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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!
Baby Lee, you're the NuWave guru right? Are these air fryers basically the same thing? Just a convection oven?
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I don't have an air fryer, but basically yes it's still primarily convection cooking.
The specifics of the shape and how you hook it into place and everything is more about having more control over how the air flows over the food and how the cooking exhaust is filtered, than any kind of cooking innovation.
Instead of just moving the heated air in a circle around the cooking bowl, air fryers pull the air from above the food, pass it over the heating element, direct it back down under the food through passages on the exterior of the cooking vessel, then force/pass the heated air up from under the food, through the food, and back to it's starting spot.
Think of the air current as a magnetic field with the food being cooked as one of the poles and the heating element the other.
