Underseer
Contributor
Are air fryers just another stupid fad?
I already have a big convection oven, so I never saw the point of this air fryer fad going on right now.
Besides, my counter space is already at a premium (I really need to discard or store some stuff in the kitchen that never gets used).
When I was a teenager back in the 1980s, I remember a similar fad with countertop convection ovens. My parents got one while the fad was going on, and to be honest, after a few months of experimentation, everyone just went back to using the big oven and it became just another piece of junk that no one wanted to throw away.
Hence my curmudgeon-like response to air fryers. They sure don't look like they do anything different from those old countertop convection ovens, other than have less available space for cooking stuff.
If anyone wants to prove me wrong and tell me that air fryers are something everyone needs to try, let's have your arguments, but for now I'm going full cranky grandpa on this one and saying "Bah! Fad!"
I already have a big convection oven, so I never saw the point of this air fryer fad going on right now.
Besides, my counter space is already at a premium (I really need to discard or store some stuff in the kitchen that never gets used).
When I was a teenager back in the 1980s, I remember a similar fad with countertop convection ovens. My parents got one while the fad was going on, and to be honest, after a few months of experimentation, everyone just went back to using the big oven and it became just another piece of junk that no one wanted to throw away.
Hence my curmudgeon-like response to air fryers. They sure don't look like they do anything different from those old countertop convection ovens, other than have less available space for cooking stuff.
If anyone wants to prove me wrong and tell me that air fryers are something everyone needs to try, let's have your arguments, but for now I'm going full cranky grandpa on this one and saying "Bah! Fad!"