Air Fryer Healthy Recipes: Not Just Fried Food (2026 Guide)
The Appliance Most People Underuse by 80% I bought my first air fryer in 2019 to make frozen french fries without heating up the oven. For about a year, that’s all it did — fries, chicken nuggets, reheated pizza. It was a glorified snack machine. Then one Sunday, I ran out of oven space during meal prep and shoved a sheet of seasoned broccoli florets into the air fryer basket out of desperation. Twelve minutes later, those florets came out with charred, crispy edges and tender centers that were genuinely better than anything my conventional oven had ever produced. That was the turning point. The air fryer stopped being the “fry things” gadget and became the workhorse that handles half of my weekly meal prep. ...