I love "air-fryers" despite their stupid ass marketing buzzword. It's, as you pointed out, a tiny version of my oven-with-a-fan. Yet it saves me a lot of time as there's no need to wait until it's heated, and, due to its tiny size, it's also done more quickly. Besides having two completely separate chambers for two things needing different heat/time. And the added bonus? Cleaned much quicker and easier.

Since we have this thing, the conventional oven wasn't used once.

[–] tjoa@feddit.org -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That your oven is heating slow is a flaw of your oven. You can get half height convection ovens who heat up much faster and have all the benefits of a normal oven but the convection works just as well like in an air fryer. some even have microwave functions so you save another device.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I dunno what this oven costs as I just bought the kitchen that looked best. But it sure got all bells and whistles and is a convection one. Still takes time to preheat and all that for our two tiny meals.

i value my time and whatever saves me a minute wins. We still need the big one for cooking in pans and such. So it's not useless.

If those friers would be totally useless and redundant, they wouldn't sell that well.

[–] tjoa@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And I guess your oven is also full size so that’s not the type of oven I’m talking about. There are one 2/3 of the height and have basically zero heat up time like an air fryer. I value my time and kitchen real estate so if I can have something that does both I will always choose that

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I have not seen such a thing. But I rarely check out kitchen appliances, so there's that.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Buying a more expensive oven seems like a bit of overkill, as far as advice about ADHD-friendly cooking goes.