Hi there. Anyone who has one of these able to offer advice on brands ease of use and are all they are cracked up to be worth while,

alophia - 2019-08-10 11:38:00

I bought a Kmart Air Fryer. Best thing I ever did I use it every day and it is so healthy too. Sausages cook and brown wonderfully same as frozen chips. Meat patties do the same. I also cook chicken tenderloins (egg and bread crumbed) straight from the freezer. Steaks are tender and moist and browned. Small meat pies are cooked, crisp and browned just as if they had come out of the oven not soft as done in the microwave. Roast veges are perfect too. Air fryer cost $79 and it is so worth it.

nanee2jlp - 2019-08-10 11:52:00

I have heard many rave reviews about the Kmart Air Fryer and it's on my shopping list. I figure why pay hundreds when a $79 one will do as good a job? On the other hand, The Warehouse ones I have not heard much in favour of. There is a Facebook page dedicated to recipes etc. for the KMart model) which is handy - https://www.facebook.com/groups/157403764942418/

Edited by kitty179 at 11:55 am, Sat 10 Aug

kitty179 - 2019-08-10 11:55:00

OP, there is a lot of useful information about air roasters/fryers on this thread:
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.as
px?id=1796724&topic=13

autumnwinds - 2019-08-10 13:02:00

Is the method of cooking more significant to your health than the foods being cooked?

amasser - 2019-08-10 13:34:00

amasser wrote:

Is the method of cooking more significant to your health than the foods being cooked?

Interesting question

buzzy110 - 2019-08-10 13:53:00

nanee2jlp wrote:

I bought a Kmart Air Fryer. Best thing I ever did I use it every day and it is so healthy too. Sausages cook and brown wonderfully same as frozen chips. Meat patties do the same. I also cook chicken tenderloins (egg and bread crumbed) straight from the freezer. Steaks are tender and moist and browned. Small meat pies are cooked, crisp and browned just as if they had come out of the oven not soft as done in the microwave. Roast veges are perfect too. Air fryer cost $79 and it is so worth it.

I fully agree. I love my K Mart $79 air fryer. Took my Warehouse $89 one back after 3 days when the electronics went crazy. I had to keep turning it off at the wall to stop it!

just4jess - 2019-08-10 16:48:00

amasser wrote:

Is the method of cooking more significant to your health than the foods being cooked?

I believe it is better for our health. Food only needs a light spray of oil. And it saves having to put the oven on thereby saving power. Roast veges cook in 30 minutes or less and are beautifully browned just like out of the oven. Sausages release any fat into the bottom chamber.Cooking times are so short for everything else

Edited by nanee2jlp at 6:01 pm, Sat 10 Aug

nanee2jlp - 2019-08-10 17:59:00

nanee2jlp wrote:

I believe it is better for our health. Food only needs a light spray of oil. And it saves having to put the oven on thereby saving power. Roast veges cook in 30 minutes or less and are beautifully browned just like out of the oven. Sausages release any fat into the bottom chamber.Cooking times are so short for everything else

yep.

samanya - 2019-08-10 18:30:00

nanee2jlp wrote:

I believe it is better for our health. Food only needs a light spray of oil. And it saves having to put the oven on thereby saving power. Roast veges cook in 30 minutes or less and are beautifully browned just like out of the oven. Sausages release any fat into the bottom chamber.Cooking times are so short for everything else

I see. I didn't realise that the method of reheating frozen, processed pies, sausages and meat patties with fillers that are not found in most kitchens and chips drenched in dextrose and processed coatings makes them healthy?

It was just a question asked by another poster which required the reader to dig deeper to actually question what it was that was being claimed. What, for instance is the health difference between a potato/pumpkin/kumara sprayed with the same amount of oil and cooked in an oven or cooked in an air fryer.

Don't get me wrong. I have no criticisms of air fryers.

buzzy110 - 2019-08-11 11:43:00

buzzy110 - you've made a lot of assumptions there. My cooking is all made from scratch except the sausages and they are gourmet ones I use. Chicken tenderloins are egg and bread crumbed by me and frozen for later use. Roast veges used to be done around a roast and absorbed all the fat from the meat now they are just sprayed with a light coating of olive oil. Chips are just chipped potatoes with a light spray of oil. Add to all this the power saving the quick time cooking makes the airfryer a winner for me.

nanee2jlp - 2019-08-11 12:48:00

Fresh salmon cooks beautifully as well in a matter of minutes- I put tinfoil underneath it and sprinkle with lemon pepper. I use mine daily. Make veg roasties almost every day sprayed very lightly with olive oil. Hardly use my oven except for baking . Going to try making scones in it as others have found it successful.

katalin2 - 2019-08-11 17:54:00

nanee2jlp wrote:

buzzy110 - you've made a lot of assumptions there. My cooking is all made from scratch except the sausages and they are gourmet ones I use. Chicken tenderloins are egg and bread crumbed by me and frozen for later use. Roast veges used to be done around a roast and absorbed all the fat from the meat now they are just sprayed with a light coating of olive oil. Chips are just chipped potatoes with a light spray of oil. Add to all this the power saving the quick time cooking makes the airfryer a winner for me.

I repeat. I have no issues with air fryers. They cook faster. However, I also asked how it was more healthy to cook lightly sprayed-with-oil food in an airfryer than in an oven.

It doesn't stand that just because they are cooked in an oven, that they are stuck around a roast that is swimming in fat. Before I got my easy cook my roasts went into an oven bag with no added fat and vegetables were, lightly rubbed in fat (not industrially extracted, unhealthy oil) and baked at the same time. No real difference in health or unhealthy by cooking method either way. Same with all the other stuff you mentioned. They can be cooked exactly the same way in an oven.

The major difference is in power used and time taken. I'd take the airfryer over an oven every time and have done so for decades. But I'm not convinced they are healthier than an oven.

A pie is a pie. Even if you make your own pastry using butter instead of hydrogenated palm oil, it still is less healthy than the filling cooked without the pastry. Are chips made more healthy by being homemade?

Like I said, the question originally asked gives people an opportunity to really analyse what they believe about healthy food.

buzzy110 - 2019-08-11 18:14:00

buzzy110 wrote:

I repeat. I have no issues with air fryers. They cook faster. However, I also asked how it was more healthy to cook lightly sprayed-with-oil food in an airfryer than in an oven.

It doesn't stand that just because they are cooked in an oven, that they are stuck around a roast that is swimming in fat. Before I got my easy cook my roasts went into an oven bag with no added fat and vegetables were, lightly rubbed in fat (not industrially extracted, unhealthy oil) and baked at the same time. No real difference in health or unhealthy by cooking method either way. Same with all the other stuff you mentioned. They can be cooked exactly the same way in an oven.

The major difference is in power used and time taken. I'd take the airfryer over an oven every time and have done so for decades. But I'm not convinced they are healthier than an oven.

A pie is a pie. Even if you make your own pastry using butter instead of hydrogenated palm oil, it still is less healthy than the filling cooked without the pastry. Are chips made more healthy by being homemade?

Like I said, the question originally asked gives people an opportunity to really analyse what they believe about healthy food.

Keep digging.
Do you use an air fryer?
It's not all about you, or me & our food choices.
You assume a lot & I'm pleased that nanee2jlp has spelled it out about this useful appliance.
If we like 'fried' food & yet don't want to immerse that food in oil/fat etc.so use an air fryer ...so what?

samanya - 2019-08-11 18:26:00

Might be just as healthy as an oven, Buzzy, but you don't have to wait for it to heat up, most things taste better and when a 14 year old eat anything lad prefers things cooked in the Airfryer to the oven, that's good enough for me.

Much easier for those on their own too, I love mine.

Edited by kacy5 at 6:49 pm, Sun 11 Aug

kacy5 - 2019-08-11 18:45:00

samanya wrote:

Keep digging.
Do you use an air fryer?
It's not all about you, or me & our food choices.
You assume a lot & I'm pleased that nanee2jlp has spelled it out about this useful appliance.
If we like 'fried' food & yet don't want to immerse that food in oil/fat etc.so use an air fryer ...so what?

An extremely aggressive post.

buzzy110 - 2019-08-12 11:04:00

kacy5 wrote:

Might be just as healthy as an oven, Buzzy, but you don't have to wait for it to heat up, most things taste better and when a 14 year old eat anything lad prefers things cooked in the Airfryer to the oven, that's good enough for me.

Much easier for those on their own too, I love mine.

Exactly. They use less power, which is exactly what I said. I did say earlier that I have used an AirFryer for decades. It is called an Easy Cook and I am totally in love with mine. However, just because I love it for convenience (don't have a microwave), how it can do stuff that my oven can't even get near, and the speed with which it cooks stuff (i.e. 1hr for a chicken and 30mins tops for roast spuds, pumpkin, kumara, swede, Jerusalem artichokes, etc) I am realistic that it is not the cooking method that dictates healthy food, but the choice of foods.

And that was all I was attempting to get across. Amasser asked a pertinent and relevant question.

I wonder what has piqued your interest in my posts.

buzzy110 - 2019-08-12 11:11:00

buzzy110 wrote:

Exactly. They use less power, which is exactly what I said. I did say earlier that I have used an AirFryer for decades. It is called an Easy Cook and I am totally in love with mine. However, just because I love it for convenience (don't have a microwave), how it can do stuff that my oven can't even get near, and the speed with which it cooks stuff (i.e. 1hr for a chicken and 30mins tops for roast spuds, pumpkin, kumara, swede, Jerusalem artichokes, etc) I am realistic that it is not the cooking method that dictates healthy food, but the choice of foods.

And that was all I was attempting to get across. Amasser asked a pertinent and relevant question.

I wonder what has piqued your interest in my posts.

Apart from them being well written, Buzzy, they just happen to be in threads that interest me. Is that OK or do you need me think long and hard to try and elaborate more?

Just thought of something, I like this thread because I don't have an oven nor cooktop so my Airfryer gets plenty of use which, living on my own, is easier for me along with my convection/microwave oven. Only plug in appliances for me in this place.

Edited by kacy5 at 2:33 pm, Mon 12 Aug

kacy5 - 2019-08-12 14:29:00

kacy5 wrote:

Apart from them being well written, Buzzy, they just happen to be in threads that interest me. Is that OK or do you need me think long and hard to try and elaborate more?

Just thought of something, I like this thread because I don't have an oven nor cooktop so my Airfryer gets plenty of use which, living on my own, is easier for me along with my convection/microwave oven. Only plug in appliances for me in this place.

OK. Well I'm happy you find interest in my posts in particular, not only in this thread, but others. I hope your comments remain pertinent to the thread.

buzzy110 - 2019-08-12 15:29:00

buzzy110 wrote:

Exactly. They use less power, which is exactly what I said. I did say earlier that I have used an AirFryer for decades. It is called an Easy Cook and I am totally in love with mine.......

Yes, I had an easy cook oven for years too, it was great and I did replace it when it eventually died. They are slightly different to the air fryers available nowadays which are much more compact and you do not have to preheat them either which is IMO a bonus. I can use it immediately and it's used every day for one thing or another. I much prefer my airfyer to the easy cook, it takes up less room in my cupboard/countertop and I have now donated the easy cook to my grateful Uni student Granddaughter.

Edited by nauru at 7:52 pm, Tue 13 Aug

nauru - 2019-08-13 19:49:00

I had an air fryer but bought an air roaster when it packed up. I absolutely love the air roaster and use it about 4 times a week minimum. I bought mine from Bestdeals online, $149 delivered to the door.

vomo2 - 2019-08-13 20:05:00

nauru wrote:

Yes, I had an easy cook oven for years too, it was great and I did replace it when it eventually died. They are slightly different to the air fryers available nowadays which are much more compact and you do not have to preheat them either which is IMO a bonus. I can use it immediately and it's used every day for one thing or another. I much prefer my airfyer to the easy cook, it takes up less room in my cupboard/countertop and I have now donated the easy cook to my grateful Uni student Granddaughter.

I was given an air roaster. My main problem was that it was covered with teflon and smelled of teflon. I have it at the beach but as I mostly eat fish or seafood and vegetables every day at the beach, it gets very little use. A frying pan is quicker, lighter, takes up no space on my bench, doesn't require an electric point and more reliable. It is also easier to clean.

However, when I have used it, (I cooked chicken stuffed with salted lemon slices) it was amazing. It did better than the Easy Cook in terms of flavour. But it was a bit of a mission to clean up and didn't have room for baked vegetables at the same time. I hated throwing away the 'juices' that accumulated on the bottom because eating stuff that has spent time in a hot environment soaking up teflon fumes didn't sit right with me.

Edited by buzzy110 at 10:18 am, Wed 14 Aug

buzzy110 - 2019-08-14 10:16:00