Yes, but.
Size
Your obstacle to cooking frozen pizza in the air fryer is nothing to do with the topping or it being frozen. The issue is the size of the pizza, and the diameter can be too large for most air fryers.
Buy budget
The very budget friendly £1 Iceland frozen deep pan pepperoni pizza is not a large pizza by any stretch of the imagination. This quality makes it an ideal air-frying frozen pizza.
For the £1, you get a pretty good deep pan pizza. We prefer this pizza cooked in the air fryer over our conventional oven because the base is fluffier and lighter with an even tastier topping.
It also costs less electricity budget to cook this pizza in the air fryer.
Fits the basket
The small size of this pizza fits in the 5.8L (6.1Qt) or a family-sized air fryer. There is room to take it out quickly with our air fryer pizza tool, and there is no need to struggle to remove the cooked pizza.
Cooking Time
The cooking time for a frozen pizza in an air fryer is much reduced over the conventional or fan oven timings. Using the oven timing for the air fryer pizza will burn.
Trial run
It is easier to cook the pizza a bit longer than uncook an overcooked pizza. Use a lower time and check on the pizza, then add more if it’s not done. All frozen pizzas vary, but we have tried and tested these settings for the value Iceland deep pan pepperoni. Use them to guide a perfect frozen pizza from the air fryer.
Time and Temperature
We set the air fryer temperature to 170°C (340°F)
And set the time to 7 minutes.
I am using the Air Fry mode.
The frozen pizza was put into the basket, and no pre-heating was used. This saves time and energy. But at the cost of a more variable final cook. The pizza may be a bit over or a bit under using this method. But a frozen pizza tastes suitable for 1 minute either way – under or over.
Check the food is piping hot before serving.
Compared to a fan oven
The fan oven directions are excessive for an air fryer, but they can help you see how quickly a frozen pizza can cook in the air fryer.
22-24 minutes at 180°C (355°F) in a fan-assisted oven, pre-heated.
If you cook it that long at that heat, your air-fried will be charcoal.
Our Verdict
The air fryer frozen pizza tasted better than when cooked in a conventional fan oven, and the base was lighter and fluffier with a tasty topping. Great value for money pizza when keeping costs down, cooked economically.
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