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Is air fryer better for weight loss?

By most measures, air frying is healthier than frying in oil. It cuts calories by 70% to 80% and has a lot less fat. This cooking method might also cut down on some of the other harmful effects of oil frying.

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Dig into a serving of french fries or a plate of fried chicken and the pleasure hits you right away -- that familiar, crispy crunch and moist, chewy center. But the appealing taste of fried foods comes at a cost. Research links the oils used to cook them to health problems like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Enter air fryers -- appliances that promise the taste, texture, and golden-brown color of oil-fried foods without all the fat and calories. But do these deep fryer replacements deliver on their promise?

How Do They Work? Air fryers are square or egg-shaped devices, about the size of a coffeemaker, that sit on your countertop. You put the food you want to fry -- chopped potatoes, chicken nuggets, zucchini slices -- into a slide-out basket. If you want, you can toss it in a light coating of oil. A fan pushes heated air -- up to 400 F -- around the food. It's a bit like a convection oven. The circulating air cooks the outside of foods first, which creates a crispy brown coating and keeps the inside soft, just like deep-fried foods. As the food cooks, a container below the basket catches any grease that drops. Bottom line: Air fryers create the crispy, chewy foods people love without all the oil. What Can You Cook in an Air Fryer? An air fryer can cook pretty much anything that you would normally fry in oil, such as: Chicken, including chicken fingers and nuggets

Vegetables

Onion rings and french fries

Cheese sticks

Fish

Pizza

Doughnuts Some models also have toast and bake settings, making them more like conventional ovens. You can use these to bake brownies or roast a chicken. One downside of many of these devices is their small basket size, which leaves little room to cook an entire family meal.

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Why do people not like air fryers?

According to their appliance expert, Samantha Cooper, “[air fryers] are loud … don't do anything significantly better than an oven … and they also require bumping your toaster and coffeemaker onto a storage shelf.”

We’re all on the same page. When Associate Food Editor Meghan Splawn finally got around to trying the air fryer, she was pleasantly surprised with the results. She says little cubes of sweet potato are lovely in the air fryer, and air-fried roasted garlic really blew her mind. According to Meghan, crispy chickpeas become the most delicious happy hour snack, and crispy-skinned whole chickens are a big win. She also put it to the test for small snacks like shishito peppers, chicken wings, and toasted nuts. “Bonus points for not having to run the oven all night,” she says. In short, Meghan was skeptical at first but now finds herself reaching for it regularly.

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