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If you find recipes on the web do you have to adjust cooking times based on the wattage of the machine? Cosori has a nice little recipe book but my sister says she never uses it. She too looks cooking time and Temps up on the internet.

This is pretty much the same as the one I'm looking at. The one I'm looking at also has something called Odor Erase. I didn't think this video was particularly informative, but then I don't really know what I was expecting. I haven't found any other videos.

Tonight I cooked Johnsonville brats. 10 minutes and they were done and I think they were done before the ten minutes were up. I am officially sold on this thing.

Thank you. I'm pretty sure that if I get one it will be the Instant Clear/Odor etc. I've spent a lot of time looking at the different ones. Does it ours come with a booklet of some sort?

@Kim Shook had me lusting after pound cake. In flipping through the Cosori recipe book I saw a recipe for lemon pound cake so I decided to make one for dessert. The recipe said "small" loaf pan, I tried my appx. 3" x 5" pan and had to transfer the batter to another one because it was too small. Strike one for not being more specific. I followed the instructions and pre-heated the air fryer, and when complete, in went the cake. At 30 minutes, the thing dinged and I tested the cake. My toothpick was wet while the top was in danger of burning. My thermopan read 185F. Strike no. 2. Back in it went for 10 minutes with a piece of foil over the top. At the end of 10 it appeared to be done. I flipped it over to a rack and only 2/3 of it released from the pan. Once cool I discovered that just under the top crust there were still some unbaked spots. Small ones, but still.... the cake tasted fine but we both thought it was overly sweet. The blueberry compote and whipped cream were delicious. Now, I doubt very much that I would ever bake anything in an air fryer and so it really didn't matter, but I thought someone might be interested in how well the baking function worked. It might be nice if some company manufactured one with a window.

I started reading the thread and taking notes and one of my notes says you have a Phillips XL. Phillips is one brand I am looking at. I'll check out your comparison posts, I remember reading them but I'll go back and look at them again.

USA Pans is another. I had a problem with one of my 13" Pullman pans and they replaced it. I also got to keep the one I complained about

Hard boiled eggs? How did you make the roasted potatoes? Were they crispy?

Mmmm good! I'll have some of that with macerated strawberries and whipped cream on top!

Looking forward to reading about the result.

One of the reasons I am asking my questions is because I have both the BSOA and the CSO and I am wondering what the air fryer will do for me that my current set up won't. I use both of them to such an extent that I rarely use my regular oven. But, and this may be due to the operator (me) or my current machine, but I don't like the air fryer function on the BSOA. I have room for an air fryer so that isn't an issue.

I have a Zo also. Love that machine.

I do buy a loaf of bread occasionally, mainly what is labeled "Belgian Bread" as it makes great grilled cheese sandwiches. The bread crisps up really well and stays crispy. DH will not eat whole wheat type breads, other than Dave's Killer Bread (thanks to @Smithy). So I bake mainly white bread, make the dough in the bread machine but bake in the oven. The fruit bread I make using my KA for the dough and then the S & F method. I make this as per Peter Reinhart. Once baked and cooled I slice and freeze them. I only make these breads when the loaf is almost finished.

Thanks. I did shake them several times and as they warmed they were sticking togethe. I tried to separate them a bit but they did not want to cooperate.

We did up some chicken wings from Costco, brand name Le Cage that we were happy with. I want to get some fresh ones and see how those turn out. Do any of you use the pre-sets? I asked my sister about that and she says she never uses them.

The sweet potatoes I tried were Alexia straight cut. I have a few left, barely enough to cover the bottom of the tray. I'll do those up to see if part of my problem was quantity.

The Cosori I am using is really smaller one. Tonight's spuds, while nice and brown, were not crispy. I soaked them in water, dried them and tossed them in a touch of oil -a teaspoon maybe. Cooked them using the root vegetable setting and shook them a few times while they were cooking. They were Yukon Golds. I don't think I'd repeat the exercise unless someone points me to a better way of doing them. @Anna N Any suggestions for what I should try next?

I didn't look at the picture long enough. We used the croissant rollers when I took my vienoiserie course. Handy little things. That was a long time ago.

Broil?

A croissant dough cutter?

My sister is off cycling around Europe so I borrowed her Cosori air fryer. If I really, really, really like it I will buy my own, make to be determined, but meanwhile, it's nice to be able to practice. So far, I did up some chicken thighs, nice crispy skin but a tad overcooked. Sweet potato fries, from frozen. Fail. A few were crispy, the rest a soggy mess. A grilled cheese sandwich. This one surprised me. It was as about the same color coming out as when it went in. I wasn't going to eat it but decided to run it under the broiler for some colour. I may never eat a grilled cheese sandwich cooked any other way again. Delicious . Tonight I am going to cut some potatoes in small cubes and cook them up. We'll rinsed, with a bit of oil and a very light sprinkling of Dutch potato spice. We are having smoked beef hash for supper and I thought I would do the potatoes this way and then mix them in with the rest of the stuff. A couple of questions: which air fryer do you have and would you get the same one again? Do you use it as much as you thought you would? I'm wary of buying another appliance. I have a few expensive things that I rarely use and don't want to do that again. Any and all suggestions are welcome.

John's morning routine is somewhat the same. Gets up, puts on coffee and water for tea, feeds the cat, lets cat out to get morning treat the neighbor leaves for him (the cat, not John) takes him for a walk down the hall, makes tea. While that steeps, he unloads the dishes and if needed, puts dishes left from night before into the dishwasher. With my, um, encouragement he now leaves the "I'm not sure where it goes stuff" on the counter.

I've often wondered if some bloggers are wanna-be professional photographers. Pictures go on and on and on........ as for the NYT, I came across a recipe a while back that had a glaring error in it. Many complained in the comments section. Some of these comments were 2 years old. I wrote to them to ask them why, in light of all the comments, they had not fixed it. They neither replied nor fixed the error. According to their newsletter, they read every single letter. Sure they do.

I think this goes here. I made it to a thrift shop today and picked up some bargains. The Rosso book, Great Good Food was 57 cents, Best Recipes from Time-Life Books was $1.14, the Sunset Cookbook Classics was $2.29, the Emeril Every Day's A Party book was 57 cents. The Olson Cook at Home book was $3.99, but that's okay because I like her. They are all in good shape. I'll flip through them, photocopy what I want and donate them back. The Sunset book was a nostalgia purchase. I used to have their books years ago but don't have them anymore, except the appetizer one. Why I kept that one, I have no idea. But there it sits in my bookshelf in all it's tattered glory.

Nice looking tomatoes. Did they taste as good as they look?