Don’t most people use the air fryer to replicate things that they’d otherwise deep fry, like chips, wings, breaded stuff? In that case just use a deep pot full of oil and don’t pussyfoot about.
For other stuff (like the pizza reheating example above), surely you’d just turn on convection mode on your oven (which achieves largely the same thing) and not waste hundreds of quid on another tool?
Fam, we been locked in for 18 months with money burning a hole in our pockets. If you think we're gonna sit there idly and watch the Joneses stock up on air-fryers, automatic hoovers and robot-operated sock fitters without reacting, you're a bit of a cunt.
At least I can use the belt for multiple purposes (fashion, to whip Taz, etc.)
The fires smoke out (lol) the feeble and weak.
Chips and wings and breaded stuff are what most people put in the oven these days too. The air fryer just does them better and quicker. Proper deep fried stuff using wet batter can’t be replicated in an air fryer.
Think of them more as an air “fryer” and then replace “fryer” with oven.
Speaking of wanky kitchen gadgets, that pressure cooker thing I bought is still just a very expensive rice cooker but still worth it because I don’t need to buy the pouches any more.
Yeah I normally sieve it into a jug and then pour it back into the bottle for a few uses.
Pressure cookers are great FWIW. There’s a genuine timesaver whose functionality is hard to replicate with other tools.
My dream wanky kitchen gadget is a precise induction burner where you can control it down to the degree. Fuck knows why I’d need one, it just looks fantastic.
I did a couple of things in mine at the start but most were just to see if they worked. Cooking a very unappealing looking chicken in 40 minutes is grand the once just to say you did, but I never really found a practical use for it that was better than just cooking something low and for a long time (except the rice - that wouldn’t work).
I wouldn’t be without gas rings, though I do need to find some way of throttling back the supply on these new ones as none of them go as low as I’d like.
Everything is carcinogenic.
Being alive is carcinogenic.
Mugaritz has just been / is still on BBC2, coincidentally, on that Fred programme. It looks absolutely deranged. Even though all restaurant TV is puff pieces, you can tell Fred is a bit erm wtf.
Pressure cookers are a must for making beans, but that's about it.
Yep. The bloke with his tortillas is an alpha don.
Last night I made this with a few changes such as binning off the kale for spinach (no one eats kale). All evening afterwards I felt so good, almost high, and it's carried over to this morning.
I googled black beans and find they apparently release serotonin. Who knew? I might get addicted to the little buggers, I'm high as a kite right now.
Sounds delicious (minus the chicken). Not really one for summer though.
I've cooked with kale once. Tried a bit raw (no idea if it would ever normally be eaten uncooked) and it was absolutely vile but it was alright in the sausage pasta thing it ended up in.
That soup does sound decent though.
It's just cabage, but worse. I'll eat it if it's on the plate but I'd never put it there myself.
Kale is awful, it has the texture of packaging.
Kale is fine you weirdos, but cavolo nero is the champion middle class cabbage varietal.
Black beans are also good.
Cavolo Nero is just Kale for dickheads.
I have some in the fridge. Confirmed.
On the topic of healthy options, Mockingbird Raw Press smoothies really are the one.
Aren't smoothies generally monumentally bad for you [at least by comparison to their perceived goodness] as they hit you with all the sugar but none of the main good thing [fibre] that fruit [and veg] gives you?
Cavolo nero is brilliant.
High on black beans.
Ideally you want your smoothie to resemble mud in both colour and texture.
High on his own farts.
First go with the ooni.
Not perfect and few things I'd do different next time but tasted really good. You just cannot get the same from an electric oven.
I'd be wanting the pepperoni a bit more crisp but that looks a good effort.