If they last long enough you could pass it onto the children, then it could be an aire fryer
‘heir’
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Which reminds me… What do you call a cooking cleric from Kilmarnock?
An Ayr Friar
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I did similar with my slow cooker in the car years ago via a power inverter but the smell of cooking drove me mad driving down to the house.
Yes, don’t you just hate it when a brilliant pun goes wrong? 
But I still enjoyed it @Corona 
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I think I meant it about Jane’s air fryer in the caravan/camper but after maybe 1 too many G&T’s and waking to see it this morning I am not sure. 
My Ninja, although usually more expensive than just an air fryer, is so versatile.
It makes pressure cooking so easy.
So David, when you have cooked your little chook in it, you can make wonderful stock too.
I freeze the carcasses of cooked chickens and make stock with two.
Yes and it would be good, when I discovered Maggi stocks I gave up on using soups for the sauce.
Lakeland has their own small air fryer on sale right now £30 (half price although some of their prices in general are a little overblown). It will probably be a badged Tefal or Phillips or similar. Could be worth a try at that price without risking too much just to see if you get on with the air fryer cooking method. They have others air fryers as well quite well discounted. I think they gave caight a cold on electrical items and need to clear stocks.
Best if you can get it delivered in the UK or store pickup there. They ship any order to France for a flat £7.50 per order. However unlike Amazon that does DDP, for Lakeland althoigh they take the UK VAT off the price, they don’t clear and prepay French VAT. So on the package’s arrival in France you will have to pay French VAT.
This in itself is fine as French and UK VAT are virtually identical. The problem is that because Lakeland does not do DDP (ie pre-clear it and pay rhe French VAT ahead having taken off virtually the same amount of UK VAT off your price), then the shipper, someone like DHL or La Poste, has to clear the package (import clearance) and pay the French VAT. Still no extra cost to you except that for each parcel the shipper will add you a service fee typically between 9 and 18 Euros or so.
I do have to ask why one would want to buy this in UK? All the hassle if it is defective, or breaks. Although if you change the plug as one should for safety then the guarantee will be void anyway!
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True, with the delivery service charge implications caused by Lakeland’s sending method to France I’m thinking this is more practical for SF readers in the UK.
Though at £30 as a test to see if they get on with it it might still be worth it. Can always graduate to a Ninja (£160-200?) or something else, if they decide they like the air fryer method. With time to search out the various offers that come along for a more highly festured one, probably won’t lose much handing off the trial one.
Darty have Ninja air fryers for €79 at the moment
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I saw on the Martin Lewis website yesterday a discount code to buy a Ninja Speedi for £99 for the first 10,000 purchasers. Watched a lot of videos and eventually succumbed. Still not sure though. Will pop into the library today to check the Which reports.
I like what people say about the steam/air fry action. Rather large item though.
Yes they’re large, but would not be without mine now, as so versatile and energy efficient - one of the best purchases I’ve made in a while. I tend to store mine away and bring it out when needed, as don’t like lots of clutter around.
Having taken our useless-in-the-kitchen small air fryer away with us to see if it would expand our range while camping, it has been quite useful in a limited sort of way. Provided I forget the name of the thing and just use it as a micro-oven, it fills a cooking gap! I hate throwing things away so am glad it’s found a use 
If you do buy an air fryer, make sure you clean the insides regularly.
Some friends of mine have one and didn’t (or at least not diligently enough) - and it caught fire, causing a lot of damage to their kitchen and smoke damage to the rest of their flat.
Fortunately one of them was at home and smelled the smoke, closed the kitchen door otherwise it could have been a lot worse.
They are due to move back in to their flat after 8 weeks away while it was renovated.
Just FYI.
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When I was doing my research I saw there was quite some difference across equipment that carried the same ‘air fryer’ description, varying quite slot in terms of capability and quality. As usual, think many manufacturers jumped on the band wagon.
Yes I was advised to do that, in fact put the drawers in soapy water to soak immediately after each use but, due to the space the drawers take up, that was impractical so I discovered paper inserts. I buy 100 for around €11 from Amazon and they keep the insides completely clean. With toast, if I handle carefully making no crumbs, I don’t even need those.
However, your comment did prompt me to think that you meant a buildup of grease in the area where the drawers go so I have just been to have a look and there is absolutely no sign of grease anywhere inside the machine, including the heating coils above, and none in either of the drawers as well. I just found half a dozen or so rogue toast crumbs that escaped my careful removal of toast.
No idea why that should be, but it is a fact. 
My Nija Speedi arrived this afternoon. I am impressed by it’s build quality. I had a look around websites for cooking oil suggestions though I do know a little about suitable oils. I was disappointed to find people are still recommending polyunsaturated oils for cooking. The two sites I visited were both from the US.
Lard or goose fat, possibly olive oil but definitely not seed polyunsaturated oils as these oxidise and are high in omega 6 compared to omega 3.
As the report suggested the information on saturated fat is being reconsidered as there is no real data to support them being unhealthy but truck loads of marketing BS.