Do we need big kitchen ovens anymore?

Jaros said:

I've had one for months and months and it's still in the box.

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Wife wanted one desperately, three years later, still in the box. We bought our son one and he uses it regularly and loves it. Mackka

A couple of years have rolled by and have never used an airfryer again, as a matter of fact it disappeared off our verge a in the 2021 verge pickup.
Still can't fault the roast lamb and vegies in the oven during winter.

But how do you fit a Xmas Turkey in the air frier together with the roast potato, pumpkin and carrots.

geof_junk said:

But how do you fit a Xmas Turkey in the air frier together with the roast potato, pumpkin and carrots.

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I'll always have an oven but a good gas bbq is just as good.

We tend to buy a certain brand of frozen chip to use in our air frier and they come out great...My other half cooks lots of stuff in it and it's used most days.
We had a deep fat frier and again the food tasted good, but it did stink the kitchen out plus I feel reducing oil fried food is probably a good move, health wise.
We still use our oven but use it a lot less which is probably good in these days of sky rocketing electricity prices.

Upside said:

I am starting to think ovens are a waste of electricity these days. Reason being we now have these air fryers , and air ovens.

So let's say for example you want to cook some frozen chips. A normal kitchen oven has approximately 1 square metre of space inside to heat whereas these new air fryers have a lot lot less area where the power bill isn't just getting wasted on.

Air ovens are also alot more energy efficient, just bigger than an air fryer so can fit say a roast lamb leg in.

I'm really considering buying these new air cookers and wondering are kitchen ovens becoming old technology, or am I wrong?

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You can do a lamb roast in a BBQ,

I have a little Camping Oven that uses those Butane Cans, It does Great Pizza or Pie's and Roast Spuds, Just Mumma use to make.

Way back in the early 2000s we bought a glass air frier it was great however at the time it was close to a weeks wages for most not like the less than a $100 air friers of to-day thanks to CHINA manufacturing.

We are building a 4 bedroom house at the moment and we decided to get a 90cm stand alone oven with cook top. The oven is dual fuel so electric and gas. Depending whether my wife is cooking a roast or a cake, we have it covered, plus if the power goes out we can still finish cooking one way or another.
Having said all that we do the majority of cooking in an air fryer, the cook top or the microwave, also have an air oven but hardly use it as the menu isn't intuitive.

Getting back to the stove we opted to get the big stove as it will add more resale value to the house when we eventually sell it (not getting any younger) as it will look quite impressive in the kitchen and may help to persuade someone if they have a large family, as cooking large family meals will be a breeze due to the size. It's a bit like having a bath in the house, most adults don't use one but if you have young kids it is a must, so have to put a bath in even if we will never use it for ourselves.

Have had all the portable gadgets used a couple of times and they end up gathering dust before going out for verge pick up.
Meanwhile back to our trusty built in oven, wouldn't be without it.

Do you have a big family? With grand child 8 coming in the next week or so, yes, a big stove is needed at times.