Air fryers

We've recently had the 9.5L Ninja dual drawer air fryer and need some advice please.
It's been great but we've been failing on Pork and Brazing Steak.
Mrs just handed me a piece of brazing steak and it was really hard where we want our meat nice and soft.

Any suggestions to get the meat softer?
 
SexyGreyFox said:
We've recently had the 9.5L Ninja dual drawer air fryer and need some advice please.
It's been great but we've been failing on Pork and Brazing Steak.
Mrs just handed me a piece of brazing steak and it was really hard where we want our meat nice and soft.

Any suggestions to get the meat softer?
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Possibly the air fryer is not the best tool for that job. A slow cooker usually wins when you want to soften up tougher meat. Or you could slice it thin and velvet it with some soy sauce, corn starch and a little bit of bicarb and use it in a stir fry. Or just take a hammer to it for a thorough tenderising!
 
SexyGreyFox said:
We've recently had the 9.5L Ninja dual drawer air fryer and need some advice please.
It's been great but we've been failing on Pork and Brazing Steak.
Mrs just handed me a piece of brazing steak and it was really hard where we want our meat nice and soft.

Any suggestions to get the meat softer?
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Pork joints I follow the cooking instructions on roast, reducing the temp by 20 degrees and cooking time slightly.
Never tried braising steak, but you could try making a tent/parcel out of foil to keep the moisture in.
 
Have been doing chips in mine quite regularly and they come out perfect. Chip the potato and keep the chips in a bowl of water for 30mins. Then drain, toss them with 2tbsp of oil and drop them straight into the air fryer for 12mins - shaking them a few times during cooking. Tonight, because I don't feel like washing the drawer and tray,, I'm going to do them the same but use one of my silicon baskets and see how they come out.
 
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ColdAsIce said:
Basically followed everyone advice and I also used the silicon tray this time. Instead of being lazy and having the food sit directly on the bottom of the drawer lol. Very happy with the results!




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They look like the chips my old nan used to make in a pot of beef dripping on the stove, which were the best I've ever tried.
 
I was definitely being an idiot not using those silicon trays that come with the Teflon model. Completely changes the cooking times and actually allows the potato to brown. I’ll use them for everything going forward.
 
We've got one of the double drawer Ninja things (can't remember the model number).
Yesterday it failed to turn on, only had it 3 months. Quick Google search seems to a more common issue than you would expect/want.
Tried various solutions but nothing worked.

Missus called them up at 6pm yesterday and they said they would send a replacement on Tuesday.
It arrived at 10am this morning so I am pretty impressed by Ninja customer service. Although I think they were supposed to take the old one away.
 
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I have a glorified mini oven from Sage that pretends to be an Air fyer and its not a patch on my 1st gen philips from 2013 that I still miss. I find all the latest ones are just not the same. i could be mental though :D
 
Puzzled said:
Anyone here doing Christmas dinner in the air fryer?

'I cook my Christmas dinner in five air fryers'​

www.bbc.co.uk

Cooking a turkey: I use five air fryers for Christmas dinner

A cookery writer from Kent is ditching her oven to cook a festive feast for 11 of her loved ones.
www.bbc.co.uk

I can't see how that is saving money, all those must use more electric than an oven.
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She's cooking dinner for eleven people? I can't be bothered "doing the math" on energy consumption, but overall I would think that is one of those occasions when using a full size oven would make more sense.
 
Puzzled said:
Anyone here doing Christmas dinner in the air fryer?

'I cook my Christmas dinner in five air fryers'​

www.bbc.co.uk

Cooking a turkey: I use five air fryers for Christmas dinner

A cookery writer from Kent is ditching her oven to cook a festive feast for 11 of her loved ones.
www.bbc.co.uk

I can't see how that is saving money, all those must use more electric than an oven.
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Can't see it saving money either but it can be handy to chuck some stuff in an air fryer to save on time/more convenient when catering at that level especially stuff like pigs in blankets, etc. though I find it interesting she is trying to finesse and optimise the use of the air fryers - for me one of the attractions of an air fryer, especially the multi-compartment ones, is I can do multiple stuff and not have to worry about trying to time everything around the oven and/or fine tune oven settings to fit other stuff in at the start or end of the cooking cycle, etc.
 
We got a 28 sitting on boxing day that would require a small nuclear power station for the air fryers required.

Ours work for us (X2) with the oven just being kitchen furniture, but for 11...No thanks.
 
I just bought one of those Ninja foodi max from currys. Was looking debating it then thought, i’ll get it.

It’s an air fryer as well and I should be able to fit a chicken in it as I can’t with my ninja duel.
 
Hi all,
So we are getting towards the point of replacing our trusty
air fryer. However, it seems the design which we like seems very hard to find these days. (That i can see after a quick hunt on amazon)
Can anyone advise if they have seen anywhere? Thank you in advance and sorry if im being even more blind :D
 
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