Stop Piling Food in the Basket, It Steams Instead of Crisping

I kept wondering why my chicken wings came out rubbery for like 6 weeks straight. Then my buddy Dave, who runs a food truck in Austin, watched me load the basket and just laughed. He said you need at least an inch of space around each piece or the air cant circulate, period. I tested it last Tuesday with half the wings I usually cram in there, and they came out crispy in 18 minutes flat. Anyone else make this mistake and think their air fryer was broken?

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seth_martinez212d ago

Dave must have been watching me because I did the exact same thing for two months. My basket looked like a Tetris game gone wrong and I was convinced the unit was defective. Tried the crowd control method with a little space between everything and suddenly my fries actually taste like fries instead of soggy sadness. Air fryers are just tiny ovens with a fan, treat em like one and you are golden.