! Greetings from Italy! Could you tell me what is the peak power absorption of the Ninja when using both zones or the mega zone? I need to evaluate if domestic power supply is enough… thanks

Great video. We have a combination microwave with a convection mode that heats up faster than the oven because of the smaller volume and cooks marginally faster. The cooking quality seems as good as the oven. I wonder what the difference in energy cost would be between that and an air fryer?

Kindly mute Siri prompts you triggered my homepod. Video much appreciated.

As a GREEK I LOVE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN; However My favourite is ordering (when living in GREECE); Is CHARCOAL GRILL BBQ chicken 'FLATENED in 2 pieces NICE & BBQ CRISPY on the outside'; sometimes the WING/BREAST AREA is a little PINK Inside 'may need to heat in OCEN; I think the 'AIR FRYER' has the space for TWO HALF-CHICKENS INSIDE *Still haven't USED THE APPLIANCE; but looking forward to USING IT

Hey dinkum please. She who must not be named is reacting to your commands! Otherwise yes. I think my air fryer uses half the power and doesn’t have a warm up time so it’s a lot less power than my fan oven and so much faster.

silly question - but couldn’t you have an energy graph in HA using the same sensor for home usage? so you could see kWh used over the time (and then remove baseload)? I’d love a way to get that hourly like the givenergy dashboard does too

Any update on the ASHP now for the pun are you now toastie

Why did you not use the "Roast"setting for the chicken?

Do you have online booking available for Sunday Dinner please?

A gas oven costs about ¼ the cost of an electric oven to use. And it vista the same any time of day.

what no gravy the second time round?

Take the tray out of the spud compartment and see they fry better

Useful video. I just bought one of these (same model) and was wondering how much energy it uses. I did a similar test using HA and got similar results to you. The energy saving seems to come from having to cook for less time. Or at least it does provided you can do everything in the device. I have run my air fryer and my oven at the same time for a meal that wouldn't fit in the air fryer in one go. That was a big mistake! Not only was it using (approx) 1.5 times the energy it also passed the limit on my inverter (4kw) and so we had to draw from the grid at peak rate. Still early days for me using the air fryer. I just need to be more careful to avoid using 4kw! At least I don't pay the carrot tax. Our dog won't eat them :)

I’ve never seen a recipe call for adding oil to the air fryer basket…

I would have seen it, if it had chapters with a conclusion.

Intrigued 😂, are you going to cap your gas off when your ASHP is up and running?

Water from your veg into the gravy will save you a kettle boil and grab you a few lost vitamins to boot.

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER 😂

Does the paypack diffence increase for shorter cooking periods? E.g. if some oven chips took 15min to cook? I would assume the warming up factor of the oven would have a larger effect the shorter the cook time?

Oven - roasted!😅

I guess Brits don't season or marinate their food? They just cook it plain and then pour gravy on it?

Where are you all living on solar, inverter and batteries, never seen so many people on You Tube videos that are this way.

We bought a slow cooker and used it a few times, it made the food taste funny and metallic despite cleaning it before use and gave us all headaches! I read it disrupts your DNA due to the chemicals used which made sense to us! As a result we decided not to buy one of these ovens incase it turns out the same as the slow cooker thats now packed away never to be used again! Two out of the 4 in the house had no complaints fyi