The better comments are when they ask if they can swap a vital ingredient out for another. Especially baking recipies.
Not quite the same but still amusing - Reddit - Dive into anything
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Ahh, the old carrot cake without carrots caper!
Reviews of standard recipes where people give low scores but they also replaced all the critical items to make them more healthy but also make zero sense are also hilarious
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Just to continue on this, this popped up in my youtube feed. I think I see where he’s going with this but he may be a bit harsh.
I think it’s outright wrong. There needs to be a mixture of both. If you’re just cooking for yourself and coming up with your own recipes, you’ll often find you won’t leave your comfort zone. For instance, i’m very comfortable with making a really nice goulash or meatballs etc. but that comes from my Polish upbringing. I regularly use proper recipes for Asian or South American style foods purely because I don’t understand how they mix together. A lot of the herbs and spices are completely foreign to me and I need a lot of guidance to be able to figure it out.
It’s probably easier as a professional chef, but even then, I can’t see that applying to all chefs.
I can’t remember the last time I actually used a recipe that didn’t involve baking.
That being said I rarely deviate from the 20 or so dishes that seem to be on rotation. Even those change each time though depending on what I have to hand.
It can be frustrating when a dish turns out great though considering there is no recipe and I never write anything down. Hard to replicate from memory.
We have a whole bunch of recipes from my wife’s grandmother and they all involve instructions like:
Add water to flour and mix.
Absolutely no instructions on amounts or anything like that
Got a voucher from work for hanging around here for 20 years, so decided to buy an expensive rice cooker. I have wanted one for a while but didn’t want to spend my own money on it.
Annoyed at how perfectly it cooks rice.
Going to attempt a congee in it for dinner tonight with some leftover roast chicken and a stock from the freezer that isn’t labelled. Hoping its chicken. Might be ham.
Missus parents sent us an air fryer for Christmas. Never used one before or even eaten anything made from one.
Anyone have any tips for good meals/snacks to cook in them? Do they cook anything better than traditional ovens etc?
My only experience of them is that guy singing songs about them while cooking weird stuff on instagram.
I only use mine for frozen chicko rolls. 12 minutes at full temperature. Beautiful
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The main advantage is speed over traditional ovens.
I do buffalo chicken wings in mine and they’re great. I’ve done steaks, though I prefer to pan-fry.
Reheating stuff that a microwave fucks up, like pizza and chips as well
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Initially I was skeptical of air fryers, but now we’ve had one for the last couple of years honestly couldn’t live without it. It’s quicker than an over and so much easier to clean.
We cook a lot of stuff in the air fryer - essentially anything you can use a conventional oven for we use the AF.
Makes good pizza, excellent fried chicken, and everything in between.
From the ones I’ve seen, I’m surprised by how large the AF units are, yet how small the food hamper. Can you get much in them?
That’s probably the biggest issue with them - the bench footprint. I have one at work, a very basic one that can fit two meat pies at a time. 25 minutes at 180 (I don’t preheat) and they come out perfectly crispy. Basically they are a very small convection oven.
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Makes good pizza, or reheats pizza?
Can’t imagine an air fryer big enough to cook a full size pizza.
We buy the Aldi 3 cheese pizza from the frozen aisle and add salami mushrooms etc to them.
Although we do find of you cook more than 1 at a time, the bottom pizzas crust stays soggy.
If youre doing one pizza at a time, it’s fine. 180 degrees for 20 mins perfect.
Must be a massive air fryer!
Or a small pizza!
Swap them round after 10 mins