The Actifry & AirFryer Thread - Merged

Yes cooking for myself , do i need this ? do i.

Do need to change things up for the cold weather when food is needed to heat you up as a sambo wont cut it.

Bought the Tower Dual from Lidl at the weekend for €129 after I dropped my salter one off the counter :(

I like it, strangely its got the buttons on the top of the unit and what I like most is it has actually buttons, not touch buttons

Currently have an Instant Vortex dual basket model, brand new in box on Adverts if anyone is in the market for an Airfryer.

Jamie Oliver has 2 one hour programmes on Channel 4. 8 pm to 9 April 15 and 22. It is sponsored by Tefal, and he is using Tefal Air Fryers.

New Ninja af180 which has 6L capacity

Surprised how noisy it is tbh

Seems decently enough reviewed on amazon.

Made jump to the Ninja 9.5 Dual Drawer with thermometer probe last week from my nearly 6 year old £80 Bargain XXL Philips. Philips still works perfectly but mesh and insert is getting very hard keep clean. Priced new mesh and basket insert but hard find an expensive with shipping from Europe. Decided I was better putting the money in a new model. I'll still keep it for when I want to do a chicken or big batches.

Very pleased with the Ninja, much easier keep clean. The smaller separate drawers are very handy and much more manageable for washing. Tiny bit slower than the Philips to cook but still learning. Some things might need higher temp than the Philips though. Haven't done anything with probe yet but will be handier if I cook some bigger pieces of meat in it.

I'm thinking strongly re buying an airfryer for first time - prob. Ninja 9.5 Dual Drawer. Main reason is so that family members can cook for themselves when coming in late from training etc. But having looked at recipe books and talked to people, I wonder about cooking 'family dinners' (which I try to do regularly) in an airfryer? What do you recommend? Thanks.

As its only myself twin drawer is overkill for me as i still have in use a PKP , Ninja twin lids , Halogen oven and Philips air fryer and can handle most items i want to cook. Micro and Hob.

Not sure when the last time i used my oven. When the winter is only around the corner more warm meals will be made and frozen for backups.

I use kitchen degreaser from Lidl and warm soapy water

I’ve a Ninja Electric BBQ. The Air fryer tray goes in the dishwasher, no problem. It’s the housing that I need to clean the grime off.

Thanks for that but it’s inside the lid that needs cleaning. I’ll try a degreaser.

each time you use it is my rule!

Have a Tower with trays rather than baskets (and a rotiserrie I've never used) in the island house; but I've never used a basket type.

Need to take the oven out of action for a bit to get tiling done in the kitchen so bought the 7.6L dual basket Ninja today - was on sale.

Anyone know if there's much operational difference between a drop door, tray type and a basket type?

I went for the dual basket purely because my main 'can't be bothered cooking properly' dinner of packet katsu curry, chicken goujons and chips is a bit of an arse to cook in the single cavity/single temperature one.