Gino D'Acampo gives crucial tip on buying air fryer - there's one thing you don't want

Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo has shared a crucial tip for anyone wanting to buy an air-fryer.

With Christmas and Black Friday just around the corner, many people will be considering replacing their appliance, or even looking to take the plunge for the first time. But celebrity chef Gino says there is one thing you don’t want in an air-fryer.

The 48-year-old told White Wine Question Time host Kate Thornton that shoppers should be looking to keep it simple when parting with their cash. It came after Kate revealed her mum said you should “never buy a fancy one” when shopping for air-fryers.

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Gino said: “When you buy an air-fryer, the last thing that you want is a super complicated air-fryer. The air-fryer needs two things, temperature and timing, that’s it.

“All these buttons, I still have the one with the dial on top. To me this is the best one, I can see the temperature.

“It’s nice, old fashioned with a knob on top that tells me the temperature and one that tells me the time, I’m done. Nowadays all of the digital ones, you can do left, right, top, bottom, no, get the easiest one ever.”

Gino however insists the air-fryer, which has seen a rise in popularity over the last few years, is simply a small counter-top oven. He says they were once marketed towards the camping market as “portable ovens”.

He continued: “An air-fryer is nothing more than an oven with a fan. So you already have that in the kitchen, so we have all had an air-fryer in the kitchen for the last 30 or 40 years, because if you have an oven, and it’s got a fan, that is pretty much an air-fryer.

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“The only difference is the way it has been marketed for the last six or seven years and the fact that it is small, so it cooks quicker than a normal oven, and uses less electricity, so that is all bonus points on the air-fryer.

“I had my first air-fryer 30 years ago when I was camping. Before it used to be called a portable oven.”

A recent YouGov study found that 50 percent of Brits had used an air-fryer for cooking and liked the results. While 20 percent said they had not yet used an air-fryer but were keen to do so.

However, six percent said they had tried an air-fryer and weren’t happy with their experience. While another 20 percent had no intention of using the small appliance.

Air-fryers rose to popularity because of their speed compared to a traditional oven, which has to heat up first, and their relatively low running costs. Experts estimate it costs around 17p to run an air-fryer for half an hour compared to 85p an hour for an electric oven.