Elaine....please come tell me more about your air-fryer

I think Elaine is going to be offline for a few days. Have you tried using the search feature? She has been posting lots of great information about the air fryer as well as great recipes and links to cookbooks. I've been interested, but haven't ordered one quite yet!

This looks like a beautiful air fried fish. I have a piece of mahi mahi that is surely freezer burned by now. If not I'm going to try.

budgetpantry.com/airfried-cajun-salmon/#more-6623

I also want to try fried wontons/fake crab Rangoon (I'm allergic to shellfish).

Google says it makes a great grilled cheese.

Breakfast sandwich! Bacon egg and cheese. Put the egg in a ramekin or custard cup and put the raw bacon and biscuit alongside. Google breakfast sandwich air fryer.

Hi Lauren! I'm leaving for Michigan in a couple of hours for more eye surgery, so I missed this last night - sorry! Too much to do before getting on the plane.

I think that if the air fryer is just for you and your DH mostly, it will be great! My only complaint about it is that it is too small for cooking entrees for my family - I need to cook 6 pork chops at a time, for example, for my family that has two teen-aged boys. It will cook 4 comfortably if you use the metal wire shelf and have 2 layers going at once, but you can't do 6.

I have cooked breaded chicken breasts - my DH loves them coated with corn flake crumbs - and pork chops (coated with a layer of seasoned low-fat mayo and then breaded with seasoned Panko) - and they both came out excellent. Just that I also had to cook more in the oven at the same time.

Where the Air Fryer has been awesome for our family is roasting veggies and making fresh fries. I have diced potatoes, tossed with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, rosemary and salt and roasted them - they were amazing. Crunchy and brown on the outside and soft inside. I've also bought bags of the mixed broccoli and cauliflower florets, tossed with 1 tablespoon of oil and whatever seasoning I'm in the mood for - Italian spices, lemon pepper, even curry - and roast those. My family loves veggies cooked this way. And, well, fresh fries from potatoes are wonderful too.

I do use it to bake bags of frozen sweet potato fries. We love the frozen Alexa sweet potato fries and they come out perfectly. I also used it for frozen TJs zucchini fries - also since those were breaded, I'm sure they weren't altogether healthy.

I think whether you'll like it depends on how you like your foods - my kids will eat any veggie as long as it is roasted, so it is good for us and will really be appreciated when the weather turns hot and I hate using the big oven that heats up the house. We won't use it much for main courses, but I would if I were cooking for 2. When the larger air fryers come down in price, I'll consider buying one.

There have been a number of posts lately about air frying here lately on various threads - I think that most people really like them. My guess is that yours needs to be sent back soon if you are returning it - it was the TSV around 3/15 - so, I think that you have nothing to lose, unless it is due back today, by opening it and trying it. QVC will take it back within 30 days, even if you use it, if you aren't happy with it.

So tempted to order the QVC one. Especially going in to Summer when I hate having to turn my oven on.

lauren my air fryer arrived today. Exciting first outing LOL, I made hot dogs for ds11 which he liked, and reheated yesterday's takeout for me and dd. Dd had chicken strips and fries. She said the fries were better than they were yesterday! LOL

Lauren just pull it out the box and try it. It is the best thing ever. Since having it I am saving money, fixing lunch the night before
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