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Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by wenc »

messutied wrote: post #18
wenc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An air fryer is actually one of the best ways to make steak if you don't follow the prescribed recipe in the link, but if you reverse sear (a reliable and well-known technique, usually done with an oven, which an air fryer is). If your steak is about 1.5" thick, you can airfry at 260ºF for 18 minutes, flip once. This raises the internal temperature uniformly to around 130ºF. Then sear 1 minute per side and 30 secs on…

Do you mean sear in a pan?

Yes, should have clarified that. Sear in a pan, not airfryer.

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by captn3m0 »

datashaman wrote: post #17
MomsAVoxell wrote: post #15

Great job, but please consider adding an option to show all temperatures in Celsius.

Click on the Fahrenheit symbol, top right.

The temperature scale switch only seems to apply to the listings page, and not the recipes themselves, which is annoying.

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by TylerE »

silisili wrote: post #5
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #3

[hint: they’re the same ones as for your oven]

It's no secret that air fryers work like a convection oven, but they're not at all the same. Air fryers in my experience are much, much faster to cook, and easier to clean. Perfect for one or two person meals really. For example, I can get fries from frozen to on the verge of burning in 15 minutes with an air fryer. My oven isn't top of the line or anything, but would take at least twice as long, and probably waste a…

One key difference is that they continually exhaust some of the air (unlike a conventional oven) so they are much better at lowering moisture content while cooking, which helps produce a crispy texture on things like fries.

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by jamiek88 »

TylerE wrote: post #24
silisili wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's no secret that air fryers work like a convection oven, but they're not at all the same. Air fryers in my experience are much, much faster to cook, and easier to clean. Perfect for one or two person meals really. For example, I can get fries from frozen to on the verge of burning in 15 minutes with an air fryer. My oven isn't top of the line or anything, but would take at least twice as long, and probably waste a…

One key difference is that they continually exhaust some of the air (unlike a conventional oven) so they are much better at lowering moisture content while cooking, which helps produce a crispy texture on things like fries.

Aaaah! That’s what it is.

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by globular-toast »

silisili wrote: post #5
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #3

[hint: they’re the same ones as for your oven]

It's no secret that air fryers work like a convection oven, but they're not at all the same. Air fryers in my experience are much, much faster to cook, and easier to clean. Perfect for one or two person meals really. For example, I can get fries from frozen to on the verge of burning in 15 minutes with an air fryer. My oven isn't top of the line or anything, but would take at least twice as long, and probably waste a…

I kept hearing that "air fryers are just convection ovens" and was very confused, because I know air fryers use a fan. But it turns out Americans call fan ovens, the one type of oven that specifically does not rely on convection, "convection ovens". Another thing on my list of things Americans say that mean specifically the opposite.

It makes me wonder, do Americans take into account the fan when following recipes? Common wisdom is to lower the temperature by 10 degrees for a fan (assuming recipes are for a real convection oven). Or are all American recipes written for fans?

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by AnonC »

captn3m0 wrote: post #22
datashaman wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Click on the Fahrenheit symbol, top right.

The temperature scale switch only seems to apply to the listings page, and not the recipes themselves, which is annoying.

It does switch in the recipe popup to whatever is set on the main page. There doesn’t seem to be a way to flip it within the recipes.

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

globular-toast wrote: post #26
silisili wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's no secret that air fryers work like a convection oven, but they're not at all the same. Air fryers in my experience are much, much faster to cook, and easier to clean. Perfect for one or two person meals really. For example, I can get fries from frozen to on the verge of burning in 15 minutes with an air fryer. My oven isn't top of the line or anything, but would take at least twice as long, and probably waste a…

I kept hearing that "air fryers are just convection ovens" and was very confused, because I know air fryers use a fan. But it turns out Americans call fan ovens, the one type of oven that specifically does not rely on convection, "convection ovens". Another thing on my list of things Americans say that mean specifically the opposite. It makes me wonder, do Americans take into account the fan when following recipes? C…

It's presumed generally that you don't, which is why I presume airfryers are so popular.

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by silisili »

globular-toast wrote: post #26
silisili wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's no secret that air fryers work like a convection oven, but they're not at all the same. Air fryers in my experience are much, much faster to cook, and easier to clean. Perfect for one or two person meals really. For example, I can get fries from frozen to on the verge of burning in 15 minutes with an air fryer. My oven isn't top of the line or anything, but would take at least twice as long, and probably waste a…

I kept hearing that "air fryers are just convection ovens" and was very confused, because I know air fryers use a fan. But it turns out Americans call fan ovens, the one type of oven that specifically does not rely on convection, "convection ovens". Another thing on my list of things Americans say that mean specifically the opposite. It makes me wonder, do Americans take into account the fan when following recipes? C…

The vast majority of ovens in the US are not convection. So any recipe is written for a standard oven.

But, even convection ovens don't cook the same as an air fryer. Air fryers are like a mini turbo convection ovens. It's like comparing a camp fire to a blow torch.

Re: Show HN: AirFry.Pro – The best popular and healthy recipes for your air fryer

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Post by tuffff »

silisili wrote: post #9
subarctic wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are people so against air frying steak? It seems like the best thing to cook in an air fryer

I'm not really against it if you like it, it was half a joke. But to me steak cooking is an art of sorts that means searing the outside while minimally cooking the inside(I'm a rare steak guy). That usually means letting it thaw completely, then just searing the sides at super high heat, for me on a griddle or cast iron pan. I've never tried to oven or air fry a steak, but I have to imagine you can't get anything clo…

I thought that way until I tried a reverse sear (oven at low temp and sear afterwards) myself. I am no expert at the physics behind it, but it works great for rare steaks.

Yes, the oven dries the outer part of the steak, but that means you get your desired crust in less time in the pan. That results in a clearer distinction between the crust and the juicy interior without the gray band in between.

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