Air fryers have now become almost the standard in home kitchens, and many people love them, but at the same time, the question of how harmful air fryers are is gradually emerging. Thanks to the rapid expansion of the market, air fryers are very popular, but inevitably there are a large number of inferior air fryers, which are very risky for users, both in terms of safety and health, and typically the risk of cancer. So, how harmful is the air fryer?As a home appliance evaluation blogger, I have reviewed many air fryers, and today I will lead you to understand this knowledge, let's take a look at it (the picture below is some of the air fryers that the blogger has tested).
1. How harmful is the air fryer?
In fact, the formulation of this question is incorrect, at least inaccurate, because high-quality air fryers have no harmful factors, and all kinds of hazards that we know are actually for inferior products. Due to the poor use of materials and poor workmanship, the safety of use is rarely guaranteed, there are many slot risks, and there is a huge potential harm to users.
1. Poor radiation control and excessive radiation
The use of electrical appliances is often accompanied by radiation, so a qualified electrical appliance should be reasonably controlled for radiation, and the inferior air fryer does a very poor job at this point, and will produce a large amount of radiation when working, which has exceeded the scope of scientific allowability, and is easy to cause harm to human health.
2. Poor heating performance and easy to cause cancer
The most worrying thing about low-quality air fryers is that they can cause cancer, due to the imbalance between power and capacity, unscientific diversion design, uneven heat conduction during cooking, easy to burn food, produce acrylamide, long-term consumption of acrylamide-containing food, it is easy to cause cancer. How harmful is an air fryer?In view of the terrible nature of cancer, we must be vigilant against the dangers of cancer!
3. The coating material is poor, which is harmful to health
Most of the non-stick coatings for low-quality air fryers use inferior materials, which are not only resistant to high temperature and friction, but also easy to emit harmful substances when heated.
4. Poor heat insulation performance, easy to cause scalding
Many inferior air fryers are not scientific in heating or thermal conductivity design, and the external temperature can sometimes exceed 70 degrees when used.
5. Poor safety performance and easy to cause fire
Many inferior air fryers use the wire rod and diversion design that are not up to standard and unreasonable, and it is easy to cause fire during the heating process, and the consequences are very serious! How harmful is the air fryer? Fire hazards are sometimes fatal!
2. What are the advantages of air fryer?
We talked about the harm of inferior air fryers, we can see that it will bring huge risks to people's health and safety, but inferior air fryers are not the mainstream after all, the quality of most air fryers is still trustworthy, these high-quality air fryers have many advantages, not only the use experience is good, the key is that cooking is fast and convenient, the food is delicious, which greatly facilitates people's lives.
So what are the advantages of a high-quality air fryer?
1. Labor-saving and simple cleaning
The air fryer is made of a high-quality non-stick coating, which is very easy to clean, and it is easy to completely disappear by simply wiping it with a damp cloth or rinsing it with clean water.
2. Rich and diverse functions
The air fryer is fully functional, and all the functions commonly used in life are intimately designed, especially the timing function, which can automate the cooking process without anyone watching in the kitchen.
3. The operation is easy to use
The air fryer is simple to operate and easy to use, and the whole process is extremely simple compared to traditional frying methods, allowing everyone to complete cooking with ease.
4. Food is low in oil and fat
Air fryer cooking uses very little oil, even without oil, which reduces the emission of oil fumes, and the food produced is low in oil and fat, which is healthier.
5. Fuel-efficient and delicious
Although the oil-free or oil-less cooking method of the air fryer greatly saves the use of oil, the fried food is more delicious and delicious enough to be eaten.
3. How to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of products?
From the previous introduction to the pros and cons of air fryers, you can see the pros and cons of air fryers, that is, the difference between high-quality products and inferior products, which is in line with the facts. Basically, all kinds of complaints about air fryers that everyone encounters in their daily lives are inferior products that are at fault. The following is the statistics of the negative reviews of air fryers on the Internet, which you can see from this.
Therefore, how to choose a product is very important, it has a decisive role in the quality of the use of results, which reminds us that we must know how to buy products. So how should you choose an air fryer? Are there any operational tips to follow? The following is my summary of the eight major purchase guides, I hope it will be useful to you.
1. The brand has technical strength
Brands with technical strength are more professional, whether it is the accumulation of product technology, research and development, or the adjustment of core performance such as product heating efficiency, thermal energy attenuation and temperature control accuracy, etc., are very good, and the selection of materials for such businesses will have corresponding food-grade test reports, and safety and health are guaranteed.
2. Power and capacity matching
The size of the power and the capacity is related, the two should be matched, if the capacity is too small the heating efficiency is slow, the baking is not cooked and slow, on the contrary, it is easy to scorch, not conducive to temperature control, under normal circumstances, the power is about 1500W is more appropriate.
3. Use stainless steel heating pipes
The heating efficiency, durability and anti-aging characteristics of stainless steel heating tube are very good, comparatively speaking, the heating efficiency of the light wave tube will decrease with the use of use, as for the general metal heating element, because of its own low heating efficiency, and heating slowly, it does not have the ability to heat quickly.
4. It has the function of child lock
The child lock function can effectively avoid the occurrence of hot steam and hot gas burns due to accidentally opening the lid of the pot, which is a very intimate protection for families with children.
5. No pungent smell when used
The air fryer will have a strange smell when it is first opened, which is emitted by the substance smeared on the heating tube when it comes out, which is normal, if you smell the same pungent smell as burning plastic during cooking, it is likely to be caused by the inferior heating element used in inferior products, so be careful.
6. Good anti-scald heat insulation
It is necessary to choose a fryer with pull-off power, high-thickness materials, and anti-scald handle design, so that the heat insulation performance is also good, which can reduce the probability of scalding events.
7. The coating is made of silicone
Air fryer coating is very important, inferior materials often release toxic irritant gases at high temperatures, which is not good for health, it is recommended that you choose a silicone coated fryer, which is safer than Teflon coating.
8. The configuration of the baking tray is reasonable
The baking tray must be equipped with more than 4 silicone foot pads, and the surface should be flat and regular, so that the food can be held very firmly and avoid rollover during use.
As long as you master these eight points, it is not difficult to buy a high-quality air fryer with high safety and practicality, and although there are endless inferior products on the market, high-quality products are also dazzling, but here is another insurance for you, the following picture is the core safety performance index evaluation data of 12 popular air fryers.
In terms of technology and professional strength, Gongling air fryer is popular with fever performance and high durability under the "safe and non-toxic", and it is rare to have certification from the European Union and other countries, and it is a professional veteran brand exported to the European and American markets for many years, and it is as famous as Gree, Midea and other high-end brand series!
With the support of the ten exclusive black technologies innovated and developed by the Gong Ling team, the harmful substances were reduced by 97.8%, the harmful irritation odor was reduced by 96.5%, and the heavy metal pollution was 0, and the only one that has been certified by the European Union and other countries! Whether it is safe or non-toxic, heating efficiency, temperature control accuracy and other related core technologies, it has achieved the leading position in the industry! It has been praised as one of the safest and non-toxic air fryers by many leading authoritative testing institutions in China, Europe and the United States, and more than 500 professional evaluators have evaluated its highest safety factor!
In order to be "safe and non-toxic" high performance and durability, Gong Ling does not engage in redundant functional gimmicks, a product has been dead for many years, integrated into 84 "safety" technology innovation points, and carefully crafted from materials, process applications and other aspects! In addition, it also focuses on heating technology, temperature control algorithm, coating design, diversion innovation, etc., and innovates and develops ten black technologies, such as energy storage stainless steel heating tubes, WOS intelligent temperature control algorithms, Nets silicone non-stick coatings, etc., and has more than 6 years of comprehensive performance and safety, non-toxic and anti-attenuation certification. Safe and non-toxic, heating efficiency, uniformity is much higher than peers, and at the same time, it is safe and non-toxic, non-irritating and non-hidden dangers in any environment!
If you are more interested in cost performance, you can consider Supor, Haier and other brands, which are relatively famous, and they are OK in terms of design materials!
Fourth, how to stay away from inferior air fryers?
In addition to mastering the skills of buying high-quality air fryers, we can also work from the opposite side, pay attention to identify the various misleading behaviors of inferior air fryers, and clearly understand the misunderstandings of purchases, so as to ensure that we are not cheated. Here are the four misunderstandings carefully created by inferior products:
1. Falsification of test reports
In order to show the quality of their products, many businesses do everything they can, the most typical is to forge test reports, to achieve the purpose of shoddy and muddy, the report dares to be fake, and the product quality is even more fake!
2. Rendering high power
Many businesses deliberately highlight the power and guide consumers to think that the more power, the better, so that everyone can ignore other defects of the product, which undoubtedly leaves hidden dangers for everyone.
3. The parameter configuration is false
In order to show some advantages that do not exist, inferior air fryers often adopt the method of false standards in terms of configuration and performance parameters, and play a game of text deception, but in fact, the product does not meet at all.
4. Emphasize non-harmfulness
Because inferior air fryers are harmful, they often emphasize the harmlessness of the product when they are sold, and relieve everyone's mental vigilance, and once everyone relaxes their vigilance and suddenly encounters harm, they will be caught off guard, and the consequences will be more serious.
In fact, the harm of air fryer is mainly caused by inferior products, so as long as we grasp this main contradiction, choose products in accordance with the correct method, and do not fall into the misunderstanding of inferior products, we can avoid many hazards, so that the air fryer can really play its advantages, enhance our cooking experience, and provide rich choices for our dining table.