2 Chefs Test a Halogen Air Fryer

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test

a weird and wonderful kitchen appliance to see if it really works. Today our

chefs

Ben and James put a

halogen

fryer

into operation. and it's safe to say they go on a journey of discovery, these are the most fun days because James and I get to play with something and try it on your behalf and today it's a

halogen

fryer

, now the theory behind it is that it's a Connect an article electric that is self-contained and acts as an oven for a convection oven, but also has air circulation, which means it also medium fry.

They say you can bake, roast and fry all kinds of things in it. and that's easy, houses are like a chip shop in the end and we'll put it to the

test

with a series of things. I don't think I'm going to be as good at anything as anything. Warning from the beginning, this is a hashtag, no. add and we abort this on our own YouTube pennies so we're not necessarily referencing the brand and we're just referencing what it can do, but we're going to put it to the test, we'll be honest number one. chips and sweet potato wedges, so they claim that you can get the frying effect without all the oil by lightly spraying the food with oil using the dispenser provided now, because we're going to take advantage of that too, we're going to do it in a bowl instead of in the device for the fries for the combination of frying and roasting only use the high basket if we want to fry we need it to be close to the light bulb that does make sense I think it goes in first and that does raise the temperature recommends 200 it says 25 minutes no, I don't know turn it on don't be stupid right now that's doing exactly the same thing baking tips another one I'm struggling with this guys struggling with it learning to read the instructions correctly what we should have done is preheat it to the maximum while chopping potatoes, there was no need for our extension because we are just cooking some fries and the tall rackets fall near the bulb now cooks faster meanwhile what we cut.

Now let's move on. I'll put it in the conventional oven. The nice thing about this is that you can see it directly and you can see when they are ready. It is the best option so far. I chose to start with chips. because I thought it was probably the most basic and easiest thing that we all associate with frying and I think they taste like French fries, they don't have the golden, crunchy crunch with French fries. I can't confirm that they are tips, they are not the same. color but is on par with a baked chip.

I imagine the complaints might be the fact that people generally cut them a little thicker like the Reggie type stuff and they probably don't cook as well or evenly, in conclusion I think it's a nice decent homemade baked chips , is it three times faster? The new math says no, is it less oil? Yes, then they are fried for short, but there is not necessarily a lesson and fries, but they work, let's prepare the next one. I think the steak is at the top, high up. basket three minutes on each size what they say if that steak browns.

I will be impressed. I won't like it as a product, but I'll be impressed. Preheated for a few minutes and then went in. We gave him about three. Four and a half minutes on the first side, we turn it over and do more or less the same thing, unlike the fries, which were a comparison. I guess baking in the oven is a comparison to grilling. It's under a hot lamp, the air circulation is causing the fat in the steak to sizzle and crisp up, yes the fat looks nice and melted, but what you're looking for in a steak is that contact with the pan, let's so it's definitely sizzling and smells sticky, it doesn't have any of those lines or color on the main top, it's okay, it might have more color than I expected in the meantime, should we put some sausages and steamed vegetables on it?

So I chose zucchini, peas, garlic, rosemary, salt, pepper in aluminum foil, ten sealed on three sides. a shot of white wine seal it, hope it doesn't leak and that should steam and cook in all the wonderful juices on our bottom shelf in theory this should work great because sausages are full of fat so the fats are They will brown a little. a grill because it's basically a grill, it hasn't dried out that's for sure, it's cooked very evenly. Look, I found something good to say and it's left the grease on the sides, which I always find difficult if you make it in a pan.

I'm holding it on its side, it's a little gray, it doesn't have the color that you might get from a hot cast iron or foaming butter and the color gives it a little crunch and gives it a lot of texture. taste like French fries that taste like a well seasoned steak tastes like it should be without being charred well it's a disappointing steak why is it because you cook with butter which is always better you don't get any of the flavor you don't? You don't get the texture you need to take away your perception of this if you don't have a hole and you haven't cooked outside, it's pretty good for that, you're asking me, does this thing cook food? and yes, of course. it cooks for you, but I'm trying to say that it's definitely not as good as anything else and if you only have that option, yes, it will cook a steak, but it's not a very good steak.

I thought we were testing a deep fryer. Upon testing again, it turns out that despite what it is called, it is a desktop cooking device that grills, the grills circulate the air, so it is also possible to fly and we will see if it is supposed to steam, but it does it all in one if you don't have that. What's on the first side didn't look very good. I wasn't convinced and now that they've had enough time they look pretty decent. Darren, don't tell Adam. He had never seen someone as beautifully presented as you. You can steam things in an oven while roasting other things.

I think it worked like a sausage for six or seven minutes on each side for the sausages and the steamed vegetables the whole time without it getting nice to know you can do that in the bottom washer. with more direct heat like a steak or sausage on top, so you have two different levels, you treat it much more like it's underneath rather than a grill on top. Let's see the things you would cook in the oven, although in that way, one would expect those two to work in the oven or under the broiler, so we've made the potatoes very similar to roasting them in an oven with sausages a grilled and steak with steamed vegetables.

It's also normal, what else could we want to do? he said. valid fried fish, not battered, that's obviously not going to work, but we breaded some cod, drizzled it with oil and we're going to put it on the top shelf right under the bowl at 250, so now it's on par. with fish sticks that I would put on a baking sheet and put them in the oven or under a grill, it's not the same as fried fish, I have no idea about the time because now we're off the menu visually, it's a strange concept because it cooking from a The light bulb you associate with light instead of with it even though it emits more heat than light, but I don't associate it with high temperatures and cooking when we were playing more with the fryer part of the fryer, We also thought they needed donuts. to fry and so we have a donut dough, it is proven that we will roll them, we will spray them and we will see how they deform under a light bulb, obviously, the beauty of a donut dough is that it is light and floats airy and then you have to give them the lap. halfway is where you get that kind of ring around the center or we can make it a little fatter and poke holes in the middle and cook them more evenly so the oil covers them, we're not going to do any of that here.

It will be more like a sweet baked dough, interesting with this one. I'm not even sure the twists are going to make much of a difference. I think they toasted the crispy breadcrumbs evenly rather than directly from the top. I'm not sure, sir. . birds I would praise them because they have a golden brown color. He loves good flaky fish. A layer that completely protected it and therefore kept all the juice inside. It's not quite a gold color, although it would be better. an oven, a regular oven, yeah, what they definitely are is a healthier version and we've done it before, like baked chicken nuggets and things where you're topping and bread and you never get that golden brown color that you want, but Definitely It's a healthier version, definitely healthier than frying, it sure won't give you the satisfaction you want with a layer of breadcrumbs, even with a little oil, it's unusual to baste bread for how long, I have no idea what we'll have what to use our chevy instincts I haven't navigated so well so far while we're waiting for our bread, another feature that it has is the Thor feature, so before you get to the temperature control, you can put it on Thor and you can put a joint on. of me or anything that is frozen in there and the air will circulate without heat and in theory it will defrost it faster, so that is another function that the machine has by touching its drawers a little bit, but what I like is the fact that it is all glass.

So you can sit and watch things cook and you can see how golden the art is and you know when they're ready. You're so nice that you might not need a desk lamp if you have it on your desk next to you. because it is a halogen lamp as well as a cooker, some of the comments say that they actually don't like the light it emits and it bothers them, even it doesn't bother me in life, so it's interesting here, James, at the same time time, which at 250 is about five minutes versus the same time in the oven at 250 I don't understand the sound of the hollow bottom on air fried ones, I mean domestic, they're not great, they were never supposed to be buttons, but we figured realized they were trying to fry. a donut in that oven probably won't work.

We have been on a journey as we summarize our trip. Why don't we let the machine clean itself and put a couple of centimeters of soapy water in the bottom to wash it? run and give it ten minutes, the heater and turbo fan will work to heat the water and stir it cleaning the container at the end of the cycle remove the plug from the outlet and place the lid on the lid holder, empty, rinse and dry the container so that I feel like it's on par with when you put a cup of soapy water in the microwave and it heats it up and it steams and removes a little bit of grease, but you're still going to have to clean it and rinse it, it's stirring, look, there's it's spinning around. and round, the fan is doing its thing.

I went into this under the illusion that a halogen air fryer was more fryer than anything else and therefore a lot of the things I prepared and put in it were more for a fryer, it definitely works I claim you can get the effect of frying without all the oil; however you can't do it like a convection oven and top down grill and you can definitely steam things like in an oven, they all worked and if you don't have one of these then that is. easier on the desk and more compact and for small portions it works, it may have a fan but it is not a fryer if for some reason you can't bend down to use an oven this is quite useful because you can literally stand on the counter.

You can prepare food next to your oven which is great, there are more expensive ones on the market, maybe there are other things you can cook in it that we haven't tried, maybe there are better versions of this, you know what we think , so it turns out. The halogen fryer does not necessarily fry your food. If you love watching our

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