The pressure cooker part should be useful in France for those rediculously tough pieces of meat?
Haven’t eaten meat in years but it makes s cracking vege chilli 
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I think it is complicated, actually - the reverse of intuitive (and I have only the simple version!) - but once you’ve mastered it it’s straightforward and you wonder what put you off. It’s capable of a great deal and worth the effort. YouTube has plenty of video help.
TBH if you get any multi type of machine they are always going to have more bittons etc than something that does only one or two things.
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Had one for a number of years - NINJA - wouldn’t be without it…hardly ever use the oven anymore apart from festive gatherings…
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White South Africans have maids to do all that, and it’s important to bear in mind that one maid’s income often supports five or more other family members. One doesn’t necessarily employ maids and gardeners because one wants to (I did, but didn’t want to) but for many people it’s more of a social obligation.
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We were employed to do an electrical installation for a one of those white scumbag SA racists. His wife proudly told us on day one how she so missed her maids, or black-o-matics as she referred to them. We did not return on day two or ever after.
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The white émigrés are the worst, but OTOH many whites stayed behind because they were optimistic about the new multi-racial future and wanted to be part of it, but it’s been a total train smash. Unbelievable levels of corruption and neglect of maintaining basic infrastructure
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Must try
Yes, yummy.
I cracked as Lidl had thier 12L oven style air fryer from 99e down to 79e. Decided it was worth it as a summer oven in the laundry / summer kitchen. Currently on the kitchen bench as we are not yet living outside! I think I’ve used it everyday! I’m so pleased with it! 
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I’m impressed @toryroo ! I’ve yet to find a use for mine 
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Is that bigger or smaller than mine @toryroo , if you remember it from a couple of weeks ago that is? Mine was €159 so either way I’d say you got a good deal.
@AngelaR Roasting? Toasting? Re-Heating?
It hasn’t worked well so far @David_Spardo but we were planning on taking it with us in the micro-caravan to see if we could extend the range of food we can prepare! I shall report back 
(That’s if we ever get away to have a break - given the weather forecasts for the foreseeable future, I’m not confident…)
We’ve given up using our large gas oven as our air fryer is all we need for the two of us. Ours is an early Tower version which has adjustable shelves. Used for eg chips (potato and sweet potato), quiche, salmon and duck parmentier. Wouldn’t use it for roasting as that would splash fat everywhere but basically anything that would have gone in the big oven now goes in the air fryer. Joy of joys. 
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Probably bigger cooking size but very similar bench size. It looks like a mini oven and has trays, a chicken rotisserie, and chip tumbler, so I don’t have to shake them
So far we’ve done chips, heated naans, reheated pizza, potatoes, toasted bread (OK today burnt a bread roll to a crisp ). Last night I cooked a little lasagne for the small. Breaded chicken things. I have used the big oven, well actually our small Neff microwave / oven combo for our jacket potatoes as we microwave and bake at the same time and a couple of roast type meals and that’s it. Only seem to use the normal oven at Christmas now
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Agreed.
Me too, I only use mine as a plate warmer now.
Don’t know why I’m agreeing, I don’t use it otherwise for Christmas either. but then we haven’t celebrated Christmas for years anyway.
Does give rise to a thought though, if I went mad and bought a little chook, I could easily roast that in the AF. leaving the oven still free for the plate. 
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I wondered the same and thought about putting it in one of these fancy roasting bags to keep the fat in - never tried them, are they still around?
If you mean the little bag that comes in a Maggi soup packet, which I throw away after using the contents as a sauce base, then yes.
So you’ve given me another little mad idea, keep the bag and use it for what it is there for.
Damn. I’m supposed to be veering towards veggienity. 