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Air Fryer Recipes - What Else Can You Cook Besides Chips!
In the event you own one an air fryer, like the Tefal or Philips model, you may be looking for airfryer recipes to boost your repertoire from just chips! Although most people are likely to buy an air fryer to eat chips but without gaining the pounds, or for health purposes need to be on a low fat diet, these fryers can cook other things. Just what that is rather depends on the model that you have.
The two primary designs of low far air fryer will be the Tefal Actifry and the newer Philips Airfryer. Each make fries with a tablespoon (or less) of cooking oil, meats and poultry, but they achieve this in slightly different ways which makes what else you can cook inside them differ.
While the Tefal Actifry moves food around the container employing a paddle while circulating hot air around the food, the Philips Airfryer does not actually move the food. This means some foods like chips, will need to be shaken midway through the cooking time. Hot air is also moved around inside the Philips, but the heat comes from a component in the top of the fryer. The position of the element and the holding container for the food makes a difference in the kinds of foods you can cook within these fryers and so some of the airfryer recipes will differ, although might be adaptable for your specific type of low fat air fryer.
Airfryer recipes for the Tefal often centre on foods that may be stirred due to the paddle (even though many people remove this in order to cook things like bacon and hash browns). Foods that cook in a Tefal typically consist of such things as stir fries, smaller pieces of breaded fish, curries and casseroles as well as your roast potatoes and parsnips.
The downside of the Tefal is that there may be some transference of food smells and taste if you cook say fish and chips with each other as it does not separate the foodstuffs. Not so when using the Philips Airfryer as you also get a food divider included.
The Philips Airfryer holds the food in a container basket or the included solid baking container and, because of the divider, you are able to put the food in distinct compartments. The main difference in the airfryer recipes is that you can in fact bake cakes, sausage rolls, muffins and filled vegetables. You are able to also brown off pre-baked bread as well as making those chips.
I guess what you have to determine is what sort of airfryer recipes you are most likely to make. If your reason for acquiring this sort of fryer would be to watch your weight, do you really need one which makes cakes? The Philips Airfryer takes up a bit less room, but should you want the baking pan and divider, you're most likely looking at a bit more money than you'll need for the Tefal Actifry. Tough choice, as both are pretty excellent machines!
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