So here’s a little industry secret you may not realize. There is no such thing as an air fryer. I mean, sure, you can walk into a Best Buy and find an aisle full of products that call themselves “air fryers” but they don’t work by frying the air. That’s not a thing. It’s just a marketing term. They’re essentially just a smaller version of your convection oven that can sit atop your counter.
We had those in the 90s and early 2000s too. We called them toaster ovens. Air fryers work the same way, they just looks a little different in their design. Not this one from Breville, though. This Breville Smart Over Air Fryer Pro is front loading like a toaster oven and right now it’s 20% off. That discount ends up taking the price down by $80, meaning you only have to pay $320 for a limited time.
Breville boasts that this air fryer can handle 13 different kitchen functions in just one product. It lists that this unit can air fry, broil, bake, roast, warm, proof, reheat, slow cook, dehydrate, and even toast. It also lists that it can bagel, pizza, and cookies too. Despite none of those being verbs, it can still do it. Far out.
And air fryer like this can come in handy when preparing a large quantity of food items for a dinner or get-together. You can use the air fryer to prepare the sides separately while your oven is preoccupied with the main dish. Alternatively, they also make for a great alternative to using your standard oven when only cooking a meal for yourself or for two. It can preheat to the desired temperature faster and more quickly provide fast an even distribution of hot air to your foods with the help of the two-speed convection fans. Breville advertises that it can reduce cooking time by as much as 30%.
Extra Large Capacity
The interior of the Breville Smart Over Air Fryer Pro is ludicrously capacious, measuring 16 inches by 13.5 inches by seven inches. That’s large enough to toast nine slices of bread or a 14-lb. turkey. There’s enough room inside to hang and stack four trays of different sides on top of each other to make the absolutely most of the space.
The integrated oven light turns itself on automatically at the end of a cooking cycle so you can see inside or your can just turn it on at any time manually to view your meals progress.