Arun L.
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If anyone has a Big Oven with an Air Fryer mode, what does everyone think?
Does anyone have any exact times and temperatures they follow?
I got an oven with such a mode last month. It wasn't the main reason why I bought it, but it was a bonus that nudged me toward that model.
I'm not sure how an oven with air fryer mode is different from a convection toaster oven.
But, here are the results of what I've tried with the air fryer mode:
* Fish sticks: Great. Very crunchy.
*. Gorton's Lemmon Pepper Fish Fillets: They were good. However, the next day I did them in the convection toaster oven, and they were just as good. So not sure it was different, and it did feel wasteful turning on a big oven for 2 fish fillets.
* Bacon: Great, very crispy. I need to test this with Farmer's bacon. For this, I had just bought regular bacon, because it was going in soup. But I want to test this with normal bacon that I eat, which is different varieties from Farmers, now.
The air fry mode did seem to take longer than it would have had I cooked it on the Lodge skillet, but I liked the end result.
* Fries (Waffle; tater tots; regular chipotle seasoned fries): The waffle fries burned a little bit. These fries and tater tots were one of the things that I'm not sure were any better than a convection toaster oven. Also, since the edges burned for the waffle fries, this wasn't the best test. I still need to experiment with the time, in this mode. Also, the middle wasn't really crisp, even though the edges burned.
So this is still TBD, because I need to make them one time when they come out good. Then I can decide if it's different than using a convection toaster oven.
For now, I think the biggest selling point of this oven's air fry mode, isn't the mode itself, but that it comes with an air fry basket. I think the basket helped with the bacon and fish sticks.
Does anyone have any exact times and temperatures they follow?
I got an oven with such a mode last month. It wasn't the main reason why I bought it, but it was a bonus that nudged me toward that model.
I'm not sure how an oven with air fryer mode is different from a convection toaster oven.
But, here are the results of what I've tried with the air fryer mode:
* Fish sticks: Great. Very crunchy.
*. Gorton's Lemmon Pepper Fish Fillets: They were good. However, the next day I did them in the convection toaster oven, and they were just as good. So not sure it was different, and it did feel wasteful turning on a big oven for 2 fish fillets.
* Bacon: Great, very crispy. I need to test this with Farmer's bacon. For this, I had just bought regular bacon, because it was going in soup. But I want to test this with normal bacon that I eat, which is different varieties from Farmers, now.
The air fry mode did seem to take longer than it would have had I cooked it on the Lodge skillet, but I liked the end result.
* Fries (Waffle; tater tots; regular chipotle seasoned fries): The waffle fries burned a little bit. These fries and tater tots were one of the things that I'm not sure were any better than a convection toaster oven. Also, since the edges burned for the waffle fries, this wasn't the best test. I still need to experiment with the time, in this mode. Also, the middle wasn't really crisp, even though the edges burned.
So this is still TBD, because I need to make them one time when they come out good. Then I can decide if it's different than using a convection toaster oven.
For now, I think the biggest selling point of this oven's air fry mode, isn't the mode itself, but that it comes with an air fry basket. I think the basket helped with the bacon and fish sticks.
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