Air fryers and vegan stuff?

413x

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My gf is vegan and so if we have burgers and stuff it's beyond burger type stuff.

As theres only 2 of us it's starting to seem a waste to have the oven on for what is sometimes a few hash browns or a few sausages.

II'm guessing there's no issue with this?

Also. If we are having that stuff we often have burger and chips/hash browns. Do you need 2 zones for this sort of thing?
 
413x said:
My gf is vegan and so if we have burgers and stuff it's beyond burger type stuff.

As theres only 2 of us it's starting to seem a waste to have the oven on for what is sometimes a few hash browns or a few sausages.

II'm guessing there's no issue with this?

Also. If we are having that stuff we often have burger and chips/hash browns. Do you need 2 zones for this sort of thing?
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Yes, it's fine and it will cook things generally about at 70% of the time vs the oven. You don't need 2 zones, you can just put some in later than the other. I cook sausages and hash browns together all the time.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Yes, it's fine and it will cook things generally about at 70% of the time vs the oven. You don't need 2 zones, you can just put some in later than the other. I cook sausages and hash browns together all the time.
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I like the idea of 2 zones for syncing up. Hate settling down to watch TV and timer goes to go back to the kitchen to do part 2!
 
413x said:
Was looking at this or the smaller af300 as only 2 of us.

I like the idea of dehydrate for bananas too.
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We bought the AF300 when our oven packed up for a few weeks before Christmas. I'd say we do most of our cooking with the air fryer now and only really use the oven for Pizzas or if we'd be doing a large joint of meat, which is rare as smaller ones also fit within the air fryer.

Fully recommend it. Though now I wish they did a 3 zone one, just because!
 
Junglist said:
We bought the AF300 when our oven packed up for a few weeks before Christmas. I'd say we do most of our cooking with the air fryer now and only really use the oven for Pizzas or if we'd be doing a large joint of meat, which is rare as smaller ones also fit within the air fryer.

Fully recommend it. Though now I wish they did a 3 zone one, just because!
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I'm finding it hard to gauge from pictures the footprint of each side.
Mainly I'm thinking of burgers which you can't stack?

How many can you get per pouch?

Do you happen to know rough size of the area of one side?
I can't believe we'd need the 400 for 2 people!

Also got 3 covid vouchers that I need to use for something. And this seems a good bet!
 
413x said:
I'm finding it hard to gauge from pictures the footprint of each side.
Mainly I'm thinking of burgers which you can't stack?

How many can you get per pouch?

Do you happen to know rough size of the area of one side?
I can't believe we'd need the 400 for 2 people!
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I've never done burgers in there (though my partner does cook those veggie/vegan chilli bean burgers just fine).

You can buy a rack that sits within the air frying basket so that you can stack things within and still allow air to circulate around. For the two of us we find the AF300 ample enough.
 
Junglist said:
I've never done burgers in there (though my partner does cook those veggie/vegan chilli bean burgers just fine).

You can buy a rack that sits within the air frying basket so that you can stack things within and still allow air to circulate around. For the two of us we find the AF300 ample enough.
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You can get a rack that fits in? Well, that makes that a moot point.

Sounds like af300 is fine then.

Thanks for your help
 
I got an AF300 recently, if anything it's increased my "oven based cooking" meal consumption over other methods because of how convenient it is. I got the dual zone because I wasn't sure how I was planning to use it, kept it to the small compartments over the AF400 as it's really only for myself but it would feed two easily.

One side I keep as an air fryer and the other side I got a 3 tier rack from Amazon to experiment with other cooking. I know you're using it for vegan uses but with the rack I was able to put sausages on the bottom row for a few minutes, then add bacon to the middle row and then eggs in poaching bowls to the top row, didn't have enough room in the AF300 for beans too. It's similar to an oven where things take longer to cook the more there is in the basket but the convenience over using an oven especially when cooking small amounts I'd highly recommend it.

Using the racks you could fit 2 burgers per rack at a guess, but you lose the bottom "built in" tray for the rack.
 
Steeps said:
I got an AF300 recently, if anything it's increased my "oven based cooking" meal consumption over other methods because of how convenient it is. I got the dual zone because I wasn't sure how I was planning to use it, kept it to the small compartments over the AF400 as it's really only for myself but it would feed two easily.

One side I keep as an air fryer and the other side I got a 3 tier rack from Amazon to experiment with other cooking. I know you're using it for vegan uses but with the rack I was able to put sausages on the bottom row for a few minutes, then add bacon to the middle row and then eggs in poaching bowls to the top row, didn't have enough room in the AF300 for beans too. It's similar to an oven where things take longer to cook the more there is in the basket but the convenience over using an oven especially when cooking small amounts I'd highly recommend it.

Using the racks you could fit 2 burgers per rack at a guess, but you lose the bottom "built in" tray for the rack.
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Its not exclusively vegan. My gf eats eggs from my chickens. And Im not vegan. I love cheese.

Could you link me to the accessories? I'm thinking of ordering this tonight.

Sometimes the oven is used just for 4 hash browns for example
 
Hash browns I'd just stick in the fryer as is and crisp them, my guilty pleasure with it at the moment is the convenience of just sticking some chicken bites in the tray for 12mins at lunchtime as it's cheaper, more efficient and quicker than waiting at the hot counter at my local shop.

This is the rack I bought: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B3X384VM , think they're all pretty much the same. I have to take out the built in base from the Ninja for it to fit and there's a lot of space around it for air to circulate. The biggest issues I have with them is there's no lip around the edge to stop items rolling, it's not height adjustable and you can't really add the trays once it's in the fryer as the sides are spring loaded to the base to grip the trays. It's done a decent job of doing a cooked breakfast but I've not tried anything else on the racks yet. Easier if you do need to add/remove items during cooking is to take the rack out, add/remove food then put back in rather than trying to adjust the trays.

For doing eggs I bought these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0001IWUYA , can only fit 2 on a rack (could do more if not using the racks) and you need to drop the temp right down otherwise the whites are too solid. It is possible to get a liquid yolk with a solid white in the air fryer, it says it can take large eggs but I've found they can drip. I unscrewed the plastic handle so it's just the metal dish for the egg, which does present a challenge trying to get the egg out afterwards. Probably easier just to fry them.
 
413x said:
Sounds like af300 is fine then.
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Unless you are getting it real cheap, or NEED it now, then just wait for the next offer on the AF400 to come around. You just missed them for £169/179, they usually are on offer every other month, sometimes sooner. The AF300 is fine, until you need more space which can/will happen once you start using the air fryer more often.
 
Journey said:
Unless you are getting it real cheap, or NEED it now, then just wait for the next offer on the AF400 to come around. You just missed them for £169/179, they usually are on offer every other month, sometimes sooner. The AF300 is fine, until you need more space which can/will happen once you start using the air fryer more often.
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Not sure I'd need something that big? There's only 2 of us?
 
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