Can An Air Fryer Beat Me In Cooking?

We hear you guys. Maybe we give this one to the air fryer for not making a fair enough competition. I will say, our goal was to take famous air fryer recipes and pit them against our own version. Hence why the other techniques on mine were different. That being said, it sounds like everyone wants air fryer recipes to make things right, or a rematch? Or both? You tell me. Thank you guys for letting us know how you felt about this one.

It’s beautiful to see all the comments unanimously roasting him for this completely unfair competition.

So we all agree the air fryer actually won that, right?

The fact that you could prep, cook, clean and repeat all 3 of those dishes in the time it would have taken to set up the grill for the salmon makes the air fryer a clear winner, IMO.

So basically, Josh destroyed the air fryer because it destroyed him 😮😂

Should have named it “How I cheated to beat an air fryer!” Because it was the air fryers fault the potatoes weren’t seasoned properly.

I use my air fryer more than I thought I would. Even if it’s just to toast some buns, or heat up left over pizza. It’s so easy and quick

So not only did Josh take a big loss to the air frier. He also then smashed it up rather than giving it away?

The wings was only 15 min faster while the potatoes was 24 hours slower than the air fryer and I think I’m gonna buy one after bc it’s so much cheaper and faster

You convinced me - I'm gonna buy an air fryer. If the difference in quality is so small, yet it's so much faster/less effort (and less fat) it's worth it.

funny how this video actually makes me consider an air fryer more seeing how close the results where apart from the potato recipe where he obviously cheated

For the rematch: Use the same ingredients including seasonings and amounts and limit yourself to the same amount of time it takes to cook in the air fryer. The whole point is of an air fryer is to make things easily. The real test is to see if you can do it traditionally just as easily imo

Josh must’ve forgotten what his whole channel is about with this one

This felt like a competition between a master chef and a literal first time air fryer. We need to see the master chef vs a master air fryer.

9:53 He's spot on. Deep frying stuff is a huge pain, makes a mess, and you gotta deal with pouring it back into the container (some people even say to filter it too) and reserving/disposing of it.

Minus the fact the potato recipes were different, you need to also take into account for the 'chief' recipes it required an oven, outside grill and a way to deep fry using large amounts of oil, with the Air fryer all 3 recipes only used one small appliance.

josh is the only guy who would hate a convection oven

How are you gonna make two completely different potato recipes?

I totally get the resistance to air fryers. But I decided to give in and try them, and wow. My favourite thing to use them for is reheating leftovers. ESPECIALLY fried foods. It brings fried leftovers right back to where they started, and I honestly don’t know what else can do that.

I was anti-air fryer for a long time only because cooking was a moment of zen for me. I enjoy the process. I thought convection cooking would steal the joy from cooking low and slow. However, my apartment doesn’t have central a/c, and even turning on a stove burner for 5 minutes to cook eggs would create an absolute hellscape that would last for hours, plus my budget tightened quite a bit…so I finally gave in to getting one as a gift. I regret not allowing it into my life sooner. The air fryer, if one can afford even a small one, is an absolute treat to own. Will it produce gourmet restaurant results? It’s not supposed to. But it will cut time and money, of which you seem to have too much. (I’d say don’t knock it before you try it but you did, clearly lost, and decided to bludgeon it.) (Thanks, Mom. You were right about it all along.)