: Are ovens and air fryers the same? Aren’t they just both cooking machineries that uses indirect heat?
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The main difference is air fryers move the hot air around, kinda combining an oven with a blow dryer, so the food cooks faster and more crispy.
This is because in a standard oven, the air immidietly touching the food is being cooled by the water evaporating from the food and becoming humid with that evaporated water, so the surface doesn’t crisp.
An air fryer is constantly moving new hot and dry air in and the humid air out.
Many modern ovens now have a convection mode, where they have a fan moving the hot air making them basically the same as an air fryer. Since they are a larger cooking space, it’s not always quite as effective, but it’s the same principle.
The other main difference is that ait fryers are tiny. So they preheat crazy fast. This makes the whole cooking process seem even quicker since traditional ovens take so long to come to temp.
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