If I ate potatoes, Iām sure it would.
Timex
1567
Do you have kidney problems? Thatās the only reason I can think for someone not eating delicious potatoes.
Skipper
1568
Also reheated tots/fries. We enjoy air fried wings too.
To Armandoās comment: They are different, no doubt about it. But itās more akin to trying to cook potatoes in a different way and suddenly realizing they taste pretty damned good. Tots especially as the majority of a tot is surface area and air fry gives a very crisp result with not much greasiness. The things that donāt work as well are anything breaded or very light, so onion rings/fried pickles, etc. No bueno in the air fryer. You CAN cook things where the bredding is very stable, like say, something frozen that has breading.
Strangely I like them both ways, truly fried but also air fried.
No, just been doing low-carb for many years.
Thereās a lot of reasons to skip or reduce carbs. Diabetes, for example. (Although Iām personally not gonna skip potatoes altogether unless I absolutely have to.)
Timex
1571
Potatoes are generally a pretty good carb though. I mean, probably not in tater tot form, but in general, potatoes are quite nutrient dense.
I donāt eat any starches at all. No beans, rice, pasta, bread, corn or potatoes. I do make the occasional exception for pizza every few weeks, but thatās my one indulgence. Fortunately, after a year and a half, we finally found a great pizza shop out where we moved to.
You need a different oven.
The Brava oven has a video for pizza. Iāll probably have tested this at least once by the weekend - and for reference I generally throw my pizza steel in the oven and heat it at 500 degrees for 45 minutes before I get started. No doubt if you were making a LOT of pizza, the pizza steel becomes the more high throughput option, but for a one-off this might be good.
They claim cold dough, raw ingredients in the oven to fully cooked pizza in under 10 minutes in this video.
Timex
1574
It would certainly be faster, as the steel needs to heat up as you say.
But I feel like itās gonna be inferior to my pizza, because my pizza goes from cold to done in like 5-6 minutes. If that thing is taking 10, it seems like itās gonna be different.
Honestly though, it looked pretty solid.
But I aināt spending 1000 bucks on it.
rshetts
1575
Yeah, a good convection oven does fantastic wings. Wings have enough natural oils and juices to crisp them every bit as good as deep fried. Once I tried wings in my Breville, I never went back to deep fried. Same with french fires although those do taste a bit different since your not inundating them with fat. Still, air fries area very acceptable alternative.
For quick science, I dashed out a very quick pizza. I went for speed, so whole foods dough, san marzano tomatoes and basil, moz. 10 minutes in oven.
Terrible picture, but it looks like it got some color on the underside.
The dough wasnāt great, so Iāll have to repeat with better starting material and see if I get a little more rise.
Skipper
1577
Iāve deep fried and pan fried and air fried wings, I think the latter wins out on convenience for sure, also less wasted oil. We do the recommendation, which is a bit of spray oil on the wings a couple of times during the cook, and frequent tossing of the wings to ensure even air fry. A quick toss afterward in your favorite sauce and they are amazingly good.
Timex
1578
SCIENCE!
The bottom looks decent.
What I would expect though, is that after 10 minutes to get that bottom, the dough would kind of bake more, and result in something more like bread than pizza dough.
It aināt baking steel quality. That said, itās some whole grain mother fuckin seeds type bullshit, but was the only thawed dough at the store for immediate experimentation. Iāll ty another few tomorrow with better inputs.
RichVR
1580
Do you have an actual pizza place near you? I used to make my own pizza dough. But you can get a lump of dough from a pizza place for like $2.00. Well worth it.
Of course you will get the jokes, starting your own pizza place, eh? What, our pizza not good enough?
stusser
1581
You just look them in the eyes and go āIt isnāt forā¦ eating.ā The dramatic pause is essential there. Then put up a creepy little smile.
