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Air Frying tips...

Susan Louise — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:32:33 GMT

I thought it would be helpful to start a thread on this topic for those of us who are green horns, so to speak.

I have 2 questions to start...

1 - I would like to air fry Emeril's crab cakes...so would I air fry them from frozen or bring to room temp 1st?...and then what would be the ballpark temp/time?

2 - Where is the air frying time and temperatures chart Merideth referred to on air today?

TIA

Re: Air Frying tips...

roxiegirl — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:51:28 GMT

http://www.meredithlaurence.com/air-frying-101/air-fryer-cooking-charts/ This shows the air frying cooking charts.

Re: Air Frying tips...

roxiegirl — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:06:36 GMT

http://www.meredithlaurence.com/air-frying-101/air-fryer-cooking-charts/ This link gets you to the chart.

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GCR18 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:09:21 GMT

I am by no means an expert. I'll tell you what I do. If I were to bake the crab cakes in the oven at say 350 degrees, that's what I'd set the air fryer at. Meredith was cooking salmon today and said to cook 10 minutes for every inch. Meredith said you can cook fish from frozen or thawed, but thawed would come out better. I would put on for five minutes, flip and check again every two minutes. Less if they look almost done.

I didn't hear her talk about a chart. I would guess it's either on the product page or her cook book.

Re: Air Frying tips...

Susan Louise — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:15:38 GMT

@GCR18 wrote:
I am by no means an expert. I'll tell you what I do. If I were to bake the crab cakes in the oven at say 350 degrees, that's what I'd set the air fryer at. Meredith was cooking salmon today and said to cook 10 minutes for every inch. Meredith said you can cook fish from frozen or thawed, but thawed would come out better. I would put on for five minutes, flip and check again every two minutes. Less if they look almost done.

I didn't hear her talk about a chart. I would guess it's either on the product page or her cook book.

@GCR18 Bless your heart! Great helpful post...

I must have missed the particular info frozen - vs - thawed, even though I have been watching all day...and even now with Rick on.

And with the chart, glad to know it's in her book...glad I ordered it...TY

Re: Air Frying tips...

Renata22 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:16:45 GMT

Susan, the chart is on her webpage bluejeanchef.com.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:45:28 GMT

I didn't see Meredith demos today. Does she spritz the food with a little oil before cooking? I see her cookbook in paperback is $5 cheaper on Amazon with free shipping for Prime members. Advanced orders.

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GCR18 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:57:22 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I didn't see Meredith demos today. Does she spritz the food with a little oil before cooking? I see her cookbook in paperback is $5 cheaper on Amazon with free shipping for Prime members. Advanced orders.

I didn't hear anything mentioned about oil. The presentations I watched had the food coming out of the fryer. I didn't see anything going in. I've mainly cooked frozen things and they didn't need oil.

@Kachina624

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GCR18 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:59:13 GMT

@Renata22 wrote:
Susan, the chart is on her webpage bluejeanchef.com.

That's an obvious spot, not. 😀 she should put it on the q website. @Renata22

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Susan Louise — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 03:08:10 GMT

@Renata22 wrote:
Susan, the chart is on her webpage bluejeanchef.com.

@Renata22 Thank you so much! I just printed it off

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Wackers3 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:08:30 GMT

Meredith did say during the shows I caught that food would turn out better if it was defrosted. Now obviously that refers to foods (meats, fish, etc) that we elect to freeze and not to foods that are from the frozen food section. Those foods would be cooked from their frozen state, the way we purchase them.

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hopi — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:12:09 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I didn't see Meredith demos today. Does she spritz the food with a little oil before cooking? I see her cookbook in paperback is $5 cheaper on Amazon with free shipping for Prime members. Advanced orders.

@Kachina624

Meredith said in one of her presentations she does spritz - for color, texture, and taste. She uses olive oil.

eta she uses a mister -not canned oil and if you don't have a mister 1 to 2 tsp and coat with hands.

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okaywitheasypay — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:49:06 GMT

@hopi "1 to 2 tsp and coat " that is how I have always prepared my oven fries & I like to add garlic , onion powder and paprika also.

@Renata ty for mentioning the blue jean chef's website it looks very helpful. I signed on for the e-mails. I like her approach to cooking!

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momtochloe — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:19:54 GMT

@Susan Louise sorry I am a little late to the party here but (for me) the only things I fry frozen are things like french fries, fish filets, chicken patties, etc.. I love a frozen burrito out of the air fryer but I take it out overnight and put it in the fridge so it is thawed and they come out great.

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ctinaw — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:33:20 GMT

I believe she said her guide was on her website (havent looked it up sorry). You can definitely put them in frozen. Air frying luckily isn't an exact science. You have to play with a bit and just see what works. I usually look up whatever the instructions are for regular oven cooking (or if it has convection oven instructions just use that) - and I subtract about half the time from the regular oven cooking time, check on it - and just go on from there. Things cook much more quickly so tha tis the biggest learning curve.

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ctinaw — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:34:24 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I didn't see Meredith demos today. Does she spritz the food with a little oil before cooking? I see her cookbook in paperback is $5 cheaper on Amazon with free shipping for Prime members. Advanced orders.

Acutally its $10 cheaper if you count Q's $5.50 shipping! I am totally fine waiting until December 1st for that big of a price break.

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Nightowlz — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:35:00 GMT

@ctinaw wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
I didn't see Meredith demos today. Does she spritz the food with a little oil before cooking? I see her cookbook in paperback is $5 cheaper on Amazon with free shipping for Prime members. Advanced orders.
Acutally its $10 cheaper if you count Q's $5.50 shipping! I am totally fine waiting until December 1st for that big of a price break.

@ctinaw @Kachina624 I found her Air Fryer cookbook on Wal-Mart's site for $13.72 + free shipping but it does not ship until 12-28. Worth the wait for me since it's half the price of what Q wants with shipping + tax.

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Daysdee — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:17:06 GMT

I have the Power XL fryer that Eric sells on QVC. I pretty much follow the pre-sets on the fryer, but I do reduce the time since I prepare small portions of food. I have only used oil once when I cooked a boneless turkey filet. I used just one spray of olive oil from the EVO oil sprayer QVC sells. (cheaper at Amazon) The seasonings seem to stick better, but on most items for me the oil isn't needed. When I try vegetables I will probably spray them. I use my air fryer several times a week.