Friday, October 03, 2025

Pretty in pink again

Daughter is a freelance copywriter and she's currently working for a company that sells air fryers, amongst other things. They gave her an air fryer to enable her to write about it, and then replaced it with a newer model. So Daughter gave me the original one. Very pretty it is too.

Last night I used it for the first time. Now the sensible thing would have been to cook a simple dish, like a piece of chicken. Not for me. Crispy chilli beef was my debut of choice.

The facts that it didn't come with a manual, and Daughter was in a parents' evening and uncontactable, didn't help. But I did it and it was fine, albeit VERY spicy hot, but that was the fault of the recipe - or Husband's chillis - not the air fryer. Also the beef wasn't very crispy. But I'd bought very thin slices so again that was probably my inexperience.

I will review it properly when I've cooked chips or chicken or something like that. 

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I've just finished Fredrik Backman's latest, My Friends. Oh I loved it. Not just because I love everything he writes but because it's a beautiful story, told with love and humour. 

And, in my previous post, I named my flowers a Boud Bouquet because Boud regularly, possibly daily, gathers flowers from her garden.


7 comments:

CaptainKirt said...

I avoided getting an air fryer for the longest time but in the end I got one. It changed our lives - the most used kitchen appliance apart from the kettle.

Liz Hinds said...

We shall see.

jabblog said...

We resisted for a while, while our children talked about theirs, but now it's an established item and very useful. Yours is unusual.

Anvilcloud said...

I was wondering about the Boud flowers. We have an air fryer that gets some use.

Ole phat Stu said...

What is the ISBN of that book ?

Boud said...

I liked the flower shoutout, thank you. I need to find that book, good referral. I've never figured out why air fryers are different from my toaster oven, but people seem to love them.

Ann said...

I like my air fryer. I use it quite often but never make anything fancy in it.