This quick-cooking appliance might need a warm-up.
An air fryer has a lot of features that are not dissimilar to an oven.
And that means sometimes foods you cook in your air fryer will benefit from preheating.
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There are also times you don’t need to bother with preheating.
Here’s what to know about how and when to preheat your air fryer.
It’ll cook your food even faster.
Most air fryers preheat to 400 F in three to five minutes.
Preheating is also a good idea to achieve a crispy and crunchy texture with fried or breaded foods.
So if you are looking to have great food faster, preheating can help.
However, certain foods would not benefit from going into a preheated air fryer.
You want these to cook at a slower rate.
With these foods, youd be better off not preheating the air fryer.
Also, don’t preheat if the food will be cooking for a long period of time.
Same for abaked potato.
For those dishes, you don’t want to preheat the air fryer.
But if you’remaking cookiesand would normally preheat the oven, you should do the same with your air fryer.
