Golden crispy air fryer fries served in a wooden bowl, showing the healthy cooking results achievable with an air fryer

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  • Air Fryer Spam Fritters

    Air Fryer Spam Fritters

    Well, it’s a cheat for spam fritters in the air fryer rather than the well-loved from-scratch batter version. But it can still be a good second choice when time is limited.

    Cheat time

    The Iceland frozen food chain has the Hormel frozen ready battered spam fritters. This is the cheat. They have already been made and frozen for convenience, and this cheat cuts out all the work of not just making the batter but also sticking to the spam and not making a mess of the air fryer. Try the frozen variety if you want to save time and still serve spam fritters in the air fryer.

    Cooking Time

    With the air fryer’s super quick and economical cooking times, the timing differs from that of a conventional oven. While the food packaging plays catch-up with the air fryer revolution, most of the time, temperature cooking instructions are still for a fan oven.

    The fan or conventional oven times and temperatures are too hot and too long for an air fryer. We have tested the time and temperature for Iceland’s frozen (from frozen) air fryer settings.

    Cooking time: 10 minutes at 180°C (350°F) for the Hormel Spam fritters from frozen.

    Crispy

    The air fryer is great for making crispy food.

    extra crispy spam fritters airfryer

    These Spam fritters benefit from a super crispy air fryer-style cooking of the batter. Even frozen, they crisp up nicely on the outside with hot spam in the middle.

    Serve

    How to serve spam fritters?

    The packaging makes a good suggestion. Peas and mashed potato. Not a bad idea. But the air fryer is quick. Much quicker than it takes to boil and mash the potatoes, and it’s only a quick lunch for us.

    Our take? Spam fritter sandwiches. No more double carbs than mashed potato, but so much quicker to serve.

    Add cheese slices to the spam for the last few minutes of cooking to melt it nicely for that extra calcium we all need.

    cooked spam fritters in the air fryer served with ketchup

    Pair with Ketchup or Brown sauce; that’s your choice.

    air fryer spam fritters in bread with cheese

    Our Verdict

    These were very quick to make.
    The batter came out extra crunchy.

    On a scale of actual, from-scratch spam fritters that get a 10, this frozen variety gets a 7. A good attempt, but the time trade-off shows. But this is not because of the batter, but rather the spam, and it seems to have less flavour and is not as salty as the real stuff from the can.

    Air Fryer SPAM fritter cooking time
  • Can you cook frozen pizza in the air fryer?

    Can you cook frozen pizza in the air fryer?

    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.

    cook frozen deep pan pizza in the air fryer

    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.

    Frozen deep pan pizza in the air fryer

    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.

    air fryer frozen deep pan pizza cooking time