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Don't Let The Name Fool You! Never Cook This Type Of Fried Food In Your Air Fryer By Nick Rivera Aug. 31, 2025 1:39 pm EST

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Air fryers are great for quickly cooking some of your favorite foods, but they're not a substitute for every other appliance in your kitchen. Even though the name "air fryer" implies the ability to fry your food, not every type of frying is made equal. Air fryers are not equipped to cook wet-battered food for a few reasons, so it's best to keep them out of your basket.

The problem with trying to fry wet-battered foods in an air fryer comes from the structure of the appliance itself. It's actually a false fact that air fryers fry foods at all ; they work more like a convection ov

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