I understand that air fryer spins the air, while oven keeps it still. What I don’t understand is how hot air moving changes the way the food is cooked? Like is air fryer just faster? Whenever I eat food from air fryer it has a completely different quality than from the oven.
Plus, a lot of ovens have a fan inside. Wouldn’t it spin the air as well?
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Most air fryers only have one mode of operation – cook fast and on relatively high heat with hot air that removes moisture very quickly. There is some temperature adjustment but this is generally what it does. This makes it really good at fast cooking relatively small/thin food quickly and achieves some crispiness.
Ovens are typically much more flexible. Modern ones can (more or less) operate like an air fryer if it has a convection mode at high temps (>190 C or 375F). It can also operate at lower temperatures (160-170C) for baking or perhaps even lower temperatures (120-140C) to cook large things like turkeys without burning/overcooking the outside before the inside is cooked. Then it can also be used for really low temp high humidity cooking like a bain marie (in a water bath).
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