Air Fryer

[Packer]

1 minute ago, JakeC said:

Not crisping up is not an issue that I have ever faced when using one. They might take a little longer to cook things, but of course that is because they are bigger.

 

I can bake cakes and bread in a 700 baht convection oven with no preheating necessary, in addition to all of the things you can do with an air fryer. 

 

This is my experience also. 

 

I'm yet to see a reason to start using an airfrier. 

 

 

 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Packer said:

I'm yet to see a reason to start using an airfrier. 

 

so what's your kit?

standard oven + frying pan + toaster oven? 

 

[treetops]

In the UK I have a full size kitchen with 4 ring gas hob, convection oven and loads of counter space.  I still use the air fryer as a first choice when cooking, but could easily do without.

 

Here in Thailand where I rent, my place has no oven so an airfryer is almost a must have, but a round glass convection oven would be suitable too as they are very similar.  It boils down to one or the other IMO, not both.

 

I don't think I've deep fried anything for years.

[Packer]

7 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

so what's your kit?

standard oven + frying pan + toaster oven? 

 

 

Deep fat fryer, real not electric, used on the built in gas stove top.

Frying pans.

Pots.

Used on the gas stove tops in the built in kitchen.

 

On the counter top of the second kitchen:

Round glass convection oven, heating element on the underside of the lid.

Clay slow cooker.

Rice cooker.

Toaster.

Sandwich toaster.

Microwave.

Front loading washing machine. 

[Packer]

Just now, treetops said:

In the UK I have a full size kitchen with 4 ring gas hob, convection oven and loads of counter space.  I still use the air fryer as a first choice when cooking

 

Why?

 

Convenience? 

Less to clean and ease of cleaning?

Ease of use? (put in, turn on, and leave)

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, treetops said:

Put them in whole for 8 to 10 mins so can be done at the same time as sausage and bacon for breakfast.

Put your whisked eggs into the pan after the bacon and sausages, and you have scrambled eggs in two minutes, just time to get the HP out.

[KannikaP]

14 minutes ago, Packer said:

Deep fat fryer, real not electric, used on the built in gas stove top.

It's called a chip pan where I come from.

[treetops]

17 minutes ago, Packer said:

Why?

 

Convenience? 

Less to clean and ease of cleaning?

Ease of use? (put in, turn on, and leave)

 

Probably a bit of all 3 plus I can do a mixture of things in one operation like meat and veg can go in together, or fish and chips or bacon, sausage and egg as mentioned before.

 

My experience since I got my first one is that I would never want to be without one, but I thought the same about my egg steamer until recently.

[Packer]

24 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

It's called a chip pan where I come from.

 

Astounding. 

 

Thank you for that life altering piece of information. 

[jaywalker-2]

On 8/20/2025 at 6:16 AM, save the frogs said:

Never used an air fryer before.

 

Just did a quick search on Lazada and they're cheap ... some are 450 Baht. Are they any good? 

 

Anyone cook with these things?

 

What do you cook in them? Do they replace conventional ovens? 

Is any cooking oil required?

 

What's the physics of these things? Like HOW do they work? 

 

Recommended? 

 

 

BACON! Best device in the world for cooking BACON!

My daughter is a huge fan of BACON! It was one of the first English words she ever knew. Mommy I want BACON! We were in Kuwait I could not always get bacon. 

I'd steer clear of the 450 baht type. You'll want to splurge $50 - $60 USD for a decent one.

I had never heard of an air fryer till 5 or 6 years ago.

 

Load that thing with raw bacon & 15 minutes at 350 degrees Farenheit....it'll be pretty close to perfect, unless you are British & just wave your bacon in the general direction of a candle & say it's cooked.

GOOD GOD it's tough to find crispy Southern American style bacon outside the USA.

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Grab you a small chicken....you might be British I don't know, but SEASON that puppy with loads of garlic powder, salt & black pepper.

There's loads of Youtube videos on air fryers. replete with recipes....

I must agree with you, they are "fairly new".

 

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I saw a Johny Carson show years ago.............now, this is a DIG at all my British friends.

I had been on a Hash House Harriers run from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain in the UAE. We did it in trucks & camped in the desert & & grilled in the dirt.

Just myself from Florida & a a guy (Jeff) from Colorado. Very fun!

We would up in Al Ain & it was a British guy that has LOADS of food for everybody & it tasted like chewing cardboard 🙂. Of course we were hungry & just ATE whatever, but it tasted like cardboard.

Zero Salt, zero pepper, zero garlic.

It was was some late night comedey show.....It was probably David Letterman, & he had a British guest, talking about a British Expidition to find the Northwest passage to China & India.

Letterman: "So you British did all this for spices right"

Guest "Oh yes of course!"

 

Letterman: "So why don't you put any on on your food?"

1999 or so & all I could think about were bland sausages in Al Ain. It made me laugh!

I love all my British friends! Just a funny story from an old man here!

I love everybody!

Of 

 

[jaywalker-2]

54 minutes ago, Packer said:

 

Deep fat fryer, real not electric, used on the built in gas stove top.

Frying pans.

Pots.

Used on the gas stove tops in the built in kitchen.

 

On the counter top of the second kitchen:

Round glass convection oven, heating element on the underside of the lid.

Clay slow cooker.

Rice cooker.

Toaster.

Sandwich toaster.

Microwave.

Front loading washing machine. 

 

[jaywalker-2]

Front loading washing machine....I must disagree.

When my pregnant wife stuffed my International Driving License in the front loading washing machine & i could not try to save it from a watery death, and I needed it for work 8,000 miles from home, I just ripped the front door off.

Glass & soapy water everywhere. Not good.

It made her cry.

BAD, BAD front loading washing machines!

 

 

[still kicking]

[still kicking]

On 8/20/2025 at 6:16 PM, save the frogs said:

Never used an air fryer before.

 

Just did a quick search on Lazada and they're cheap ... some are 450 Baht. Are they any good? 

 

Anyone cook with these things?

 

What do you cook in them? Do they replace conventional ovens? 

Is any cooking oil required?

 

What's the physics of these things? Like HOW do they work? 

 

Recommended? 

 

 

[Packer]

6 minutes ago, still kicking said:

 

I hope you sent those back. 

[jaywalker-2]

28 minutes ago, Packer said:

 

Astounding. 

 

Thank you for that life altering piece of information. 

You can most assuredly cook potatoes in an air fryer. Whole or sliced (chipped).

It's just a really hot heat coil that blasts super hot air onto the food , and cooks it.

I dearly love mine for bacon, as all the bacon fat winds up in the bottom of the pan, and is easily poured into a jar, so I can use it for cooking eggs or as an addittion to anything than needs some bacon flavor.

[Cameroni]

2 hours ago, treetops said:

Put them in whole for 8 to 10 mins

 

Well, congratulations, you've doubled your cooking time, a normal cooked boiled egg takes 4 minutes 30 seconds.

[Cameroni]

26 minutes ago, jaywalker-2 said:

BACON! Best device in the world for cooking BACON!

 

No, that would be a cast iron frying pan.

[still kicking]

8 minutes ago, Packer said:

 

I hope you sent those back. 

Why don't you like poached eggs?

[blue manc]

On 8/20/2025 at 6:24 PM, Cameroni said:

Most of them have been found to emit harmful gases due to cheap materials.

seems quite a damning statement.

are there WHICH? reports or similar, to back up this swingeing "endorsement"?

[jaywalker-2]

9 minutes ago, still kicking said:

I would say that looks pretty tasty....Perhaps a bit undercooked for me.

Back in the days of the Sylvester Stallone "Rocky" movies he was eating raw eggs & my cousin & I both tried a raw egg . Not sure if you've ever been around an egg farm, but there was one near us & It STANK!

I don't know about my cousin but the raw egg tasted EXACTLY like the chicken farm smelled. It was nigh on a year before I could eat a cooked egg.

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Sidenote ------I was working with Thai guys the last couple years I spent in Bangkok. I went 9 months before I could bring myself to touch rice after I got back to the USA. I LOVE rice. Just had, had it up to my ears with it I guess?

 

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Sidenote #2
In Kuwait & had my wife & a few of her Thai friends cooking GOD-KNOWS-WHAT kind of stinkiy fish I my villa. Pretty big house. I could smell it out in the street.

I took 2 steps in & 14 steps back to my truck & bought 4 cans of Potpouri Air Freshener.

I came back in like Wyat Earpr or Clint Eastwood with a can blazing ing in each hand. It was John Wick before John Wick was invented.

I burned  thru the first 2 cans & dropped them out the kitchen floor (just to make a show)  & grabbed the next two cans out of my coveralls and emptied them.

Gotta love your Thai wife. Gotta say "Damn! Are you trying to kill me girl!????"

Fun times.

[Cameroni]

17 minutes ago, blue manc said:

seems quite a damning statement.

are there WHICH? reports or similar, to back up this swingeing "endorsement"?

 

Yes, see above, all in the thread.

[treetops]

53 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Well, congratulations, you've doubled your cooking time, a normal cooked boiled egg takes 4 minutes 30 seconds.

 

Not that I would ever boil an egg for as little as 4.5 minutes anyway, but the sausages are in the airfryer beside the eggs and they need 8 to 10 minutes as well, so same cooking time, lower cost and less to wash up.  Win, win.

[jaywalker-2]

23 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

No, that would be a cast iron frying pan.

Cannot argue with you. I grew up out cast iron.

Thing is, with an air fryer there's no standing over it.Just toss it in there & forget about it till it beeps.

All the juicy grease can be conveniently save as well.

 

Now a Dutch Oven (cast iron as well) DEARLY needs some of that bacon grease to not only season a new one (if it's new), but adds a lot of flavor to your black-eye peas or lima beans on a Sunday afternoon......boil some ham hocks, neck bones, even regular ribs. for about 2 hours.

 

Now. this was Dad's recipe. He was born 1932 in Florida & didn't much like Mom's yammering preachers.

He'd stay home & cook for us. His favorite was fatty ham hocks with blackeyed peas. Lima beans were MIGHTY GOOD TOO!

Here's Dad's EXACT words. 

Soak them peas or beans overnight. Next boil the <deleted> out of them hamhocks on a high boil for a couple hours. Drain & rinse them peas & add them to it. Turn the fire way down low (he had a gas stove), & just simmer them peas for another 2 hours.

Gotta have cornbread too! Fresh chopped white onion & it was HOG HEAVEN on many a Sunday after church!

Cornbread is SIMPLE. Oven at 450 F. 2 cups of self rising cornmeal. 2 cups of self risibg flour, two sablespoons of sugar. Two eggs, and two tablespoons of bacon grease.

Mix, and mix, and mix the dry ingredients first, then stir in the wet stuff. Usually mik or you can use water or beer to make it pourable into a greased pan. 30-35 minutes later just pure GOLDEN bread.

Slice it, crumble it & pour them peas & ham chunks all over it, fresh out of a cast iron pot. Jalapenos, green onions -----hot white onions are my favorite side vegetables.

Gotta make sure your peas/beans have lots of water/juice. My Grandmother (born 1906) called it "Pea liquor".

Give me some more pea liquor!

------------That cornbread recipe work just as good if you cut in half. It works well in a BKK apartment with a toaster oven

That's some DOWN-HOME Florida groceries!

I made it for my wife in 2001. She ate 2 HUGE plates of it. Fair warning....the cornbread does expand. She's 99 lbs & was laying on the couch & could not move for a few hours.. I'm 170 lbs and I could barely move.

 

Good Florida food.

 

[jaywalker-2]

1 hour ago, jaywalker-2 said:

I got off on a tangent & forgot to tell you this one about appliances.

I DREAMED that , and two of my 5 brothers and a nephew had come up with the idea of an "Appliance Rack". My Dad has been gone 23 years, but it was his idea. 

CRAZY dream! I was trying to sleep sober I guess? All I remember is that Mark, Bobby & I were getting along just great (that has never happened). Dad wanted a cotton-picking appliance rack & we were fabricating it out of steel & angle iron. Bob was welding & I was drilling.

We had everything from tablesaws to can openers mounted on a long steel rail, because Mom was having problems using her appliances.

Mom is 89 next month. Dad died in 2002. I DESPISE Bob & Mark is doing another 20 yeaars in [rison for murder..

Guess it was just wishful dreaming on my part?

I WISH I could get along with my brothers.

I WISH Dad was still around to bring us together.

Appliance rack indeed.

 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, jaywalker-2 said:

Cannot argue with you. I grew up out cast iron.

 

Frying pans are a lot of work and a pain to clean. 

Things get stuck, then I end up putting vinegar water to dissolve stuck crap/oils ... it's work. 

 

Is the air fryer easy to clean?

 

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, Packer said:

 

This is my experience also. 

 

I'm yet to see a reason to start using an airfrier. 

Yea, we already had a full kitchen with 2 AF (Conv oven & glass AF), so didn't need the 3rd.  But, it was cute, small, and <1000 THB.   Does come in handy for crispy pork belly & salmon. Oh yea, fruit turnovers, if only making 2.  I really don't use it for much else, especially anything I normally deep fry, as just can't compare.

 

Big cast iron fan, and need the larger AF / CO for baking bread + anything else.  We cook full meals for 2+ people, so couldn't get by with just an AF.  Nice to have though, if you have the space for yet another countertop unit.

 

Glass AF takes up too much counter space, heavy, and not as convenient to use.  Taking up space in a cabinet, as rarely sees daylight.

[still kicking]

7 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

Frying pans are a lot of work and a pain to clean. 

Things get stuck, then I end up putting vinegar water to dissolve stuck crap/oils ... it's work. 

 

Is the air fryer easy to clean?

 

Easy peasy 

[KhunLA]

19 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Frying pans are a lot of work and a pain to clean. 

Things get stuck, then I end up putting vinegar water to dissolve stuck crap/oils ... it's work. 

 

Is the air fryer easy to clean?

 

Depends if you know how to season & care for them.  My cast irons are non stick for most things.  Especially my egg pan, as that's the only thing that gets cooked in it.   Clean up easy, if I do more than just a wipe with a paper towel.

 

Main skillet is heavy as hell for the wife though, and only down side for chickies.

 

 

[JakeC]

@Cameroni Are you Trolling again?  It doesn't take four and a half minutes for a boiled egg, as you have to boil the water beforehand if you want to do it that way.