Me, my Air Fryer and I… and You
Discussion
98elise said:
Similarly when we got ours my wife asked for money towards one for her birthday. Sensing a trap I offered to pay for it entirely!
Just happy she wanted something specific and easy to get.
As much as we love ours, I would had it lobbed at my head if I’d wrapped it up as a Christmas present for my wife.Just happy she wanted something specific and easy to get.
QJumper said:
andyA700 said:
Looking for advice. We saw a Salter EK4750 in "Middle Lidl" this morning for £89.99. It is a 2 drawer (3.7 litres each, total 7.4 litres). The reviews are very good. There are two of us and we usually cook from scratch every day. Would this be a good way of getting into airfrying?
The missus wanted to buy it straight away, but I am not an impulse buyer.
Personally I'd want at least one drawer being 4.5 /5 litres. That size will take a whole chicken. Ninja do one with two 5ish litre drawers, or one with a big 10 litre drawer that can be separated into two. More expensive though. I have a Lakeland dual drawer one, with a 5l and 3l drawer and can cook pretty much everything in it, and it's usually availble for around 90 quid.The missus wanted to buy it straight away, but I am not an impulse buyer.
andyA700 said:
QJumper said:
andyA700 said:
Looking for advice. We saw a Salter EK4750 in "Middle Lidl" this morning for £89.99. It is a 2 drawer (3.7 litres each, total 7.4 litres). The reviews are very good. There are two of us and we usually cook from scratch every day. Would this be a good way of getting into airfrying?
The missus wanted to buy it straight away, but I am not an impulse buyer.
Personally I'd want at least one drawer being 4.5 /5 litres. That size will take a whole chicken. Ninja do one with two 5ish litre drawers, or one with a big 10 litre drawer that can be separated into two. More expensive though. I have a Lakeland dual drawer one, with a 5l and 3l drawer and can cook pretty much everything in it, and it's usually availble for around 90 quid.The missus wanted to buy it straight away, but I am not an impulse buyer.
Bluevanman said:
I had a look at the Lakeland,some of the reviews were off-putting, doesn't get very hot,takes ages to cook,drawer fronts peeling after a few months etc
Only had one other to compare it to, but for reference mine takes around 20 minutes to cook chicken portions/fillets and about 50 minutes to cook a whole roast chicken (25 minutes upside down and 25 minutes right side up).The only thing different was that my previous one had a warm up period of a couple of minutes before you put the food in, whereas the Lakeland one doesn't. So you either let it warm up for a couple of minutes first, or just chuck the food in and set it for a couple of minutes extra. As with anything you have to play around with it a bit to figure out what works best.
Other than that I don't know if it's significantly slower than other makes/models, only that it's much faster than my regular oven, and the food comes out a lot better.
QJumper said:
Only had one other to compare it to, but for reference mine takes around 20 minutes to cook chicken portions/fillets and about 50 minutes to cook a whole roast chicken (25 minutes upside down and 25 minutes right side up).
The only thing different was that my previous one had a warm up period of a couple of minutes before you put the food in, whereas the Lakeland one doesn't. So you either let it warm up for a couple of minutes first, or just chuck the food in and set it for a couple of minutes extra. As with anything you have to play around with it a bit to figure out what works best.
Other than that I don't know if it's significantly slower than other makes/models, only that it's much faster than my regular oven, and the food comes out a lot better.
If I recall it was the small drawer that people had issues with, I'm guessing the heating element can't be very big given the size of the drawerThe only thing different was that my previous one had a warm up period of a couple of minutes before you put the food in, whereas the Lakeland one doesn't. So you either let it warm up for a couple of minutes first, or just chuck the food in and set it for a couple of minutes extra. As with anything you have to play around with it a bit to figure out what works best.
Other than that I don't know if it's significantly slower than other makes/models, only that it's much faster than my regular oven, and the food comes out a lot better.
Bluevanman said:
If I recall it was the small drawer that people had issues with, I'm guessing the heating element can't be very big given the size of the drawer
That would make sense, although I'd have assumed that the small size mitigates the small element. I mainly use the large drawer, although I have used the smaller one for eggs and fries and not noticed any difference in cooking times.Like I said though, I don't have much experience of alternatives to benchmark it against. I've had it for about 9 months and am happy with it so far, but I guess time will tell regarding it's long term reliability.
Had a failure with our Ninja foodi 15-in-1.
Kept giving a probe error. No amount of cleaning the socket made any difference.
Bit of googling suggested an issue with the wire that runs through the hinge. Known fault, poor quality wiring.
Disassembled it and found exactly that.
Gave them a call, told them so. Gave me a 50% discount on a new one.
Then repaired the old one.
Not sure what to do with two air fryers now.
Kept giving a probe error. No amount of cleaning the socket made any difference.
Bit of googling suggested an issue with the wire that runs through the hinge. Known fault, poor quality wiring.
Disassembled it and found exactly that.
Gave them a call, told them so. Gave me a 50% discount on a new one.
Then repaired the old one.
Not sure what to do with two air fryers now.
We had a similarly horrible occurrence in the bodhi household - our ActiFry broke after being hammered 2 or 3 times a week, with the central spindle snapping. We got a new one from Amazon for 7.99, but whilst browsing also saw they had the ActiFry Genius 2 in 1 for 50 percent off, so 150 down from over 300, so we now have two Actifrys.
We got rid of the Ninja copy we had as it wasn't very good, but the 2 in 1 is brilliant. Same spindle to stir the chips, but has a smaller tray on top for meat so you can do both at the same time.
Won't fit a roast but we have an oven for that.
We got rid of the Ninja copy we had as it wasn't very good, but the 2 in 1 is brilliant. Same spindle to stir the chips, but has a smaller tray on top for meat so you can do both at the same time.
Won't fit a roast but we have an oven for that.
bodhi said:
We had a similarly horrible occurrence in the bodhi household - our ActiFry broke after being hammered 2 or 3 times a week, with the central spindle snapping. We got a new one from Amazon for 7.99, but whilst browsing also saw they had the ActiFry Genius 2 in 1 for 50 percent off, so 150 down from over 300, so we now have two Actifrys.
We got rid of the Ninja copy we had as it wasn't very good, but the 2 in 1 is brilliant. Same spindle to stir the chips, but has a smaller tray on top for meat so you can do both at the same time.
Won't fit a roast but we have an oven for that.
I wouldn't call 2 or 3 times a week hammering it.We got rid of the Ninja copy we had as it wasn't very good, but the 2 in 1 is brilliant. Same spindle to stir the chips, but has a smaller tray on top for meat so you can do both at the same time.
Won't fit a roast but we have an oven for that.
I use my air fryer 9 times a week on average
Bluevanman said:
bodhi said:
We had a similarly horrible occurrence in the bodhi household - our ActiFry broke after being hammered 2 or 3 times a week, with the central spindle snapping. We got a new one from Amazon for 7.99, but whilst browsing also saw they had the ActiFry Genius 2 in 1 for 50 percent off, so 150 down from over 300, so we now have two Actifrys.
We got rid of the Ninja copy we had as it wasn't very good, but the 2 in 1 is brilliant. Same spindle to stir the chips, but has a smaller tray on top for meat so you can do both at the same time.
Won't fit a roast but we have an oven for that.
I wouldn't call 2 or 3 times a week hammering it.We got rid of the Ninja copy we had as it wasn't very good, but the 2 in 1 is brilliant. Same spindle to stir the chips, but has a smaller tray on top for meat so you can do both at the same time.
Won't fit a roast but we have an oven for that.
I use my air fryer 9 times a week on average
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