Expert warns one essential part of Christmas dinner could set your air fryer ablaze

By Mieka Smiles, News Reporter

There's 1 indispensable constituent of Christmas meal an adept warns against cooking successful the airfryer (Image: Getty)

Air fryers are each the rage - and galore volition beryllium readying however they tin usage 1 to simplify the biggest meal of the year.

But an adept has present warned that determination is 1 cardinal constituent to Christmas meal that you should debar putting into the popular room gadget astatine each costs.

Philips, the electrical marque which manufactures aerial fryers, said portion pigs successful blankets whitethorn beryllium a festive favourite, cooking them successful the room must-have mightiness beryllium a recipe for catastrophe - and according to Philips’ in-house aerial fryer chef, Martin Senders, it’s conscionable not worthy the risk.

Martin said: “Pigs successful blankets are a delicious summation to immoderate Christmas dinner, and portion an aerial fryer mightiness look similar the cleanable instrumentality to crisp them up, the bacon tin make important problems.

“Bacon is precocious successful fat, and arsenic it cooks, it releases grease. In an aerial fryer, arsenic the aerial circulates, this grease tin splatter and perchance ignite if it comes into interaction with the heating element. This could not lone make a batch of fume but besides airs a occurrence risk.”

Pigs successful blankets should ne'er beryllium cooked successful the airfryer according to an adept (Image: Getty)

The adept explains different crushed that it’s a no-no is due to the fact that the grease associated with the festive dainty tin successful clip trim an aerial fryer’s efficiency.

He said: “Over time, grease buildup tin clog your aerial fryer’s components, reducing its ratio and perchance starring to mould. This makes cleaning much hard and tin effect successful lingering odours - not perfect for your festive meal.”

And a last crushed is that your guests could beryllium near with a alternatively unappetising dish.

He said: “When it comes to pigs and blankets, the bacon connected the extracurricular tin navigator overmuch faster than the sausage inside. This could permission you with cremated bacon and an undercooked sausage, thing you decidedly don’t privation to beryllium serving up to your guests.

“Cooking pigs successful blankets successful your aerial fryer would besides necessitate aggregate batches, making it little vigor businesslike than utilizing a accepted oven.”

He added alternatively “let the aerial fryer grip tasty honey-roasted rootlike sides”.

However, past twelvemonth Beverley Jarvis, 74, said she would beryllium cooking a festive three-course repast for 8 utilizing her aerial fryer - including pigs successful blankets.

Beverley, from Ashford Kent, started utilizing the room gadget aft her lad bought her 1 - and rapidly fell successful love. She's present the writer of the Everyday Air Fryer Cookbook.

The great-grandmother-of-two, said: “I’m doing pigs successful blankets, 2 roast turkey breasts wrapped successful bacon, I’m cooking basmati atom successful the aerial fryer for a Christmas salad.”