My sister gave me an air fryer...

[Archae]

She already had one, so the one she gave me is a "Ninja" brand.

What do these gizmos really cook well?

[Sky Jewels]

1. Potatoes!

Slice 'em up, nuke them in some water in the microwave just to give them a jump start (five minutes on high or so), dry 'em off, toss in a light coat of olive oil and salt, pepper, and maybe some garlic powder and/or paprika. I have the oven type of fryer, not the basket type, and I put them on the wire rack so it cooks both sides at once and I don't have to flip them.

Brussel sprouts turn out well, also.

[questionseverything]

2. Fried chicken 🍗

[Genki Hikari]

3. We use ours often

Anything you'd usually bake, it does a fine job of that. If you can get it to fit.

Stuff you'd usually deep fry, or fry in gobs of fat/oil? All you need to do is spritz a temp/flavor appropriate oil on it, cook it, shake it halfway through, and VOILA! Crispy fried goodness.

But where it really shines? Honestly?

When you use it for reheating any fried-food leftovers, it can't be beat. So your leftover fries, onion rings, KFC, chicken McNuggets, fried shrimp--whatever--all of them heated in the air fryer will turn out warm and crispy, not rubbery.

In fact, I use mine for reheating more than I do the microwave now. Leftovers routinely turn out much better in my air fryer.

[MissB]

4. Bacon, sausage

They don’t cook in their own grease.

Grilled cheese.
Potatoes of any kind.

Roasted veggies.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. "Bacon, sausage - They don't cook in their own grease."

You say that like its a good thing.

I'm confused

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. Steaks

We have a grill insert for our air fryer and it does perfectly medium rare steaks in about 8 minutes.

It also does hot dogs in about 3 minutes and burgers in about 5.

[Genki Hikari]

8. My air fryer cooks hotter than its stated temp

And thank goodness for it. I was impatient one day with my cooking a steak in the air fryer.

Seared each side on the stove. Cooked it around 2 minutes on each side in the air fryer.

It was pushing rare status, but not quite. Still delicious and super tender.

[chillfactor]

6. My son bought me an air fryer

I use it almost every day. Lots and lots of recipes online. So easy to clean and saves on electricity. LOVE mine!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Since nobody has said it already ... Chicken Wings!

Most commonly used for Buffalo Hot Wings but there's lots of ways to prepare/season them.

Look up recipes online, it's really easy to spice/prep/make them really good in an air fryer.

I get fresh 'party wings' from Costco, shake one package in a bag with about 1 tsp Baking Powder (NOT soda), 2 tsp kosher salt, couple dashes each of onion powder and cayenne. Once coated put on a plate or similar and let them sit at room temp about 20 minutes, then air fry. Then toss them in Franks Wing Sauce (of course there's lots of other options if you don't like Buffalo wings).

They come out awesome, though it's best if you put in the biggest/thickest drumettes first and let 'em cook about 3 mins before doing the flats and smaller drumettes.

[Meadowoak]

10. Reheating pizza, just a couple minutes turns cold gross pizza

Back to like it just came from the pizzaria.

[vanlassie]

11. Frozen onion rings and fries. Sweet potato fries especially.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. In addition to what has been mentioned by others, fish and chips! 😋

[Emile]

13. I love cooking brats in ours. It's also great at searing ribeye's.