Better efficiency but more importantly it heats almost instantly. Thing is like magic. No preheating for 5+ mins.

Plus having a second oven is fucking awesome. I’m out there on thanksgiving with an oven full of turkey, baking dinner rolls on the side like an absolute gangster.

Where did the recent air fryer trend come from anyway?

Clearly you don't own an air fryer

Why is this even a meme? Omg why do can openers exist? 9 inch angle grinders already exist. We had a kids toy lolol

Yeah that's what I said before I got one too.

Air fryers are the shit.

Air fryers dont heat the entire house 5 degrees. Also they are like 15x faster to make food for 1.

Not everyone has a convection oven. They are portable convection ovens, not portable ovens.

I have a toaster oven because I don't need to heat my entire oven and use much more energy and time to heat the entire thing to reheat a slice of pizza.

I use the convection function when I'm working with large amounts but for 1-2 people, the air fryer is much faster.

Even with an expensive convection oven I can't get things to come out as good as they do with an air fryer. The small area through which the warm air circulates is probably the reason. The fan in my air fryer is the same size as the fan in a household oven with convection options, but a much smaller volume of air.

Most people don't actually have convection ovens. Whoever wrote that post probably doesn't even understand that there's a difference between a convection oven and a traditional oven in the first place.

The things that consistently come out better for me in my air fryer (with less cook time) over the traditional oven are:

Home fries Bacon Salmon Chicken thighs Any vegetable Leftover steak Leftover pizza

There are actually very few things I care to use my traditional oven for, it's all just quicker and comes out better in the air fryer. Pretty much anything where you want it to be browned/crispy without overcooking the inside or using a ton of butter will be better in the air fryer.

No, it's not an oven. It's a convection oven, which has existed for decades but never caught on until they were rebranded as air fryers.

I live alone. I can fit the same amount of stuff I would cook in my oven into my air fryer and cook it better with less electricity and less clean up.

They're a trend because they're really good

Cause its so convenient, fast and efficient. I have kids so I can make food quickly (sous vide'd chicken I've done some days earlier, usually) and it doesnt draw electricity as much as my normal oven. I quite like it, and it makes my life easier.

I orginally bought it like 6 years ago to make chicken wings, but nowadays I use it for pretty much everything.

You dont have to like it, thats your prerogative.

Air fryers have fans to keep the air circulating. That makes the food cook very differently than a traditional oven. It's more like a convection oven, but with even more airflow.

Decent air fryer : $300

Air frying capable oven (lower range) : $600

Good air frying capable oven : $1500+

yeah they're just small convection ovens. Great for heating bread rolls, we use ours more as a toaster than for "frying" (they don't fry)

There is a difference between an air fryer and a convection oven. An air fryer has its heating element in the top with the fan so it is actively blowing hot air down on the food. It's basically a convection broiler.

I think what's more convenient about an air fryer is that it is smaller than a convection oven. It's the next generation of toaster oven.

An air fryer is a small convection oven, but convection ovens aren't particularly common in my experience. It's definitely different than a traditional oven.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's worse https://youtu.be/AASP4P5vRAA?si=aXMjrYK_aRIKX3YR

I have an oven in my apartment, I use the stove top but I have honestly never once used the oven part. I cook for one so I just simply never make meals large enough to need it, I just make anything that needs ovening in the air fryer. Also don't own a toaster, same deal pop it in the air fryer. It and and instapot are some actual goat level kitchen appliances.

I've been considering to buy one for some time and recently found a model capable of "air frying", de-hydrate food and a third function I can't remember right now.

For a relatively small footprint, having three machines in one sounds nice.