Another Angry Womantired of the artists discourse. lemme try something a little different: air fryers are shit.
some of you have *enormous* kitchens and it shows 💅
tbh I do get your defensiveness, air fryer owners. I once shelled out £8 on a slightly fancy potato masher which was ultimately uncomfortable to hold and bad at mashing potatoes but I insisted on using it for years to justify the expense.
running a quick calculation based on the numbers here, if I were to invest in a low-end-of-mid-range air fryer (£120), I would need to eat 632 portions of oven chips in order to break even. at my rate of consuming oven chips, it would take me 158 years to start saving money (less flippantly, even if I were to use it daily it would take two years to start seeing savings) https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/oven-air-fryer-slow-cooker-or-hob-comparing-the-cheapest-ways-to-cook-a0kmu7Z7tBhJ
karen@stavvers I got myself a ninja 14 in 1 - it definitely saves money, but, and here's the big but which isn't talked about enough, I am cooking largely for one or two and I cook from scratch. So on a steam meal (for example) I can cook salmon, carbs and veg in 10 mins, costs about 15p. Pressure cooked soup or stews on a batch cook, about 10p. They don't teach u how to cook tho, and if u don't preserve, bake, and make soups etc loads of functions won't be economical
Yaoi Box Balloon@stavvers I wanted to buy and air fryer but then I saw how small they were... lol wut.
Accidental Resident (she/they)@stavvers My husband just won one at a company Holiday party he didn’t attend because he had an appointment at the eye doctor. I have no idea what we are going to do with it. Anyone who wants one already has one!
@flyswatter charity shop! Someone will probably want it and it's good they don't have to shell out full price
Hayley Question-Mark@stavvers WTF kind of potato masher costs £8? *thinks*
Was is an Oxo one?
@barrowofdirt Joseph Joseph, who usually do good (but pricey) stuff; the masher is shit though
Karin!@stavvers I thought they were crap but got one as a random gift (I suspect a regift?) And it turned out I love it. But we don't have a convection oven (not super common when we bought our oven)
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semibad@stavvers Idk, mine takes up a lot of counter space I do not have, but on the other hand is functionally a microwave that can bake a camembert and cook 20 pigs in blankets in 15 minutes, so I’m torn
Shrig 🐌@stavvers My kitchen can fit so much air in it
Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨@stavvers ironically, we have no dining room.
Catbus@stavvers couldn't be me 😭
Bethany Black@stavvers yep, HUGE, about 40% of the total area of the downstairs of our house, and SO badly designed. 5 plug sockets total for the whole room, one of those is behind a fitted cupboard, yet this is how our washer and dryer are plugged in
@stavvers balls, forgot alt text: a messy kitchen with the washer and dryer (I’m doing alright for myself) power cables at full stretch to get to the two plug sockets on that side of the kitchen
@BethanyBlack oh my GOD that is so upsetting to look at. I've never met your landlord but I hate them with my life
@stavvers worst is we can’t even add an extension neatly tidy away the cable, because we need to unplug the dryer to plug in the toaster and balance it on the recycling bins. Also when they build the extension they built the foundation 2” higher on one side and the slope is directly under where the washing machine needs to go. Took me three days to level it properly.