Was prepping dinner last Tuesday and read the bag of crinkle cuts, says air fry at 400 for 12 minutes. Back in 2004 I used to deep fry those same ones for 6 minutes in a pot of oil. How come nobody told me the cooking tech moved this much, you guys seeing the same thing?
Air fry at 400 for 12 minutes, huh? So we went from "dangerous pot of boiling oil" to "basically a tiny hair dryer for your food" and the fries just went along with it. The real kicker is that bag prob costs twice what it did in 2004 too, so you're paying more for less oil and more time standing there shaking a basket. Next thing you know they'll tell us we can cook them in the microwave and we'll all act like we invented fire. Meanwhile my one buddy still owns that same fryer pot and refuses to change, says the air fryer fries taste like cardboard that got its hopes up.