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Which Do You Use More Often Overall: Oil or an Air Fryer?

Which do you use more often overall for frying?

  • Oil.

    Votes: 9 75.0%
  • Air fryer.

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • I use both an equal (or almost equal) amount.

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Total voters
    12
  • Poll closed .

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
I don't know it's not anything I ever have although when I was a kid we sometimes did it

There is a nice place in my town that sells grilled cheese sandwiches, they do them in a kind of heated press, that they put some kind of oil on and then enclose the bread and cheese in the machine

It takes them five minutes for them to do them
Same for me. My pressing "machine" is the pan and a spatula. :D

They are nice, you can have them with jalapeños in them
I have. Also a slice of tomato or two.
 

The Hammer

Skald
Premium Member
Wait... am I supposed to consider putting a small quantity of oil in a pan and cooking with that to be "frying?" Because I kind of live and die doing my signature Asian-style noodle dishes in garlic-infused canola oil. When I think frying I always just think deep frying which you need special equipment and a ton of oil to do.

You could just use a cast iron Dutch oven. That's what I use if I want to deep fry, which is infrequent.

The air fryer is just the newest fad because it's supposedly healthier as it uses no/little oil. You're right it's basically an oven, specifically a convection oven: this one particularly using high speed, high heat air circulation.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Ovens are nice to have, but I make do.

When we bought this house there was no oven, the hob was 2 bottled gas rings and 2 electric rings that tripped the power out if you put the kettle on while cooking with the 2 electric rings

We still lived in England but spent about 2 months every year here, we made do.
 

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
When we bought this house there was no oven, the hob was 2 bottled gas rings and 2 electric rings that tripped the power out if you put the kettle on while cooking with the 2 electric rings

We still lived in England but spent about 2 months every year here, we made do.
The entirety of my cooking appliances here consist of an electric cooktop with two coil burners, a 2-quart air fryer, and a microwave.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
hushpuppies

I always think of them as shoes ... Tasty

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Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
I would consider what you do frying too, yes—I don't think deep frying is the only form that qualifies as frying.
Haha, okay. I guess in America there's so much oily deep frying foods I tend to think of that as what folks mean by frying foods. I stove "fry" all the time - probably with less oil than some folks do. I find I don't really like it with more oil. Annoying cleanup and it makes the dish come out worse.

You could just use a cast iron Dutch oven. That's what I use if I want to deep fry, which is infrequent.

The air fryer is just the newest fad because it's supposedly healthier as it uses no/little oil. You're right it's basically an oven, specifically a convection oven: this one particularly using high speed, high heat air circulation.
Might have to look into something like a cast iron Dutch oven. I get frozen egg rolls sometimes and while they bake OK something more like a fry would get the crispier.

I guess the air fryer fad is good for folks who don't really cook (my friend who showed me his was one of those haha). He made tater tots in it and I just kinda went "but... you could do that in an oven."
 

Koldo

Outstanding Member
Wait... am I supposed to consider putting a small quantity of oil in a pan and cooking with that to be "frying?" Because I kind of live and die doing my signature Asian-style noodle dishes in garlic-infused canola oil. When I think frying I always just think deep frying which you need special equipment and a ton of oil to do.

Special equipment?

What about this?

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Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
Special equipment?

What about this?

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Oooh... is that a special saucepan that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom? I don't have one of those. Never mind what I would do with all the oil. I would have nowhere to dispose of it unless I ninja some restaurant's oil disposal bin or something, which I could, but then there's the issue of... fried/fatty foods don't really agree with my digestive system so I can't/shouldn't be eating it anyway... haha.
 

crossfire

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Premium Member
Oooh... is that a special saucepan that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom? I don't have one of those. Never mind what I would do with all the oil. I would have nowhere to dispose of it unless I ninja some restaurant's oil disposal bin or something, which I could, but then there's the issue of... fried/fatty foods don't really agree with my digestive system so I can't/shouldn't be eating it anyway... haha.
You don't have a wok?
 
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