This Cosori Turbo Blaze is Amazing

As I previously posted, I had to replace my Foodi & I am still over the moon in love with this Turbo Blaze air fryer. I have used it every day for my meals since a couple days after I got it. It was easy to get the hang of.

I do use the pressure cooker - but mainly to prep things for the fryer. Some of the things I've fixed:

• Chicken - baked in the Turbo once and after that pressure cooked with seasoning, then crisped in the Turbo. Both are good, but I love the 2nd method because I get better seasoning without using a lot of sodium. If I want a coating I do an egg-water wash, then a Panka (or generic!) coating before I spray with oil and fry.
• Garlic - I love to air fry whole heads so that I can smooth the garlic onto bread veggies like butter. One day when I was feeling not so well but had to eat to take meds, I had nothing except some air-toasted seed bread slathered with garlic and dipped in EVOO. Honestly, that can be an everyday thing!
• Onion - I have made homemade onion rings, baked whole onions and baked onions stuffed with garlic.  I love eating the baked onions with veggies as a sort of side dish,
• Veggies - I love broccoli and Mediterranean blends. I will either broil or air fry them. Sometimes I just steam them.
• Fish - this is so much easier to air fry than cook any other way. I like to toss some of the air fried onions and/or garlic on top and eat with the toasted garlic bread. No worries for me about vampire type intruders!
• Tortilla chips - I buy the raw corn tortillas spray with some EVOO and air fry them, add cheese to melt, then eat with salsa and sour cream. This is great also if I have some refried beans to add to the topping. Not to mention I can cut the tortillas to air fry and eat for an easy snack.

I really like being able to use nothing but some EVOO to get crispy (air) fried chicken. BTW, I do recommend getting one of the good oil sprayers. Mine has been essential to saving on oil and actually getting my food coated well. The one I got was from Amazon by Trend Plain or Plain Trend (there are other sellers) for around $7.99. It sprays a mist or stream or can be poured.

The next thing I am going to try is baking bread and cake in the Turbo. I have already done cookies. I used a little brownie box mix and nuts to make 6 cookies one day. They came out so good. It's good to know I can make a few brownies at a time to last a couple of days rather than having a large quantity tempting me.

Yummy air fried wings and steamed broccoli

I'm really going to go all machine in when I do bread. I plan to make the dough for 2 loaves of walnut bread in my bread machine before I bake one loaf in the Turbo and do the other loaf in my cast iron Dutch oven. I want to see how they each differ. And I really do need to use my bread machine more than I do. I tend to like making dough by hand, but it's been so hot here lately. I will let the machines do the sweating.

I think what I love the most about the Turbo is how fast and easy it is to clean. All I have to do is let it cool down, then lightly scrub the inside of the pan with a sponge and some soap - sometimes I can just rinse it clean with no scrubbing needed. Every couple of days, I will run a damp towel over the heating element.

Salmon

I have learned a few trick. For instance, to keep my insanely sensitive smoke alarm from scaring the crap out of me, I will put a few tablespoons of water in the bottom of the pan. If oil from spraying my food or just from drippings the water keeps the debris from smoking. I use the little accessories that came with my reusable liners. One of them is a fine mesh that will keep things from flying around the pan - for example, the tortillas.

Honestly, I wish I'd had this air fryer all along. It's lighter weight than my Foodi was and does more. When I think back, I realize I couldn't actually get enough food into the 8-quart Foodi at one time to cook evenly. The Foodi was deeper that this 6-quart Turbo but not as wide and the width counts when you want heat to circulate well. Also, the Foodi did more crisping finished foods rather than fully air frying them to doneness. 

My neighbor popped in one day and noticed the Turbo. She knows I loved the Foodi. I was telling her that I liked the Turbo so much more, but that I did have to replace it with the Turbo and a cooker. She summed it up for me, noting that the Foodi was trying to do too many things. She's absolutely right. The Turbo does less but does them all better. Since I paid less for the Turbo and cooker combined than with a Foodi costs... Well, I guess I win.

If the Turbo only lasts for 3 years or so, it will be a much better bargain than the Foodi that lasted 5 years. And I do a lot of cooking with the Turbo.

Peace

--Free