convection oven

It’s lightweight but will create a brick-oven like crust in your convection oven alone.

You can also buy a small convection oven, like this countertop convection toaster oven, which offers the same economy of size and will give you similar results.

“Air fryers are essentially small convection ovens,” Sollid says.

Essentially, air-fryer technology builds off that of the convection oven but was considered novel enough when air fryers were released in Europe in 2010 to warrant a patent.

The latter concern is true in a sense, as air fryers do rely on convection to “fry” food, but they cook things more quickly than a traditional convection oven because they’re small and take less time to heat up.