Perhaps. After all, they certainly changed my thinking with regard to slow
cookers back when we first got married. I remember thinking that if anyone
could create good food from a slow cooker, ATK could. These folks have made it
abundantly clear, to all who will listen, that it simply is not possible to
recreate fried foods in the near or total absense of hot oil. But they do
admit some things can be made well in an air fryer, and they encourage people
to think of them as tabletop convection ovens rather than a device that
attempts to duplicate fried food using another cooking method altogether. It’s
one thing to take an appliance and write recipes that make people want to use
the device in the way it was originally meant to be used, such as the slow
cooker. It’s quite another to take a different appliance that is popular only
because its fan base is in love with an idea, and try to help them understand
that the appliance cannot really, truly create the same results guilt-free. T
he one that most gets me, however, is the George Forman grill. That device was
a crime, both in its design and the way it was labeled and marketed. I
mean...seriously, are we going to start baking in water now? But back to your
original remarks, I actually have thought of purchasing the book, especially as
summer where I live is generally too hot to run a hot oven.
Jon
From: Charlene Ota
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 6:21 AM
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindcooks] air fryer
Hi, Jon, I just couldn’t help but think of you when I saw one of the latest
releases from America’s Test Kitch and had to chuckle a bit. One of their new
releases is a book called Air Fryer Perfection and I know you hold them in such
high esteem, as many of us do. Maybe you’ll have to look just a tad bit more
kindly on the airfery after all! (smile!)
