Air fryer owners. What is the cleaning situation like? I have not joined the air fryer revolution yet. It’s seems like they might be good, but is the time saved in cooking negated by time spent in cleaning? I’m thinking compared to using normal oven, which does not need cleaning every use and baking sheet is easy to wash or put in dishwasher.
I actually can’t get mine properly clean. I’ve tried soaking with dishsoap but stays greasy and smelling like a dirty bbq. I’ve been putting off trying something more drastic, I should get onto that.
It cooks the hell out of potato gems, I can tell you that much. Early days of having it I made pork crackling too (which worked REALLY well) but I’d recommend not trying that with your air fryer indoors, especially if you live in an apartment. I had to run it on my balcony so I didn’t set off all of the smoke alarms lol
Depends on the kind of airfryer you have. Mine is basically a toaster oven. It has a drip tray, so I can just yank that out and clean it properly every so often.
It also toasts better than my oven or toaster, so it ends up being used for a loooot of things. Fantastic thing. Got it from Harris Scarfe in a new years sale for like… I think $200?
I have a smaller air fryer, where the basket and draw are completely removable, and seperate to the heating element. I just soak it with hot water & some dishsoap, and it wipes clean pretty easy most times.
I use it 99% of the time over the oven as I live alone, and it doesn’t really require any pre-cooking time.
I’m a bit late to this party, but while I don’t have one myself, we have an airfryer at work. It’s one with a separate basket inside a drawer that comes out completely from the machine. My boss uses it to grill meat as he’s into keto/paleo. IT IS A PAIN TO CLEAN. The basket and drawer have to be soaked and then scrubbed because it didn’t take long for the non-stick coating to give up the ghost. Work does not have a dishwasher (other than me and my slaves). So it doesn’t get done more than once a day in the morning having been soaked overnight. One of these days in the not too distant future I will defenestrate the entire object. With happy squeals of delight.
They’re…ok. Smaller capacity means quicker heating time, so can be useful for small apartments with no oven. They do make nice crispy food that would usually be fried, and that’s nice. However, the treats for mine have to be hand washed which is a bit of a pain. There’s also a weird bit between the door and the oven which is a little crumb magnet but you can’t get them all out. That’s pretty annoying.
It depends on what you cook in there. Sometimes I just wipe out the drawer and the basket with paper towel then wet the towel and give it another wipe. If it’s really grubby I’ll soak it in the sink.
Air fryer owners. What is the cleaning situation like? I have not joined the air fryer revolution yet. It’s seems like they might be good, but is the time saved in cooking negated by time spent in cleaning? I’m thinking compared to using normal oven, which does not need cleaning every use and baking sheet is easy to wash or put in dishwasher.
I actually can’t get mine properly clean. I’ve tried soaking with dishsoap but stays greasy and smelling like a dirty bbq. I’ve been putting off trying something more drastic, I should get onto that.
It cooks the hell out of potato gems, I can tell you that much. Early days of having it I made pork crackling too (which worked REALLY well) but I’d recommend not trying that with your air fryer indoors, especially if you live in an apartment. I had to run it on my balcony so I didn’t set off all of the smoke alarms lol
The one I was given has a large lid, which opens above the whole 20 cm round tray which is non stick, easy to remove and really simple to clean.
Depends on the kind of airfryer you have. Mine is basically a toaster oven. It has a drip tray, so I can just yank that out and clean it properly every so often.
It also toasts better than my oven or toaster, so it ends up being used for a loooot of things. Fantastic thing. Got it from Harris Scarfe in a new years sale for like… I think $200?
I have a tiny one. I always use baking paper or ensure I clean up straight away.
I have a smaller air fryer, where the basket and draw are completely removable, and seperate to the heating element. I just soak it with hot water & some dishsoap, and it wipes clean pretty easy most times.
I use it 99% of the time over the oven as I live alone, and it doesn’t really require any pre-cooking time.
I’m a bit late to this party, but while I don’t have one myself, we have an airfryer at work. It’s one with a separate basket inside a drawer that comes out completely from the machine. My boss uses it to grill meat as he’s into keto/paleo. IT IS A PAIN TO CLEAN. The basket and drawer have to be soaked and then scrubbed because it didn’t take long for the non-stick coating to give up the ghost. Work does not have a dishwasher (other than me and my slaves). So it doesn’t get done more than once a day in the morning having been soaked overnight. One of these days in the not too distant future I will defenestrate the entire object. With happy squeals of delight.
They’re…ok. Smaller capacity means quicker heating time, so can be useful for small apartments with no oven. They do make nice crispy food that would usually be fried, and that’s nice. However, the treats for mine have to be hand washed which is a bit of a pain. There’s also a weird bit between the door and the oven which is a little crumb magnet but you can’t get them all out. That’s pretty annoying.
It depends on what you cook in there. Sometimes I just wipe out the drawer and the basket with paper towel then wet the towel and give it another wipe. If it’s really grubby I’ll soak it in the sink.