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Where did the recent air fryer trend come from anyway?
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Air fryers are convection ovens.
Fundamentally, yes.
Practically, things labeled "air fryer" make different tradeoffs than things labeled "convection ovens".
In particular, air fryers have comparatively big fans, and vent way, way more air out the back to keep humidity down, so they make food much crispier than a convection oven does.
Yeah, I keep trying to use my convection toaster oven as an air fryer and it doesn't work out and then I'm like "SEE?! AIR FRYERS ARE STUPID." But really I've never tried one.
Small, very concentrated convection ovens. I have both a medium sized convection oven and an air fryer. They do different things well.
I can bake stuff in my convection oven but would never try to get a crisp fried chicken from it.
Air fryers are convection ovens that circulate air much faster, resulting in a larger transfer of heat.
My convection oven actually has an air fryer setting and it basically turns up the fan to 11.
But convection ovens aren't necessarily air fryers. To be fair though some air fryers I wouldn't even consider air fryers. If they can't turn something that already has a decent oil content to at least 60% of their deep fried version then it's just a piece of junk.
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