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Hello and welcome to No Effort November,

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a&nbsp;series of videos for the month of November where...

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no effort is made.

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Now, today, we are going&nbsp;be talking about air fryers.

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Today, we’re gonna be talking&nbsp;about air fryers.

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I doubt you’ve heard of them,
they seem really new to the market, but it’s&nbsp;a hot topic!

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And here’s a little secret,

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air fryer is a meaningless term and none&nbsp;
of these devices are doing anything new at all.

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Ya know what this thing is?

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It’s a&nbsp;convection oven with a basket.

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That’s it.

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No really, that’s it.

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There’s nuance to pick apart there, which I will because that’s my job,

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but if you happen to&nbsp;have a convection oven you already have an air fryer!

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Kind of.

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In fact, many appliance&nbsp;manufacturers
have started taking their existing convection oven models

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and slapping an&nbsp;“air fryer” sticker on them so you’ll be more likely to buy them!

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But really all they did was make the&nbsp;
“convect” button say “air fry” and call that a new product.

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Cynicism levels&nbsp;are a little elevated today, I’m afraid.

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So firstly, what is a convection oven?

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Well, it’s&nbsp;an oven with a fan inside.

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As you already know, an oven is simply a box
with electric heating&nbsp;elements or a gas burner inside of it.

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Those heat producing devices heat the air inside&nbsp;the box to your desired temperature
after which you of in the cold food to bake it.

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The&nbsp;hot air surrounding the cold food warms it up,

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and eventually you can of out hot eat the food!

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But during the baking process, the cold food absorbs heat energy
from the hot air surrounding&nbsp;it, which cools that air down.

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That cooler air right next to the food forms something of an&nbsp;
insulating layer which slows the baking process.

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Stick a fan at the back of the oven, though,&nbsp;
and you can force the air inside the box to&nbsp;move around

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just like when you stick a fan in a&nbsp;room and it moves the air around.

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This prevents that cold layer of air from staying next to the&nbsp;food since,
well, the fan is constantly pushing it somewhere else and replacing it with hot hot air.

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This speeds the cooking process up a fair bit, and tends to increase the crispiness of&nbsp;whatever it is you are baking in there.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Back when I was kid, convection ovens were&nbsp;
"oooh fancy" but now it’s a pretty close to&nbsp;standard feature.

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All but very entry-level&nbsp;models offer a convection fan these days.

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This here air fryer... well, it’s more or less the&nbsp;same exact thing.

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Take the basket out and look up in there and you’ll find a heating element and a fan!

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I’d bet good money that heating element is the same part in a stovetop somewhere.

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Walmart’s gotta&nbsp;cut the cost of these somehow.

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This simple one - it has just two control knobs:

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one for the temperature,&nbsp;
which maxes out at 400 degrees and calls out 360 degrees for some reason,

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and, uh, one for the time.

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That time knob is the same mechanical clockwork timer
you find in practically any toaster oven&nbsp;and it functions as the power switch, too.

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When switched on the fan motor is energized which&nbsp;
spins it up and blows air down through the heating element.

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And of course the heating element&nbsp;(1,100 watts in this case)
 is also energized so it starts getting real hot.

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That means the&nbsp;machine is forcing hot air down at the food in the basket.

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And the basket is designed with&nbsp;a false floor filled with holes, allowing air to flow beneath the food and heat everything&nbsp;quite evenly.

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The temperature dial controls a thermostat
which will cycle the heating element&nbsp;on and off to maintain a desired air temperature,

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but the fan will remain running the whole time.

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And that fan doesn’t just blow air down
through the heating element and at the food in the basket,

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but it also blows air out the back of the machine through this exhaust port.

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The gap around the top&nbsp;forms an air intake, and that keeps the fan motor,
control wiring, and plastic body of this&nbsp;thing from overheating and/or melting.

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Now, while this is really just a few common&nbsp;toaster oven
slash stovetop parts rearranged to make a new product

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much like how Taco Bell&nbsp;comes up with new menu items,

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there are some advantages to this.

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Because it’s so small,&nbsp;the device preheats extremely quickly

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(in lots of cases you don’t even need to bother with&nbsp;preheating at all)

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and the fan is quite forceful, making for one real intense storm of heat in&nbsp;there.

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But as far as what this actually is…

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it’s just a modified convection oven for use on&nbsp;the countertop.

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It’s not a new cooking process, and it’s not really frying anything,

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it’s&nbsp;just a small, high-speed convection oven.

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Oh but remember how I said air fryer is&nbsp;
a meaningless term which doesn’t mean anything because it’s meaningless?

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Yeah so this&nbsp;is also an air fryer!

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Look, it says air fry!

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Now, those of you who know what a toaster oven looks&nbsp;like 
might be thinking this looks an awful lot like a toaster oven and yep!

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It is.

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But it’s got&nbsp;a great big fan at the top of the oven and it came with this here basket which you can put foods in to&nbsp;air fry just like these doodads do.

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And you also get a regular oven when you need it!

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Except this is&nbsp;bad at that - but we’ll circle back to that point.

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This toaster oven, unsurprisingly, is full&nbsp;of toaster oven parts
including the same clockwork timer switch and temperature dial,

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but there’s also a function dial and a few more heating elements in play.

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This uses rod-style&nbsp;heating elements and there are six in total,

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two on the bottom and four on the top.

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Part of&nbsp;the function dial’s job is to change which heating elements are in use:

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in bake mode, the two&nbsp;on the bottom join two on the top
so the oven heats like a normal oven.

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But in air fry&nbsp;mode, the lower elements are switched off
and instead all four at the top are used

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with the fan blowing air down through them
at the food just like in the standard&nbsp;air fryer.

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But that’s not the only way to do it.

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Oh look, it’s another toaster oven which claims&nbsp;to offer air frying.

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But this time, the fan is in the side of the machine

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and the air fry feature is&nbsp;turned on by setting the thermostat to the highest temperature and clicking past a detent to the air fry&nbsp;setting.

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That means this oven only offers air frying at 450 degrees Fahrenheit, and since the&nbsp;fan is really kind of weak and it doesn’t actually blow that forcefully on anything,

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it’s not a&nbsp;great air fryer.

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But it’s a much better oven.

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Again, we’ll circle back to that,
but I&nbsp;do want to point out that this product

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is almost certainly just a small&nbsp;countertop convection oven
(I’ve&nbsp;seen similar things long before air&nbsp;frying was a fad)

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which has had the controls altered a bit
and the convection&nbsp;mode labeled “air fry” -

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what a concept.

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Oh look, it’s another air fryer but this&nbsp;one is green.

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Yeah okay this one belongs to my parents and I decided to throw it in&nbsp;
for a head-to-head test with my cheapskate Walmart air fryer

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and the toaster ovens

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and my convection oven.

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That’s right, I made a lot of French fries so I could tell you&nbsp;
just how good these air frying appliances are.

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Jump cut! Guess what folks, it finally&nbsp;happened!

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I did a memory card reformat before I offloaded the footage
so you’re not gonna get any B-roll of all the tests I’m about to talk about.

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I&nbsp;don’t think you’re missing too much, it was mostly just static shots of cooking&nbsp;happening then a close-up of the finished fries,

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but it did show my methodology which&nbsp;
now you’re just gonna have to take my word for.

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But, I could not have asked for a more perfect accident&nbsp;
to start out 2024’s No Effort November.

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Jump cut!

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I weighed out about 150 grams of the&nbsp;
same frozen fries for each of the tests,

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and I tried to form them into a similar lump in&nbsp;each device
to make as close to a head-to-head comparison as I could with minimal effort.

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For the two air fryers which aren’t trying to do anything other than air fry,

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I set&nbsp;them both to 400 degrees (the maximum temp of the cheap one)
and, without preheating,&nbsp;had them air fry the fries for 20 minutes.

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The fries came out identically between these two machines.

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And they came out essentially perfectly!

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They were the exact kind of crispy that I like - they&nbsp;hadn’t lost all their moisture
and burnt, but they weren’t anywhere close to soggy.

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And turning&nbsp;frozen fries to done fries in 20 minutes is actually quite impressive,
especially considering&nbsp;I did not bother to preheat either of these air fryers.

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Next, I tested my convection oven.

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Most of&nbsp;the ovens on sale that claim to air fry come with a basket and tray like this,

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so I bought a&nbsp;basket and tray like this to turn my convection oven into an air fryer.

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Now, this is a full-sized&nbsp;convection oven and it’s going to take a while to pre-heat,

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so for this test I let it preheat to 400 degrees&nbsp;
(which took about 12 minutes) before I put the fries in.

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[metal squeaks]

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That sounded awful.

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Then I put them in for 20 minutes and&nbsp;guess what?

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They were not done.

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They were quite soggy.

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So I stuck them back in for another&nbsp;10 minutes and guess what?

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They were still not quite there.

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But considering that I had&nbsp;now spent some 42 minutes making these fries,
it’s clear that my convection&nbsp;oven is not a good air fryer.

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On that note, this oven for reasons I do not&nbsp;understand
will not run the convection fan continuously when it's in convection mode.

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It turns&nbsp;it on and off and only runs the fan about half the time 
which is very annoying and I’m sure&nbsp;is slowing it down.

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So while my oven is not a good air fryer, yours might be just fine.

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So if you don’t already have an air fryer but you do have a convection oven and you don’t want&nbsp;to dedicate counter space to yet another small kitchen appliance,

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Well, you might consider ordering&nbsp;one of these air fryer baskets.

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However, if you do have the space for another small&nbsp;kitchen appliance...

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well there are plenty of reasons to just get one of these which I will go&nbsp;over.

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But first, what about the toaster ovens?

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Well, for these I went back to air frying&nbsp;without preheating.

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They’re claiming to be something special so I treated them specially.

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The Hamilton Beach machine allows you to set any temperature

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so I did the same 400 degrees,&nbsp;
and I put in the fries with the oven cold then ran it for 20 minutes.

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And those fries came&nbsp;out… almost exactly like the other two air fryers.

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They were not quite as crispy but they&nbsp;were quite satisfactory 
and another 2 maybe 3 minutes would have produced identical results.

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So this thing is actually a good air fryer.

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The Black &amp; Decker model got the same&nbsp;treatment,
but its temperature couldn’t be set to anything other than 450 degrees.

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Also,&nbsp;it uses the same heating element arrangement
for baking as it does for air frying,

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so about half&nbsp;of the heat is coming from below the food
rather than all of it being blown down from above.

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That’s not super critical since there’s a fan,

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and I had a drip tray below the basket which&nbsp;was shielding the fries from the heat

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but anyway after 20 minutes the fries were…

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not quite&nbsp;done.

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They were acceptable but not as crispy as I would have liked,
which shows this is not&nbsp;that great of an air fryer

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especially since, once warmed up,
it was 450 degrees in&nbsp;there rather than 400.

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Despite that, it would have needed another 5 minutes
at&nbsp;least to get the fries where I wanted them.

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But now comes the wrinkle here.

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The Hamilton Beach machine, while it does do a good job air frying,

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sucks at&nbsp;being a normal oven.

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I love toaster ovens and I have had one on my countertop essentially forever&nbsp;
because I much prefer using them when I need to bake a small quantity of food.

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They preheat&nbsp;faster than a full-size oven and they don’t make the kitchen nearly as hot which is especially&nbsp;nice in the summer months.

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Though I think they suck for making toast and question anyone who&nbsp;thinks toast out of a toaster oven is better than toast out of a toaster -

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toaster ovens dry&nbsp;out bread much much more than a toaster does
so even if I didn’t have the best toaster ever,

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I’d&nbsp;still want a toaster.

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I mean even the $10 plastic Walmart toasters of the world make nicer toast
to my taste&nbsp;than any toaster oven I have ever encountered.

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Anyway, that wasn’t the point, the point was&nbsp;this guy is a bad oven.

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And the reason is that it does not turn off the air fry fan when in bake&nbsp;mode.

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The fan is a two-speed fan and it slows down in bake mode

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but it doesn’t turn off and&nbsp;that means there is no functional difference
between the bake mode and the convection bake mode.

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Now, why does it do that?

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I wasn’t in the room where it happened
so I can’t say for sure&nbsp;but just like the standard air fryers

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that fan also serves to cool the fan motor and&nbsp;wiring
since it’s directly above a box which can have 450 degree air inside.

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I believe&nbsp;that fan has to run whenever the machine is on.

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This means you cannot use this device
as a&nbsp;regular oven without making significant adjustments.

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When I first used it I burnt the Brussels sprouts&nbsp;I was roasting to a crisp
despite following the same procedure I have always done for Brussels&nbsp;sprouts.

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And it’s not the thermostat - I used an oven thermometer to verify
and the temperature&nbsp;dial is close to spot on.

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It’s the fan - this thing is always quite a forceful convection&nbsp;oven,

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and I found myself constantly lowering the temperature by at least 50 degrees
to&nbsp;get similar results to what I was used to.

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I eventually got tired of this, and that’s why&nbsp;
I ended up buying the Black &amp; Decker machine.

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This guy is not great at being an air fryer,&nbsp;
but you can use it like any ordinary oven without thinking.

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And its pseudo-air-fry mode&nbsp;does come in handy for some things -
including roasting Brussels sprouts.

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But I think of&nbsp;this as a conventional oven
with a single convection setting and not an air fryer.

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These&nbsp;two machines have revealed to me that combining the functions of a toaster oven and an air fryer&nbsp;presents an insurmountable design compromise

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and has turned me against suggesting one&nbsp;of these over a “regular” air fryer.

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And that’s before we even get into the&nbsp;ergonomic benefits of an air fryer.

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The basket with a handle...

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it's quite a lot easier&nbsp;to deal with because you don’t need a towel or potholder 
or ‘Ove’ Glove to take a hot wire&nbsp;basket out of a hot oven.

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You can simply grab that handle
and dump the contents onto a plate&nbsp;or serving bowl.

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That doesn’t work for all foods,
and it’s not like the air fryer replaces an&nbsp;oven,

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but for the foods where it does work that’s a neat trick.

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And an even neater&nbsp;trick is that some air fryers (even this really cheap one)
have baskets which are&nbsp;dishwasher safe and that makes cleanup effortless.

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So, believe it or not, I think these are more&nbsp;than just a fad
and having one in your life (if you don’t already) is probably worth it.

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They’re cheap enough now that quite honestly
if you’ve been wanting to try one you should go&nbsp;for it.

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This one wasn't even $30.

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But personally, I would stick to simple ones.

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I like this fancier version for having a&nbsp;window and a light
which lets you peek into the basket while things are cooking

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(though… that&nbsp;light is an unshielded halogen capsule
sitting above oily food which feels like a design&nbsp;flaw)

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but the control situation is overly complicated.

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I don’t want to have to interact&nbsp;with a touch panel,

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put it in the right mode,

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press buttons to pick the right temperature,

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press start,

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then press buttons again to set the right time.

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These two knobs win me&nbsp;over,
and the dumb controls are much less likely to be a problem in the future

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than the&nbsp;electronics in here such as the power supply, microprocessor, touch panel, and relays which&nbsp;you know were cost cut as much as possible.

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And I don’t even know how all these modes are&nbsp;supposed to do anything different.

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The fan doesn’t seem to be a variable-speed fan, so

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I figure&nbsp;all these modes might be able to do is fake you out
as far as the temperature set point vs. the actual temperature.

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Like,&nbsp;just how I had to set the temperature down by at least 50 degrees to get the Hamilton&nbsp;Beach toaster oven to behave like I expect an oven to behave,

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I think it’s likely these modes are just&nbsp;tinkering with the set points to make the&nbsp;same 400 degree setting produce different results&nbsp;in those different modes.

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And personally I don’t like machines which do that sort of fuzzy math on&nbsp;my behalf.

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I like using my own brain, actually.

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And that’s the end of the video.

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I’ll be honest,&nbsp;I was a huge curmudgeon about these things 
because I knew what they were.

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The same basic&nbsp;parts of a toaster oven 
just rearranged and then with a fan and a basket.

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And it really annoyed me that we&nbsp;decided to call these 
“air fryers” as if there’s a connection between baking and frying.

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But, just as Taco Bell sometimes manages
to come up with a Crunchwrap Supreme,

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new ideas from the&nbsp;parts bin of life can actually be pretty useful.

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And that’s good to remember.

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Kay bye.

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♫ crispy smooth jazz ♫

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...air fryer sticker on them so&nbsp;your’ll be more -eh beh beh bah.

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That cooler air next to the food forms something&nbsp;
of an insulating layer which slows the payk-- oof.

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This simple one has just two control knobs, one&nbsp;
for the temperature and one for the time.

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Crap.

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Yours might be just fine.

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And if you don’t already&nbsp;have an air fryer but you do have a convection oven and you don’t want to dedicate counter space&nbsp;to yet another small kitchen appliance,

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you might considering order...

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[confused]

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[laughs]

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How did that happen?

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[clears throat]
Anyway that

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[coughing fit]

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well…

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if you think i can bother to put a captions gag here, ya forgot what month it is.

