Hello and welcome to Mashable's air Friday, where we air fry anything and everything in the
name of deliciousness.
I am culture reporter Tim Morrison, and this week we are air frying,
peanut butter and jelly.
OK, so this week's recipe for peanut butter and jelly in
the air fryer comes from armonica on Tik Tok, where a recipe went viral.
So we're going to take a couple slices of bread, some peanut butter,
some jelly.
Real simple stuff kind of rolled it up into a little peanut butter and jelly roll thing I'm about and put
it in the air fryer.
Get it all melty and gooey, and hopefully have a nice lunch.
So the first step take kind of average bread here and decreased.
Now I was not one of those kids who didn't like the crust growing up.
I would eat anything and everything.
But apparently for this recipe, we're all going to be picky eaters,
so we're getting rid of the crust. This is real simple stuff.
You just take a knife and cut off the edges.
Now I would benefit from a sharper knife here, but such is life.
Sometimes your knife is dull.
What you're left with is a square distrusted crusted piece of bread,
you could use a rolling pin to roll this out flat.
Now that's the next step as you want to get it nice and flat so you can make a little tube so you have more
surface area to work with.
You could use a rolling pin, but the Mashable offices do not have the rolling
pin on hand, so I'm going to be using a bottle of spray oil to roll
my bread flat. Is this ideal?
Absolutely not throwing trays around. Will it get the job done?
It absolutely will. Totally fine.
You know,
the tools don't make you, you make the tools.
So now that we have.
Paper thin, flat bread.
We are going to take peanut butter and put it on bread.
Don't reinvent the wheel here. Just take a nice big love.
Spread it out.
You probably don't have to be as aggressive as I just was to take a nice big glob.
And spread it out. Give you one guess what we do next.
We're going to put jelly on this sucker. You take some jelly.
Got a nice fancy squeeze bottle here because that's what they had to tick tock.
Just a light little dollop like that.
And then take it the squeeze bottle and another little dollop.
It's time to roll and pinch.
So we're going to take this at the end here where you've already put the PBJ.
We're going to take that end to sort of just tuck and roll very carefully like it's a burrito.
And then when you get to the top here, what they did is a little pinch to seal things up.
Might look kind of familiar to some of the folks out there with recreational hobbies.
Let's say, at the states of California or wherever that's
legal.
Colorado, Oregon,
that sort of thing. But we've rolled and we've done a little pinch.
Look at that little PB and J.
Connolly, the edges,
the ends are not tucked in at all. I think you'd make a mess if you tried to do that.
So from there, we're just going to get these in the air fryer now in
the tick tock.
They kind of brushed with either butter or egg whites.
I couldn't really tell what, and there was no comment explaining what it was.
What we have and have on hand is the spray that we just used to roll out the bread.
So we're just going to use nonstick spray and hopefully they'll be a good enough seal.
Just give a little spray on top.
Now I'm going to take the air fryer tray and give it a little spray there,
too.
Speaking of not having instructions, the tick tock also didn't have a temperature or
time.
So I'm going to do a little bit of research for you here.
The good viewers at home, I think we're going to do this at around 350 degrees.
It should really only take a minute or two to cook the bread.
And if you go any longer than that, is probably going to be kind of runny.
So I'm going to preheat the air fryer to about 350 degrees.
I'm going to set it to five minutes because I think that's the maximum take.
I suspect it'll take way less than that, but we'll keep you posted on that.
Our peanut butter and jelly roll things have been in the air fryer for about three minutes.
Parts of the rolls are starting to look at.
The bread is starting to look kind of burnt and some of the peanut butter is sort of flying everywhere
inside the air fryer. So that feels like a good a time as any to take it out.
So there's some kind of spillage off the end here you can see,
you know, it was a little messy now,
partially, that could be on me.
I probably wasn't the neatest roller in the world, probably people out there who can do a much better
job. So let's take a rolls.
Look at that one.
That's not bad. That stayed together,
at least.
And this one's more of an open face roll, but you know you do what you can.
I can already tell this is going to burn the roof of my mouth.
That's what I do for air Friday. I put my body on the line.
Let's do a little like crack open there.
I can tell you that's molten peanut butter and jelly.
It's very hot.
It's not bad, I mean,
it's a hot peanut butter and jelly inside a toast.
I don't necessarily think you have to go through the process of cutting off the crust and rolling it up.
If you've got kids, they might love that it's kind of a novelty to try
peanut butter and jelly in a different form.
If you're just an adult working at home and you want to make a quick lunch in the air fryer,
you could probably just use two pieces of bread and
make a normal sandwich. But.
Like I said, it's better than a typical P.B.
and J, you've got some heat to it,
everything's kind of melted together, some texture from the toast.
Oh, no,
not that it's a peanut butter and jelly in the air fryer.
It's a hot evening. J can't complain.