not a big fan of em

@@lordofnut3272 Don't feel like dealing with an extra appliance or just wouldn't find much use for it?

@@EthanChlebowski Don't like dealing with an extra appliance.

I received one as a gift a couple years ago. It made awesome fries (from frozen) but it’s a bitch to clean and ultimately ended up in kitchen exile.

@@PapaBearCDXX That's probably how it would go for me if I was gifted one, I don't think I would get much use out of it.

i was really amazed by this awesome technology until i realized just that...

Are they really exactly the same? I looked for a conventional toaster oven vs air fryer, but I couldn't find a video for it.

you could probably get a convection toaster oven and its the same trucking thing

Air fryer probably used a lot less energy just because it is a lot smaller

@@fozziebear411 vs. a toaster oven with convention setting?

Yeah I have kids and its helps with quick lunch chicken nuggets

Get a toaster oven.

@@vincedibona4687 Depends on the air fryer. In the video the air fryer isn't being used optimally. Using it the way he does is effectively using it like a toaster oven which you would be correct. No difference. BUT proper use of an air fryer can mean preheating takes less then a minute. A toaster oven just can't do this. With the one I have purchased, in the time I have placed the food on the rack, the air fryer is ready. Bacon takes 7 minutes TOTAL to cook including preheating, wings usually take around 19 minutes, and I consistently can shave off around 15% of cooking time for any premade food from the store. Some I have noticed I can do in half the time. Just like his deep frying videos, it matters how you use an air fryer to get the best results. Most air fryers are just rebranded toaster ovens though so research is important.

I agree, preheating time should've been included in overall cooking times. And the preheat was far too long, if not entirely unnecessary for the air fryer.

@@123321negima what air fryer do you use

Or just not preheating at all in the air fryer. Usually I just chuck some food in and press the button, it comes out perfect because that tiny space doesn't take nearly as long to heat compared to a whole giant oven. That, plus the food is like 2 inches away from the heat source, so it's really broiling and convection cooking at the same time.

@@Fudgeey yeah good point. I've been doing the same lately. Plus (and this is small) the oven heats up my whole kitchen whereas the air fryer doesn't.

I wonder how much money is saved on electricity over a years time when comparing preheat and cook times. I spend a lot of time waiting on my oven to preheat and I know she has to be chewing up some serious electricity doing so.

@@1bcordell Electric appliances use next to no electricity. For example even if you live where electricity is ridiculously overpriced like California, running an oven at full heat for 1 hour only costs 40 cents of electricity. Most of the world your electricity cost will be half of that. So lets say you use your oven a ridiculously high amount like 5 hours a day which only people who run a restaurant would ever get close to, you are only paying $60 in electricity per month.

So I have tested my oven and it takes around 8 minutes to reach 200C 400F and 10-12 to reach 250C 480F. I usually preheat for 5 minutes and then put the food in.

You could also take it outside and cook not leaving any heat in your house :)

That seems the most obvious benefit. Oven cooking in the southern US is one of those things that doesn't really make good sense. No other culture near the tropics does that sort of thing. They all cook on stovetops. I live in Florida and that's one reason I ditched baking in favor of cuisine that doesn't use an oven. That's also why I'm interested in an air fryer (I have a counter-top convection oven, but it's only a marginal improvement).

So that's a con in the winter...

@@Flippokid Not if you live in a hot state... lol

@@raminolta not sure what you are commenting on as I don't see anything that could possibly relate to what you just said here. My comment was that if your house is hot and you don't wish to add more heat by cooking in the kitchen, an air fryer is portable and can be taken outside to do your cooking thus not making it hotter inside your house.

You can also reheat your pizza in a skillet on the stove; it gets nice and crispy.

i microswave it then put on skillet just to get the crisp

@@saireece4585 Yeah, the microwave starts to melt the cheese and saves time.

I use a toaster oven for that

@@LikeCakeIDo Same. It's good for reheating pizza and fries. Anything I want to stay crisp.

So are counter top convection toaster ovens.

@@stephentilley9675 yes. Mini ovens are the best. Bonus points for models that have an air fry setting

@@matthewrs7 Its not called air fry. Its called a convection setting dont fall for that marketing ploy to spend extra cash.

@@gamezahoy712 Not true.I don't know where you people get your information, but I've been using convection ovens for decades and it really isn't the same technology. My airfryer preheats in under 2 minutes, there's no way that my similarly sized convection oven would be ready to cook that quickly. They both use convection as the primary method of transferring heat to the food, but the fans that the air fryers use are significant. Typically, you can reduce the temperature by about 50F and the cooktime by about 20% on the airfryer to get similar results to what you'd get out of a convection oven. If it were really just a marketing ploy, those settings would be much closer. On top of that, by being able to operate at a lower temperature over a shorter period of time, you're likely to save the difference in purchase price over the time you own the appliance.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade I guess you didn't watch the video, because none of what you're saying about faster or lower temp turned out to be true when he tested it

They also sell tabletop air convection ovens in Korea. Just read some reviews and buy the cheaper one

Yeah just like the other said. You can even get steam injection convection table top oven, if you want to be serious about your cooking

Yup, the air fryer is like the missing half brother of the microwave.

very smarter

Air fryer would probably be a better choice for Asian cuisine than a convection oven. I have a convection oven and it's really only a marginal improvement over a regular oven. It is more energy efficient and smaller, however.

Incorrect. Air fryers do not use convection. This is the single most frustrating thing when I try to sell appliances.

@@Monochromicornicopia "the movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat." Constantly circulating hot air with a fan is convection

@@WolfBangAlpha You just proved yourself wrong by posting the definition of convection. Convection is moving air due to gravity. A fan spinning around pushing air is not movement due to gravity.

@@Monochromicornicopia if a fan blows hot air up, the cooler air will fall due to gravity

@@WolfBangAlpha And? You're missing the point. Convection is only due to gravity (you even posted the definition) not mechanically assisted.

Can you tell me which model you have?

@@justinnguyen3906 Currently I have a Toshiba 1.5 cu ft capable of 425 F on the convection side. It's rated at 1000 watts, that's a tad light, but it's a combo micro/convection. I use it all the time, it's absolutely the best way to make garlic bread, warms meats well without the microwave drying out thing I hate. AND it does everything a micro needs to do as well. It's a replacement for the one I had that was 2 cu ft, 1400 watts, and totally awesome, but getting one that big and powerful is like $600 this one cost me around $200 on sale. it bakes very well, it cooks pizza exceptionally well, and on those occasions I need to "finish" something coming off of the grill, the ability to control the temperature to bring a hunk of meat to safe temps is a real boon. This has happened in the past where I have a thick chuck roast or big poultry quarters that are done on the outside but the inside temp isn't quite what I'm comfortable with, so I set the convection to around 200 and let it ride in there until I feel ok. My big oven could do this too, but it takes longer to heat up and because the heating elements are at the bottom then it can at times scorch the underside of whatever I'm trying to heat up. I haven't used it for actual "air frying" as of yet, but I've done regular and sweet potato fries in the past in my old one that came out fine, as well as roasted vegetables. Various brands have either racks or pans to do that type of thing on, I tend to use the rack and put a paper plate beneath it if it's meat that will drip. I *really* favor it for cooking ANY frozen item that you would otherwise fry, like battered fish, meat pies, pierogis, chimichangas, or chicken nuggets, it heats so evenly and quickly as well. Ok you got me talking about the damn thing sorry for the exposition here ;-)

Not a good comparison since he used an air fryer with an oven design, so of course the results are gonna be close

May I ask which brand you have. It’s confusing there’s so many different types on the market

He literally mentioned it at 6:24

@@d.f.rizaldi36 Mary Rose is literally asking Christine Haworth (OP), what brand SHE has?

You are supposed to preheat an air fryer. People seem to get away with not doing so, but perhaps that is on the smallest models.

Eulogy they’re not wrong, but then again, pretty much nothing on his channel is original

@@ajayparthibha5702 You made me look and I just noticed his entire style is a mishmash of other food KZfaqrs, haha.

@@ulogy As if food yt can be original :shrug:

Eulogy but honestly, i think thats why hes the best! he focuses more on the people who want the best food with the least amount of effort in the shortest amount of time. Babish and weissman just make cooking vids for entertainment like making ninja turtles pizza or making in n out better. none of that shit is actually going to apply to someones home cooking its just way too complicated and annoying to even consider making.

@@TripleEightss Might I recommend Adam Ragusea?

Want one of these and a steam combination oven! I think that’s the perfect pair

I have one similar. Ninja Foodi 9 in 1. Doesn't have the microwave function but it's a pressure cooker (with associated functions like steaming) mixed with an air fryer (again with associated functions like grill and baking/roasting)

This was the main reason I just bought an air fryer - to reduce heat and to be able to bring it out on the balcony so I can leave an air condition on, and don't have to open windows to get rid of the cooking smells (which is generally difficult, due to all windows on one side of the building and wind mostly blowing parallel to them... )

Yeah I got gifted one and am planning on putting it in my backyard kitchen. Will be making wings, and sippin beers in the great outdoors.

It's not really energy saving if you consider air fryers are prone to self combust and burn (watch out for your house, there's a YT video out there where it was caught on camera) and essentially die leaving plastic and electrical waste which 1. costs money and the environment to make and 2. costs money and the environment to dispose. My gifted air fryer started smoking from the top and set off my fire alarm. I quickly unplugged the damn thing and it still kept burning for a few minutes, but by this time I had put on my oven mitts and took it outside. My opinion, stick with normal convection ovens if you can. They are safer, cooks better and from what I can see, better for the environment 💪🏼

Glad it was helpful!

It's a tie

It's doing the same thing to me

Babish music?

Ik it’s kinda sad find ur own style

Its probably just some stock music

Hey! Watch in buddy! That is the music Trump loves listening to!!

😂

You really don't need it to be a set temperature in order to beat a convection oven - all you need is brute strength and a baseball bat. Perhaps this guy used his fists instead of the bat.

Took mine about 4 minutes.

Or there is a gap somewhere around the opening. xD that's why mine started fo suck

Crying laughing... 1) at the joke itself 2) at the people that obviously missed the joke 3) the reply about beating the oven. 🤣

I thought I was the only one! And since I’m getting up in years, pans in and out of the countertop oven are just way easier than the stooping over, bending on my knees that an oven near the floor requires.

Also really really fast

@@mechanicalmonk2020 because I’d the fan!

Not in my experience, the baskets are so small I have to use >4 loads of fries and stuff to feed a family (5-7), 1500W for almost an hour. We started just running the thing outside. The oven is gas powered and much larger so it's cheaper to run.

@@leerman22 well yeah, when you’re cooking for that many people, they’re too small.

@@leerman22 ehhh trying to make food for a family of 7 with an air fryer is.... well.. I think you know.

Glad I could help!

Most air fryers don't look like the one featured in this video and with our air fryer the times are less than what was shown here. We do have an convection setting on our oven but we opt for the air fryer nearly every time. The convenience of the air fryer and the quickness of it has all but made our microwave null and void 😂 Ours is also simple enough to be kid friendly and the kids will pick it over the microwave every time.

I'm sticking with my convection toaster oven that has a drip tray and flat walls to wipe and clean.

@@practicalguy973 Isn't that pretty much a air fryer? Either way a smaller cooking station is a plus.

I got me a air fryer toaster oven, it's doing a great job. It's an all in one. I got a bigger sized one that can fit a quarter sheet. It can do what an air fryer and what a conventional oven can do. The big regular oven will be only used for what doesn't fit.

If you have the Breville smart toaster oven you have it better tbh

This would make sense. Explains why something I put in there cooked hard. Usually takes 25-30 mins in the oven. Cooked it for about 7-11 mins in the air fryer. It wasn’t burnt, but it was hard.

My oven has a max temp of 250c, but my airfryer 200c, so not the case always.

Use your what? Which one?

@@jonathanberry1111 true. My Maytag convection oven has an upper limit of 550F (287C).

​@@Melissa.SimmonsYou need to adjust temps. Air Fryer is typically gonna run hotter than an oven so if it says 400°F on an oven try at least 10°F lower (at least) and definitely waaaaay less time. He is just flat out wrong on the times. Simple as that.

PS since getting the air fryer I have not used the deep fryer at all. As many of us do not have convection ovens and to get one would be a major and expensive construction job, an air fryer is a less expensive option.

Have you received your Xiaomi one yet?

My air fryer actually gets hotter than my counter top convection toaster oven, fwiw.

I love bwb but he just uses the same blue Wednesday song in most videos lol. Love blue Wednesday too but it is funny

Or something else from the chillhop playlist. It's good music to talk over so I can't really blame him

Yeah dont think he owns it. He just uses it a lot and is more popular.

"Juparo" by Broke for Free

It’s just random royalty free music

HW was wrong with the times for sure. It takes at minimum around 15 minutes longer than an air fryer from preheating alone as real air fryers don't require preheating at all like ovens.

I have a double oven but neither of them are convection, so the air fryer is amazing for quick meals or for items that I want to get pretty crispy. If I had a convection I might not bother with it but it’s great if you jus that’s a regular oven.

i mean, its not difficult writing down numbers blindfolded

c'mon.. he's using a tie to blindfold. Everybody knows you can take a peek with that.

Lol

@Gawky Ginger what’s that?

Could be eating lots of carrots. My dad turned orange when he was young and putting them in his smoothies all the time

@@thomasr1051 the most logical answer. Not the google extreme response.

Hot cheetos

Congrats dude

I’m sorry bro- **too

@@divusgaiusjuliuscaesar4657 what do you mean

FoxVechai you said to not too

but you cant bake a cheese cake or gellato with those.

I have a wire basket from a pan my mom got me (I presume the pan is for conventional frying), so I’m planning to give it a try in the convection oven.

I agree. I have both and I prefer the air fryer for fries. Its basically a $100 basket

Amen! Our Ninja air fryer is perfect for my wife and me who are empty-nesters.

idk, I... well I cook for one person but I only eat once a day so I tend to cook enough for 2 at a time, so lets say I cook for 2 people and I am not remotely convinced that little air fryer would have enough space for the things I do in the oven. I mean it might do one aspect of a meal, like if I were heating up the oven simply for fries or just for the vegetables, but I don't think the one shown here at least (I don't know how big they get) would have enough space for both for 2 people. Though I have a deep fryer so if I am just looking to make fries I will usually use that (unless I'm also frying something else more important). I suppose if you don't have a deep fat fryer then it would work as a, probably healthier, alternative when there's only one thing you aren't doing on the top, but personally I really don't need another appliance, I wouldn't have anywhere to put it.

You can get normal convection ovens with smaller form factor, that have a higher usable area ratio, so if both are the same size you can make MORE in the oven. The only benefit is pre heat time.

Gas isn't cheaper than electricity everywhere

@@DJmiczet One person's perspective taken with a grain of salt.

Gas is cheaper but has ovens done cook the food evenly as they down circulate the air very well like fan based electric ovens

Convection oven does that too.

Yea I liked how the analysis came out on this one as well, thanks John!

John G I feel the same way

I have the breville with the “Air Fry” option and it basically just kicks the fan up higher

Sort of, they both use convection to heat the food, it's just that since an air fryer uses a powerful fan to aid the air currents caused by convection, the air next to the food is closer to the target range. The result is that there's no need to heat the entire unit to get a stable temperature and increased energy efficiency. Additionally, because the air currents are stronger, the surface of the food gets a different finish than you'd get with just a convection oven.