Comment on Tabletop convection oven
ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Can we agree air fryer is just a rebranding of convection oven? Also, it is useful (specifically for smaller kitchens)
ish, except the different form factor gives it a different use case. mostly based on scale. gotta feed 2 to three people, an air fryer will heat up faster and use less energy than heating up the big kitchen oven that will do the same.
it’s like comparing a kei truck with a semi truck, they do the same at different scales, you just gotta use the one appropriate for your scale.
What if you have a convection toaster oven and live by yourself—still worth it?
hate to break it to you. but “air fryer” is just a fancy rebranding of “convection toaster oven”.
so you do have an air fryer.
A cheap convection toaster oven not really, it is half-way between an oven and air-fryer at best.
I mean if it’s good enough, keep using it as long as possible I guess.
No, because they have different characteristics. A convection oven moves far less percentage of volume and takes 4x to heat up. If you put the same exact food in tech it will come out differently.
No
LyD@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Air fryers do use air convention for heating, but they aren’t just smaller convection ovens. They have lots of design features that make them much more suited to certain types of cooking. The basket, much higher airflow, etc. all make a big difference in how you use them.
I had a countertop convection oven that was about the same size as an air fryer and they both had different use cases.