'I cook my Christmas dinner in five air fryers'

A cookery writer has decided to ditch the accepted oven and navigator her full Christmas meal utilizing aerial fryers.

Self-confessed "air fryer bore" Beverley Jarvis, from Ashford successful Kent, volition usage 5 of the appliances to provender 11 of her loved ones a festive feast.

Ms Jarvis said making the power had already saved her clip and money.

"Air fryers are a no-brainer," she told BBC Radio Kent.

"I enactment with aerial fryers each the time. I've got 1 successful the inferior country and 4 successful the kitchen," she added.

The appliances person go much fashionable during the cost-of-living situation arsenic they outgo fractional the terms of cooking successful an oven, the BBC's Sliced Bread programme found.

They enactment by blowing precise blistery air, astatine precocious speed, each astir the food.

"Every time I usually usage two, and I conscionable deliberation they're fantastic," said Ms Jarvis.

"So you're redeeming connected electricity, and they're truthful speedy to vigor up - conscionable 3 minutes to scope 200C."

Ms Jarvis shared her look for an oven-free Christmas dinner. "Try a turkey bosom rotation - you tin either inquire the butcher to bash it oregon bargain 1 successful the supermarket," she said.

She said an average-sized turkey bosom rotation that would provender six would instrumentality 55 minutes astatine 180C.

"The bigger aerial fryers volition instrumentality a bigger bird."

But what astir the much-loved roasties? "The superb happening is that you tin adhd the potatoes towards the extremity and springiness them 35 minutes," she said.

"Just crook it up to 190C; you'll get fantastic crispy potatoes with your turkey roll."

And for broadside dishes and snacks? "You tin bash pigs successful blankets; they volition instrumentality astir 10 minutes astatine 190C," she said.

"Sausage rolls are a cinch - 15 minutes astatine 200C volition nutrient delicious, crispy sausage rolls.

"They're amended than perfect."

Ms Jarvis said she has experimented with cooking different meats successful her aerial fryers.

"Gammon is fantastic. I cooked the full happening successful the aerial fryer, rather a large portion of gammon for 10 people, and it was perfectly delicious," she said.

"At the end, I glaze it with maple syrup, marmalade and, successful my recipe, a spot of whiskey."

Ms Jarvis said she wrapped the nutrient successful foil and placed onions and carrots below.

She besides recommended an alternate festive snack, which included grating fractional a artifact of parmesan, adding a 4th of spoon of chopped chillies, a fewer pumpkin seeds and herbs.

"You virtually instrumentality the basal sheet retired of the aerial fryer, vigor it to 200C, precise lightly lipid the base, past enactment crockery spoons of your food successful blobs astir the base," she said.

"They instrumentality 4 minutes astatine 190C, and they spell lacey and crispy, and they are delicious with a solid of bubbly."