I have owned an air fryer for quite some time now and I have just looked up the German word for it. Heißluftfritteuse (hot air fryer) apparently.
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German here. You can also just do your best Arnold Schwarzenegger impression while saying “Airfryer” and this is acceptable.
Am also German, still have never used the word 🤷♂️
Russian is "аэрогриль", "aerogrill", short and clear
But may leave an impression that it's made for grilling planes/in planes
I'm gonna be honest: I was very much an air "fryer" skeptic, but as they kept getting more popular I decided to get one and now I see why people like them.
Yes, they're essentially "just" a convection toaster oven, but honestly they're better at it because they have much more convection. The fan goes faster and it blows straight down on the food instead of just around the oven. It actually does make a difference. Also, the form-factor with a drawer instead of toaster-oven-style is superior for cleaning.
Frankly, I've never been all that happy with my toaster oven anyway, between it being hard to clean and also how it's not actually that great at getting things crispy. I think my air fryer is going to be a complete replacement for it (and an upgrade).
(This is sort of a reply to @slampisko@lemmy.world and @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world, but I'm making it top-level and pinging them instead so I don't have to post two copies.)
they're "just" a convection oven in the same way that heat guns are "just" hair dryers, or that toasters are "just" tiny tiny ovens with the heating elements right next to the bread
Crazy because with all the hype i finally caved and got one too. And my experience is that it sucked and was very annoying to clean. There was only one thing I tried that came out better in it than a regular oven, but i ended up quickly not using it ever again and then giving it away.
They're better than a regular oven for small portions because they're much smaller. If you're always making full meals for an entire family, they're not really that useful. But for one or two people, the air fryer is going to be done cooking before the oven has even finished pre-heating.
I got one that was shaped like a large toaster oven instead of having a drawer. I really liked it. It also had a rotating spindle/cage attachment. My ex took it in the breakup...
and you don't get all the unhealthy grease and mess from oil frying.
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There is no English word for air fryer. It's two ordinary words. One is an adjective to describe what type of fryer it is.
Little known fact: it was Nike that trademarked the name after Michael Jordan managed to cook perfect nuggets in his oven
no word for air fryers? ok, watch me create one right now: airfryer
there
Idk, looks like german grammar to me
Why stop there? We should just combine all adjectives with all nouns! I'll just put my bookmark in and go outside with my sunglasses and raincoat and look at the sunflowers. Wait...
How many words is party pooper?
Having been on the internet my entire adult life I can assure you people will passionately argue about anything. Airfryers, crucifixion in anime, whether aliens haven't visited us or don't want to visit us, the list goes on.
Airfryers, …whether aliens haven't visited us or don't want to visit us
Who do you think gave us air fryer technology? Duh! 🙄
~And velcro.~
Unexpected Star Trek: Enterprise reference.
It certainly was unexpected to me. 😅
Oh come on, that's ridiculous.
There is no English word for air fryer
Truth, they're convection ovens, which is still 2 words. But there's no more fryers than any electric oven.
I was annoyed by the term for a long time, and refused to get one over it.
But having used one for a bit now, it is kinda its own thing. The key difference between them and a standard convection oven is the small volume of the air fryer, which allows the volume to heat up faster and for the air to be cycled more quickly. That does make them seem more like a middle ground between an oven and a fryer.
The key difference is the speed at which the air circulates. The faster moving air transfers heat more efficiently. I have 2 full size ovens that can also air-fry.
It’s nothing like an actual fryer though, which cooks by immersing in hot oil.
An air-fryer is a middle ground between a regular convection oven and an impingement oven.
I used to just use a range, a decent toaster oven and a microwave for most stuff. Heating up a regular oven is such a huge waste of power for a meal for 3-4 people.
When Instant Pot made a countertop oven with an "air fryer" feature, I bought one. When I wore that one out, I bought another.
An oven with a circulation fan is a convection oven. When I worked in a pro kitchen, our Blodgetts blew a hell of a lot harder than any air fryer, but no one would actually say they're frying the food.
To each their own on what they consider things.
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Where did air fryers come from all of a sudden by the way?
I don’t think I‘ve heard of air fryers or knew anyone that owned one for most of my life and suddenly they’re everywhere.
It's just marketing for a function that toaster ovens have had forever. The air fryer is basically a miniature convection oven. They realized they could market that one function and sell a cheaper appliance for the same price.
Yes and no, the technology that is air fryer was largely known as “European convection“ in the US before. The difference is whether the fan itself has a heating element. So there are convection ovens that can’t air fry because there’s only the traditional bottom and top elements. There are also ovens like the ones they use on the British Bake Off that have no bottom element just the air fryer element, and that’s why everybody can’t bake their shit correctly on the bake off.
Ahh, see that is the type of issue I didn't have to know about. I generally buy used commercial grade equipment, because the stuff just works, and I'm used to how to cook with it.
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completely wrong.
We did an entire Christmas dinner in a combi oven once. The proper oven died on christmas eve so went to the shops and got one. Smaller convection ovens do crisp bacon up quite well so I can see where the “fryer” idea comes from, sort of.
In pretty sure it’s all the same people who started playing Pickleball instead of Tennis, and then whatever it is next year.
There are only three states when it comes to liking air fryers:
- Doesn't have one and doesn't want one
- Doesn't have one and wants one
- Has one and loves it
Has one and barely uses it.
we once made christmas dinner in an air fryer cause the oven's thermostat failed and it nearly burned the house down
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Maybe they were arguing over something else, and the air fryer was the threat?
Also, they might have a word for it but often marketing pushes the English word for products and so eventually it becomes the common word(s) to use, especially if the native word is not one typically used frequently.
Btw, luftfrityrsteker is the Norwegian word for air fryer.
When I mispronounce that it sounds like luft fritter steaker and makes me hungry to eat steak with vegetable fritters while aloft in a hot-air balloon. You might prefer fries but I'm not a big potato fan.
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