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forkyishere in Foodies Bee Hive • 2 days ago

I have mastered air friers too in the last 10 years... even more used than the microwave for me. And since I have this ninja one that does 260 C, man, it's impeccable for almost any sort of experiments.

I wish there would be a version with smaller fan sizes and more zones, because that makes the cooking more even, but I can't complain with this already amazing feature.

Also, another invention I would love one day would be inside home air fryers with a smoking feature. If I find one, I will buy it... tried multiple times to sort of hack one apparel I custom made, to try it, but there is too much convection air flowing, and all attempts resulted in either too much smoke, or completely (aka too fast) destroyed wood chip material. Also, some sort of chaminé would be nice to conduct the smoke into an exhaust.

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erikah 2 days ago

Then you are a master indeed as in 10 years you can experience a lot. I'm quite new in this as I bought mine in February. I'm not sure how big yours is, mine is 15L capacity, which is enough for me. I don't know if there are bigger ones.

I've never heard of an inside home air fryers with a smoking feature, but sounds great and I bet it's would be lovely to have one. I need to research it to see what it does.

I'm in favor of anything that makes our life healthier, but space is a problem for me. My kitchen is spacious compared to other apartments, but still just an apartment kitchen with limited space.

What I'd want one nice day is a wood heated oven for bread, a small one, but can only have it if I buy a house, and I'm not there yet. My dad has one, that my grandmother used to make bread with, but it's huge and has not been used for decades.

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forkyishere 2 days ago (edited)

Wood heating is always the way... but inside apartments or wooden-made houses, a menace.

15L is HUGE mate! That's almost like a normal oven. I don't need that big one unless you want to go for a turkey or something like that, but because I also have a normal oven, this is more for quick and fine stuff. But maybe you don't have a oven, so that would make more sense to me.

I have this one, https://ninjakitchen.co.nz/collections/grills/products/ninja-foodi-smart-xl-grill-air-fryer-ag551 (right now, and getting quite old...)

I am Portuguese, so it's everything grilled if possible. LOL Wooden grilled makes everything totally memorable. The juices dropping into the charcoals and then blasting all that smell into the product. Hummmm, there is no substitute so far for me.

Cooking bread at 220-250C is very hard indeed, not enough temperature to raise the dough fast enough (not to my standards or type of bread at least). You need tricks, like a ceramic/metal pot (which retains heat for longer periods of time and together with the humidity of the bread increases both pressure and temperature, then after 40-45 min, I usually uncover the pot, and let it cook for another 30 min to create that crunchy crust.

This last one hack is mostly for normal ovens... but if you are on a normal good +300C things (can be electric/gas but wood-based beats it always)... You can make bread like normal bakers... and my dad still has a handmade stone wood oven in Portugal, where we used to bake all sorts of food. Lots of memories...

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erikah 2 days ago (edited)

The 15L is seems huge, but it was on sale, and the offer was too good to be true, but it was true. I paid like 100 euro for it, while the whole price was 300 euro. The next day it was 200 euro already, so I guess it was sheer luck. I have an oven, which is huge enough, but it is good to have a big air fryer too especially if it's on sale. You can grill a whole chicken and make potatoes and meat in the same time.

I am Portuguese, so it's everything grilled if possible.

That is a healthy option and way better than deep frying everything and I envy you for that :)

I gave up on baking bread for some years honestly. There's so problematic and you work a few hours on it and don't get the wanted result, so I'd rather buy bread from my favorite bakery as they have really good bread.

My dream is to cook in such an oven, wood heated I mean, cook stews and soups, oh, what a dream, but not in this life it seems 😆

Btw, today I "faked" another recipe, which is most likely coming tomorrow.

Oh, I forgot your amazing air fryer. This is really cool, I haven't seen similar in my country.

Btw, I'm based in Romania, but my mother tongue is Hungarian. I know, it's a bit complicated 😜

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forkyishere yesterday

Just a note... this is why I love to be on Hive!

Real engagement... not that shitty AI thing.

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erikah yesterday

I agree, there are users who you can have real engagement with, not AI as you say, but not just bullshit either. There are so many that are commenting, just to comment, write a lot and say nothing meaningful. Plus you can learn a lot, which is valuable.

However, since I'm on hive, I am really disappointed of people from certain countries 😬

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forkyishere 10 hours ago

Yeah, the world has very complicated cultures. I am sure Portuguese people have their "not so great things" too... I can only think that over time and as technology uniformly brings the world much closer, generations will mix more and more, and eventually it's just going to be a big world with factions... (this is probably some Sci-Fi movies affecting my brain), but its really going that direction... I think.

The moment we land on other planets or traveling around the earth takes less than an hour, there will be less and less reasons for people living in these countries having to cope with their cultures and eventually choose easily where they want to be among.

Obviously, probably not something for my generation... but for my kids, most likely.

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erikah 9 hours ago

The moment we land on other planets or traveling around the earth takes less than an hour, there will be less and less reasons for people living in these countries having to cope with their cultures and eventually choose easily where they want to be among.

The problem with that is that people migrate all the time, go to other places to have abetter life, but bring their culture too and instead of trying to fit in and be part of the new culture, they try to live how they lived at home. Would not necessarily be a problem, but when they want to impose their culture and (bad) habits on the new society, you know it was not the place and the environment the problem at home, but them. When you emigrate to a new country to have a better life and once there, the only thing you're after is looking for shortcuts, handouts and committing crimes, you are the problem.

Anyway, let's hope life is going to be way better for the next generations.

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