I Tried Making Classic Dishes Using Only an Air Fryer

It's time to get Alan the Air Fryer out and see if I can make classic recipes using only the appliance! Will using the bucket to prepare the recipes make for the ultimate 1 air fryer recipe? Let's see!

_Ingredients:_
Air Fryer Cauliflower Cheese
1 head of cauliflower, broken into florets
4 tbsp butter
50g plain flour
350 ml whole milk
150 ml double cream
1tsp dijon mustard
80g cheddar cheese, grated
To serve
100g grated cheese mix

Air Fryer Pizza
Pizza dough, made ahead of time or store bought
½ Tin of plum tomatoes, peeled and chopped
Toppings of your choice, I used:
½ mozzarella ball, torn up into bits
Pepperoni slices

Chocolate chip Cookies in an Air Fryer
150g unsalted butter
100g light brown sugar
100g sugar
2tsp vanilla extract
1egg + 1 egg yolk
300g plain flour
½tsp bicarbonate of soda
150g dark chocolate chips

Air Fryer Filet-O-Fish
1 burger bun, halved
1 cheddar cheese slice
1 frozen breaded thick cod fillet
For the tartare sauce
200g mayonnaise
4 gherkin slices, chopped
1tbsp lemon juice, plus more to taste
1tbsp capers, chopped
1tbsp fresh dill, chopped
½tsp dijon mustard, optional
Pinch of salt & pepper

Air Fryer Apple Pie
2 sheets, ready made shortcrust pastry
3 baking apples, peeled, sliced into chunks
2tsp lemon juice
1tbsp cinnamon
2tbsp sugar
½tsp vanilla extract
1tbsp butter
1 beaten egg yolk
1tbsp sugar

Air Fryer Spaghetti Bolognese
500g beef mince
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 garlic clove, chopped (optional)
100g parmesan, grated
300g spaghetti
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00:00 Intro - can you make classic recipes in an air fryer?
00:16 Cauliflower cheese in an air fryer
04:14 Can you make pizza in the air fryer?
06:36 Chocolate chip cookies in an air fryer?
09:28 McDonald's Filet-O-Fish in an air fryer?
12:57 Dad joke
13:09 Apple pie in an air fryer
17:55 Spaghetti bolognese in an air fryer

#barrylewis #airfryer #airfryers

[Veilamia]

These air fryer companies should sponsor you, you're making great content with them, loving the experiments.

[janealford]

Being an older person found this inspiringly as recently bought the same one so good for anyone living on there own so thank you Barry ❤❤

[_SurferGeek_]

Little known fact: The fan in a basket / bucket style air fryer *pulls* the air *up* and it flows *down the sides* and under the food and back up. This is why you need to make sure you don't block the air holes... definitely along the sides.
The browning on the top of the foods comes from radiant heat from the coils, not the airflow.

[Nick_Jarrett]

"will it pizza oven"
Barry and Stuart shoving in a giant quiche 😂

[debramck]

East coast Canadian here. I admire your enthusiasm for air fryer cooking, and this was a lot of fun to watch. But I can honestly say i will be cooking all of these dishes in the more traditional fashion!

[Nick_Jarrett]

good to see the air fryer is back, hoping the pressure cooker gets another go also

[xIDarkSideIx]

I wouldn't think of even making cauliflower cheese in the air fryer! *GENIUS* As you would say, that looked proper stonking. 🤤🤤

[KingHenryVR]

I have another 1LB piece of salmon in the fridge I might try cooking in the air fryer tomorrow evening see how it turns out. 😃

[MrRedAlexander]

I'm from Baltimore, Maryland, USA, that's on the east coast just north of Washington DC and right on the Chesapeake Bay

[alucinors]

London, Ontario, Canada here! Been watching for so many years. I can't wait to make the cauliflower recipe! I love making almost everything in my air fryer!

[KunnAllu]

Im watching from Estonia :)
Definitely would love to see more Air fryer recype videos, cooking videos.

Im trying to get an air fryer for me too hopefully someday.

[ogrejd]

What a mess. With so much wet in it, it's a bloody miracle that the air fryer survived. Would hate to see the state of the heating element, though.

edit @6:30 - And the reason the pizza was floppy and soggy was because you covered most of the base with foil and keeping the air from blowing up underneath.

[UltimatelyEverything]

Air fryers are great everyone needs to own at least one of these things you can do so much with them including steak, chicken, rice you can even boil eggs in them. Plus the most important thing about them is you can save a lot of money on your energy bills since they use way less energy than an oven.

[shaun]

Best thing I used the air fryer for was a small whole chicken. Cooked it upside down.

[julieann]

I thought that said 'will it wok' 😆 maybe your next series?

[michelleagius]

Watching from British Columbia, Canada. Thank you for all your hard work! My 5 year old and I love watching.

[QUIXU]

New Zealand watching Barry make use of his air fryer (the best invention)

[rcrawford]

We have half-length spaghetti in the stores just for things like this and the InstantPot. I make spaghetti and meat sauce in my InstantPot all the time.

[phillipprieto-cook]

Hi Barry, Phillip from Florida here. Love all the stuff you do, but what happened to the air fryer temps and times? Keep up the good work.😊

[jacquespoulemer]

I know it's a bit early but since Barry mentioned "Happy Chrispness to all" hehehe Jacques Mexico