Whether a device without fat, only with hot air, there is an alternative fried? We tried it. The answer is a resounding: Yes and no.
After all, is missing in the preparation course the fat as taste carrier. Also meals and baked items that need to swim in fat, such as Berlin (or donuts, Kreppel) not succeed in the hot air naturally. Simply put, everything that can be cooked in hot air oven can also be prepared in a Heißluftfritteuse.
The advantage over the "normal" fryer is on the one hand the versatility and, secondly, the healthier preparation. Because, unlike fat, air has no calories.
In which case the question arises, what you still want to purchase an additional device; a convection oven is indeed in almost every household. The advantages for hot-air oven, the most of them have indeed are, but not too bad either:
+ Heated quicker than the oven
+ Less power consumption since a smaller oven has to be heated; for two servings of fries really have run half an hour not the entire oven!
+ An additional option: It's quite handy that you can eg prepare the side dishes in a separate unit, if the oven is occupied by roast or cake
The "frying" results are mostly pretty good the Philips HD9225 / 50 Viva Airfryer. If you follow the instructions, and the food good shakes more often, or turns. As serious disadvantages we feel the, in relation to the cooking chamber, disproportionately large amount of space. The baking tin for cakes is downright tiny. 800 grams of food to be cooked - a grilled chicken weighs usually around 1,200 grams - is quite poor. Cumbersome is also the subsequent purification. Although the frying basket and his drawers can in the dishwasher. You are in clean and beautiful, but there need a lot of space. The dishes by hand proves to be time consuming and takes a lot of effort promising: The grid of the basket and the drawer with its air stream-Leitflanken have many corners and edges in which can settle residues of cooking.
Hot air fryers, there are some on the market. The Philips HD9225 / 50 Viva Airfryer must be some competition, also in the house. With its temperature setting on a rotating wheel and mechanical "egg timer" timer as he rather belongs to the entry level. The operation is therefore simple.
We have the Klarstein Heißluftfritteuse fryer without fat for grilling baking and deep-frying (1400W, 9Liter, automatic programs, non-stick coating) purple long been in use. Unlike the Philips Viva Airfryer made some sensible automatic programs, a larger cooking space and is (apart from the frying basket) much easier to clean. As the biggest advantage of Klarstein can with an integrated rotisserie points: The cooking basket, the rotisserie for grilled chicken or shish kebab skewers rotate and be completely crispy. As an accessory there are of Klarstein also a Steak cage and accessories for steam cooking.