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Bought an air fryer

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@Sally W, Try this link https://www.aircookers.com/air-fryers-without-teflon/ it's USA links but there appears to be plenty of other options for the uk after a quick search. Another option is to go into your local electrical shop and ask them to order one for you if that would make you feel happier.
 
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@Pumper_Sue wow thanks, that is such an interesting article! I don’t cook with anything non stick and use green pans for frying so that’s just the kind of info that would really appeal to me. Fab!
 
I suspect that a lot of the problems with Teflon are due to overheating.
I have a teflon coated pan which is a couple of decades old and the surface is intact and undamaged - but I cook at low temperatures even when frying - I don't want to turn food black - not even dark brown. Having seen non stick pans where there is a central ring of exposed metal I can see why you don't like the idea of using them - I disposed of a fairly expensive grill when the plates began to lose chunks of the coating.
 
lucy123 said:
Glad you like it Mark. Steak cooks lovely in mine. Steak flat mushroom and spinach for tea last night. No fuss - chucked both steak and mushroom in fryer for15 mins whilst I got on with life. Post things you find cook nice please.
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I do a lovely fish and chips in mine. Fish straight from the freezer done in 20 minutes, sometimes I do my own "naughty" potoato chips without oil but mostly with parsnip chips. Yummy
 
Drummer said:
I have both air fryer and a Halogen oven - they don't do the same things in my kitchen - though I believe that there have been bits aded to make them more capable of doing what the other thing does.
I use the Halogen oven for roasting whole chickens or joints of meat, making cheese on toast (for my husband) defrosting in a hurry, and it is a safer option for cooking chestnuts - I tried some in the Actifry and they exploded....
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I do chestnuts in my air fryer. 10 minutes at 180 but you have to make a cut in the skin before you put them in. That's why they exploded!
 
My air fryer has no temperature control - I did cut them, but I think they boiled inside the shells as the ones which did not explode were all floury.
 
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