We hear you guys. Maybe we give this one to the air fryer for not making a fair enough competition. I will say, our goal was to take famous air fryer recipes and pit them against our own version. Hence why the other techniques on mine were different. That being said, it sounds like everyone wants air fryer recipes to make things right, or a rematch? Or both? You tell me. Thank you guys for letting us know how you felt about this one.
yeah man i respect this acknowledgment here and i'm usually all for the "cheekiness" , but digging on air fryers all video for no reason and then smashing one at the end just came across as a spiteful move not as entertainment. too many videos lately feel like it's "proving the comment section wrong" instead of just making fun and cheeky content.
They have a place in a home. Not a restaurant. Take into account the speed and the efficiency of an air fryer vs preheating an entire oven for one meal. The cost of the oil and heating the oil vs turning on an air fryer. A lot more than just amazing chef quality food vs good home cooking. It would be great to see what recipes you can create for air fryers. Great idea for a double book series eh? Air fryer recipes you love = book #1. Same recipes but for when times aren't so expensive = book #2. Keep it up Joshua. Love what you do 👍
How about remove that superiority complex and snobby attitude. This is like you doing a cooking competition on microwave dishes. Talk about complete BS. STOP DOING THE SNOBBY COOK act. It’s sh*tty and doesn’t actually reflect REAL COOKING. Stop trying to be Mr. Beast as well. Thanks.
I've been following you for a while now, and I've learned so much from you. You made me love cooking, and there are things you thought me that've become staples in my house. That being said, the bat thing just disappointed me. There are so many people who could never afford an air fryer, dude, and you destroying it was just... I could ignore the different recepties and shit, but this was just ugly, man, and the sad thing is you have been headed here fo a while. I don't know if you chose to portray yourself this way - I hope that's the case - but for some time now the videos seem like a way to scratch your ego than anything else. If you really want to do somethin, change this please. You became Papa, because you were encouraging, not because you made me feel bad if I couldn afford an igredient, or had 5 days to do something, or ate something you deem disgusting later. It's just not cool.
The deep fryer is the only one I'd consider "fair" as it's similarly fast and doesn't necessarily change the flavor from the recipe that much. You should be making the same recipe from the air fryer and apply similar traditional technique. But not overnight stuff that dramatically changes the recipe unless you apply them to the same recipe too like the potatoes. And no cooking techniques that add flavor like cooking over charcoal when you could cook on gas.
Or just cooked in general haha it should have been titled “how an air fryer makes food just as good as a 24 hr process” cus the air fryer is a life saver on a busy day to make food really good
He did almost exactly the same recipe for the salmon and wings. Why not do the same for the potatoes? Joshua gotta explain that sht or rematch and do the potatoes justice
The fact that you could prep, cook, clean and repeat all 3 of those dishes in the time it would have taken to set up the grill for the salmon makes the air fryer a clear winner, IMO.
You convinced me - I'm gonna buy an air fryer. If the difference in quality is so small, yet it's so much faster/less effort (and less fat) it's worth it.
@@YeraMcDonald2017 Me too, use my Foodi nearly every day. I have many kitchen appliances, but only the Foodi lives on my worktop. Air fryer, pressure cooker, slow cooker, dehydrator, steam oven, saute, dehydrate, prove, and several more. Any yet Josh would rather light coals for salmon fillets and heat up quarts of oil for wings, and take a whole day to cook a few potatoes. Move with the times Josh, you're getting left behind (as the taste tests would've told you if you'd been honest).
I love the fact that we all knew Josh was gonna "win" but none of us care because air fryers are legit one of the most useful and convenient kitchen items ever lmao
9:53 He's spot on. Deep frying stuff is a huge pain, makes a mess, and you gotta deal with pouring it back into the container (some people even say to filter it too) and reserving/disposing of it.
Reheating oil is extremely unhealthy. Specially in high temperatures Just use the air fryer it’s healthier. If you want the extra taste, follow Josh’s recipe and finish it on the air fryer. Just don’t do the sauce.
if he had done the potatoes the same way for both, i feel like air fryer would have won. And the fact that they made a good point about wasting a lot of oil for deep frying vs air frying. air fryers are a valuable and great part of any kitchen and dont deserve to be beaten up by a bat
Absolutely. All airfriers are, are ovens that circulate air to create and even crispiness. That's it... I really don't understand what there is to challenge here.
@@AC-gw4qu totally agree. I was like nope nope nope, that’s not the same recipe. Same with the salmon. Grilling creates a completely different flavor profile.
For the rematch: Use the same ingredients including seasonings and amounts and limit yourself to the same amount of time it takes to cook in the air fryer. The whole point is of an air fryer is to make things easily. The real test is to see if you can do it traditionally just as easily imo
traditional wont always be as easy, just depends what recipes if its worth the time. Common stuff, no worries airfryer is probably 10/10. Most things that could be airfried probably wouldnt be the things that taking extra care or a whole day would work with anyways. It's all about what you need. Not like anyone is trying to make a whole bbq pig in an airfryer XD
It's amazing for leftovers. Next day pizza, or Chinese takeaway (salt and pepper chicken, for instance) is wonderful. Also hugely underrated for stuff like sausages; in the air fryer you get a lovely even browning all round without having to stand over it and rotate it every few seconds and watch like a hawk, etc.
Between the overall speed and the satisfaction in relation to the amount of effort, yeah, I'd say the air fryer wins. I mean, heating up quarts of oil, freezing overnight, etc. may make the food slightly better, but if it's not enough to overcome the speed and convenience of the air fryer (which sounds like the case in this video), then the air fryer sounds like the better option.
Def. This one I complained more about Josh's cheating than any other video. Doing the par boil and overnight chill of the oven roasted potatoes but not on the air fried ones gives them a clear advantage that could have easily applied to both cooking methods, and charcoal grilling the fish could easily alter the actual base flavor of the fish. Glad that didn't sway them on the second test.
I was going to say. I pointed out that he also likes to throw away foods in the “but better” series, for example he gets a store bought hot pocket takes two bites and throws it away, instead of giving it to someone.. and also this arifryer is about 150$, i’m sure one of his neighbours or so would have appriciated it. When I used to work in a restaurant/caffee i was shocked how much food is being wasted, like they threw away perfect looking meals.. plus smashing an airfryer? Come on..
I totally get the resistance to air fryers. But I decided to give in and try them, and wow. My favourite thing to use them for is reheating leftovers. ESPECIALLY fried foods. It brings fried leftovers right back to where they started, and I honestly don’t know what else can do that.
@@NYCFoodGuyDotCom Sure but if he had used thin potatoes for the air fryer they would have came out crispy too. And if he had baked potato chunks i'm pretty sure he would have lost
funny how this video actually makes me consider an air fryer more seeing how close the results where apart from the potato recipe where he obviously cheated
for sure that was cheating, also a hand full of air fryer recipes use spray oil that def wouldve given the salmon and chicken that crisp the judges missed
@@Bozza36 I don’t, and an air fryer is really convenient. I live alone so I don’t have to cook in batches, saves ton of oil, the difference in taste is really minor. There are few things that I actually prefer air fried to deep fried.
Minus the fact the potato recipes were different, you need to also take into account for the 'chief' recipes it required an oven, outside grill and a way to deep fry using large amounts of oil, with the Air fryer all 3 recipes only used one small appliance.
Exactly!!! I live in a small space and don't have all those other appliances and gadgets available, I have learned how to cook darn near anything using my Instant Pot, slow cooker, and air fryer... and don't miss having those other things at all. If you want smoky BBQ taste, add liquid smoke, want crispy fried type, spritz some oil on before air frying.
Yeah, even though he timed how long it took to fry the wings, he doesn't account for having waiting for the oil to cool, then straining it out into a storage vessel, or disposing of it, all of which is a PITA to do at home. I'm sure deep fried wings will always be better than oven baked, but the effort required for all aspects of cooking - including cost of ingredients, equipment, and time spent prepping/cleaning-up afterwards - has to be taken into account too.
One point that Josh didn’t bring up is the calorie count (which is surprising considering his fitness goals atm). The amount of oil used for the potatoes and the wings send the calorie count through the roof. Air frying and using a bit of cooking spray keeps the calories down.
It’s also a huge factor for taste. Our brain likes calorie dense foods. Fatty foods make brain happy. It’s also much less wasteful. Like the guy said “I’m not pouring a vat of oil just for how little better it tastes”
Yes thats a huge selling point for me for the air fryer. I can eat things like fries more often because temge air fryer just needs a tiny amount of oil
I was anti-air fryer for a long time only because cooking was a moment of zen for me. I enjoy the process. I thought convection cooking would steal the joy from cooking low and slow. However, my apartment doesn’t have central a/c, and even turning on a stove burner for 5 minutes to cook eggs would create an absolute hellscape that would last for hours, plus my budget tightened quite a bit…so I finally gave in to getting one as a gift. I regret not allowing it into my life sooner. The air fryer, if one can afford even a small one, is an absolute treat to own. Will it produce gourmet restaurant results? It’s not supposed to. But it will cut time and money, of which you seem to have too much. (I’d say don’t knock it before you try it but you did, clearly lost, and decided to bludgeon it.) (Thanks, Mom. You were right about it all along.)
@@IslamicTalksPodcast he choose a bad recipe and even then, as the third and second guy said, they lacked salt and that was a deciding factor for the last one, so not only he choose a bad recipe he prepared it badly, which gave him an edge
This felt a little snobby. People love air fryers bc they’re convenient and easy to use. Of course using pro cooking techniques can potentially produce a better end product, but realistically I’m not going deep fry wings in a pot during the week if I want a quick and easy dinner. Also destroying the air fryer is pretty wasteful 😬
@Brandon Wilcox he’s been pretentious from the beginning. A regular chef who’s pretentious is charming, but a pretentious chef that’s flaunting it comes off as smug and out of touch.
this should have been an L, with as close as it was the only reason the potatoes lost is because Josh straight up made the air fried potatoes worse on purpose.
@@someguy5977 You wont regret it. I used to be snobby and stuck my nose up at air fryers. Finally caved and bought one last year. Only wish I bought one eariler
First time I ever thought I would say Josh cheated to make himself look better. I think another thing he could’ve have done was, if he wanted to use two COMPLETELY different recipes (as he did) for the potatoes, he could have said “hey one of these took over 24 hours and the preparation makes it significantly better and crispier. The other one took 30 minutes… also the one that took 30 minutes I under seasoned as that’s going to be the one thing you guys point out more than anything, so yeah!” Like seriously? Also the last one, one of the votes clearly SHOULD’VE gone to the air fryer for the oil comment. Just saying.
@@differentname5867 yeah and just eat up all that production cost for no revenue. The dude had four people there for a minimum of 4 hours to film him cooking everything and then taste test. (not including the potatoes being prepped overnight, so there was filming the day before for a bit)
@@SomeRandomMario trust me he could afford to reimburse them for one video even if it was never posted. There may be some videos he’s never posted before as sometimes a creator doesn’t think a video was “good enough” for their channel. This is a series that he created and he doesn’t hide anything from you. If someone was trying to cheat they would hide it. Lastly, this is for entertainment clearly, this isn’t some high stakes cooking tournament with a bunch of participants. You guys ruin the fun of RUclips sometimes by taking it too far 🤦♂️
@@timg8257 Nope. I don't care (and neither does anyone else) what he can afford. If he thought this video was 'good enough' it's obvious that the majority of his subscribers think otherwise. Most people think that it wasn't entertaining, it was blatant bias just to get views. It's not entertainment or fun when that happens - if it continues I will be unsubscribing, and I suspect I'll be one of many. Hopefully, Josh will have read the comments to this video, taken them to heart, and will avoid a repeat.
@@peterthomas5792 Hopefully, a clinical psychologist will have read your comment to this video, taken it to heart, and will reach out and help you immediately. If you think a simple entertaining video is supposed to be tailored to specifically you then you may need serious help. You aren’t the main character. Your opinion doesn’t necessarily hold up the majority. You unsubscribing isn’t gonna start some massive chain of people unsubscribing. Sometimes in life things aren’t going to be exactly the way you imagined, hopefully that helps you.
I like how Josh just glides over the whole point of using an air fryer. OF COURSE if I parboil the potatoes and refrigerate them overnight they'll be better. But why THE HELL do I want to spend 18 hours for some potatoes when I can spend 15 minutes? Yes, deep frying wings is faster. Deep frying ANYTHING is faster. But do I want to have to pour all that oil and then do all the clean up when I can spend 10-15 extra minutes air frying? It's like, dude, I just spent 8 hours being a slave wage, plus another 60-90 minutes in traffic to and from work. I don't want to work that GD hard for a weekday meal. Sunday dinner I'm going all out and putting in extra effort. But Monday-Friday? That air fryer is a GODSEND.
Well, it looks like the people have spoken, but we're not sore winners! Do we need to hook you up with another model for a rematch? How about our new Indoor Grill and Air Fryer, for a Grill match?
Not gonna lie, I think this is the first challenge that I hope that Josh doesn't win at. I feel like the Air Fryer does have its uses, just not for everything. Similar to how he was so shocked at how well the pressure cooker cooks rice. (EDIT): Coming back to give my feedback after watching the video. Personally, and I understand why you did this (space), but I feel like you should've made every recipe the same way. Similar to the wings. What I mean is, for the potatoes, you should've smashed them and put them into the air fryer similar to what you did for the oven. Of course the oven ones will be better because you have that crunch texture that the air fryer ones didn't get because they were just quartered. For the Salmon, even though the air fryer won on that, I feel like you should've done the same for that instead of grilled. The Wings are the only ones that you did that were more so fair on comparison. Other than that, another great video.
It’s a great convenience appliance sort of like microwave ovens. You can achieve what a microwave oven does on a stove, or a steamer. You can achieve what an airfryer does in a fan forced oven. But the microwave is a very quick and convenient way for me to reheat or thaw a meal, heat up a cup of milk for my kid etc. and the airfryer is a very quick way to bake some crispy wings without heating a pot of oil or preheating my entire oven for half an hour. Sure both have been overhyped and silly cookbooks have been released with recipes for microwave lobster.. but within reason they do what they do well and quickly. They’re appliances for someone who comes home tired from work and has to prepare a quick tasty meal for their family and still have some time to chill before sleep.
Just some thoughts, totally fair! I feel like the same exact recipes would result more in an oven vs air fryer video that would be less interesting. Kind of “big oven” vs “little oven”. We used the top rated air fryer recipes and then pit them against Josh’s version of them using traditional cooking techniques. Sure you could do smooshed potatoes but there’s not really enough space to do that in the air fryer. Additionally, as Josh said, people want an easy quick method for air fryer. People would call out the inconvenience of the whole overnight process that is required for the smooshed ones! Grilled salmon vs air fryer salmon shows you the technique of binchotan grilling and the smokey flavors and crispy skin you can achieve using that process. Not as exciting to say “my oven cooks it like this, and my air fryer cooks it like this”. And then yeah as you said, oil vs air fryer is an age old question - felt that one hit the mark. Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it! Happy cooking!
I’m a professional chef and I can tell you I constantly use my air fryer at home. Honestly, it’s simple and easy, oh and when I wings in the air fryer they come out crispier than fried. You supposed to spray them with oil in the fryer. Air fryer won that one
@@fredfry5100It’s because of the word Fryer. Air doesn’t fry things. It’s just a convection oven. But “convection oven” isn’t catchy enough to sell products. I’m also a chef and I understand the convenience of an air fryer, but I feel the same way Josh does. 😂😂
@@elliscody06 It was a remarkable marketing/rebranding move. I know for a fact that people probably got rid of their convection ovens to spend hundreds or thousands on a brand new oven that "can air fry!"
@@Ndasuunye Well not exactly. A convection oven uses a fan to distribute the heat more efficiently around the product. A broiler just cooks from above.
Not only did the air fryer win, you destroyed a perfectly good air fryer just for the “laughs”. You’ve changed a lot for the worse in the last couple years, Josh.
A friend gifted me my air fryer after my last bad MS flare up. I'd stopped being able to cook in the oven because tremors + hot oven has resulted in a couple nasty 2nd degree burns. Now between my air fryer and Instant Pot I don't miss the oven at all. I can cook healthy food without risking hurting myself. That little countertop convection oven was a game changer for me!
I have to agree with you! The two appliances I use most in my kitchen are my air fryer and my Instant Pot. Those two can take care of pretty much everything that a normal person would need or want to cook.
No he absolutely did not. He chose three recipes that are routinely recommended for air fryers, and I'm not just parroting Josh. If you look for air fryer recipes you'll get roasted potatoes, wings and a little farther down the line you'd find salmon. It's surprising how much I've heard air fryers are good for salmon. What Josh stacked in his favor was the criteria for winning. Yes traditional cooking made the tastier food, and even faster food with the wings but air fryers have an incredible effort to quality ratio, and that isn't captured when only testing for quality.
@@TheGoboZone I’ve never been recommended to cook salmon in a air fryer. The best wings I’ve ever had came from a air fryer, but that one had a basket unlike the one he used. That being said he went a extra step further with breading cause he knew that without the basket you wouldn’t get the right air flow to properly crips the breading. Trust me if he cooked the potatoes the exact same cut then the air fryer would have won. Though if your going to that much effort to make roasted potatoes then go with fondant potatoes they would taste better.
Getting to like 85% of the texture and flavor as the traditional cooking technique for a fraction of the time and effort is definitely a win for me. EDIT: Have to try that wings air fryer recipe. I love wings, but frying them is just a hassle.
@@Pumpernickel745 I don't think they're that much healthier. If properly cooked fried foods don't pick up much oil. The steam from the water evaporating keeps them from soaking up oil until most of the water has been cooked out, and I'm sure that Josh is good enough in a kitchen to prevent that.
I've been air-frying my wings for years. Had several people tell me they're some of the best wings they've ever had. Don't dig Josh's air-fryer hate here
That's exactly the benefit. You can cook in a way that can use less oil and wrangle together dinner easier and faster for someone who isn't a pro chef. I've personally never used one, but anything that can make decent home cooking more accessible for people is a good thing in my book. After all - either is better than take-out or freezer meals. Dude is being a pretentious twat here for clicks.
Not only do you need a ton of (fairly expensive) oil to fry them, you also need to continuously attend those wings while they're frying vs tossing them and, turning them halfway through and pulling them out.
In addition to just being great for things like wings, it's easily the best appliance for reheating most food, in my opinion. I rarely use anything else nowadays. It's especially great for just bringing takeout back to life if it's cooled a bit by the time you get home. A minute in there and it's like you just left the restaurant with it.
Could’ve just given the airfryer to someone who would’ve used it I love mine it’s great for frozen foods I’m not making a whole ass meal out of it and I agree with the deep fry thing that’s kinda the whole point of an air fryer anyway and a ton of them now have multi functions mine is also a dehydrator, pressure cooker, steamer I think they’re great.
Tip for frying wings in an air fryer, coat them in your cornstarch/flour mix lightly and then get a spray bottle to spray just a little olive oil or vegetable oil on the outside of them after you put them in the tray. Makes a world of difference for the crispy texture.
The wings was only 15 min faster while the potatoes was 24 hours slower than the air fryer and I think I’m gonna buy one after bc it’s so much cheaper and faster
@@mmors or the time it takes to clean up afterwards, letting the oil cool, filtering, straining, storing, .etc If I was cooking for a party & needed a lot of fried food happening quickly, oil is the obvious choice. If I'm just cooking for myself or a couple of people on a weeknight, no way. Also air fryers do a great job of finishing off par-fried food quickly. So you could prep all your fried food by doing a light fry, keep it in the freezer, then just put it in the air fryer to have it ready when you want it without having to have a fry station to clean down when the food's served.
@@InnuendoXP What do you do with the oil after? I always hate frying food, because I don't know what to do with it. Am I going to eat fried food every day for a week or something? I have an air fryer now though, so I guess w/e.
@@jamesbyrd3740 normally I strain/filter it & just keep it in a big glass jar in a dark place like a cupboard, when it's degraded enough I just pour it back into the bottle I bought it in & dispose of it. I don't deep fry often though, often shallow frying will do the job just fine too. When I do deep fry, it'll be months before I deep fry again, so the oil just gets used once & the cost factored in to what I'm doing.
Highly recommend one. Takes less oil, less electricity than a big oven, less time and less effort to clean. And in my opinion foods get way crispier and just cook more evenly c:
This should have been titled "Professionally trained chef gets his ass handed to him by a machine and throws a huge tantrum because his pathetic ego can't handle reality"
@@Ichibuns Yes and no, I think the biggest innovation comes from it being so convenient - size, maintenance, energy consumption/efficiency. Just overall a great improvement to an already existing technology.
the idea behind air fryers isn't to make the best thing you've ever tasted but to balance out the economy and quality of what you're gonna eat. also being able to leave your food unattended for a very passive cooking experience and still being able to get a quality meal is to most invaluable. i still cook all my food the traditional way but when i move out i might have to invest in an airfryer for the simple reason it's convenient and consistent.
Air fryers are great, i found that you get some of the best results, like on cooking chicken breast they always come out juicy, besides its fun to play with the timings maybe you have to add another minute and if you do, you dont have to wait like a convetional oven wich looses heat everytime you open it
24 hour potato vs 15 minute potato: Completely unfair and the 24 hour potato only barely wins out to boot. Salmon: Air fryer wins despite not having the skin-side up to help crisp that up. Wings: Has the air fryer cook at a lower temperature so they're not as crispy as they could be, and only barely loses out. Only mentions speed for the one that he's 'faster' in, and zero consideration of the cleanup. Only mentions effort for the one that's roughly the same. It's funny how many people saw all of these things even if they don't have an air fryer themselves!
The potato battle was not the same. The seasoning and technique were different. I agree, the air fryer won. Josh just wanted to take out the air fryer.
I love cooking an absolutely could keep up with a lot of what Josh does in the kitchen, but I work 12-hour overnight shifts at a hospital. My air fryer is going to do the work for me.
Different recipes for the potatoes isn't fair, it would have worked the same since the air fryer is just an oven. As for the salmon being dry you can alter the time and temp to get your desired doneness maybe cranking the heat at the end for crispiness... But I'd give it to bbq cause that always wins because of the smoke flavour As for wings honestly deep frying always wins over air fryers and ovens, the only reason it wasn't a clear win was the sauce making covering the crisp... But as your man said who wants to do all the hassle of deep frying for a few wings Overall it has it's place especially if you're being lazy.
To everyone who was (rightly) convinced to buy an air fryer from this video, get a decently big one. I have a small one I got as a gift and I can only fit 4 wings in at once. 8 wings is the right amount I usually want. I intend to upgrade soon.
Why? He's always going to say how much more amazing his version would be, just like he did here with the potatoes. Totally stacked the deck in his favour
@@CJR-wv8kc that's good and all, but sometimes with how real life works, an airfryer is all your brain can handle for the day. I'm not an airfryer apologist but they're extremely handy and if you can essentially own a high tier microwave that crisps your food up, why not utilize it?
@@daphne10120 air fryers are cheap nowadays lmao he can easily get another. Plus there are a lot of people out there who really enjoy their air fryers, why not help them out.
@@EricSamaNYC if he was interested in continuing to cook with one, he would not have destroyed the first. And now the first one is going to sit in a landfill for up to 500 years because he thought it was funny to destroy for a video.
At first I wasn’t sure because he was just doing a but better version but then he made a recipe the exact same just different frying techniques. So it proves the ability of the air fryer can be very useful and maybe healthier/less clean up
as much as I love josh stuff what this video really taught me wasn't weather cooking techniques were better than a air fryer. He really just taught me better and more ways to use my air fryer.
Yeah I enjoy the cooking process on a weekend or a day off. I don't like it taking every weekday night when I've still gotta clean everything, do laundry .etc before I even get time for exercise or hobbies.
I got my parents an air fryer for Christmas last year, after they plainly stated they didn't think they needed one. Mom uses it at least 3x a week and it's her very favorite appliance in her kitchen now xD They're life changing for a home cook.
The significantly lower amount of oil used, simplicity and reduced washing up is what makes an air fryer great and this video did a good job showing that. They are also much quicker than a standard oven, do a much better job at crisping food and on top of that only needing to heat a small basket saves you money on electricity cost. The potato recipe was also very different and I also don’t understand why 1 gets olive oil and the other vegetable. Id think air fry can equally burn the olive oil. In the same time the boiled ones crisped the air fryer cooked them from raw - so the heat is definitely there, going through the oil… Constructively I’d suggest you stopped smashing air fryers and make useful videos for home cooks using a tool that helps many families and people short on time to minimise disruption in their life and still make great, healthy food. Read these comments - great opportunity to bounce back from this because the demand is clearly there. Appreciate your work Josh but think this video could have resonated better :)
The only one that wasn't close was the one that Josh cheated on. (just because they're both potato recipes doesn’t make them the same recipe) I don't own an air fryer, and up until watching this, I thought they seemed pretty over-hyped, but I was actually pretty impressed with how well it did here.
My wife and I got one as a joke but it's amazing. It's become a staple of our kitchen as it makes healthier (comparatively) food and is quick to clean up after.
Bring a air fryer chef in. Someone who specializes in air fryer stuff, I know theres people who do. Have THEM do the air fryer recipe while you do your normal ones. I think that would make it more fair for the air fryer.
15 minutes at 400 for salmon is INSANE. Those pieces were also baby sized compared to what I get. .85 is what I look for and that only takes 9 MINS. Also, wings in the air fryer are heightened greatly by an 8 hour dry brine in the fridge. MEGA CRISP. Not exactly "fast", but game changing.
@@emmanuelobodozie713 typically a Dry brine is a salt and or Sugar rub dusted ontop of the wings, left in the fridge overnight without anything covering them and not in a ball to get dryier. The process is about pulling the water out of the wings, getting the skin super dry and seasoning the meat inside. It works on all meats. Warning though the Sugar might burn.
I’d still call that “fast”. It’s just remembering the 2 min of prep the night before to season. If I remember I always salt my steaks the night before, best method for an easy pan seared crust without overcooking the inside. I love anything I can dry brine the night before and spend 10 minutes to cook and have a delicious dinner.
If I can skip the overnight waits, an hours-long process, that's a win in my book. I like cooking but prefer to avoid cooking while I'm tired after a tempo-filled day.
A friend recently went deep water fishing in the Gulf and brought back some snapper filets. My wife lightly breaded them, sprinkled some nice seasoning on them, and cooked them in the air fryer. It was an amazing dish, some of the best fish I've had for a while. My brother keeps us supplied with fresh perch too, also incredibly tasty when air fried. I just don't miss the oil from deep frying, period. And my air-fried berbere-seasoned potato wedges are awesome. I hope you find some love for the device, Josh, and I still love your channel. :)
I love doing fish in the airfryer. It is so simple. The only reason he overcooked it is because HE overcooked it. As long as you know how to use it you can get it as crispy or as cooked as you want it to be. Fish and potato wedges is my go to quick meal when I’m tired and don’t want to stand for too long in the kitchen.
Joshua has said he is a former fat person, with that knowledge I find it shocking he would be against an air fryer to begin with. It's faster for two out of three of the dishes he cooked and it's healthier than the one that he was faster with. It's a godsend device for people who want to spend as little time as possible for maximum taste and it's the best substitute for frying food when you are trying to lose weight. The two rounds he won were both very close by the contestants admission. It's a tool that deserves respect.
I think the air fryer was probably faster for all 3. How long did that vat of oil take to come to temp for the wings? What about cooldown time, straining it back into it's container (you're not going to throw it down the sink I hope)? What about clean-up time? Totally biased comparison. I'd use an air fryer for all 3 every time, especially since his potatoes basically took most of the day.
@@peterthomas5792 Yeah it was definitely kind of ridiculous to just count the cooking time but not all the time dedicated to the oil getting to temp and back into storage.
I feel like the whole process of preparing and cooking everything traditionally is much more fulfilling and kind of gives you that feeling of achievement, especially at the end when you've created a dish that you enjoy. However for people who don't always have the time or are even in a rush, the air fryer is actually produces pretty good results so I guess it depends on what your lifestyle is like.
So it ended up just like it did for the reason Josh predicted. His ego. Also there ain’t no way it took 15 minutes max to heat up the oil (twice) and cook those wings.
Kind of unfair don't you think? The recipe's weren't even identical comparisons. An airfrier is simply a quick way to cook/toast something without lighting up an entire oven. A medium of heating. It doesn't magically change the recipe or ingredients. Like grilling the salmon. That changes the flavor profile. An oven should have been used for an equal comparison. Air fryers are not replacing charcoal grills as that is entirely different flavoring. The potato recipes were entirely different. This really was cheap recipe book vs. chef quality recipe. It had nothing to do with the airfrier, which did exactly what it is meant to perfectly.
The point of an air fryer isn’t necessarily to be better than other cooking techniques but to simply the cooking process. It’s to make it easier for everyone that doesn’t have 2 hrs to make a meal everyday.
It would be interesting to see Josh take some devices like the air fryer and develop some legit recipes. Smashed potatoes and wings, with his other steps of prep, finished in the air fryer could be incredible.
Sorry Josh going to have to go with the air fryer on this one. Potatoes were not the same. It won the salmon and I agree not going to use all that oil at home to deep fry when you get the same with air fry. With a Shao Khan voice: “Air Fryer wins… flawless victory” 😂
It won the salmon because these people have awful taste.They prefer their rubbery overcooked salmon over the smooth and soft medium one. Air fryer is great for convince and how good the food turns out for the effort, but cooking salmon with a frying pan doesn't take a lot of time or effort and it's very easy to control the consistency of salmon that way.
@@jewlz1355 Yes people with poor taste like overcooked salmon just like people with poor taste like burned steak instead of a properly cooked one. That's not a surprise.
@@ToveriJuri bruh if so many people like our poor taste then you really can’t be saying things like that, ur taste is poor my taste is fine, and what you gonna do the change that? Insult peoples opinions? Or actually respect them
Compare preparation time, cooking time, power consumption and or oil consumption (not sure about the U.S. - but here the Liter vegetable oil is about 3,99€(!)). Air frier wins! 😝👍 Every time! A lot of easter eggs everyone! 🐣
@@touma-san91 back then (when it was cheap(er)) some people modded their diesel powered cars so they could burn PÖL (plant based oil). It was cheaper than Diesel fuel at the gas station 😉
I boil my potatoes in baking soda, let them dry completely without rinsing, let them cool overnight and then pop them in the air fryer with seasoning ans oil. Amazing super mega crunchy. Looks like josh's recipe tbh (it's my sister's recipe, she owns a restaurant, but she deep fries them instead of air fryer)
Did the wings include setup and cleanup time? Heating the oil and then letting it cool and storing or disposing it? By not throwing it down the drain...
I think that’s justified. I’ll use the convection setting on my oven any day but Lord knows I don’t have room for a gigantic “mini” convection oven on my tiny counter top. I barely have room for an electric skillet and that thing’s awesome.
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We hear you guys. Maybe we give this one to the air fryer for not making a fair enough competition.
I will say, our goal was to take famous air fryer recipes and pit them against our own version. Hence why the other techniques on mine were different.
That being said, it sounds like everyone wants air fryer recipes to make things right, or a rematch? Or both? You tell me. Thank you guys for letting us know how you felt about this one.
yeah man i respect this acknowledgment here and i'm usually all for the "cheekiness" , but digging on air fryers all video for no reason and then smashing one at the end just came across as a spiteful move not as entertainment. too many videos lately feel like it's "proving the comment section wrong" instead of just making fun and cheeky content.
They have a place in a home. Not a restaurant. Take into account the speed and the efficiency of an air fryer vs preheating an entire oven for one meal. The cost of the oil and heating the oil vs turning on an air fryer. A lot more than just amazing chef quality food vs good home cooking. It would be great to see what recipes you can create for air fryers. Great idea for a double book series eh? Air fryer recipes you love = book #1. Same recipes but for when times aren't so expensive = book #2. Keep it up Joshua. Love what you do 👍
How about remove that superiority complex and snobby attitude. This is like you doing a cooking competition on microwave dishes. Talk about complete BS. STOP DOING THE SNOBBY COOK act. It’s sh*tty and doesn’t actually reflect REAL COOKING.
Stop trying to be Mr. Beast as well. Thanks.
I've been following you for a while now, and I've learned so much from you. You made me love cooking, and there are things you thought me that've become staples in my house. That being said, the bat thing just disappointed me. There are so many people who could never afford an air fryer, dude, and you destroying it was just... I could ignore the different recepties and shit, but this was just ugly, man, and the sad thing is you have been headed here fo a while. I don't know if you chose to portray yourself this way - I hope that's the case - but for some time now the videos seem like a way to scratch your ego than anything else.
If you really want to do somethin, change this please. You became Papa, because you were encouraging, not because you made me feel bad if I couldn afford an igredient, or had 5 days to do something, or ate something you deem disgusting later. It's just not cool.
The deep fryer is the only one I'd consider "fair" as it's similarly fast and doesn't necessarily change the flavor from the recipe that much. You should be making the same recipe from the air fryer and apply similar traditional technique. But not overnight stuff that dramatically changes the recipe unless you apply them to the same recipe too like the potatoes. And no cooking techniques that add flavor like cooking over charcoal when you could cook on gas.
It’s beautiful to see all the comments unanimously roasting him for this completely unfair competition.
Has any competition on this channel been fair? I guess the Kay Fabe has just been especially tiring in this one
I literally just said “damn, Josh gettin roasted on this one”
I absolutely agree but air fryers are for nerds
Yesss
Yeah and Josh has to be humble here, because any salt he has should have gone on those potatoes.
Should have named it “How I cheated to beat an air fryer!” Because it was the air fryers fault the potatoes weren’t seasoned properly.
Or just cooked in general haha it should have been titled “how an air fryer makes food just as good as a 24 hr process” cus the air fryer is a life saver on a busy day to make food really good
Exactly my point
He did almost exactly the same recipe for the salmon and wings. Why not do the same for the potatoes? Joshua gotta explain that sht or rematch and do the potatoes justice
I was thinking the same thing 😊
“SpongeBob, What happened?” “Plankton cheated”
The fact that you could prep, cook, clean and repeat all 3 of those dishes in the time it would have taken to set up the grill for the salmon makes the air fryer a clear winner, IMO.
You convinced me - I'm gonna buy an air fryer. If the difference in quality is so small, yet it's so much faster/less effort (and less fat) it's worth it.
The instant pot with air fryer option is amazing. So many uses... sous vide, yogurt, pressure cook, saute, slow cook, air fry.
@@firekeeper09 I have a Ninja Foodi which is a similar concept. Air fryer AND pressure cooker/slow cooker all in one. Best appliance I own.
@@YeraMcDonald2017 didn't hear a lot about this thing except some commercials last year... good to know it works well. I will check it out ...
@@YeraMcDonald2017 Me too, use my Foodi nearly every day. I have many kitchen appliances, but only the Foodi lives on my worktop.
Air fryer, pressure cooker, slow cooker, dehydrator, steam oven, saute, dehydrate, prove, and several more.
Any yet Josh would rather light coals for salmon fillets and heat up quarts of oil for wings, and take a whole day to cook a few potatoes.
Move with the times Josh, you're getting left behind (as the taste tests would've told you if you'd been honest).
@@nannakurzhaar Get one. Seriously. Probably the best money you'll ever spend.
I love the fact that we all knew Josh was gonna "win" but none of us care because air fryers are legit one of the most useful and convenient kitchen items ever lmao
I expected him to win, but he actually lost
It's basically the most deceptive air fryer ad.
Best comment I’ve seen
So basically, Josh destroyed the air fryer because it destroyed him 😮😂
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ok I gotta admit I legit LOL'd at that one IRL, not gonna lie.
9:53 He's spot on. Deep frying stuff is a huge pain, makes a mess, and you gotta deal with pouring it back into the container (some people even say to filter it too) and reserving/disposing of it.
Big facts. And oil aint cheap. Cost just as much as the chicken 😂
Also throwing away used oil is a pain in the ass for non commercial purposes.
Facts
Reheating oil is extremely unhealthy. Specially in high temperatures
Just use the air fryer it’s healthier.
If you want the extra taste, follow Josh’s recipe and finish it on the air fryer.
Just don’t do the sauce.
@@garganransis when I lived in an upstairs apartment I used to dump used (cold)oil off the balcony into the straw by the buildings.
if he had done the potatoes the same way for both, i feel like air fryer would have won. And the fact that they made a good point about wasting a lot of oil for deep frying vs air frying. air fryers are a valuable and great part of any kitchen and dont deserve to be beaten up by a bat
Absolutely. All airfriers are, are ovens that circulate air to create and even crispiness. That's it...
I really don't understand what there is to challenge here.
@@LaFonteCheVi and you must described a convection oven too which many people might already have
@@LaFonteCheVi and you must described a convection oven too which many people might already have
This is completely true. It was a cheat of a comparison.
@@AC-gw4qu totally agree. I
was like nope nope nope, that’s not the same recipe. Same with the salmon. Grilling creates a completely different flavor profile.
For the rematch: Use the same ingredients including seasonings and amounts and limit yourself to the same amount of time it takes to cook in the air fryer. The whole point is of an air fryer is to make things easily. The real test is to see if you can do it traditionally just as easily imo
traditional wont always be as easy, just depends what recipes if its worth the time. Common stuff, no worries airfryer is probably 10/10. Most things that could be airfried probably wouldnt be the things that taking extra care or a whole day would work with anyways. It's all about what you need. Not like anyone is trying to make a whole bbq pig in an airfryer XD
I use my air fryer more than I thought I would. Even if it’s just to toast some buns, or heat up left over pizza. It’s so easy and quick
It's amazing for leftovers. Next day pizza, or Chinese takeaway (salt and pepper chicken, for instance) is wonderful.
Also hugely underrated for stuff like sausages; in the air fryer you get a lovely even browning all round without having to stand over it and rotate it every few seconds and watch like a hawk, etc.
I've had mine for maybe three months, and its ability to reheat pizza to perfection alone justifies the 70 bucks or whatever I spent on it
Air fryer is the only way to reheat pizza
Same, I cook almost every with my air fryer.
Air fryers are literally just mini convection ovens. And people go crazy over them.
So we all agree the air fryer actually won that, right?
Between the overall speed and the satisfaction in relation to the amount of effort, yeah, I'd say the air fryer wins. I mean, heating up quarts of oil, freezing overnight, etc. may make the food slightly better, but if it's not enough to overcome the speed and convenience of the air fryer (which sounds like the case in this video), then the air fryer sounds like the better option.
Definitely the air fryer won
Fr it’s like that guy was only judging the sauce 💀
Def. This one I complained more about Josh's cheating than any other video. Doing the par boil and overnight chill of the oven roasted potatoes but not on the air fried ones gives them a clear advantage that could have easily applied to both cooking methods, and charcoal grilling the fish could easily alter the actual base flavor of the fish. Glad that didn't sway them on the second test.
it beat dat ars
So not only did Josh take a big loss to the air frier. He also then smashed it up rather than giving it away?
Right? Total missed opportunity for a give away. And very disappointing and wasteful. Plastic can take hundreds of years to breakdown in the dump.
Thissssss. So disappointing. These appliances are not cheap and could have gone to a person who needed it.
I was going to say. I pointed out that he also likes to throw away foods in the “but better” series, for example he gets a store bought hot pocket takes two bites and throws it away, instead of giving it to someone.. and also this arifryer is about 150$, i’m sure one of his neighbours or so would have appriciated it. When I used to work in a restaurant/caffee i was shocked how much food is being wasted, like they threw away perfect looking meals.. plus smashing an airfryer? Come on..
Proof that this video was just about his ego from the start 💀
Josh is a child so no surprise. He is milking yall for views.
Everyone: They're basically the same.
Josh: That's a win in my book.
You can’t argue with an Air Fryer!
😂😂😂
I totally get the resistance to air fryers. But I decided to give in and try them, and wow. My favourite thing to use them for is reheating leftovers. ESPECIALLY fried foods. It brings fried leftovers right back to where they started, and I honestly don’t know what else can do that.
yeah its just a bunch of elitist hipster non sense, air fryers are great.
They are basically an evolved microwave in my opinion
my favourite is pizza, it comes out crispy. Just careful with certain easy to burn toppings
Toaster oven? I don't have an air fryer
If you just preheat a convection oven it will reheat your fried goods just as well. An air fryer is just a more time efficient convection oven
How are you gonna make two completely different potato recipes?
Right?
Let me compare 2 different recipes, one with a smashed potato that will have more crispy edges no matter what you do... LOL
Exactly. The first test wasn’t in good faith. He should’ve used the same potatoes but baked one and air fried the other
@@NYCFoodGuyDotCom Sure but if he had used thin potatoes for the air fryer they would have came out crispy too. And if he had baked potato chunks i'm pretty sure he would have lost
And just to be sure, I'll add finishing salt to one but not the other.
funny how this video actually makes me consider an air fryer more seeing how close the results where apart from the potato recipe where he obviously cheated
for sure that was cheating, also a hand full of air fryer recipes use spray oil that def wouldve given the salmon and chicken that crisp the judges missed
I mean, if you have a convection oven, you already have an air fryer...
@@Bozza36 I don’t, and an air fryer is really convenient. I live alone so I don’t have to cook in batches, saves ton of oil, the difference in taste is really minor. There are few things that I actually prefer air fried to deep fried.
@@Bozza36 if you have an oven with convection then maybe, but still in air fryer the physics of cooking differ from the oven
@@Bozza36 > if you have an oven, you already have an air fryer...
No you don't. If you had and used both you'd appreciate the differences.
Minus the fact the potato recipes were different, you need to also take into account for the 'chief' recipes it required an oven, outside grill and a way to deep fry using large amounts of oil, with the Air fryer all 3 recipes only used one small appliance.
Exactly!!! I live in a small space and don't have all those other appliances and gadgets available, I have learned how to cook darn near anything using my Instant Pot, slow cooker, and air fryer... and don't miss having those other things at all. If you want smoky BBQ taste, add liquid smoke, want crispy fried type, spritz some oil on before air frying.
Yeah, even though he timed how long it took to fry the wings, he doesn't account for having waiting for the oil to cool, then straining it out into a storage vessel, or disposing of it, all of which is a PITA to do at home. I'm sure deep fried wings will always be better than oven baked, but the effort required for all aspects of cooking - including cost of ingredients, equipment, and time spent prepping/cleaning-up afterwards - has to be taken into account too.
This felt like a competition between a master chef and a literal first time air fryer. We need to see the master chef vs a master air fryer.
Yea and the air fryer still won
Josh v. Prohomecooks on the same air fryer recipes?
I totally agree
Master is generous lmao
Isn't the entire point of the air fryer that you don't need to master anything
One point that Josh didn’t bring up is the calorie count (which is surprising considering his fitness goals atm). The amount of oil used for the potatoes and the wings send the calorie count through the roof. Air frying and using a bit of cooking spray keeps the calories down.
It’s also a huge factor for taste. Our brain likes calorie dense foods. Fatty foods make brain happy. It’s also much less wasteful. Like the guy said “I’m not pouring a vat of oil just for how little better it tastes”
His cooking has no regard to Health. Taste was about the same but the difference in calories is probably not far from double.
Yes thats a huge selling point for me for the air fryer. I can eat things like fries more often because temge air fryer just needs a tiny amount of oil
I don’t think it tastes as good in an air fryer though
@@Sniperboy5551 u save on time and oil and maintenance and health. Worthy tradeoff
I was anti-air fryer for a long time only because cooking was a moment of zen for me. I enjoy the process. I thought convection cooking would steal the joy from cooking low and slow. However, my apartment doesn’t have central a/c, and even turning on a stove burner for 5 minutes to cook eggs would create an absolute hellscape that would last for hours, plus my budget tightened quite a bit…so I finally gave in to getting one as a gift. I regret not allowing it into my life sooner.
The air fryer, if one can afford even a small one, is an absolute treat to own. Will it produce gourmet restaurant results? It’s not supposed to. But it will cut time and money, of which you seem to have too much. (I’d say don’t knock it before you try it but you did, clearly lost, and decided to bludgeon it.)
(Thanks, Mom. You were right about it all along.)
Bro quartered up potatoes with barely any salt for the Air Fryer and called that a win :D
Yeah this is ridiculous. I stopped the video there. He purposefully doesn't season one dish properly and then calls it a win?
Josh cooking recipes completely differently in bad faith then saying his are the best? No, he would never do that! /s
He did the potatoes dirty. Smash potatoes still come out great in the air fryer! Torched the salmon too lol.
He followed a popular recipe for the Airfryer ones
@@IslamicTalksPodcast he choose a bad recipe and even then, as the third and second guy said, they lacked salt and that was a deciding factor for the last one, so not only he choose a bad recipe he prepared it badly, which gave him an edge
This felt a little snobby. People love air fryers bc they’re convenient and easy to use. Of course using pro cooking techniques can potentially produce a better end product, but realistically I’m not going deep fry wings in a pot during the week if I want a quick and easy dinner. Also destroying the air fryer is pretty wasteful 😬
Agreed. Really disappointed with how he smashed it instead of just donating it or reselling it if he wasn’t going to keep it.
@@daphne10120 especially in the economic and climate state we are in...it feels out of touch to say the least🙄
Also you can take the airfryer to school, and eat a nice hot meal instead of whatever they serve in the cafeteria
@Brandon Wilcox no bs i be feeling the same way like duh McDonald gonna taste weird when your a pro chief
@Brandon Wilcox he’s been pretentious from the beginning. A regular chef who’s pretentious is charming, but a pretentious chef that’s flaunting it comes off as smug and out of touch.
Air Fryer Brands thanking Josh for this amazing ad for their products rn
this should have been an L, with as close as it was the only reason the potatoes lost is because Josh straight up made the air fried potatoes worse on purpose.
Had it not been for the sabotaged under-salted potatoes and sabotaged under-cooked wings, air fryer goes 3-for-3 😂
Josh must’ve forgotten what his whole channel is about with this one
If the Air fryer almost beats Josh, it's definitely beating me.
Exactly. I was thinking of getting an air fryer. Now I'm definitely getting one.
@@someguy5977 You wont regret it. I used to be snobby and stuck my nose up at air fryers. Finally caved and bought one last year. Only wish I bought one eariler
@@someguy5977 I do recommend one. I mainly use mine for potato wedges. Much faster than the oven. And I don't feel like deep frying them.
But can it beat Goku?
@@gokubread2733 it can't, but I can.
First time I ever thought I would say Josh cheated to make himself look better. I think another thing he could’ve have done was, if he wanted to use two COMPLETELY different recipes (as he did) for the potatoes, he could have said “hey one of these took over 24 hours and the preparation makes it significantly better and crispier. The other one took 30 minutes… also the one that took 30 minutes I under seasoned as that’s going to be the one thing you guys point out more than anything, so yeah!” Like seriously? Also the last one, one of the votes clearly SHOULD’VE gone to the air fryer for the oil comment. Just saying.
@@differentname5867 yeah and just eat up all that production cost for no revenue. The dude had four people there for a minimum of 4 hours to film him cooking everything and then taste test. (not including the potatoes being prepped overnight, so there was filming the day before for a bit)
@@SomeRandomMario trust me he could afford to reimburse them for one video even if it was never posted. There may be some videos he’s never posted before as sometimes a creator doesn’t think a video was “good enough” for their channel. This is a series that he created and he doesn’t hide anything from you. If someone was trying to cheat they would hide it. Lastly, this is for entertainment clearly, this isn’t some high stakes cooking tournament with a bunch of participants. You guys ruin the fun of RUclips sometimes by taking it too far 🤦♂️
@@timg8257 Nope. I don't care (and neither does anyone else) what he can afford.
If he thought this video was 'good enough' it's obvious that the majority of his subscribers think otherwise.
Most people think that it wasn't entertaining, it was blatant bias just to get views.
It's not entertainment or fun when that happens - if it continues I will be unsubscribing, and I suspect I'll be one of many.
Hopefully, Josh will have read the comments to this video, taken them to heart, and will avoid a repeat.
@@peterthomas5792 Hopefully, a clinical psychologist will have read your comment to this video, taken it to heart, and will reach out and help you immediately. If you think a simple entertaining video is supposed to be tailored to specifically you then you may need serious help. You aren’t the main character. Your opinion doesn’t necessarily hold up the majority. You unsubscribing isn’t gonna start some massive chain of people unsubscribing. Sometimes in life things aren’t going to be exactly the way you imagined, hopefully that helps you.
I like how Josh just glides over the whole point of using an air fryer. OF COURSE if I parboil the potatoes and refrigerate them overnight they'll be better. But why THE HELL do I want to spend 18 hours for some potatoes when I can spend 15 minutes? Yes, deep frying wings is faster. Deep frying ANYTHING is faster. But do I want to have to pour all that oil and then do all the clean up when I can spend 10-15 extra minutes air frying? It's like, dude, I just spent 8 hours being a slave wage, plus another 60-90 minutes in traffic to and from work. I don't want to work that GD hard for a weekday meal. Sunday dinner I'm going all out and putting in extra effort. But Monday-Friday? That air fryer is a GODSEND.
Josh only won the potato thing cuz he added extra salt at the end 🤣
He won the potato one because it was done in bad faith
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Air fryer is the single best kitchen invention since the microwave.
Air fryer, instant pot, and sous vide is the holy trinity of awesome new kitchen appliances.
It is better than the air fryer, because just about anything is better than the microwave
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Better
it´s a freaking mini oven, geez........
Well, it looks like the people have spoken, but we're not sore winners! Do we need to hook you up with another model for a rematch? How about our new Indoor Grill and Air Fryer, for a Grill match?
Not gonna lie, I think this is the first challenge that I hope that Josh doesn't win at. I feel like the Air Fryer does have its uses, just not for everything. Similar to how he was so shocked at how well the pressure cooker cooks rice.
(EDIT): Coming back to give my feedback after watching the video. Personally, and I understand why you did this (space), but I feel like you should've made every recipe the same way. Similar to the wings. What I mean is, for the potatoes, you should've smashed them and put them into the air fryer similar to what you did for the oven. Of course the oven ones will be better because you have that crunch texture that the air fryer ones didn't get because they were just quartered. For the Salmon, even though the air fryer won on that, I feel like you should've done the same for that instead of grilled. The Wings are the only ones that you did that were more so fair on comparison.
Other than that, another great video.
Same
It’s a great convenience appliance sort of like microwave ovens. You can achieve what a microwave oven does on a stove, or a steamer. You can achieve what an airfryer does in a fan forced oven. But the microwave is a very quick and convenient way for me to reheat or thaw a meal, heat up a cup of milk for my kid etc. and the airfryer is a very quick way to bake some crispy wings without heating a pot of oil or preheating my entire oven for half an hour. Sure both have been overhyped and silly cookbooks have been released with recipes for microwave lobster.. but within reason they do what they do well and quickly. They’re appliances for someone who comes home tired from work and has to prepare a quick tasty meal for their family and still have some time to chill before sleep.
I agree, if he had done the potatoes the exact same way but the only variable was oven vs air fryer that would be a more interesting experiment.
Just some thoughts, totally fair!
I feel like the same exact recipes would result more in an oven vs air fryer video that would be less interesting.
Kind of “big oven” vs “little oven”.
We used the top rated air fryer recipes and then pit them against Josh’s version of them using traditional cooking techniques.
Sure you could do smooshed potatoes but there’s not really enough space to do that in the air fryer. Additionally, as Josh said, people want an easy quick method for air fryer. People would call out the inconvenience of the whole overnight process that is required for the smooshed ones!
Grilled salmon vs air fryer salmon shows you the technique of binchotan grilling and the smokey flavors and crispy skin you can achieve using that process. Not as exciting to say “my oven cooks it like this, and my air fryer cooks it like this”.
And then yeah as you said, oil vs air fryer is an age old question - felt that one hit the mark.
Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it! Happy cooking!
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I’m a professional chef and I can tell you I constantly use my air fryer at home. Honestly, it’s simple and easy, oh and when I wings in the air fryer they come out crispier than fried. You supposed to spray them with oil in the fryer. Air fryer won that one
Any idea what joss has against air fryer?
@@fredfry5100It’s because of the word Fryer. Air doesn’t fry things. It’s just a convection oven. But “convection oven” isn’t catchy enough to sell products. I’m also a chef and I understand the convenience of an air fryer, but I feel the same way Josh does. 😂😂
@@elliscody06 It was a remarkable marketing/rebranding move. I know for a fact that people probably got rid of their convection ovens to spend hundreds or thousands on a brand new oven that "can air fry!"
@@elliscody06 i have a gas stove but couldn't a broiler do thesame thing as an air fryer?
@@Ndasuunye Well not exactly. A convection oven uses a fan to distribute the heat more efficiently around the product. A broiler just cooks from above.
Not only did the air fryer win, you destroyed a perfectly good air fryer just for the “laughs”. You’ve changed a lot for the worse in the last couple years, Josh.
A friend gifted me my air fryer after my last bad MS flare up. I'd stopped being able to cook in the oven because tremors + hot oven has resulted in a couple nasty 2nd degree burns. Now between my air fryer and Instant Pot I don't miss the oven at all. I can cook healthy food without risking hurting myself. That little countertop convection oven was a game changer for me!
I have to agree with you! The two appliances I use most in my kitchen are my air fryer and my Instant Pot. Those two can take care of pretty much everything that a normal person would need or want to cook.
Lol Josh completely stacked his recipes in his favor so obviously he’s gonna win
Two of the recipes were literally identical except for the cooking method...
@@Magmafrost13 key point: 2 out of 3, that's a 33% disadvantage hunny
@@Magmafrost13 he chose breaded wings. If he had done normal hot wings he would have lost the wings competition
No he absolutely did not. He chose three recipes that are routinely recommended for air fryers, and I'm not just parroting Josh. If you look for air fryer recipes you'll get roasted potatoes, wings and a little farther down the line you'd find salmon. It's surprising how much I've heard air fryers are good for salmon. What Josh stacked in his favor was the criteria for winning. Yes traditional cooking made the tastier food, and even faster food with the wings but air fryers have an incredible effort to quality ratio, and that isn't captured when only testing for quality.
@@TheGoboZone I’ve never been recommended to cook salmon in a air fryer. The best wings I’ve ever had came from a air fryer, but that one had a basket unlike the one he used. That being said he went a extra step further with breading cause he knew that without the basket you wouldn’t get the right air flow to properly crips the breading. Trust me if he cooked the potatoes the exact same cut then the air fryer would have won. Though if your going to that much effort to make roasted potatoes then go with fondant potatoes they would taste better.
Ahh, good old Josh. Always giving us amazing easy food recipes, and over exaggerated biases toward air frying
Getting to like 85% of the texture and flavor as the traditional cooking technique for a fraction of the time and effort is definitely a win for me.
EDIT: Have to try that wings air fryer recipe. I love wings, but frying them is just a hassle.
Air fryer wings are darn good. Skin on chicken thighs come out heavenly.
@@danberserk8475 plus they are much cleaner and healier
Yeah I think the comment regarding the wings was spot on. “I can tell these are fried, but I’m not making a vat of oil for that little difference.”
@@Pumpernickel745 I don't think they're that much healthier. If properly cooked fried foods don't pick up much oil. The steam from the water evaporating keeps them from soaking up oil until most of the water has been cooked out, and I'm sure that Josh is good enough in a kitchen to prevent that.
I've been air-frying my wings for years. Had several people tell me they're some of the best wings they've ever had. Don't dig Josh's air-fryer hate here
Biggest take away was on the wings. All that oil for a minimal gain. Definitely got me thinking about purchasing an air fryer.
That's exactly the benefit. You can cook in a way that can use less oil and wrangle together dinner easier and faster for someone who isn't a pro chef.
I've personally never used one, but anything that can make decent home cooking more accessible for people is a good thing in my book. After all - either is better than take-out or freezer meals.
Dude is being a pretentious twat here for clicks.
Not only do you need a ton of (fairly expensive) oil to fry them, you also need to continuously attend those wings while they're frying vs tossing them and, turning them halfway through and pulling them out.
In addition to just being great for things like wings, it's easily the best appliance for reheating most food, in my opinion. I rarely use anything else nowadays. It's especially great for just bringing takeout back to life if it's cooled a bit by the time you get home. A minute in there and it's like you just left the restaurant with it.
also uses way less electricity than using a whole oven or heating a pot of oil so more sustainable/economical in every way tbh.
adding up to the thread related to oil, air frying is healthier, and you have the same results which is a win/win
This video unironically makes me want to buy an air fryer
Could’ve just given the airfryer to someone who would’ve used it I love mine it’s great for frozen foods I’m not making a whole ass meal out of it and I agree with the deep fry thing that’s kinda the whole point of an air fryer anyway and a ton of them now have multi functions mine is also a dehydrator, pressure cooker, steamer I think they’re great.
Air Fryer and Joshua, I’ve never clicked as fast😂
ayoo nicooo
And maybe later electric wok and Joshua
So we See a Video from Nico whit a airfryer soon😂
Tip for frying wings in an air fryer, coat them in your cornstarch/flour mix lightly and then get a spray bottle to spray just a little olive oil or vegetable oil on the outside of them after you put them in the tray. Makes a world of difference for the crispy texture.
The wings was only 15 min faster while the potatoes was 24 hours slower than the air fryer and I think I’m gonna buy one after bc it’s so much cheaper and faster
Yea he also didnt include the time it takes to set up the deep fryer and wait for the oil to heat up when the air fryer was just ready to go
@@mmors or the time it takes to clean up afterwards, letting the oil cool, filtering, straining, storing, .etc
If I was cooking for a party & needed a lot of fried food happening quickly, oil is the obvious choice. If I'm just cooking for myself or a couple of people on a weeknight, no way.
Also air fryers do a great job of finishing off par-fried food quickly. So you could prep all your fried food by doing a light fry, keep it in the freezer, then just put it in the air fryer to have it ready when you want it without having to have a fry station to clean down when the food's served.
@@InnuendoXP What do you do with the oil after? I always hate frying food, because I don't know what to do with it. Am I going to eat fried food every day for a week or something?
I have an air fryer now though, so I guess w/e.
@@jamesbyrd3740 normally I strain/filter it & just keep it in a big glass jar in a dark place like a cupboard, when it's degraded enough I just pour it back into the bottle I bought it in & dispose of it.
I don't deep fry often though, often shallow frying will do the job just fine too. When I do deep fry, it'll be months before I deep fry again, so the oil just gets used once & the cost factored in to what I'm doing.
@@InnuendoXP Does it not go bad after a few days? How long does it last?
I've been anti-air fryer for a long time, and this video made me want one.
Same. And him destroying it instead of idk, giving it away since he clearly hate it. That made me finally unfollow him after 4 years
Highly recommend one. Takes less oil, less electricity than a big oven, less time and less effort to clean. And in my opinion foods get way crispier and just cook more evenly c:
I don't particularly prefer air frying, but it gets the job done when it's hot outside and makes no sense to use the oven. Plus gas is expensive.
@@Jdogg4089 This is absolutely what pushed me over the edge to get one.
This should have been titled "Professionally trained chef gets his ass handed to him by a machine and throws a huge tantrum because his pathetic ego can't handle reality"
Josh: I can make this better! Let me make the food completely different so that it’s an unfair comparison!
Yeah the potato comparison was a joke
Yeah the potato was prepared completely different 😅
The air fryer is the single best kitchen invention since the microwave
It's just a convection toaster oven. They've been around for many decades
ever heard of a turbo broiler?
@@Ichibuns not for under $100.
nuh uh
@@Ichibuns Yes and no, I think the biggest innovation comes from it being so convenient - size, maintenance, energy consumption/efficiency. Just overall a great improvement to an already existing technology.
I'm glad Josh confessed about his unfair competition, but I still feel the pain of the destroyed air fryer 😭😭. RIP.
On god, could have gave it to people who can’t afford gas stoves or all the oil
the idea behind air fryers isn't to make the best thing you've ever tasted but to balance out the economy and quality of what you're gonna eat. also being able to leave your food unattended for a very passive cooking experience and still being able to get a quality meal is to most invaluable. i still cook all my food the traditional way but when i move out i might have to invest in an airfryer for the simple reason it's convenient and consistent.
You also forgot about being healthy as you have to use way less oil with one if you want something crispy to eat
Perfect for disabled people who can’t stand for long periods of time.
Air fryers are great, i found that you get some of the best results, like on cooking chicken breast they always come out juicy, besides its fun to play with the timings maybe you have to add another minute and if you do, you dont have to wait like a convetional oven wich looses heat everytime you open it
I love coming home from my 9 to 5 job with an hour of commute and then spend the rest of my day cooking 2 pieces of salmon 😃
outside on a japanese charcoal grill
Ok but for real a lot of people do enjoy grilling for exactly that reason. Nothing takes away the feeling of OFFICE like cooking meat on a fire.
In the complete dark, because by the time you get home and start the grill, it's already 7 pm...
I only do Joshs recipes on my free days.
U don’t have a 9 to 5 w that profile photo
@@plumpy4387 literally a doctor lol. And my pfp is art my girlfriend made.
24 hour potato vs 15 minute potato: Completely unfair and the 24 hour potato only barely wins out to boot.
Salmon: Air fryer wins despite not having the skin-side up to help crisp that up.
Wings: Has the air fryer cook at a lower temperature so they're not as crispy as they could be, and only barely loses out.
Only mentions speed for the one that he's 'faster' in, and zero consideration of the cleanup.
Only mentions effort for the one that's roughly the same.
It's funny how many people saw all of these things even if they don't have an air fryer themselves!
This was for sure a win for the air fryer lol
Starting a video with a prejudice against the air fryer, using completely different recipes, and then barely “winning” is hilarious.
And destroying an airfryer which he could have given away😕
The potato battle was not the same. The seasoning and technique were different. I agree, the air fryer won. Josh just wanted to take out the air fryer.
now if the air fryer was a fancy $500 “professional convention toaster oven” youd be dying to test it out
The guy in the middle dissing the sauce was so funny😭
I love cooking an absolutely could keep up with a lot of what Josh does in the kitchen, but I work 12-hour overnight shifts at a hospital. My air fryer is going to do the work for me.
Different recipes for the potatoes isn't fair, it would have worked the same since the air fryer is just an oven.
As for the salmon being dry you can alter the time and temp to get your desired doneness maybe cranking the heat at the end for crispiness... But I'd give it to bbq cause that always wins because of the smoke flavour
As for wings honestly deep frying always wins over air fryers and ovens, the only reason it wasn't a clear win was the sauce making covering the crisp... But as your man said who wants to do all the hassle of deep frying for a few wings
Overall it has it's place especially if you're being lazy.
josh is the only guy who would hate a convection oven
How to be humilliated by an Air Fryer in 11 minutes.
To everyone who was (rightly) convinced to buy an air fryer from this video, get a decently big one. I have a small one I got as a gift and I can only fit 4 wings in at once. 8 wings is the right amount I usually want. I intend to upgrade soon.
So, about how big you recommend it to be?
@@szolim_oh As big as your mother, preferably
We’re definitely gonna need an air fryer series
Why? He's always going to say how much more amazing his version would be, just like he did here with the potatoes. Totally stacked the deck in his favour
He smashed the air fryer with a bat so I don’t see this happening
@@CJR-wv8kc that's good and all, but sometimes with how real life works, an airfryer is all your brain can handle for the day. I'm not an airfryer apologist but they're extremely handy and if you can essentially own a high tier microwave that crisps your food up, why not utilize it?
@@daphne10120 air fryers are cheap nowadays lmao he can easily get another. Plus there are a lot of people out there who really enjoy their air fryers, why not help them out.
@@EricSamaNYC if he was interested in continuing to cook with one, he would not have destroyed the first. And now the first one is going to sit in a landfill for up to 500 years because he thought it was funny to destroy for a video.
At first I wasn’t sure because he was just doing a but better version but then he made a recipe the exact same just different frying techniques. So it proves the ability of the air fryer can be very useful and maybe healthier/less clean up
as much as I love josh stuff what this video really taught me wasn't weather cooking techniques were better than a air fryer. He really just taught me better and more ways to use my air fryer.
I also enjoy the cooking process, but after working 8-5 with an hour commute, popping something in the air fryer is amazing.
Yeah I enjoy the cooking process on a weekend or a day off. I don't like it taking every weekday night when I've still gotta clean everything, do laundry .etc before I even get time for exercise or hobbies.
this is the best argument for an air fryer I've ever seen. It kept pace with Josh Weissman.
TBH I think the air fryer is a decent tool to reduce the frequency of deep frying meals
I got my parents an air fryer for Christmas last year, after they plainly stated they didn't think they needed one. Mom uses it at least 3x a week and it's her very favorite appliance in her kitchen now xD They're life changing for a home cook.
The significantly lower amount of oil used, simplicity and reduced washing up is what makes an air fryer great and this video did a good job showing that. They are also much quicker than a standard oven, do a much better job at crisping food and on top of that only needing to heat a small basket saves you money on electricity cost. The potato recipe was also very different and I also don’t understand why 1 gets olive oil and the other vegetable. Id think air fry can equally burn the olive oil. In the same time the boiled ones crisped the air fryer cooked them from raw - so the heat is definitely there, going through the oil… Constructively I’d suggest you stopped smashing air fryers and make useful videos for home cooks using a tool that helps many families and people short on time to minimise disruption in their life and still make great, healthy food. Read these comments - great opportunity to bounce back from this because the demand is clearly there. Appreciate your work Josh but think this video could have resonated better :)
The lesson here is that regardless of what cooking method you use, your food will always turn out good if you properly season it
The only one that wasn't close was the one that Josh cheated on.
(just because they're both potato recipes doesn’t make them the same recipe)
I don't own an air fryer, and up until watching this, I thought they seemed pretty over-hyped, but I was actually pretty impressed with how well it did here.
My wife and I got one as a joke but it's amazing. It's become a staple of our kitchen as it makes healthier (comparatively) food and is quick to clean up after.
If you check out Mike Greenon Prohomecooks or Cathy on the FabFrugal channel, you can see that an airfryer can save you almost an entire huge stove^^
Bring a air fryer chef in. Someone who specializes in air fryer stuff, I know theres people who do. Have THEM do the air fryer recipe while you do your normal ones. I think that would make it more fair for the air fryer.
15 minutes at 400 for salmon is INSANE. Those pieces were also baby sized compared to what I get. .85 is what I look for and that only takes 9 MINS.
Also, wings in the air fryer are heightened greatly by an 8 hour dry brine in the fridge. MEGA CRISP. Not exactly "fast", but game changing.
explain your brine process so i can try them myself
@@emmanuelobodozie713 typically a Dry brine is a salt and or Sugar rub dusted ontop of the wings, left in the fridge overnight without anything covering them and not in a ball to get dryier. The process is about pulling the water out of the wings, getting the skin super dry and seasoning the meat inside. It works on all meats. Warning though the Sugar might burn.
@@eminem0422 okay.
I’d still call that “fast”. It’s just remembering the 2 min of prep the night before to season. If I remember I always salt my steaks the night before, best method for an easy pan seared crust without overcooking the inside. I love anything I can dry brine the night before and spend 10 minutes to cook and have a delicious dinner.
Great video, informative. Just didn't see the need to destroy a perfectly good air fryer...
Completely agree. Pointless waste that added nothing to the video
Absolutely! Kit destruction is shameful - that had 100’s if not 1000’s of meals left in it. Dick move.
Convenience with the air fryer beats all that extra effort any day.
If I can skip the overnight waits, an hours-long process, that's a win in my book. I like cooking but prefer to avoid cooking while I'm tired after a tempo-filled day.
A friend recently went deep water fishing in the Gulf and brought back some snapper filets. My wife lightly breaded them, sprinkled some nice seasoning on them, and cooked them in the air fryer. It was an amazing dish, some of the best fish I've had for a while. My brother keeps us supplied with fresh perch too, also incredibly tasty when air fried. I just don't miss the oil from deep frying, period. And my air-fried berbere-seasoned potato wedges are awesome. I hope you find some love for the device, Josh, and I still love your channel. :)
I love doing fish in the airfryer. It is so simple. The only reason he overcooked it is because HE overcooked it. As long as you know how to use it you can get it as crispy or as cooked as you want it to be. Fish and potato wedges is my go to quick meal when I’m tired and don’t want to stand for too long in the kitchen.
What a dumb hill to die on.
"I hate mini-convection ovens." They are convenient, less messy, and argueably healthier than deep frying.
Joshua has said he is a former fat person, with that knowledge I find it shocking he would be against an air fryer to begin with. It's faster for two out of three of the dishes he cooked and it's healthier than the one that he was faster with. It's a godsend device for people who want to spend as little time as possible for maximum taste and it's the best substitute for frying food when you are trying to lose weight. The two rounds he won were both very close by the contestants admission. It's a tool that deserves respect.
I think the air fryer was probably faster for all 3. How long did that vat of oil take to come to temp for the wings? What about cooldown time, straining it back into it's container (you're not going to throw it down the sink I hope)? What about clean-up time?
Totally biased comparison. I'd use an air fryer for all 3 every time, especially since his potatoes basically took most of the day.
@@peterthomas5792 Yeah it was definitely kind of ridiculous to just count the cooking time but not all the time dedicated to the oil getting to temp and back into storage.
I like Josh's recipes and I watch him just for that but I wouldn't trust him in a fair fight lmao
Went to comment that he should do a more fair contest. I see the comments did it for me. Beautiful
I feel like the whole process of preparing and cooking everything traditionally is much more fulfilling and kind of gives you that feeling of achievement, especially at the end when you've created a dish that you enjoy. However for people who don't always have the time or are even in a rush, the air fryer is actually produces pretty good results so I guess it depends on what your lifestyle is like.
So it ended up just like it did for the reason Josh predicted.
His ego.
Also there ain’t no way it took 15 minutes max to heat up the oil (twice) and cook those wings.
While the air fryer is cooking you can spend the time needing dough for fresh pasta
I like how Josh acknowledges that the air fryer is useful but also just wanted to smash something
Josh can beat million dollar restaurants but not a $100 air fryer! 😂😝😜
Kind of unfair don't you think? The recipe's weren't even identical comparisons. An airfrier is simply a quick way to cook/toast something without lighting up an entire oven. A medium of heating. It doesn't magically change the recipe or ingredients.
Like grilling the salmon. That changes the flavor profile. An oven should have been used for an equal comparison. Air fryers are not replacing charcoal grills as that is entirely different flavoring. The potato recipes were entirely different.
This really was cheap recipe book vs. chef quality recipe. It had nothing to do with the airfrier, which did exactly what it is meant to perfectly.
The point of an air fryer isn’t necessarily to be better than other cooking techniques but to simply the cooking process. It’s to make it easier for everyone that doesn’t have 2 hrs to make a meal everyday.
It would be interesting to see Josh take some devices like the air fryer and develop some legit recipes. Smashed potatoes and wings, with his other steps of prep, finished in the air fryer could be incredible.
Sorry Josh going to have to go with the air fryer on this one. Potatoes were not the same. It won the salmon and I agree not going to use all that oil at home to deep fry when you get the same with air fry. With a Shao Khan voice: “Air Fryer wins… flawless victory” 😂
It won the salmon because these people have awful taste.They prefer their rubbery overcooked salmon over the smooth and soft medium one.
Air fryer is great for convince and how good the food turns out for the effort, but cooking salmon with a frying pan doesn't take a lot of time or effort and it's very easy to control the consistency of salmon that way.
Not to mention home deep frying is actually very dangerous. Sorry but the airfryer is the better option for normal home cooks.
@@ToveriJurilots of people enjoy there salmon like they did, « rubbery » according to tou
@@jewlz1355
Yes people with poor taste like overcooked salmon just like people with poor taste like burned steak instead of a properly cooked one. That's not a surprise.
@@ToveriJuri bruh if so many people like our poor taste then you really can’t be saying things like that, ur taste is poor my taste is fine, and what you gonna do the change that? Insult peoples opinions? Or actually respect them
Why did Josh always have the air fryer go first in the taste test, like obviously the judges will know there is a pattern.
Compare preparation time, cooking time, power consumption and or oil consumption (not sure about the U.S. - but here the Liter vegetable oil is about 3,99€(!)).
Air frier wins! 😝👍 Every time! A lot of easter eggs everyone! 🐣
3,99€? Geez.. In northern europe it's over 5€ per liter, closer to 6€.
@@touma-san91 Before it was 0,99€…😜
@@kaidzaack2520 Never been that cheap here
@@touma-san91 back then (when it was cheap(er)) some people modded their diesel powered cars so they could burn PÖL (plant based oil). It was cheaper than Diesel fuel at the gas station 😉
I boil my potatoes in baking soda, let them dry completely without rinsing, let them cool overnight and then pop them in the air fryer with seasoning ans oil. Amazing super mega crunchy. Looks like josh's recipe tbh (it's my sister's recipe, she owns a restaurant, but she deep fries them instead of air fryer)
Gotta do this
A rematch is demanded! but anyway, i love this kind of videos. please make it a series like match for different food 😍
Rare miss from Josh here. The airfryer is one of many tools in the kitchen for specific uses. A damn good tool.
bro used a whole different recipe and said he won 💀
Did the wings include setup and cleanup time? Heating the oil and then letting it cool and storing or disposing it? By not throwing it down the drain...
Imagine having beef with a mini convection oven while using the oven with the convection setting in damn near every video
I think that’s justified. I’ll use the convection setting on my oven any day but Lord knows I don’t have room for a gigantic “mini” convection oven on my tiny counter top. I barely have room for an electric skillet and that thing’s awesome.
Imma make every recipe from your cookbook in an air fryer 😘