COSMOS MAGAZINE
Air fryers certainly have their uses – particularly in speed – you may want to re-read the instructions before cooking. Like all new cooking methods, they can carry some risks.
“It was raised that there had been sporadic cases of food poisoning – and here's good recognition of our food detectives out there, normally the local council or local health authorities,” Buchtmann tells Cosmos.
Eventually, they figured out the common thread was crumbed food made in air fryers. The central risk of an air fryer, according to Buchtmann, is not heating food up enough – particularly crumbed food.
“People think air fryers are little ovens, which essentially is what they are, but they do heat a little bit quicker… Crumbed products like schnitzel or parmigiana, that look cooked on the outside, may not be cooked all the way through on the inside.”
“The general advice we put out to people is ... look at the instructions that came with the air fryer, which gives you recipes and advice on how to cook things,” says Buchtmann.