Best overall: Instant Vortex Plus Best dual-zone: Ninja Foodi Dual Zone Air Fryer Best budget: Instant Vortex Mini Best multi-purpose air fryer: Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro
The best air fryers for 2023
Submitted 1 year ago by SELECTstarFROMreddit@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just want to say, if you have an electric oven… you have an ‘air fryer’.
Usually electric ovens have indirect and direct options of heating (upper elements for example, compared to ones hidden in the back closer to the fan).
Granted a tiny ‘air fryer’ might do something a little quicker. But I struggle to see their benefits if you have an electric fan forced oven (all electric are). Its an additional $100 - $200 for no real benefit, other than something else you have to clean. And I’d argue that cleaning an oven tray out of the oven is much easier (granted I have a dishwasher) than baskets and oil catchers etc, but can you put those parts of an oven fryer in the dishwasher? ( I use cheap cookie coolers on an oven tray if I am going to cook something like chicken that would drip, keeping the pieces crisp.)
If your oven is gas or coal, then absolutely - get the Air Fryer.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As someone who has both a regular full-size electric oven and an air fryer, I use my air fryer a lot more and would 100% recommend it.
In saying that, newer tabletop electric ovens also double up as air fryers, such as the one by Breville - so if you have the space and don’t have an existing oven, get one of of these I’d reckon as they would be more versatile.