a modern appliance for healthier cooking
This illustration shows how an air fryer works—a process similar to a convection oven.
Air frying is a new way to cook healthier and faster. It cooks foods that might normally be deep fried, roasted, grilled, or baked by using convection heat to cook with less fat. The result is delicious food that’s healthier because it contains less oil and fewer calories.
How It Works
Air frying takes conventional convection cooking to the next level. Air-fried food is cooked by circulating superheated air around the cooking chamber via a convection fan. The result is food that’s delicious, crispy, and golden brown crust—and just as tasty as deep-fried food. Flavor is locked in, but because food cooks with little oil, the air fryer can make healthier versions of many of your fried favorites—and with fewer calories.
Although air frying food means somewhat longer cook times than deep-frying food, you’ll feel better about the foods you eat when you realize you’re consuming less fat, fewer calories, and more healthy ingredients. In fact, air frying often enables you to use many ingredients that are fresher and otherwise would not hold up under a deep fryer’s high temperatures.
Your air fryer does a lot more than just fry. It’s an appliance you can use every day for all types of foods, and it can replace virtually any cooking appliance in your kitchen.
It’s incredibly versatile
Not only can you air fry, but you can also bake, roast, and even grill in the air fryer. Most air fryer manufacturers offer a number of optional accessories—including nonstick baking and grill pans—that expand the versatility of your air fryer and enable you to make almost anything you might otherwise make with other appliances.
It’s healthier
Air frying uses the convection process to cook foods. Convection circulates superheated air through the cooking chamber, resulting in food that not only includes less oil and fewer calories but also still seals in flavor and produces the crisp, crunchy texture that fried-food lovers crave.
Cleanup is a snap
Cleaning the air fryer is as simple as giving the interior a quick wipe down and washing the fryer basket in warm, soapy water. Excess fat, which might otherwise spatter or drip to the bottom of a conventional oven, is captured in the fryer and can simply be wiped away with a damp cloth.
It’s convenient
The air fryer is compact enough to fit neatly on a countertop, and it takes up considerably less space than larger appliances that do much less. You can also use the air fryer for reheating food as well as restoring crunch to breaded foods that have lost their texture.
You can cook faster
Because superheated air circulates through the cooking chamber by convection, food takes less time to cook than if it was cooked in a conventional oven. Many air fryers also have built-in presets, so controlling the exact cook times and temperatures is simple.
a modern appliance for healthier cooking
This illustration shows how an air fryer works—a process similar to a convection oven.