• WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yeah it just turns out that convection ovens make great bagged frozen fries.
    I wish my normal oven was a convection oven so I didn’t need an air fryer.

    • Pistcow@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I have a fancy oven with convection but it takes a while to heat up and often I just want a couple servings of fries.

    • myplacedk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I wish my normal oven was a convection oven so I didn’t need an air fryer.

      Here, pretty much everybody has a convection oven. I wish I understood why air fryers are so popular here.

      I’ve heard one argument: “Mine can stir the fries”

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        It is a small efficient oven that is easy to use.

        It is great to re-heat food and the texture of the re-heated food is a lot better than a microwave.

        It’s great for breaded food and takes a lot less time than a conventional oven since it heats up pretty much instantly.

        For example, when I make Parmigiana Chicken, if I do it the air fryer, it takes about 15 minutes overall cooking time, including melting the cheese to a golden crips texture. If I use my conventional convection oven, it takes 10 minutes just to heat-up.

        It is also easy to clean.

        It does not replace the conventional oven for everything, but it does a lot of things faster with the same result. It’s a big boon.

      • oatscoop@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Frying is all about quickly imparting heat into the surface of a food at high temperature. Air fryers mimic that by moving a much higher volume of hot air past the food – they’re “super convection” ovens.