Anna N

So very simple but it sure does make me salivate.

Lucky me! @Kerry Bealcame to my house today loaded down with strawberries, radishes, asparagus and tomato from the farmers market, ice cream from her Pacojet and lunch from Rose in the Kitchen. For Kerry cheese pide. for me a dish called Iskender and some yoghurt. For us baklava. The larger darker pieces are pistachio and the smaller walnut. Didn’t know if I would regret not ordering my usual lamb but this beef dish was excellent. It is thinly sliced and nicely seasoned beef over torn up pita with peppers and tomato and yoghurt on the side. I would definitely order it again.

I just wonder if you have looked at the type of air fryer that Dejah got? It is very different! https://www.costco.com/ninja-foodi-9-in-1-digital-air-fry-toaster-oven.product.100735741.html I think this one or similar.

Hoping you will share all your adventures with us. I just told someone that while I do not wish to own the air fryer you recently acquired I would love to play with it for a bit!

OK I am not at all averse to gravy on my salad despite the horror it evokes in those around me but gravy and scrambled egg? So long as Moe enjoyed it that is all that matters.

The other thing is that I do not have to deal with boiling water and the dangers it poses.

No water.

I have to politely disagree. If you can hard boil half a dozen eggs without dirtying a single pan I think that’s a win-win! YMMV.

That is too bad. I have never come across that doing eggs in the air fryer.

Frozen french fries seem to challenge just about every model of air fryer. And most other ovens.

I did watch a video today of an air fryer used as a dehydrator and for an apple the time was eight hours! I am pretty sure it was the Ninja 9 in 1 air fryer oven. With a 13 x 13 surface area it supposedly could handle one apple.

I spent my afternoon watching videos about the ninja air fryer oven that @Dejahjust bought. I was astounded to note that the one thing it did not do well was frozen french fries! This is a very different appliance. I was quite fascinated. Will be interested to see how your chicken wings turn out.

Over here @Dejahshows us yet another take on an air fryer oven. Quite interesting.

Sorry, Elsie I didn’t read this before I posted a similar comment.

It’s all those little pieces of dried fruit being blown about that gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Nope. I had cooked the brats in the air fryer so there was no readily available fond. And besides I had already wrapped my head around English muffins pan toasted in butter. Good sausages are not something I have much luck finding. I am not sure I even remember accurately what sausage would qualify as a banger. There is a plentiful supply of sausages sold as bangers but that doesn’t mean they are.

Yes, indeed. That would be quite a reasonable capacity for a small batch of something. I just wonder how things tolerate the strong downflow. Unless of course the air fryer has a dehydrator setting which reduces the airflow. Anyway it is an interesting concept. Thank you for chiming in. My mind is a little more open to the idea now.

Johnsonville brat with a fried egg and a pan toasted English muffin.

Ditto. Now to clean up that drill press downstairs!

I don’t really think that most of the drawer-type ones different very much in terms of their wattage. I would expect most things to cook at the same time and temperature in each of them. That said I am not impressed with most recipes I come across to be anything more than guidelines. Just like any other cooking, you learn from experience and it doesn’t take long for you to determine the best time and temperature. It would be helpful if somebody would produce a recipe booklet that addresses the things most people are likely to cook in an air fryer. Things like frozen french fries, chicken wings, frozen burgers, sausages, etc. That would prove to be a useful reference. Gourmet dishes are not its strong point. At the moment I think the best reference is right here!

But have you seen it demonstrated in any video or even mentioned? Not sure that such a small surface would prove very useful if you were seriously into dehydrating food. If you were happy with a little bit of jerky I suppose it would work.

Thanks. Only thing that strikes me as upgrade to mine is the plate rather than the basket. Looks so much easier to clean and so much less space in the sink!

That was my thought also.

I tried hard to find a YouTube review on this particular model (the one with the window) but was unable to find one.

Brats makes sense; ricotta cheese toasts with roasted grapes not so much!