• TheBannedLemming@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 hours ago

    The first purpose of owning a air fryer is to tell everyone that you own one. It’s a modern form of keeping up with the Joneses.

    (SPOILER ALERT)

    Their was a Disney live-action film back in 2009 called G-Force where the main villain of the plot tries to take over the world with a army of robots disguised as smart appliances.

  • polle@feddit.org
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Can someone can explain why airfryer hype so hard? I cant find the difference to an oven with air circulation, that mostly everyone already has.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      1·
      27 minutes ago

      I have a convection toaster oven/air fryer, and even that is way better than my oven.

      Whatever the baking instructions are normally, I can cut 25% of the time off (actually have to or it will burn), plus I don’t have to bother preheating it, unless the cook time is very short.

      Plus it uses way less power than the fullsize oven. The one I have takes forever to preheat and has to be set 25 degrees higher, and the convection function doesn’t seem to make any difference because the fan blows. As in it sucks, and I don’t mean the air behind it.

      • Zink@programming.dev
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Yep, and we recently switched out our old “air fryer” to replace it with a toaster oven that has convection and an air frying mode. But it can do toaster oven stuff like bake and broil pretty well, and with a wider tray than any air fryer basket.

        Our big oven is pretty good too. It has a convection fan and various modes and whatnot. The air frying toaster oven literally duplicates functions it already gives us, but it’s worth taking up a large kitchen gadget spot just for the speed and efficiency including sometimes not heating up the house. (I’m in the US, air fryers and toaster ovens use 120V 15A outlets while the oven is on 240V 30+A.)

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          I really want a toaster oven. just not enough to have bothered to buy one

          I’ve got an air fryer that I use pretty often, but a toaster oven would be more useful to me. good to know there’s ones with convection / air frying ability now, neat

          I’m lucky to have tons of counter space for gadgets. and yeah not running the oven in the summer is fantastic, as I like it cooooold in the house

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    32·
    13 hours ago

    Does your air fryer require an internet connection? Wifi? Bluetooth? or OS updates?

    If you not, your air fryer can safely supply the fighting forces with delicious fries in the war against the machines.

      • philpo@feddit.org
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Funny enough yeah,you can trans mit data long range via powerlines.

        I am old enough to remember the older career firefighters having devices at home that basically listened to the frequency shift. If a certain signal was given (via the substations) that frequency shift was observed by the devices and an electric alarm bell was activated so people knew shit had hit the fan and they probably should head to work.

        It was already phased out,thought, back then.