Maybe everyone is as confused as Bian Xiao. Is there any cooking method that can replace frying, so that we can taste the fried things and avoid eating a lot of oil? Can Internet transmission be a delicious and healthy treasure kitchenware? Is the air fryer reliable? Understand its principle first, and then judge whether it is worth a try!
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Air fryer version fried chicken wings
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Basic principle of air fryer
Traditional frying is a process of cooking and cooking food by using the gasification of oil at high temperature to take away the water on the surface of food and conduct heat from outside to inside.
There is a food baking heater at the top of the air fryer, which can quickly heat the air in the fryer. Coupled with the special grain design of the food basket in the fryer, with the help of the high-power fan, the vortex heat flow with high temperature and rapid circulation is generated in the closed space of the fryer, that is, the traditional animal and vegetable oil is replaced by hot air, so that the air can help us fry food.
Dynamic diagram of internal heating principle of air fryer
The baking tray in the air frying pan is generally placed in the middle of the frying pan, leaving a certain space up and down. In this way, under the action of the fan, the circulating hot air can contact the surface of the food in all directions, continuously heat the food around, and reduce the oil contained in the food itself. Forced? Come out, cook the food, turn the surface brown, and create a similar? Fried? Crispy taste.
Air fryer is like a combination of oven and high-power blower, so the food fried with air fryer is more inclined to the food baked in the oven in appearance and taste, but it is different from traditional frying.
There is circulating hot air in the air fryer.
There are many brands of air fryer in the market, and the key difference of its performance mainly lies in the way of heating food.
For example, some air fryers use related technologies to realize air circulation up and down the chassis and increase the convective heating area, thus improving the heating uniformity on both sides of the ingredients; Some air fryers have a food spinner in the inner container, which will make the food rotate evenly when heated, but it may destroy the integrity of the food to some extent; There are also some brands that install air guide slots inside the air fryer to let hot air blow from the side of the basket. However, such a liner device will inevitably make the inner wall of the vegetable basket stained with grease and food residue, which makes the cleaning work more difficult after use.
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Does the air fryer really use no oil?
Compared with the traditional frying cooking method, the air fryer greatly reduces or even avoids the use of animal and vegetable oils, but it is not accurate to say that the air fryer does not use oil at all.
Because in the process of its work, it will use the oil contained in the food itself to produce a fried taste, but compared with manual extra cooking, the oil content and calories are indeed much lower.
However, it is not absolute not to use extra animal and vegetable oil. If our raw materials contain a certain amount of oil, such as chicken wings and fish, there is really no need to put extra oil.
However, if you want to fry almost oil-free vegetables in an air frying pan, such as lotus root slices, you still need to add a little oil as a medium in advance to help the human body absorb the nutrients in vegetables and effectively prevent the vegetables from zooming.
Fried coupling made of air fryer
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Advantages and potential hazards of air fryer
Compared with the traditional fryer, which uses animals and plants to fry food, the air fryer can greatly reduce the oil content in food, and will not produce harmful fumes like the traditional frying. Compared with the oven, it can also shorten the cooking and waiting time, and even set the cooking time and temperature in advance, so that no one needs to be in front of it all the time. Is it simple and safe to operate? Kitchen white? Children are friendlier.
The air fryer is simpler to use.
The cooking temperature of air fryer is basically the same as that of ordinary fried food, even slightly higher. When frying food, the oil temperature is about 160℃ to 180℃, while the temperature range of air fryer is usually 120℃ to 200℃, depending on the ingredients used and the dishes made.
Therefore, just like frying, even if the air fryer is used, nutrients such as vitamin B in food will be destroyed and lost at high temperature, and substances such as protein in food may also produce heterocyclic amines and benzopyrene, which may induce cancer of human cells, reduce nutritional value and bring certain health risks.
It can be seen that we should eat more steamed and cooked food in our daily life. Cooking can largely retain the nutritional value of food, avoid the production of harmful substances, and be relatively healthier.
As for the air fryer, it is ok for friends who want to eat fried food but are afraid of getting fat and unhealthy to use it occasionally to relieve their addiction, but they should eat it in moderation.
Moreover, when buying an air fryer, you must choose a brand with quality assurance and a product with national 3C certification, so as to minimize potential safety hazards and ensure safety.