2022 Air Fryers Reviewed: Can they cook Fish & Chips? | The Gadget Show

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[@haitch04]

Air fryers do not deep fry which is what is required for battered fish, however, we buy frozen battered fish products and they turn out really well. Fish and chips in the COSORI air fryer using the frozen fish and home cut chips, is a favourite in our house .

[@MrBurgaBoii]

Craig hit the nail of the head Pre Battered food is what the air fryers do well Instead of deep frying freezer food chuck in air fryer for less smell and better health (less oil) & safer for kids to use to make they own food sometimes compared to a vat of oil steaming hot

[@mrstoives2444]

All the recipes I’ve seen, you cant cook wet battered products. You have think of an air fryer as a different cooking method. You wouldn’t expect a microwave (only) to brown (steaks/Toast etc) You cant cook a cake sous vide. Air fryers are excellent at what they do, but it isn’t fair to do a review on something it can’t . But otherwise, loving your work guys👍

[@davidlaue8225]

i usually slightly brown in oil first then let it cool in the fridge first.....then when I'm ready I pop it into the airfryer and it comes out perfect and very crispy.

[@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn]

@@davidlaue8225 so pre fried is ok, ie frozen?

[@davidlaue8225]

@@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn Frozen is fine. Most frozen things you buy, ie frys or fish sticks have already been partially cooked and do really great in the air fryer. Wings are the best. I do a recipe called twice fried. Take a bowl and add your cut up wings (about 12). Add salt and pepper and a quarter cup of AP flour and shake it all up to coat the wings. Put em in the fryer on low 250 F for 18 minutes. Take em out and put them on a plate in the fridge for a minimum 1/2 hour. Then bring em out and cook em again at 400 for about 8 minutes. Bring em out toss em in a bowl with the sauce of your choice. The Crispest tasty wings you'll ever eat......

[@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn]

@@davidlaue8225 like blanching fries, you blanch your wings first. Good tip

[@123Andersonev]

its basically just a mini convection oven, it's a gimmick.

[@SimonWillcockAntiques]

I’m surprised they didn’t attempt to make ice cream in them. Silly tests don’t impress.

[@MjoePta]

🤣🤣🤣 they know nothing these two

[@icarossavvides2641]

I saw this episode and it REALLY annoyed me. The one thing that everyone with an air fryer knows, and the INSTRUCTIONS tell you is that wet battered items are a no no, their, so called, chef should have known that! I've been watching the gadget show since it first aired and their testing is getting more and more ridiculously disconnected from real life.

[@OnePlanetOneTribe]

Ya like potato waffles in a toaster

[@JWSoul]

I clicked on this to see if they didn't know how to use 1 and 1st comment I'm correct lol

[@jessebella9322]

They literally have no idea what they are doing with it, it is almost as if they , oh i cant lol I just cant be bothered, if they cannot be bothered to even show correct tests and proper stuff on the channel, why should we bother caring, blocked channel lol

[@stevenm8970]

With the gadget show it always ends with 1 point to all of them. Its almost like they planned it that way

[@lizvickers7156]

I was going to say the same. The wet batter will not go crisp. Anyway its trial-and-error with anything cooked in an air fryer. You don't just take the word of what it says on the front of how long to cook for. They completely missed the mark on this one.

[@FOGDaheee]

Air Fryers are at the end of the day a mini fan oven, the major plus (because of their size) is they preheat way quicker and save you electricity.

[@ranavalona24]

Duckin' reficulous. Of course it won't do battered items. Like asking a deep fat fryer to bake a cake..

[@davidlaue8225]

So I have the ninja dual and I know this sounds crazy, but when I do foods with a wet batter I usually brown in oil on the stove top first then let it cool in the fridge until meal time, then I pop it in the air fryer. I know this sounds ridiculous because the whole purpose is to reduce the oil for cooking, but cooking it in the oil in the skillet for a short time is certainly better than frying it completely. There are things the airfryer is perfect for, such as chicken wings, steak or Pork Char Siu. Precooked packaged foods such as frys, fish or just about any precooked frozen item works very well. It cooks better than my 700 dollar microwave and way easier to clean.

[@Kinkedjock]

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[@AlexManMe]

What other stuff do you like cooking in it?

[@davidlaue8225]

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[@englandcalling9721]

An Air Fryer, is an oven with a higher power fan, not a deep fat fryer. They're superb with coated chicken, pre battered fish, oven fries, sausages, par boiled potatoes, oodles of things. But with wet battered fish, they might as well have put it in the microwave!

[@eckwebster]

Mot a valid test, all of them take time to get up to temp and need to stabalise

[@juliebrown8981]

Did you use Avocado Oil? Use a spritzer. Don't use pressurized

[@T0NYD1CK]

My air fryer cooks frozen chips in ten minutes and they are crispy on the outside and fluffy in the middle. It is also good with tandoori chicken.

[@Arcadius100]

To all the people moaning and whinging, maybe if they called them mini-ovens (which they are) instead of advertising them as FRYERS, people wouldn't expect them, you know, to fry things. Advertise a magical oil-less fryer, get demolished in comparative testing with fryers.

[@Roughpaws_Studio]

Frozen fish and chips in one of these things is absolutely incredible.

[@matthew6994]

I use the Instant Vortex Plus and recommend it 100%

[@dtb4394]

If air fryers can cook things like chili cheese poppers, chicken strips, goujons, nuggets from frozen or defrosted? I may get one soon. Air Heaters maybe a more accurate name for them? Hardly any oil used.

[@olliebrown89]

Gotta love Otis

[@lingth]

Given how little Oil is used in Air fryers, its hard to do things like tempura or things needing a batter.

[@icarossavvides2641]

Surely you mean impossible? Would you try wet battered items in a conventional oven????

[@BHP15]

i was going to buy the Philips one because I got a voucher from them but i said what is the point of these. the system is not new to the market. i have 10 years old fan oven with a grill which does the same. they just call it an air fryer!!!!

[@wr2956]

They are more like a mini fan oven than fryer

[@MattJP_]

It's exactly what they are. They are small convection ovens - which is what a normal house fan oven is. They don't 'fry' anything.

[@CrazyBikerGuy]

Having got a ninja 2 draw, never had an issue. Always been awesome, wouldnt get the Phillip's as you're cooking so why use an app when it should be controlled on the unit. Instant is a nice unit but I've never owned one but I know someone who used to then bought the ninja as it had 2 draws how ever if the instant had a 2 draw would have kept to instant so personal preference and not getting a faulty unit.

[@35geordielad]

The question here is... Would you actually put wet battered fish in an oven ? Answer would be No!. So why place in an AF to test. Wet batter requires deep oil frying and if that chef was a true chef he should have known this and the test of the battered fish would fail . If it had been pre cooked battered fish the AF would come into their own .

[@imoldgreggboosh3467]

Controlled by an app on my phone? Whatta deal breaker. Have to use my phone while my hands are greasy in the kitchen? I don't think so.

[@pcread]

I own a Ninja OP300 and it's the best kitchen gadget ever. A steak from frozen to restaurant perfect in 20 minutes. It's also a pressure cooker, sauté pan and grill. It has a circular basket for a much more even heat. I've not done F&C from scratch (who has the time?), but oven ready chips and Captain B fish fry beautifully.

[@twixter1000able]

You doing what with the steak? Omg

[@pcread]

@@twixter1000ableI know! I saw stuff on carnivore channels saying air-fryers were great for steaks and thought "nah, can't be", but then I bought one because I have a small kitchen and the Ninja is so versatile and tried a frozen steak. Mate. Brilliant. The outside has lovely caramellisation. The inside is juicy and medium rare. There's only a thin transition from the outside to the inside (the grey bit) about a millimeter. And the ease... 5 minutes to heat up, plop in the steak, season (grind some salt...), 7 or so to cook one side (The basket sears the bottom), turn it over and season, another 7 or so... Done. I just need to get a bigger freezer. BTW, spare ribs using the pressure cooker and then the fryer cycle... succulent and so much faster than an oven. I want to try French onion soup and sourdough bread. I saw it'll even do popcorn.

[@Siobhan144]

Thank you for this post. I felt it was a waste of money buying a basic fryer but what you have sounds like a dream🥰

[@pcread]

@@Siobhan144 oh, it is. I have a fairly basic model, but the bigger ones are even more versatile. I had some lovely chicken drumsticks in a DIY dry curry coating last night. Mmmm.

[@Timetofly8888]

ive had 3 over the last 5 years before my current one. 2 were cheap crap bought in local department stores and the first being a 2nd hand one of bought off ebay and my current one were/is a Philips model. The fact they are not using the mesh based baskets on the Philips model for these tests is not fair of the Philips line which are the only ones , as far as a i know, with the mesh based baskets and circular curved bucket to promote air circulation efficiency. This is why now having tried MUCH cheaper models, ive settled on spending almost twice as much as any other, on the Philips model. I currently have a Philips XXL Digital and will be replacing it with another if this one should ever die! No i dont work for Philips !

[@DeterminedFC]

agreed i had a similar but opposite story first onei bought was a phillips and it was great lasted ages and when i saw a deal for a diffrent style from a poplar brand i got that and was disappointing thats when i realized the phillips air fryers are superior and currently have the xl

[@marcc5768]

I find that wet ingredients, like batter or saucy wings, usually don't work well in an air fryer. When I do wings for example, I do plain or dry rub adhered to mustard. I don't do fish battered in my Ninja AF101 it would get blown around the basket and make a fire hazard. I can't do toast in my ninja, unless I put something to hold it down..i've tried..fan too strong, bread doesn't stay in 1 place.

[@b0njam0n]

Hmm, I preferred Phil Jupitus when he was on Never Mind The Buzzcocks

[@geekscompendium8025]

A ridiculous test, they are nopt designed to fry wet batter, I use the Ninja, but only with certain foods, I would never cookd a steak or a cook a full chicken in there, mainly fries/chips, and if the kids want a quick meal, chicken nuggets etc, its great to have the option to delay cooking times between 2 baskets, and pre-made and frozen foods are far better than doing them in the oven. Also warming up left over Pizza is great.

[@jackh9381]

Do they cook bacon if so I’m sold 😂

[@lovemetu]

How dumb are the people who came up with this test ! You cant cook wet battered fish and expect to have nice crispy batter the same as when fried. Instead used pre-battered fish and it works just fine as does the pre prepared fish with breadcrumbs instead of batter. These cookers are NOT fryers, they are mini turbo fan assisted ovens.

[@tonybarton3746]

Batter is meant to be cooked in a deep fat fryer , it’s a different chemical reaction . And toast never comes out evenly cooked even from a toaster ( it’s to do with the distribution of sugar in the mix) . Total waste if time as a experiment. Fully trained chef of 50 years experience.🤪🤪🙃

[@JulieB1111]

You probably need to batter in oil, flour, and water to get crispy batter from an air fryer.

[@TheVdub1980]

You are supposed to use spray oil and spray the food

[@techtinkerin]

Not accurate test you're getting conducted heat through the metal of the thermometer. Love ortis he's a brilliant presenter 😎👍can't see these being energy saving long cooking times.

[@bugattisteve]

Wet batter???

[@sunken1916]

put this way, air fryer for cooking it will taste close, but will never do the same job as deep fryer or oven,it will never cook such as raw batter as crispy as deep dryer,not even close. i would call it microwave ver. of deep dryer+oven, its more for heating up pre cooked food, cooking the food in shorter or easier way

[@jackh9381]

Do chips taste better then oven chips

[@donmason9810]

ANYTHING tastes better than oven chips.

[@tams805]

As said, all fairly good for air fryers. But you're never going to get anything that needs to crisp well be great in them, especially something very wet like batter as it just ends up steaming itself.

[@GeeWhizRS]

You can’t do batter in an air fryer.

[@gunner81uk]

My ninja is brilliant, wouldn't be without it now. Trying to cook liquid batter fish in an air fryer is ridiculous. What a stupid comparison.

[@paulsawtell3991]

The only way to cook fish and chips well is to fry in beef dripping. Resist these lures to waste money on yet another trend which you'll tire of when you realise that fact

[@DasArab]

Are Air fryers the next Steamer/Breadmaker/Toastie maker though, that is the important question.

[@DeterminedFC]

lol 🤡

[@matthew6994]

I make toasties in my Instant Vortex Plus and they come out great

[@DrMontague]

you need to spay the batter on the fish with oil

[@deanpedley]

Cosori is better than all 3 had a ninja in this video bought the Cosori and it blows the ninja out the water

[@strictlystarlight]

Thank you, couldn't decide

[@walbrzych9975]

That's just made my mind up not to buy an air fryer. Food looked awful.

[@Reaper1947]

My experience, air fryers have a place, but IMO a very small place in MY kitchen. It was worth it for me to have one just for my Checkers seasoned fries, so now I am not constantly buying 5-gallon drums of peanut oil, then disposing of 5-gallons of peanut oil. Checkers fries already have the perfect amount of oil in them and all you need to do is get them to the proper degree of doneness for your taste. Which sounds easy but it's not, towards the end of the cycle the dangerous part where an extra minute could be disastrous. It doesn't take much to turn perfection into UN FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION, with air fryers I will freely admit that I am what many would call PICKY! You have to realize that air fryers are different than anything you've ever experienced in all the years you've been cooking. Air fryers are IMO as much dehydrators on steroids as ovens. if you think about your air fryer as more a dehydrator/oven than a stand-alone oven you will be better off. This is the reason ALL EXPERIENCED air fryer users have and use spray bottles full of different kinds of cooking oils. This is to counteract the dehydration part of air fryers. So in reality an air fryer is not really an air fryer, it is a dehydrator-oven THAT NEEDS OIL. Ask yourself this, how many trained chefs have an air fryer in their kitchen? The answer should tell you something??? I'm sure there are specific things air fryers do very well, kind of like microwave ovens. Here is the best advice I have for new air fryer trainees, watch as many videos here on youtube to learn, and never put anything in an air fryer that you can't afford to throw away. I hope that helps someone out there thinking of taking the plunge into the bizarro world of air fryers. TheReaper!

[@lovemetu]

You mention ''Checkers seasoned fries'' so guess you are from America ? All of us do not eat lots of fries of chips as we call them in the UK. Also we have plenty of fries, chips etc here is the UK that already have oil added onto them, they are called ''oven chips'' or ''french fries'' and again they come out really nicely cooked in my Tower ''air fryer'' But I use my ''air fryer for so many other things than just chips of fries ! Multitude of things you can use them for, they are amazing additions to the kitchen. I love my Tower air fryer and get brilliant results using it. They are really small turbo fan assisted ovens, so the name air fryer is really not applicable to them. They are also very economical due to the reduced amount of kwh electric power that they use. I use mine for virtually everything that I used my bigger oven cooker for, even made my own apple pie recently, came out really well. Today I will be using it later on the cook roast potatoes, roast chicken and a couple of small ready made Yorkshire puddings !

[@Reaper1947]

@@lovemetu OH! you must have gotten the MAJIC air fryer that cooks everything to perfection, just set it and forget it? LOL TheReaper!

[@Boodieman72]

The whole idea is you aren't deep fat frying.

[@antonyjosephine494]

Very informative message...

[@wtfuchattin]

This has put me right off. It feels like cooking for people who only eat from the freezer. I'm not even sure if it's a step up from microwaving or not.

[@nick6584]

the chips looked lterrible and the fact they all sit there and say they were nice through fritted teeth tells me this is just one big paid for advertisment

[@P5YCHO1192]

"Sponsored by Currys" - ah, that explains the state of this review so 😂

[@SuperRomanHoliday]

This presenter is really good. A positive !

[@ryanh3285]

Don't see the point of the app when you're there next to the machine

[@CrazyBikerGuy]

I get good crispy fish out of my ninja. Add a tea spoon of oil and woolaaa

[@keithdeley7236]

What about an English machine tower

[@ConnorA21]

Now do a test with the cheapest air fryers around.

[@merylsmadness]

They should know af can’t deep fry raw batter so that’s a pointless testing

[@Bass-ne6dl]

No one mentions how much of a pain in the arse air fryers are to clean

[@JonathanDavidsonn]

I don't think most of these tests are fair or conducted properly. The temperature test was only done at the end when it might be that the device just fluctuates that temperature but averages to the desired temp. Which is just entirely how they designed the PID. If he had used a smart thermometer he could connect to his phone and read the temperature over a length of time rather than the end. Then the results could be drastically different. A 10C difference isn't bad at all because the user can adjust the temperature after finding out it's literally too hot like a normal fan oven. But I don't think that's the case anyway. I think it's just a dodgy PID adjustment which makes barely any difference in the final outcome. Also wet batter? Seriously? It says in the instructions of all of them not do that. So that's a 👎from me.

[@MegaCarmen1961]

Por fin cual es la mejor es q no se ingles gracias

[@damoville66]

What a stupid test. Wet batter? Total waste of time. Never going to work

[@JohnDoe-mf1jy]

Air fryers are useless I have had all 3 and all three failed. Stick with oil in a large pan simple

[@twixter1000able]

You can done exact same thing in the owen

[@maxineb9598]

Air fryers are more energy efficient.

[@markylon]

did you go to school? Let me retype this for you - "you can do the exact same thing in the oven". Or better English - "an oven would be just as effective". "you could get similar results by using an oven".

[@fromnowon7311]

nice one , TROLL !!!!!

[@icarossavvides2641]

@@fromnowon7311 Troll? Really? If the poster isn't bothered enough to proof read their own post or, as it seems, to correct it maybe they shouldn't be surprised if they're picked up on it? Isn't one of the characteristics of a troll to use a cryptic alias for anonymity? Look in the mirror, maybe you're more of a Troll?

[@fromnowon7311]

@@icarossavvides2641 Hey I thought he had video of the interview.Not a written report. I apologize for my error. I received bad news this morning and I passed on my stress. I am sorry. Luv her and Ashton Kutcher, and I am glad that they are level headed enough to make sure we know that. Thanks for setting me straight,I won't let my mood influence my opinions anymore.

[@keithryan6140]

All too hard. I personally think AF are overated. Nothing beats the real thing. Plus they are over priced. They will go the same way as vertical grillers.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Most expensive one wins.... Duh!

[@luvtoyscollector3373]

Nice 👍 Yummy 😋

[@xtrailz]

Stupid test. They should have used frozen chips. Nobody cuts their own chips from potatoes.

[@paulgreenwood69]

The chip shop award winging fryer should not be so stupid towards his GADGET SHOW audience. Of course the batter will be terrible!

[@ukdnbmarsh]

looks like your channel has fallen foul of the YT algorithm which is too bad :/

[@Scitch-et4vk]

This was dumb trying to do batter in one 🤣

[@jeremymoyse]

What is this rubbish... first test shows how ignorant people are. Thermostats controlling things like this work always allow a fluctuation in temperature and then turn the element on and off. They don't stay at a temperature but within a range above (until it turns off) and below (until it turns on) - that's how they're designed. The actual temperature depends on where you are in this up and down cycle. Get some credibility please

[@posford]

BS the bread will fly all over the place, and you cant hold the tray with your hand Total scam

[@fisharefriends598]

Wrong type of batter.

[@paulbennett6379]

I love My ninja it just cooks chips unevenly

[@icarossavvides2641]

You can't just put chips in and expect them to look after themselves.I start my, frozen (fresh isn't worth the bother!), chips off for a few minutes, give them a shake and season them, if you try and season them at the beginning the seasoning doesn't stick but after a few minutes they sweat a bit which allows the seasoning to stick. I give them a couple of shakes throughout the cooking period.

[@MjoePta]

these guys clearly dont know how to use airfryer

[@fliptoptaylor]

I stopped watching the Gadget after this most stupid of tests which was the latest in a bunch of similar farces. What sort of consumer program doesn’t even know the right test for the gadget 🙄

[@sixpotshot]

Humans…reinventing the wheel…what a waste of time…one day I’ll buy a microwave as well…😅… it will be on the day of Saint Never 😅

[@icarossavvides2641]

Still cooking on an open fire outside your cave then?😁😁😁😁

[@unclegaz]

Air fryers....the ugliest most useless invention ever...You can buy a fantastic "self cleaning" domestic fryer for less than 200 bucks.

[@matthewflynn7806]

Pointless experiment.

[@northeast7412]

Let’s use two totally separate cooking appliances to try get the same results, been aswell using a microwave or a toaster compared against a deep fryer, typical useless British television at its finest 😂

[@iancampbell3202]

How irritating is the presenter.

[@ivansmith98601]

go away

[@iancampbell3202]

@@ivansmith98601 rewatched it incredibly irritating bloke.

[@redband1000]

You cannot do batter in airfyers you noobs

[@michelles2299]

Unhealthy food

[@joeborowy5794]

Everything I've cooked in this unit has come out great kzbin.infoUgkxD4Qeo-HRLxMfom_PDinM_SBfes00qJsB ! Everything tastes so good. Some of the recipes I've changed a little to improve the taste. For instance, for french fries which call for no oil, I spray them with olive oil and season them with salt and pepper. They come out great! It makes the best toast I have ever eaten. The recipe I use calls for lightly buttering both sides of the bread. It calls for cooking at 400 degrees for 5 minutes on one side and then 2 minutes on the other side. This time has a lot to do with the kind of bread you are using...so keep an eye on it. Also, the fans in this Ninja are a lot stronger than other air fryers. So lay a metal spoon or something on the bread to keep it from flying around. It's a little extra work to use your Ninja as a toaster but it is worth it!

[@markdaniwelis4707]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4rIloZod816n80 Probeer kastanjes in Airfry, je zult het geweldig vinden.

[@stevemack60]

Awful presenter. Out of his depth.