Oil-free fryers are possibly the best-selling kitchen item in 2021 and will continue to be so this year. However, one of its main rivals, the air oven, is still on the warpath, seeking to snatch the number one position in sales from it.
Whether the air or oil-free fryer, or the convection or air oven, they are based on a similar operating system for cooking food. This consists of the circulation of hot air.
However, there are a number of differences that make them different devices and that we must take into account before choosing the purchase. We already saw this in the article that we leave you below, in which we observe that the fryer is some point above.
Now, in that article we value some characteristics such as the speed of cooking or cleaning, however, in this article we are going to analyze How much money can you save by using a fryer instead of an air oven?
We have taken as a reference the opinion and data extracted by the reporter Kate Mcauliffe, of the Manchester Evening News.
“I decided to go on a mission to discover the most cost-effective way to cook food. To do it efficiently, I asked Ellie to help me use her nifty smart meter to check the cost of peak energy at the exact moment I was cooking with each of the deviceshe explains in his article.
In order to extract some data, cooked the same meal, vegan cauliflower wings, at the same time of 12:30 p.m. over the course of two days.
the original recipe in the air fryer it required 30 minutes of oven time, so we decided to cut that time in half and set the air fryer at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. The smart meter graph later revealed that the cost of running the air fryer to cook the cauliflower at 200 degrees for 15 minutes It had been only 20 cents.
The next day they repeated the process but changing the appliance for the oven. They set it to 200 degrees, the same temperature as with the air fryer. It took them 11 minutes to heat up the oven and then they cooked the cauliflower wings on a tray for another 30 minutes.
The graph revealed that the cost of using oven for 41 minutes at 200C was a staggering 40 cents, more than double what it cost to use the air fryer.
With this, once again it is really clear which of the two is, not only a better appliance, but cheaper.
George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism