Air cookers and weight loss
By grandpa_lash
@grandpa_lash (5225)
Australia
April 18, 2012 12:04am CST
We have just bought an air cooker (it hasn't arrived yet). As we are both at that point of life where you only have to look at a fried chip to put on a pound, we thought it might be a good way to diversify our menu and enjoy the things we used to love without ballooning.
Anyone here had experience with an air cooker, and did you lose weight?
Lash
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@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
18 Apr 12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1310446/The-Airfryer-The-frying-machine-gives-perfect-chips--oil.html
If the blurb is right, it means we can have fat-free chips that taste like chips from the local fish shop. And apparently all sorts of other tasty fat-free meals. I hope so, because my wallet is, indeed, a bit lighter. Well, my credit card actually.
Lash
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
18 Apr 12
Mate, you just posted pretty much what I was going to reply with, so I will give you the points and post in your comment box instead! 
If someone wants to lose weight then I recommend eating an apple instead of a potato. 
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
21 Apr 12
Apparently it is supposed to give the same taste as fried but without the oil and calories of deep frying. We are picking it up on monday and hope it works. It is supposed to be a sort of grill with rapidly moving air which might be like fan forced.
Now as to eating apples, yes they are nice in season but they are not chips and I miss chips. Besides potatoes go better with meat than apples do. Besides you need teeth to eat apples and some people do not have these necessary items.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
21 Apr 12
Well we are picking it up on Monday and will read the recipe book very carefully and experiment. The reviews I read all said that the chips tasted like fried chips but used a mere hint of oil and it is the oil that makes frying to bad for us and food so tasty. Oh I do miss fried food.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
18 Apr 12
Never have seen one. Let us know how you like it.
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
6 May 12
We are in love with our air fryer. It has delivered everything it promised. It took a little experimentation to get it perfect as each person has different tastes. So we prefer freshly cooked chips and roast potatoes, the only difference being in shape and size. The longer you cook them the cripier the skin gets so you have to work out what result you want and then work the time to suit. I have had lovely chips, perfect roast potatoes and heavebly roast onions. I have been trying to cook vegies like this in our oven for years with poor results. Just cannot get our oven to crisp them. This machine not only crisps them but in a third of the time.
The only downside is the size, it is small but as there are only 2 of us we can cook a meal in it without problems. I think that we could manage meals quite well with this machine and our grill for variety. Not only that but with almost no oil used the calories are almost the same as boiled so it is also good for our diets.
The only downside is the size, it is small but as there are only 2 of us we can cook a meal in it without problems. I think that we could manage meals quite well with this machine and our grill for variety. Not only that but with almost no oil used the calories are almost the same as boiled so it is also good for our diets.1 person likes this
