Air fryers can be cheaper and more effective than traditional oven, consumer ... trends now
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The past year has seen home cooks gripped by the latest trendy kitchen appliance – the air fryer.
And now a study reveals that the hype may be justified, showing the devices are cheaper and sometimes better at turning out tasty meals than a traditional oven.
There have been massive sales of the fryers, with shops often seeing shelves cleared, as households rush to combat rising energy bills.
Researchers from consumer champion Which? found that air fryers, microwaves, pressure cookers and slow cookers can all have cheaper running costs than normal ovens.
They pitted a range of kitchen appliances against each other to cook popular foods – from roast chicken to chips and steamed broccoli – calculating how long it took, how much energy it used and, crucially, how much it cost.
The past year has seen home cooks gripped by the latest trendy kitchen appliance – the air fryer
The traditional electric oven cost 39p to cook a delicious-looking roast chicken in 76 minutes, although testers noted that the meat was a little dry.
It was beaten by the air fryer, which cost 18p and cooked a perfect roast chicken, which had juicy, flavoursome meat and a crispy brown skin.
The cheapest and quickest method for cooking the chicken was with a pressure
