Air fryer madness

Rosalie has had an air fryer for a few years now. It was originally my idea so that I could make some healthy French fries. I, as a former Brit am used to fries with everything. But, as most things related to cooking go, Rosalie ended up dominating it.

A while back we were in Best Buy trying to get Rosalie a new keypad for her iPad. They didn’t have what she wanted so, as we were too early for our next appointment (the pub) we decided to look around. Rosalie took one look at me and said “don’t you dare buy anything.”

We wandered the aisles until we came to an air fryer lid for her Instant Pot. I wasn’t allowed to buy anything but she walked out with a new cooking toy. I did give her some encouragement though.

When we got home she had to try it out and produced some delicious chicken wings. They weren’t as good as the ones I can do on the Big Green Egg but close enough for me to enjoy them.

We have a bit of a friendly rivalry going on between the Big Green Egg and anything Rosalie cooks. It started with bbq ribs, she won that one, but I still had to brown them on the BBQ. She says she can use the air fryer to brown them now so I have to come up with a different strategy.

Now we’re into pizzas I did one the other day that was delicious so Rosalie had to try to outdo me. She tried and failed. It was okay but…you know, not as good. So now we move on to the next round. Whatever that may be. She can’t rival my breakfasts though. I got the new griddle and cook the best bacon, eggs, mushroom and tomato breakfast ever. She’s so envious. The rivalry isn’t getting too serious but I still look over my shoulder every now and then just to make sure.

So now we had two air fryers. We decided to put the old one on the Facebook marketplace for $40. Before we did so, Rosalie saw an article saying that our old air fryer was recalled. I dove into it with dollar signs in my eyes and found that indeed the model we had was recalled. Never mind $40, now we could get the whole retail value back. All we had to do was register online and wait while they sent us the packaging and details of how to ship it back.

In the meantime, I have to put up with Rosalie trying every concoction she can think of on me to see if she can poison me or not. Apparently, you can cook not only french fries but cakes, roasts, pizza and even sheep’s testicles with a rhubarb glaze on them. I cringe at the last suggestion.

I have to admit that the fries she makes are really good, however, the testicles are a bit chewy. Probably be better if they had been done on the egg.