Air fryer to replace oven

Im the same. I use the Ninja. About 300 euro. Easy to clean, heats up in seconds. Have not used the oven since bought

Personally, I find them way over hyped. No where near as good as an oven or BBQ.

Yes. I wouldn't have commented if I didn't.

Yep, you and me both. Suckered into buying one from all the hype.

I have a double drawer Ninja and it’s great. Sausages, frozen chips, cheese on toast, chicken wings. Really good at reheating too and crisping.

The only thing it doesn’t do great is roasties with a large piece of meat. They’re okay in the AF, but to me roast potatoes need to be done around meat in a larger oven. The flavour is better.. but for most everything else it’s spot on. Quick & efficient.

My MIL has an air fryer and it must have a baking function as she has baked a delicious fruit cake recently. She’s a great baker and loves the AF.

That said, I’ve never used mine for baking. I use the main oven.

I wouldn't be without my oven but our AF is handy for frozen chips if not using oven for anything else. Does gougons fish fingers and so on really well.

But i like roasts and frozen pizza and casseroles and just don't think AF would do for those.

It really all depends on what your meals consist of.

Two air fryers would pretty much make an oven obsolete.

A twin drawer one for say chips and veg., then a large one for the roast meat.

Breadmaking is not easy and if you are into sourdough your dutch oven is going to be a thing of the past.

In fact anything that rises will need serious scaling down and some thought about shielding the top from the direct radiated heat.

Nothing that a bit of creativity with foil and greaseproof paper won't overcome but bread and cakes would be out for entertaining visitors unless the portions were minuscule.

I actually think the biggest drawback with the airfryers is counterspace, the real estate they take up. Maybe consider where it would sit and the space you have left available on the counter.

Depends on your kitchen layout, but for a lot of kitchens, the oven is built into a kitchen cabinet. Our oven has the slide away door, it's at waist height, beside the counterspace. No swinging around with hot pans, just very easy ergonomically. If I was to have an airfryer on the counter too, I'd definitely miss the chopping space.