To be honest it shouldn't matter too much Lined or unlined. Any sensible cook will always turn food items half way through to ensure food is cooked to perfection.

@stevenwilson5556

4 ай бұрын

it would matter if the food benefits from cooking on all sides like fries, or pizza which you really can't flip over

@ariguerrero8762

Ай бұрын

Of course it matters.. it's an air fryer , air has To circulate all the way around the item for it to crisp up

On the topic of liners. Here's my advice after using one of those airfryer contraptions for quite a few years. For sticky things, especially sugary things, like if you had added some flavour to that bland chicken breast by glooping on a nice BBQ glace. Absolutely, use those paper liners and save yourself the mess. Just make sure to turn things about twice as often as without. For really fatty things, like chicken wings or cheap sausages, those silicon liners to collect the drippings isn't a deadly sin. Again with the frequent shakey-shake of the basket to keep things moving. For anything with a breading, dry - like toast or reheating pizza, and spuds in any form. Oh dear gods No! No liners! Just NO put it away. Bad youtuber! Does that clear it up?

@secretsquirrel7300

5 ай бұрын

This is what makes perfect sense. Even with the toast, my thought is to just flip it. Problem solved

This was a journey, came to see if the liners were worth it, found out you can make toast in the air fryer and then found out toast in the air fryer looks extremely depressing

@PotatoPirate123

8 ай бұрын

I make toast in the air fryer because I foolishless got rid of my toaster to make space when I got my air fryer. If you like hard, brittle toast then they're great. I don't.

@3DThrills

4 ай бұрын

You can make toast but it won't be as dark a color. If you try to make it pretty, it will become hard as a rock. Perhaps the bread could be elevated on a 6 inch tall platform and turned for better toast?

I feel the silicon liner would do a better job than the paper ones that were also used as the silicon one did actually have raised parts to help lift the food off the bottom which helped with air flow.

@captianmorgan7627

Жыл бұрын

I been told that coffee filters can work and are disposable and cheap.

@LauraBidingCitizen

Жыл бұрын

@@captianmorgan7627 Yep. Keep throwing more crap into our landfills!

@captianmorgan7627

Жыл бұрын

@@LauraBidingCitizen Or you could just compost them....

@LauraBidingCitizen

Жыл бұрын

@@captianmorgan7627 Right, so how many coffee filters a day, with every use of the air fryer, per week, x that per month, do you intend on using exactly?! And how many people do you think are composting them..?! Do you think Einstein here who can’t even wash an airfryer tray up is going to compost..?!

@captianmorgan7627

Жыл бұрын

@@LauraBidingCitizen Angry much? I use 0 coffee filters because I don't have an air fryer and don't drink coffee. Do YOU know how many coffee filters people use on a weekly or monthly basis in air fryers? Do YOU know how many people are composting them? I sure don't. And I doubt there is any data to be found. I also love the ad hominem attack at the end. Speaking of 'the end' you must not have watched the video's. Because Mike even says that washing the silicone tray took as long as washing the air fryer's tray so he'll just use the built in one.

Must be the best ending to a video I've ever seen 😂 Top job Mike you are a legend! 👍

"The comment section was right." We always are. We always are.

@Del_S

Жыл бұрын

In that case, cereal IS a soup!

@Whiskeyklone

Жыл бұрын

@@Del_S And a taco is a sandwich

@Del_S

Жыл бұрын

@@Whiskeyklone Correct. It must be true, this is the comment section.

Been watching you for years and Im very happy you did this video. I have the exact same air fryer myself and use it fairly often. The silicone liner would be fine for non breaded meats like the chicken or a steak. I would never use a liner for things like fries, where you really need the air circulation. However, the one thing you also need to do is flip (or toss around in the case of fries) at least once during cooking. That is a big must when using a liner or not. Says that in the manual. :) One last thing, while I haven't used a liner at all myself, the silicone ones seem nice as they have little ridges to kinda help under air circulation. I would never use those awful paper ones again though. Watching you it looked like they just folded over and prevented a lot of the heat from hitting whatever it was you were cooking. I look forward to the next week on! :)

@kinagrill

11 ай бұрын

I think the little paper liners would do well if you like, airfried a cake or some such :p

We called him out on the liners, then he called us out on the liners. Love it!

@marchannam3781

Жыл бұрын

He did toast and a chicken breast 🙈🙈🙈. Chips. Wings. So much better without

@photolabguy

Жыл бұрын

@@marchannam3781 Agreed. Food appeared to be better cooked without the liners.

@awlig

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@bunney73

7 ай бұрын

Mike always tries to justify his actions whilst I'm cringing haha. But most are or do

@bunney73

7 ай бұрын

Also what kind of a absolute mlt takes the grill out of air fryer with tongs phahaha

This is an imperfect test - there are silicone liners with holes so you get much better air circulation. Same with parchment liners - some have holes....

@secretsquirrel7300

5 ай бұрын

If they have holes, then you ha e to do the whole cleanup you're trying to avoid though, right?

Yea was so glad to see this pop up, you are a star Mike. Looking forward to your next production☺☺☺

My cleanup is easy, with no liner. I let the drawer cool, while eating. Then add dish soap and water. Let it sit while I'm cleaning other things. Finally, I clean the air fryer and it's quick.

I bought and use the liners for making dishes like moussaka, lasgne, cottage/ Sheppard's pies and cakes, etc, items that will have a wet ingredient(s) in them. i haven't tried the itmes, you tried but the chicken breast looked more succulent in the lined side, hinting that the process/ effect might be less intense when using the liner. Probably easier to clean the liner than the draw, I think.

Hey Mike! I have some ideas for future week onssssss: - Raw Till 4 (the crazy freelee diet - would love to see you debunk her horrible meal plan...) - Air fryer - ONLY doing viral tiktok recipes - Bible diet - Dominos Pizza - Deep-Fried Food

Could you do a third experiment with the paper liners...no particular reason just for science and general annoyance 🤣

LOL after reading the endless comments on every video from the week-on and then seeing this pop up in my feed and Mike talking calmly with that grin on his face, this is hilarious.

@igeekling

Жыл бұрын

It's the grin of a geezer who knows that every comment, good, bad, repeating what everyone already said, feeds the KZread algorithm as engagement.

Your ending with the washing is my feelings on the matter. xD Interesting to see a comparison though. Thanks for the video!

I use foil takeaway containers ! But 50 at a time sometimes I use them twice depending on what I've cooked.. works a treat...just put them in recycling bin after 😅

@peckelhaze6934

14 күн бұрын

Me too.

I’ve always wondered about that since I got my air fryer. Thanks for taking the time to do a video.😊

It’s Fry Hard 2: Fry Harder! What a good sport; I love how you took all this in good humour and not in a condescending, snarky way.

@KelvinDigeo

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋…How are you doing?

The video we've all been waiting for!

I just bought my first air fryer a week ago and can't see why one would bother buying silicone liners when the whole point of an air fryer is that it's already got teflon easy-clean drawers anyway?

Hey Mike. I've been busy so I missed a lot of your videos but I'm glad you're looking well

It was the first liners you used at the start of the week on were wrong. They were paper cake liners, no holes in them for the air to circulate. The silicone liner wasn’t so bad😅 Oh, and preheat your fryer!🤣

@JuMiKu

Жыл бұрын

So... You are saying he did it wrong. 🤣

@mattymerr701

Жыл бұрын

@@JuMiKu when isn't he?

@kimberlyjohnston2726

Жыл бұрын

I have an oven style air fryer, always use parchment, especially for doughy items (canned bread, dumplings, ect) and some things call for a cold air fryer to start

@tishatti

Жыл бұрын

@@JuMiKu Yes, lol!😂😂😂

Doing a "Day 8" to take fan-feedback into account is brilliant. I would love it if u also read out and responded to critical comments, it'd be gold! cheers

we can conclude that mike can't be arsed to wash stuff even if its better cooked

Good Lord, he does read his comments! 🤣

Using a liner is definitely easier for cleaning. Why not try using a raised rack inside the liher? That would give airflow all the way around the food. I use one in mine and it cooks so much better.

Mike when you doing the next week on mate really enjoy them. 🤣😂

Also the whole idea of having an air fryer is you put a tablespoon of oil in the bottom so that the oil vapour rises up and lightly and healthily fries your food, something you also are not doing Mikey!..

he really wants to believe the liners don't make a difference.

I find my £20 from Morrisons airfryer cooks better than my daughters dual basket £120+ airfryer, its also easier to remove food without any oil or fat that the dual basket. My understanding is the heat circulates down the side of the £20 & up through the base heating more evenly but still needs shaking every few minutes. The Dual Basket however doesn’t have a basket to remove food it just has what I’d call a trivet, this means the heat has to travel down through the food to cook evenly. Because they don’t have baskets tipping food out results in oils/fats coming out. Recently picked up a Tefal Actifry for £20 in a charity shop & I’m impressed with the results so far, it stirs the food so it cooks evenly without any interaction from me. Only had it a week so I will be trying various recipes in it. Think the dual basket airfryers I’ve seen are overpriced & underperforming 🤔

Gotta repeat this experiment on food that air fryers are good for: supermarket frozen fries and chicken wings!

I was surprised to find out people where opening wholes in the aluminum foil or paper. Never done it and things come out just fine. Even if there was a difference it had to be huge for me to accept cleaning up the mess afterwards 😂

I smell a potentially new format: The Great British Fry Off. Put two things in the airfryer with only one compartment having a liner, and see what's the best. Do this a couple of times (or maybe an entire month) and see who the winner is. Make sure to do the cheese last because that's going to be a pain to clean off of the unlined one.

Depends on the type of liner you're using. My liners have lots of holes in the same as my air fryer tray.

Recently bought a Tefal duel drawer. Tried chips, one side with silicone liner and the other unlined, chalk and cheese. Lined side awful chips, none lined quite good. McCain oven chips next.

It's your boy, TC - back once again to say Well done Mike, this is why we love you.

I feel seeeen! I don't know who puts bread in the air fryer though 😁

@theritchie2173

Жыл бұрын

If anybody was going to to that, it would be Mike.

@igeekling

Жыл бұрын

I do. Do not eat toast often enough to warrant giving up kitchen counter space to a toaster. But the airfryer is just There, so easier to pop the bread in it than fetch the toaster from the cupboard. (Also them bake-off at home breads, the airfryer does them perfectly in about the time the kettle boils and tea is brewed.)

If it's an ocean liner, almost certainly. If you got one of them inside yer air fryer something's gone wrong.

Half the reason for using an air fryer is so that the fat drains away. With a liner that won't happen, Another is that it creates a more even cook. The liners are really for liquids and cakes etc.

Great ending to the week on Airfrying food & thanks Mike 🤗

Please do the week again. Same meals but without the liners.

Use a liner, just turn the food halfway through.

Please do a week on cooking meals from scratch using only airfare and microwave

HAHAHA Glad I waited for the final commentary- and you're spot on good sir

Inserting a meat thermometer into each chicken breast would have been even more scientific.

Thank you for sharing, that was nice

i use a bit of baking paper the whole airflow issue that people care about can be negated if you actually turn your food which you would do using any other cooking method!!

Liners just need flipping. While with the default you can cheekily get away with not flipping. Granted the instructions say you should be flipping stuff regardless of what you use, just like a conventional oven. The only real liners that are an actual positive to me are the parchment paper ones. They actually save you the clean up after. And the flipping around is not some big task. And ultimately, everything works, it's an oven for christ's sake. Just cook and flip till it's done right 🤣

😂😂😂 brilliant ending

Omfg I am so happy you did this 😂

"Hi Mike you have not told us yet how much it was to use your own air fryer vs your own oven at 0.21p vs 13.06p An oven costs 0.21p kWh to use on average vs 800W air fryer at costs 13.6p kWh to use Mike.

Thank you for this video

the twisted bread looks as tho' it's the slice next to the crust - always a problem in an ordinary toaster as the side nearest to the crust is always dry!

What we have concluded from the experiment is that Mike isn't a scientist! 😂

Ive been using linewrs for months Washing is simple and the taste is wonderful Put the Cheeken with the liner for an extra 2 mins and youll get the crispy outside

Is the grate supposed to go on top of the liner?

If you buy the liners most come with accessories like stainless steel racks etc, the air flows freely and the chicken is crispy. Enjoy your day 😊

Don’t watch much KZread stuff but just bought a ninja , this was fun to watch , light hearted 👍

I want to know time difference to make the liner version march the non liner version

What difference does it make its preference and as long as its cooked and taste good then fairplay 😋👍

The main reason why you would cook food in a air fryer is that the food will be less greasy/fatty making it a bit healthier while if you use liner the meat will cook in its own fat in in doing so will be a little bit more juicy but will also contain more fat making it more unhealthy.

@stevenham1937

Жыл бұрын

Why does something having more fat make it unhealthy? This isn’t the 80’s. The impact of refined foods or high carbohydrate laden food alongside fat has more bearing on health than a fatty piece of meat with veg for instance. One’s essential and one isn’t

@MasterSpira

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenham1937 Basically its all about calories. Less fat = Less calories. I myself have been on a diet for about a month now and have lost 10kg so far so I can definitely state that your every calorie does matter. if you can keep the food still tasty but decrease the calories why not do so.

@ddelta460

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. The fat drips out so you consume less. I love it x

I've give up with basket aur fryers as they are so messy and never clean up very well, air fryer ovens are so much better

The idea or purpose of using liners is to make cleanup easy. The tst example is usless because cleaning up after making tst is minimal even with no liner, therefore no need for a liner with tst.

Catching up with your new videos after a bit of time away. Do you guys move house Mike or just have the kitchen re-done?

If you use a liner flip the food

Mike J the science bae!

Gotta flip that shit. Even with a basket full of chips or whatever, and no liner, ya still gotta flip it around to get it all evenly cooked either way. Also ain't no one gonna wash their unlined airfryer after every use, so it gets all disgusting, whereas they are far more likely to wash a liner without much fuss, and the air fryer stays nice and doesn't stink the place up. Oh, and there's disposable paper ones if one is so inclined. Maybe even just some emergency ones stored away. If those 2 draws, were 1 single draw... that would be SICK! Also it would keep the 2 handles to support the sheer weight, and make it feel more laboratory-like. WAIT! there's the "Ninja XXXL FlexDrawer Air Fryer With MegaZone" for not a whole lot more money... 10.4L with a removable divider. Now we're talkin'! Harder to shuffle the food around mid-cook though, via tossing the basket around like a chef with a wok... would have to get in there with tongs and try to not fuck the food up. But then also with so much space, it would be easier to effectively use tongs. Really makes ya think.

The use of a meat thermometer might be worth evaluating in your 'spot the difference' quest. I personally have found that a liner helps keep the basket cleaner and makes little difference to the cooking if the contents are shaken about at least every 5 cooking minutes.

Yep another week on is definitely needed with a wide variety of food...and a grilled cheese sandwich without a liner

"I'm going to prove all the liners complainers are wrong" AIRFRYS BREAD

I feel like breaded chicken would've been a better test, as it is really meant to replace a deep fryer. Also. Most people have a toaster in the kitchen, so why chug slices of bread in to it. Just a bit dumb to use it like that, really.

Don’t think it’s about cooking but more about browning. Not really very good test examples as you wouldn’t normally brown a chicken breast without skin on. I think crispy bacon or chicken drumsticks with skin on would have been a better browning test. I don’t use a liner. It takes 2 mins to clean the rack.

What we have concluded is you still didnt exactly cook anything that would benefit from being in air fryer, toast is toast and plain unbreaded chicken breast is plain unbreaded chicken breast, air fryers are (atleast in part) meant to be a sub for *deep fryers* , so something like chips, battered chicken or fish, or pretty much anything that *needs to be cooked in a deep fryer* should have been the subject here imo

@FluffyDragon

Жыл бұрын

So.. what you're saying is, he should do it again, with a pot noodle, a spag bol ready meal, and a tin of custard? Got it

@mullaoslo

Жыл бұрын

​@@FluffyDragon reheating yesterday's dinner is great in an air fryer, there's plenty of breaded, spicy etc chicken tenders you can get that are perfect... I basicly use it as a microwave that makes food better

@mullaoslo

Жыл бұрын

Yeah his selection of items are always a bit weird.. Why didn't he get some frozen gujons or something

@chris.breadz

9 ай бұрын

Air fryers are a substitute for an oven, not a deep fryer

@DeterminedFC

5 ай бұрын

lol air fryer are not subs for deepfryers 🤣 you dont cook things in batter in a airfryer they replace ovens not fryers ...anything you can put in the oven that youd refer to put in a deepfat fryer youd put in a airfryer ....anything you cannot put in a oven that you have to deepfry you can not put in a airfryer

FYI, I love your channel, by the way, My air fryer beeps at the halfway point to tell me to turn my food, so I guess ill by the silicone liner

I find I get better results of parchment paper lining..

I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm going to guess the answer may be undoubtedly YES!!!

Could he pick a worse example than a piece of toast? At lease pick something that air fryers are used for.

The lined chicken best looks like boiled chicken does Also also ALWYS use a thermometer for chicken

I always use a liner I don’t believe in making work for myself

This format reminded me how much I miss infomercialism

Mike sounding like all the English teachers we avoided at comp. Check hard drives!

Yes. Here for this.

I use baking parchment on dry items or roast beef, chicken is so full of fat you have to let it drip through underneath so no liner there, each has its merits.

I think it's unnecessary to use a liner unless you need one for a special type of meal, like when making something that is somewhat liquid and needs a container to hold it in place.

Just use the paper Liners instead then throw it away NO washing up 😂 Happy days 😊

Ok I don’t want to see “Mike doesn’t read comments” anymore 😂😂

Yes, yes they do.

lovely to see you denounce your sordid liner ways and join the rest of us here washing up after every use. ❤

Science makes me hungry....

if you use both draws at the same time you need a longer cook time, pretty sure it says that in the manual?

Ahh he does read the comments 😂 and then takes the piss out of us! Love your version of toast though!

Very rare when the comments get something right, haha. For the toast, anyway.

Wehehell, well, well.

Mike was generous to a fault in not calling out all the jacka$$ commenters who became the 100th, then the 300th, then the 1000TH!! to mention the liners. I mean, you can see it's been said, right? 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂️

@Siberius-

2 ай бұрын

I hate that shit. People feeling the need to say the same thing yet again, that they can see has already been mentioned to death. People do this in threads a lot, because they often don't read the thread, so they get very repetitive.

That toast is raw!!

I mean a chicken breast is not the best test because you don't really want it to be crispy

I would rather flip everything midway through than have to wash that thing out every time, I'm not arsed about the planet give me the paper liners I'll eat my food and not have to wash up afterwards thank you very much

I would be more concerned about the white bread

The very last bit at the end caught me off guard and gave me a good laugh. All we were missing was our star Basil! I honestly wonder about other items like steak fries or something else you might put in a regular fryer as i was under the impression air fryers were supposed to get the fried like crispyness without the oil.

@Whiskeyklone

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was odd he chose to do mostly items that were not usually put in a fryer in the airfryer Week On. It's not "without the oil" it's with next to no oil. I like to cut up par-boiled potatoes and give them a quick spray/brush of oil and get fantastic "fried" chips/wedges/cubes. SO little oil, such good results!

@kimberlyjohnston2726

Жыл бұрын

I have an oven-style and I use mine to toast things like bread or frozen waffles. I also bake canned biscuits (US) in mine But yes, things you want deep fryer-like crispiness should get a spritz/toss in oil