The Affordable Air Fryer Cookbook 2020
600 Quick & Easy 5-Ingredients or Less Budget Friendly Recipes for Your Air Fryer
2020 Dr. Sally Salt
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Contents
Air Fryer Introduction
An air fryer is a kitchen appliance that cooks food by circulating hot air using a convection mechanism. It is a smaller version of the traditional convection oven. A mechanical fan circulates the hot air around the food at high speed, which allows the food to cook and produces a crispy layer as a result of the browning reactions of caramelization and the Maillard reaction. The Maillard reaction requires temperatures of between 140 to 165 C (284 to 329 F) while caramelization temperatures require the caramelization of sugar and ranges from 110 to 180 C (230 to 356 F).
Air Fryer Mechanics
Air fryers promote the circulation of hot air to cook food that would otherwise be submerged in oil. The air fryer's cooking chamber induces heat from a heating element next to the food, thus cooking it more efficiently. A fan circulates hot air around the food. The opening at the top of the Air Fryer, or vent, allows hot air to be taken in and the exhaust at the back controls temperature by releasing excess hot air. It is also used to counter any increases in internal pressure. The temperatures inside can go up to 230 C (445 F) depending on the model. For safety, it is essential to not put oil inside the air fryer or have flammable objects near the air fryer. In general, cooking times in the air fryer are reduced by 20% in comparison with traditional ovens. This varies per brand and the quantity of the food cooked in the air fryer.
Traditional frying methods induce the Maillard effect by completely submerging foods in hot oil, which attains considerably higher temperatures than boiling water. The air fryer works by coating the desired food in a thin layer of oil while circulating air heated up to 200 C (392 F) to apply heat and initiate the reaction. As a result, the appliance can brown foods like potato chips, chicken, fish, steak, cheeseburgers, French fries or pastries using 70% to 80% less oil than a traditional deep fryer.
Many air fryers have temperature and timer adjustments that allow more precise cooking. Food is cooked in a cooking basket that sits atop a drip tray. The basket and the food inside must be shaken frequently to ensure even oil treatment and cooking. More expensive fryers achieve this by mixing a food agitator that continuously shakes the food during the cooking process. However, most air fryers require the cook to perform the task manually. Convection ovens and air fryers are similar in the way they cook food, but air fryers are mostly smaller in size and volume than convection ovens and emit less heat.
The taste and consistency of foods cooked with traditional fried methods in comparison to air fried methods are not the same, because the larger quantity of oil involved in traditional frying soaks into the foods (or the coating batter, if it is used) and adds its own unique flavor. With air fryers, food is coated in a wet batter, not a dry coating such as breadcrumbs, and rests firmly on the food surface, meaning the air fryer's fan can blow the batter off the food and ensure even cooking.
The majority of air fryers are equipped with more accessories that suit specific kinds of cooking, such as pizza pans, skewer racks, grilling trays, and cake barrels.
Health Benefits
As the Air Fryer can produce results similar to deep-frying using a tiny fraction of the oil needed to deep-fry, the health benefits it offers to folks are many. When deep-frying, the food is coated with oil and it is this oil that is absorbed by the food to form a delicious coating on the outside. In an air fryer, oil is still used because it helps crisp and brown several foods, but only one tablespoon is generally required at a time. Instead of putting the tablespoon of oil in the air fryer, the foods are simply tossed in the fryer with oil and then placed in the air fryer basket. In fact, spraying the foods lightly with oil is an even easier way to ensure that foods have an even coating using the least amount of oil. Oil sprays, as opposed to drip oil, are a great way of ensuring this.
Quick & Energy Efficient
Sometimes it can take fifteen to twenty minutes to pre-heat standard ovens. As the air fryer is so compact, that pre-heat time is reduced to two or three minutes! Thats a huge saving in time as well as energy. You can pre-heat your air fryer and not heat up the whole kitchen. Whats more? The intense heat inside the air fryer cooks foods quickly too, about 25% faster than in an oven, so youre saving time and energy there as well. No one these days seems to have time to spare, so this should please everyone!
Safe & Easy
It is generally agreed that air-frying is safer and easier than deep-frying. The majority of air fryers come with settings for time and temperature. It doesnt get much easier than that! When deep-frying, you had to heat a large pan of oil on the stovetop and use a deep-frying thermometer to check the temperature. On top of all that, you dealt with a lot, and I mean a lot of oil. That was really bad thing to do because oil is heavy to move, dangerous if it gets too hot, and is really just annoying to drain and get rid of. Ask yourself why should you bother with all that if you can get the same results so much more easily with an air fryer?
Clean & Tidy
I didnt earn the Miss Tidy Cook badge for nothing! I love keeping my kitchen clean and tidy when Im cooking and after Ive been cooking too. The air fryer fits into my culinary world perfectly. It cooks foods in a small, safe space and keeps my food from causing a mess. My husband recently found out that you can even cook bacon in the air fryer without making a mess. Of course, please remember to add a little water in the drawer below to prevent the bacon grease from smoking. Ultimately, the air fryer is a simple and straightforward machine to clean and keep clean, and you know what they say about cleanliness