Air fryer bangers and mash – with a twist – is a fast, easy meal for one

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I grew up in the heyday of the Easy-Bake Oven, that seemingly magical plastic appliance that could bake a pancake-thin cake with the heat of incandescent bulbs in the comfort of your own bedroom.

From a grown-up perspective, air fryers seem to have a similar appeal: a tiny oven that you can operate with the press of a button, requires no preheating and is actually effective in cooking anything from a small cake to a fish fillet.

An air fryer does not actually fry food – the definition of frying is to cook food in hot fat or oil – but bakes it using dry heat, circulating the air as a convection oven does to ensure even temperature di