Fun facts about Air fryer

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Did you know? Air fryers rely on the Maillard reaction, a chemical process between amino acids and reducing sugars that occurs at high temperatures to create the golden-brown crust and complex flavors typically associated with traditional frying.

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4 facts about Air fryer

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    The viral trend of using air fryers is essentially cooking with a mini-convection oven. While marketed as a modern innovation, the core technology of circulating hot air to crisp food has been used in commercial professional kitchens for decades.
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    Despite the name, air fryers do not actually fry anything; they work by circulating extremely hot air at high speeds to mimic the crispy results of deep-frying without needing to submerge food in vats of boiling oil.
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    The modern fascination with air fryers isn't actually a new invention; the technology relies on a convection heating element that has been used in commercial ovens for decades, just scaled down to fit on a kitchen countertop.
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