Christmas food you should NOT cook in the air fryer

Over recent years air fryer's have transformed the cooking experience by offering a quicker way of preparing a huge range of foods.

Roast potatoes, fries, veggies, freezer food and cakes are among the items you can cook in your air fryer only using small quantities of oil and will cook in record time, compared to using an oven.

Why not try incorporate your air fryer into your Christmas Dinner prep? There are some quick and simple air fryer roast potato recipes you can use to make your Christmas Dinner prep even easier this year.

Air fryer's are even supposed to result in lower energy costs due to their size and the speed of which they cook food compared to a conventional oven. But there are some foods that you should never cook in your air fryer and The Huffington Post has put together a handy guide.

With these items, stick them in your oven and save your air fryer space for those crispy roast potatoes or an alternative way of cooking Brussels sprouts.

Wet Batters

Air fryers and deep fryers are not the same thing, and some items that work beautifully in a deep fryer aren’t suitable for air frying. Foods that have wet batters, like onion rings are a key example.

Culinary educator Trisha Perez Kennealy said: "Air frying makes it harder to get the batter to set and become crispy.” In most cases, the result is a texturally-unsatisfying bite that leaves a sticky mess of batter all over your air fryer.

Fresh Greens

You would think that placing fresh greens like kale in an air fryer would produce crisp “chips” ideal for snacking, but chef Yankel Polak said: "The convection oven-style air circulation in these fryers will cause greens like kale or spinach to fly all over the place and cook unevenly.”

For that reason, Polak