We all love our air fryers. They have allowed us to look like heroes in the kitchen as we pull off a healthy meal in record time with little supervision.
Most people know that using aluminum foil in a microwave is an absolute no-no. Sparks will fly and it will damage your food and your microwave.
Air fryers do not use the same technology as microwaves. They heat up the air inside the appliance and circulate it to cook quickly and evenly. Keeping this in mind, we do not want to block airflow.
Can I wrap chicken in foil in an air fryer?
The cooking process will work with nothing but chicken in your foil packet as well as in other scenarios. Consider the color and finish you want with your chicken once cooked.
If you wrap chicken completely in tin foil, it will not have the benefit of circulating air and get the outer crust that you may be wanting. The foil will keep all the juices within the foil wrapping.
Sometimes we want to use little dinner packets where we put chicken and other items in a foil packet and bake it all together. If you are baking chicken with a sauce in a tin foil packet with other items like vegetables, then wrapping your chicken creation in tin foil will work fine in the air fryer.
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Can I put foil at the bottom of the air fryer for even easier clean-up?
But what about putting in a little piece of aluminum foil into the air fryer to catch most of all of the drips to make clean-up easier? What about putting some foil under a delicate item like fish so it doesn’t fall apart? Is this allowed? Yes, this is fine, but keep in mind how air fryers work.
We have heard other advice about not putting tin foil at the bottom of the oven if you have a basket type of air fryer due to the restriction of airflow that is required to cook properly for this design.
If you have an air fryer that looks like a mini-oven rather than one that has a basket, putting a layer of tin foil on the bottom of the mini-oven does not affect the way the air fryer cooks in any noticeable way.
Always check your manufacturer’s recommendations for your particular model. For example, Frigidaire says foil can be used to line the basket but not the bottom of the air fryer, while Philips does not recommend using foil.
We hope that you found this information to be helpful.
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