- Guess what we're doing today?
We're using an air fryer.
We gotta air fryer over here versus traditional frying.
This is the Battle Royale, line in the sand.
We're gonna see which one comes out better.
Let's do it.
We have a brand new model of air fryer.
What this does is it's a heating element and a fan
that keeps hot air constantly in motion.
What that's supposed to do is mimic frying,
but not using any oil.
How do you do that?
Well, with this guy, right here.
This is a basket.
If you take it out, you can see
that it's grated on the bottom.
This is kind of like your main catchall.
You see, there are guides on the bottom, here,
that is going to take air
and not only circulate it on the bottom,
but also push it up.
So, we're gonna have air from the bottom
and we're gonna have air from the top.
Over here, your standard fryer.
Nothing that's really out of the ordinary, here.
So, here's the control.
We're actually gonna do a little bit of a thicker fry, here.
We have one pound for each one.
We're gonna put 'em in at the exact same time.
We're gonna run timers and we're gonna run 'em both at 360.
Thicker fry is the harder one to do
because what you want is brown, crispy outside
and a very soft interior.
Let's get into it.
Right away, the fan is running.
There's not a lot of hot air escaping.
Maybe out of this back vent there's some,
which you shouldn't be standing over.
But it only takes about a few minutes to heat up.
The oil, the longer time to kick up.
The design, itself, you ever seen Spaceballs?
If you take this out, Spaceballs, the Air Fryer.
- [Group] Thank you.
- We've soaked each of these fries
in water for about 30 minutes.
For the air fryer, we actually have to add
about a teaspoon of oil in the beginning.
We drizzle it over the top.
We're just gonna lightly toss them.
There is a little bit of oil on these,
but not as much, I guess, as we're gonna
be picking up from the other fryer.
So let's do this.
Air fryer goes in, we've got 20 minutes
on that clock and for the regular fries,
all thick cut, same time, same temperature.
Now we wait.
(funky music)
All right, so, I just want to let you know
that we're in a few minutes right now of this,
right now both sides are still frying,
but I am noticing a very big difference, right now.
You know when you fry, the house smells like fryer,
your clothes smell like fryer?
This guy, is doing that.
So, in terms of house smell, clothes smell,
hard edge going to the air fryer.
All right, we're pulling our regular fries here.
Get 'em on the plate.
This is usually the point where
you want to hit them with salt,
but I don't want to.
Heavy salt hand could hit different fries,
just leave them as is.
Air fryer's done.
So, we have our air fried fries
versus our regular french fries.
Here, we have a uniformity of color.
That is due to that it is constantly surrounded in oil.
The air fryer, is kind of reminiscent
of using a convection oven, really.
The air isn't guaranteed to hit every single part evenly.
So, what you do have are patchy french fries.
So, this side's a little dark, this side's a little light.
The corners and the tips go.
The inside is really nice.
The outside, it is crisp,
but it's that kind of charred potato crisp
and not fried by oil crisp.
Now, the regular fries here,
do have a nice exterior.
The inside's cooked and I feel like
no matter what part I'm biting,
I'm getting the same experience.
What I will say is that,
I do feel like I'm eating a healthier french fry, here.
Now, here's what it really comes down to.
Also, it comes down to cook times, right?
So, this was eight minutes in, right?
These guys, right here, were 22 minutes.
So, that is a difference of 14 minutes.
If you're making all the right life choices for health,
I feel that 14 minutes could be
a decent trade off to get french fries.
This is a $230 piece of equipment.
You can do chicken in this, you can do fish in this,
you can do fries in this, you can do brussel sprouts,
all kinds of vegetables, all kinds of meats.
If you do not have a convection oven at home,
and you want to start eating healthier,
but still kind of have that fried food, crispiness feeling,
absolutely 100%,
getting an air fryer is great.
If you own one, then I don't know
if I'd spend the extra $230.
If you wanted a horse race with no variables,
raw french fry to the end
with just that classic, french fry taste,
I'm going to have to say
the classic, oil-fried, french fry
is better than an air fryer french fry.
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Standard pot, it's just hard.
I don't want to say this, but if you eat a lot of (bleep)
mac n' cheese, maybe that (bleep) matters to you.
Instead of using.