Air Fryers and Instantpots

 I made dinner tonight. Andi and Avery both suddenly like my old school macaroni and cheese. It is not a hard recipe, elbow macaroni, butter, milk, a jar of old English cheese, and 4 oz of Velveeta. The key is to put it in the oven after it is made for a almost brown crust. 

I digress. I made fried chicken tonight. Stop, let me clarify, I tried to make a nice tender golden brown fried chicken tonight in the air fryer. It didn’t work. I ended up with a cooked piece of meat with a mostly white crust around it. As in, the air fryer doesn’t really fry anything. It is more like a hair dryer on high in a very contained space. This was the last time I will use it for anything besides small batch of fries. The oven actually does fries better too. I had high hopes for the newfangled contraption. But it, like the instantpot is a waste of time. 

The instantpot makes an OK chili. But my slow cooker makes a better chili. In fact, every time we try to use the damn thing is takes all of the flavor it is supposed to “seal” into the food and turns it into bland mush. I think people try to make things better and only makes it worse. 

When I was younger, we had an air popper popcorn machine. It sat in the cupboard next to the electric hot dog cooker, and later... the turntable pizza cooker and the bread machine. It just appears that we as humans, can’t really use the one device that can do nearly everything with ease... the range (oven and stove top). Don’t get me wrong, there are devices that have helped like the aforementioned slow cooker, or the microwave. But if you have such a hard time making bread using an oven, I don’t really think the bread machine is going to be a huge difference, unless you want an oddly square loaf of tasteless bread. Want to cook a frozen pizza? Turn on the oven and place the unwrapped pizza on something called a pizza stone or a baking sheet. 

There, now let me get off my step stool and see if we have any hot children k-cups for the Keurig. 

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