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My selfmade chips are way better from my air fryer than the oven.

> My selfmade chips are way better from my [tabletop oven] than the [integrated/under-counter/floorstanding] oven

Something is different - it's not that one was sold as 'air fryer'.

My air fryer has a spinning thing in the middle, wich turns my chips around, so i would say thats a plus! But yea, it is basicly a small oven. Maybe it uses less energie.

By virtue if being smaller it does yes - there's an argument for using as small an oven as possible for sure - but the return on investment of that for having multiple different sized ovens is bound to be longer than the product's lifetime.

(I broke my oven door, rather than pay £150 plus labour opted to pay £280 for a new oven. That was a Bosch, certainly not the cheapest possible.)

Personally the return on the air fryer for me is a direct result of it being smaller. For most things my larger kitchen oven needs time to preheat. That's an additional step that isn't required when I just want to roast some vegetables / meat or heat some frozen potato products quickly in the air fryer. This time / extra step is well worth cost for me ($20 of fb marketplace).

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