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Gotta say those mini-oven style air fryers which use common electric heating elements instead of halogen bulbs cook truly epic pizza, whether cooking pizza made with fresh dough, or heavily processed and frozen - simply preheat to max for a few minutes on "Toast" setting (this switches on all available elements above and below), placing the pizza top oven, and the very rapid result is damn close to what a commercial pizza oven would produce. I'm liking my new ultra efficient and cheapo air fryer a lot, cooks everything well, very versatile. Pizza stone is required for cooking fresh home made pizza, because fresh dough is floppy, but you could part cook the underside of the pizza base on a suitably large cast iron frying pan beforehand, so it doesn't fall through the wire rack, then cook in the oven using only the top heating elements. But you'd get more even far-infrared radiant heat cooking from below using a preheated pizza stone, as there is in a proper wood-fired oven. Alternatively, you could use a baking tray and all the heating elements. This is awful, because now I'm thinking about pizza yet again...
 
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But you cant buy one pizzas worth of each. So maybe 2 quid, but the initial outlay is 10 times that. And if you eat 10 pizzas, your waistline will suffer :D

Whats that weird green stuff you have on the plate next to it ?
No it isn't ten times the price.

A kilo of flour is £2.30
A block of cheddar is about £3.50
Yeast is cheap as chips £1.45
Garlic powder is about £1.20
Tomato Puree is about £0.65
Basil - grow it in a pot or buy a jar of dried basil for £1

Added up around £9

You can make about ten pizzas for that layout

Don't make excuses for lazy people who happen to be poor to buy Pizzas for ten times as much as they cost.

The green stuff? You must be Scottish..... :)
 

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No it isn't ten times the price.

A kilo of flour is £2.30
A block of cheddar is about £3.50
Yeast is cheap as chips £1.45
Garlic powder is about £1.20
Tomato Puree is about £0.65
Basil - grow it in a pot or buy a jar of dried basil for £1

Added up around £9

You can make about ten pizzas for that layout

Don't make excuses for lazy people who happen to be poor to buy Pizzas for ten times as much as they cost.
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The green stuff? You must be Scottish..... :)
Okay, you’ve convinced me. Time to dust off my pizza stone and give this a go
 
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Ghost1951

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Gotta say those mini-oeven style air fryers which use common electric heating elements instead of halogen bulbs cook truly epic pizza, whether cooking pizza made with fresh dough, or heavily processed and frozen - simply preheat to max for a few minutes on "Toast" setting (this switches on all available elements above and below), placing the pizza top oven, and the very rapid result is damn close to what a commercial pizza oven would produce. I'm liking my new ultra efficient and cheapo air fryer a lot, cooks everything well, very versatile. Pizza stone is required for cooking fresh home made pizza, because fresh dough is floppy, but you could part cook the underside of the pizza base on a suitabley large cast iron frying pan beforehand, so it doesn't fall through the wire rack, then cook in the oven using only the top heating elements. But you'd get more even far-infrared radiant heat cooking from below using a preheated pizza stone, as there is in a proper wood-fired oven. Alternatively, you could use a very thin baking tray and all the heating elements. This is awful, because now I'm thinking about pizza again...
I got an air fryer recently. It's pretty good. I tend to avoid using electricty for cooking because the price of electric heat is three times the price of gas heat, and I have a gas hob. However the air fryer which cost about £26 at Lidle, is pretty damned good. Makes very fine chips, which are a thing I have not eaten for probably fifty years inn the home cooked sort( Have the occasional fish and chips from the chippy - but not often. It makes really good egg and chips in a quarter of an hour. I crack the eggs into foil pie dish things (washed and recycled) and put them into the fryer for the last five minutes. Makes a great quick and easy lunch.

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Ooh, Air Fryer chat!

I got one recently, Ninja Twin drawer 7.6 litre, 2400 watts

I love it and use it every day. Everything seems to take 10 minutes at 200 degrees.

Youtube is full of videos of people cooking stuff you thought wouldn't work, like toast and boiled eggs!

Talking of pizza, here is a video of a guy making home made pizza:

 
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That's the smallest pizza I think I've ever seen, why didn't he make it longways then he might at least get a large slice's worth. :D Looks tasty though...

I might get one as currently there is a few cm2 on my kitchen top that doesn't have some kind of appliance or clutter or thing on it! Used slow cooker twice in a yr, time it went in to cupboard so it can hang with George Foreman grill and the Breville. Then I'd have loads of space!

What do you make that's healthy, I'd like one that can steam veg/brown rice and cook chicken/beef/veg kebabs and pizza (for my son)? But it would need to be hotter than 200C?

Does anybody make omelettes and scrambled egg, does it do the soldiers too? I would use this if I can get a rota of dinners (I'm on mission to lose the half stone I gained since summer even though I got rid of car and used bike...go figure...), like chicken/veg kebabs, ham/cheese omelettes, fish, white meat, anything that isn't carb.

Maybe one of these, probably should do some research...this looks nuts and it does a fry up and cooks a small chicken too!


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Something about winter makes me go mad for buttered baked stuff. After it's risen in the variable temperature and time yoghurt maker.


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...because I've intentionally run out of cheese.

Talking of pizza, here is a video of a guy making home made pizza:
At least ten times as much cheese please.
 
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Surprisingly, 10 to 13 minutes in a microwave works out better than any other method I've tried. Get a small casserole dish, chuck in the rice, and one teasponn of oil, mix it in so all the grains are lightly coated. Chuck in one and three quarter parts water to one part rice, nuke at full blast for 10 minutes uncovered, or until the water level has dropped and you can see holes where steam escapes appear on the surface, then cover and nuke for another minute or three while covered. Then fluff with a fork and leave to stand for a couple of minutes.

Air fryers of all types are great for cooking all sorts of meat objects - I throw entire dismembered limbs of various animals into a 2.5ltr stainless steel casserote ish with lid and bake for about 1.5hours from frozen, or an hour if oozing blood and gore. Of course I could cook it faster, but I don't want to.
 
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Ooh, Air Fryer chat!

I got one recently, Ninja Twin drawer 7.6 litre, 2400 watts

I love it and use it every day. Everything seems to take 10 minutes at 200 degrees.

Youtube is full of videos of people cooking stuff you thought wouldn't work, like toast and boiled eggs!

Talking of pizza, here is a video of a guy making home made pizza:

Ooohh - I obviously cheaped out. That sounds pretty damned good.
 

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ebike dongle trainer :oops:
 

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Ummed and erred for ages and considered my #1 priority Airfryer wise CHIPS! and splurged on a tefal actifry with the paddle to ensure chips wings etc get an even cooking without any intervention required.. Limited in some ways though i did bake bread rolls in it from scratch but only 2x at a time with a tin can replacing the stir arm. par baked rolls are fine upto 4x with the turning paddle too.
But the capacity to cook 2kg pre peeling of chips at a time is a real boon ;)
After about 20 months constant use it developed a fault, Tefal honoured the eu 2 yr warranty picked it up and fixed it returning it a week or so later..
Its also captivating to watch the food (CHIPS) brown as it cooks thru the top window..