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Toss in pork tenderloin at 400 for 20 minutes.  It’s excellent
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I use mine when it's too hot for the oven. April to October. Or if I have something that would be way better in it. Ex tater totts or some appetizer type food. >

I cook outside in the summer. I have a grill, a 3 burner gas stove, and a pizza oven out there. >

I use mine about a third of the time. I also use my instapot, stove, flat griddle, and sous vide. And I break my panini press out once every 3 months on average. 
Give your balls a tug. >

Fuck you Shorsey! >

"Fuck you Riley, your mom keeps trying to slip a finger in my bum but I keep telling her I only let Jonesy's mom do that, ya fuckin' loser!" >

Fuck you Shoresy! >

You forgot the third kind who comment on reddit posts saying how they dont fit either of those 2 criteria /s >

It me! >

I think I use mine the exact right amount of times.
A wizard never uses his air fryer too seldom, or too frequently.  He uses it exactly as he means to. >

Correction,  there's 2 types of air fryer owners,  1 those who have one but don't understand the glory of what they have,  and 2 those who use it all the time. >

Lmao right? Who tf is the judge of using something to make food "too often"? Buddy, my body wants to eat every fucking day. I wouldn't do it this often if I didn't have to. >

You eat every single day?
That's too often. >

The third are the ones who wishes for one but don't have it or can't afford it >

They are like $30 at Best Buy >

Mostly meant as a sarcastic joke. But good to know of the price, so thank you for the info mate 😁 >

Can someone explain air fryers? I dont get it, it cooks stuff with hot air, it does the same thing as an oven. It is an oven >

It’s just a mini convection oven. Cooks food more evenly and uses less electricity than a full size oven. Very convenient if you’re just cooking for one or two people. >

Also, makes it real easy to shake em up during cooking! >

The food or the dinner guests? For the latter, I usually leave out a ramekin of gochugaru and eat pinches of it during conversation. >

Ahhh I see that someone has noticed the other air fryer memes on Reddit today and would like to join the party >

There is a huge middle ground of people who have both air-fryers and something more interesting going on in their lives to talk about. >

So when i go trough periods of using it constantly to periods of not using it at all, i have been doing it wrong? 
But tbf that may be just my ADHD >

I barely use mine as I’m not big of fried stuff. My boyfriend uses it daily though. >

Type 2 here and also, I cant shut about how awesome it is, haha. God, I must be annoying to be around. >

All...The...Time
Cooks food better and faster than a standard oven. >

There is a third kind: those who buy it for their vegetarian wife and then proceed to cook massive amounts of meat in it. >

I go through phases.   Use nothing but the air fryer for weeks, then get a hankering for soup and forget about it for a month. >

We're on our 2nd air fryer. The first one was some brand I'd never heard of that I think my mom got off Amazon. It was decent, though, and we used it everyday for over a year until the handle on the basket broke. We got a Ninja Air Fryer earlier this year and I like it even better. Still gets used just about everyday. We only use the oven for frozen pizza. >

I use mine nearly every night, but only because our oven in our rental property is from the 80's and either burns or undercooks everything. >

Our household air fryer also has an oven mode among others & is awesome. Even roasted a chicken in it. >

Is using it once or twice every other week the middle ground cause that where I'm at? >

I don't use it, though my partner does. We split cooking so it evens out. >

Or three… those who used to never is it, then discovered it’s power, and use it all the time >

Proudly a use it too often. Oven days are long gone and my electricity bill shows >

It’s funny because we’ve gone from the second person to the first person over the last couple months. I can’t remember the last time we used it and we used to use it almost daily. >

My family just got one for Christmas and it’s been used every day since and multiple times a day >

I have an air fryer and I use it for every from steak to chicken nuggets >

I'm convinced most air fryer tiktok accounts are just adverts >

And then there’s my kind of air fryer people, we bake with them. Yes you read it right BAKE. They turn out the same as an oven because it’s basically just a smaller oven. >

Lol I think I genuinely might be the middle ground. I really only use for bread and chickpeas >

i don’t get air fryers- what do you do with the oil afterwards?? >

Um, no oil in them.  You use a little oil, yes, but not much.
There's no (or very little) oil when done. >

right, so what do you do with that very little oil? it builds up over time of course. oil can’t really be disposed of anywhere safely >

It's a simple matter of washing it with soap.  It doesn't build up.
Keep in mind we're talking about (quite literally) a few drops at the bottom, even if you're making french fries.
For example, when making fries (say 3-4 medium sized potatoes), you cut them up, soak in really cold water for 30-45 min), and completely dry them.  Then add about 1-1.5 tablespoons of oil to the cut up potatoes.  Then air fry (shaking the basket every 5 min or so) for 18-20 min.
When making fried chicken drumsticks, you coat the chicken and add no oil. >

I use mine once every 10 or so cooks. 
I am the middle ground. >

It works really well for a lot of stuff, why wouldn’t I use it often >

We got an air fryer for Christmas from our kids, it’s still in the box. I’ve mentioned to my wife a few times we should open it and see how it goes and she just shrugged. 
She then asked me when the bread machine was going to be fixed, the belt broke and I had to order a new belt for it. She’s a little crazy about my homemade bread, I think she’s more interested in that.