Debate: Should you preheat your air fryer or not? I just hit 100 recipes and got two very different results.

I finally cooked my 100th air fryer meal last night and noticed a big split. Some recipes turned out perfect without preheating, but others came out soggy or uneven when I skipped it. Do you always preheat or just throw food in and hope for the best?

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charles_henderson13d agoMost Upvoted

100 recipes is a lot, but I got this air fryer as a gift two years ago and just started using it regular like last fall. Honestly, I didn't even know preheating was a thing till about 30 recipes in, because the manual is basically a tiny pamphlet with no detail. I tried both ways and now I'm stuck in the middle because some frozen stuff like fries come out way better if I preheat first, but chicken thighs seem to stay juicier if I throw em in cold. So yeah, I still guess a lot even after 100 tries. What kind of food gives you the most trouble with soggy results?

eva_rivera13d ago

Wait, you actually made 100 air fryer meals without figuring out the preheat thing till now? That blows my mind. I just pop stuff in cold and hope it works, but 100 tries seems like a lot of guesswork.