Distinguish oil -free fryer, barrel and microwave
To choose the right type to buy, first you need to understand what these three dishes are, how the actual use is, and how to cook food:
The oil -free fryer basically can also be considered a small oven with a slightly designed design.Oil -free fryer produces heat/Mayso heat, then use a fan to blow heat evenly throughout the pot, helping the food cooked evenly from the outside and the cooking time is fast.However, the pot capacity is usually small, about 3 - 5l only.
The barrel oven basically also creates heat and cooks food from the outside to the oil -free fryer, but the design is quite similar to the microwave.The capacity of this type is usually larger, can be up to 50 liters, while the name of the "barrel" oven is to distinguish it from the super big cabinet oven and the types of grill to eat hot pot at home.
The "barrel" oven looks like a microwave but using heat to cook, and that name is to distinguish it from a larger cabinet oven.
The microwave is too familiar.This dish uses electromagnetic waves to cook food from the inside out, by creating friction, causing the water molecules in the food to heat rather than radiate directly with heat, extremely fast cooking time, just a few a fewminutes and moderate capacity to 30 liters.Currently on the market, there are also more types of microwave furnaces integrated parallel baking with heat and electromagnetic waves.
Advantages and disadvantages of each type?
The advantage of an oil -free fryer is to help reduce the amount of grease in dishes, which can be up to 80 - 90%.The design of an oil -free fryer is optimized for cleaning cleaning with food containers, non -stick pots and trays containing excess fat.In addition, the cooking time is also extremely fast, only about 10-20 minutes to have a hot dish on the plate.
In return, the disadvantage of oil -free fryer is to chop food before putting it in the oven, it is difficult to cook whole chicken or a large meat platform due to too small capacity.In addition, because of the full design, women cannot track the cooking process inside to see if the food is burnt.Therefore, women need to set the standard temperature and cooking time to achieve the maturity as required.
Oil -free fryer can be considered as a mini version of the ovens, because the mechanism of heating the food is similar.
The oven is suitable for grilling of large food and cakes with a heat level up to 250 degrees Celsius. Using the oven also has the advantage of reducing the amount of cooking oil such as when frying, and the door of the furnace is often usedUse transparent materials to monitor food during cooking.
The minus point of the barrel oven is the size that can be very large, consuming a lot of kitchen space, long cooking time and cleaning is not as easy as fryer.If you want to use the most effective oven, you have to buy a few more accessories such as lining paper, specialized baking trays ...Food burning, women must be very careful.
The microwave is too familiar to Vietnamese people, and it is only used to warm up ripe/defrosting living things.
So what about the microwave?Its plus point is to save waiting time, easy timer, capacity and rarely burn food.However, the minus point compared to the two types of products mentioned above is quite a lot, typically almost not used to cook anything but just suitable to reheat the cooked foods before.Even the integrated baking feature only reaches a temperature of 160 degrees Celsius, enough to make bread, pizza ... Well, but it is difficult to turn a dough into a decent cake.
What dish can be cooked?
With the above advantage, the oil -free fryer is very suitable for making chicken, fried meat or grilled vegetables properly Healthy.Grilled pork ribs, sweet and sour sauce or beef steaks also become extremely easy to know how to install proper heat/cooking time.In addition, pork, chicken or roast duck if the pot size is large enough to still cook but must check the heat level and careful time to not burn outside.Some small cakes can also be baked, including mini -size pizza.
Do not listen to ads with wings about oil -free fryer.After using it, this type is still limited in the number of cooked dishes.
On the contrary, many women have tried and found that fried potato, although appearing very often in advertising fryer -free fryer, often soft, sturdly, not crispy as expected.In addition, the traditional Vietnamese tofu and spring rolls are also "taboo" to use with oil -free fryer, just frying with a pan is the most standard.
The barrel oven can "weigh" bread, gato cake, orchids ..., the right western items such as pizza, lasagna, whole grilled vegetables or whole grilled fish and big meat.As long as the stuffing the furnace is assured that it will be cooked.Fried fried dishes will still cook evenly and deliciously, but delicious in a different way, may be dry and less crispy, not as "diving" in the oil pan.
The microwave oven, even the type of grill (grill), is only to heat the cakes and fried foods.
Finally, the microwave, including the type of baking mode, is as mentioned above, which is only suitable for thawing freshly removed from the refrigerator, or reheating it has cooled.At most, it is to make shrimp puff, baked cake ... but it will be hard and not crispy as when frying in a pan or baking on fire.
What is the price?
All three types of products are currently quite comfortable, only about 1 million VND has some notable options.The strange is more strange, although it sounds "good", but the oil -free fryer and the most advanced barrel oven cost only about 5-6 million, while the microwave, even the type does not integrate the baking modeIt may also be more expensive, some are more than 10 million.
So which one is the "standard"?
A oven oven or fryer may be necessary, but women will rarely use.
If you occasionally eat fried food, and need to reduce the amount of grease, buying an oil -free fryer is the right choice.The compact size of the pot is suitable for small kitchen, while saving a lot of cleaning time and waiting for cooked food.
The barrel oven is for women who really want to try or like to eat western food, cakes, bread, whole roasted meat/whole fish/chicken and not afraid to clean or wait.
Meanwhile, the microwave is really a "must-have" for every family, it is necessary to use daily to defrost cold clothes or warm the food from the previous meal with high efficiency and secretion.Save a lot of time and effort.However, do not expect the microwave to accompany the baking mode that can be cooked with cakes, meat, fish ... like a dedicated furnace.
If you have chosen a tank oven/oven, there is no need for an oil -free fryer.
In addition, if there is an ovens/cabinet ovens, women do not need/should not buy more oil -free fryer, because basically these two types have the way and the purpose is almost identical to each other, but the oven has the advantage of volume, so buying the fryer only costs more money.