What about air fryers? Air fryers allow you to fry a wide range of delicious foods, snacks, meats and more quickly and easily. What are the disadvantages and advantages of an air fryer? Air fryers use almost no oil to achieve the texture of deep-frying and filter out the fat from the meat itself, which is healthier than deep-frying. What are the dangers of using an air fryer? Do air fryers cause cancer?

The principle of the air fryer

The air fryer uses air to replace the hot oil in the original frying pan and uses convection heating similar to that of the sun’s hot atmosphere to create a rapid circulation of hot air inside the closed pan to cook the food; the hot air also blows away the moisture on the surface of the food so that the ingredients can be fried without boiling oil.

Step 1: The air is heated quickly through the top baking unit.

Step 2: A rapid circulation of heat through the food basket’s interior by a powerful fan.

The third step: an unusual pattern on the inside of the basket creates a swirling heat flow that touches the surface of the ingredients 360 degrees in all directions, quickly carrying away the moisture generated by the heating. The three effects work in tandem to create a golden and crispy surface with a fried look and taste!

-The result is a crispy, golden surface with a crisp look and taste!

Advantages of the Air Fryer

Small footprint

If you don’t have a large kitchen, a large oven can take up a lot of space, but an air fryer is usually only slightly larger than a rice cooker, making it very easy to move around.

No oil consumption

It makes 1-2 servings of food with ease, frying as much as you can eat, unlike real deep-fried food, which uses so much oil, you have to fry a lot of it, and it doesn’t taste good if you don’t destroy it right away.

Clean and hassle-free

Just wait for the air fryer to cool and then douse the inside underwater or wipe it down with a clean rag. Isn’t the air fryer much easier to clean than other cookware?

Time-saving control system

With a set control system. Except for the first few minutes when you need to shake the frying basket, there is no need for supervision after that. It automatically adjusts when the temperature is too high, so there is no scorching. The air fryer stops automatically when the time is right.

Less oil consumption and no loss of flavor

The air is circulated at high speed to produce a factor that acts on the ingredients so that they crisp up quickly, and the oil in them is reduced so that fries or meat can be fried without any oil at all.

Disadvantages of the air fryer

Noisy kitchen

Imagine having a blower running at full speed in your kitchen; it would be difficult not to make some noise.

Small internal cooking space

Limited range of dishes to choose from. If you want to roast a whole chicken when you have people over one day, you can’t count on the air fryer ……

Pricey

The air fryer is usually about 600, and if it’s any lower, there’s no guarantee of quality, so the price is nothing for those who are more well-off, but for some young people, 600 is not a small amount.

The dangers of air fryers

Less electrical radiation

The air fryer is a type of electric fryer; that is, it requires electricity. Generally, electrical appliances have a certain amount of radiation, and an air fryer is no exception. Still, compared to traditional electric fryers and ovens, the air fryer’s power is relatively small, and the radiation is also shorter.

Grease hazards are inevitable.

Air fryers still require oil for many cooking tasks (e.g., heating vegetables, potatoes, etc.), but the amount of fat used is less than in traditional frying, so that the hazards may be less but inevitable.

Some nutrition experts suggest that if you use an air fryer, you should try to control the temperature and reduce the heating time to preserve as much of the non-heat-resistant nutrients in the food as possible and to reduce the number of undesirable substances produced by high temperatures while ensuring that the food is mature and hygienic and safe.

3 kinds of air fryer recipes

Do air fryers cause cancer?

Food cooked in an ‘air fryer’ is indeed lower in fat than regular frying. It can also produce acrylamide, a suspected carcinogen when heated to temperatures above 120°C.

Starchy foods can quickly produce acrylamide when cooked at high temperatures (>120°C). In April 2002, researchers from the Swedish National Food Administration and Stockholm University were the first to report that acrylamide was detected in some fried and grilled starchy foods, such as Chips and potato chips, at levels exceeding the maximum permitted limit in drinking water by more than 500 times. The levels exceeded the maximum permissible limit in drinking water by more than 500 times. Similar results have since been reported in Norway, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States.

According to a Hong Kong Consumer Council study, acrylamide is produced in foods containing carbohydrates when they are fried. Studies have shown that acrylamide can cause cancer. However, according to the World Health Organisation, it isn’t easy to quantify the concentration at which acrylamide is carcinogenic.

-Acrylamide

Tips for choosing an air fryer

After introducing the air fryer, some people call it a kitchen god tool; others question it is still a fryer is always harmful, precisely because of the concern to have so many voices appear. Nevertheless, from this, we can conclude that the purchase of air fryers depends on the person, depending on the situation, the following are a few tips to choose, I hope to combine their position, to help you in your life.

Number of people

The air fryer is suitable for those who love deep-frying food and researching the preparation of food. Due to the air fryer’s volume, it is generally ideal for small families with 2-4 members.

Depending on needs

If you only need to fry and bake a small amount of food, consider an air fryer, but for larger, more substantial food that needs to be heated and baked, it’s better to buy an oven, as you can see in The difference between an air fryer and an oven.

Brands are important

After considering your needs and other factors, if you want to buy an air fryer, make sure you buy one with a reputable brand. A reputed brand will be more secure in terms of the fryer process; materials used, working principles.