- Hey guys, welcome back to
"Low Carb With Jennifer."
Today we're going to be opening up
this Instant Pot air fryer.
I know that's kind of a weird thing
that they put out an air fryer,
but they have a lot of
different types of appliances
and so we're going to
test out this air fryer.
We're going to make a recipe
and I'm going to tell
you if I like it or not.
Okay, I didn't want to bore
you with taking the air fryer
out of the box, so we've done all that
and this is all the
accessories that came with it
and there's still some more stuff in here.
I'm assuming this is for the rotisserie,
which it comes with.
We're not going to be
messing with that today,
but let's get in here and
see what all we've got.
Some styrofoam, it comes
with this rotisserie basket,
which is pretty neat.
I'm going to put that aside.
We're not going to mess with that today.
So here's the racks.
It's got two racks,
which is what I love about this air fryer,
so we don't have to,
so a normal air fryer,
the one that I had before, the six quart,
would only hold this much food,
so now we can do double the amount.
And that's all of that.
So this one goes on the bottom,
and this is like the drip tray,
and this one, these go here.
Wait, right here.
And this one goes right here,
and voila.
So let me get this stuff out of the way.
I'm not going to read the instructions.
So let's see what,
oh, we got to plug it in.
It doesn't show me the buttons.
Okay, we've got air
fry, roast, broil, bake,
reheat and dehydrate.
I'm really excited about dehydrate.
I'm going to have to make
some beef jerky in this.
And then, it's also got rotate and light.
I'm assuming that is to,
oh, it's got a light.
Well, how 'about that?
'Cause it's an oven (laughs).
So it's got a temp up and
down and a time up and down,
so, you know, most of the time
I'm probably just going
to use the air fry,
and then we can just
adjust the temperature
and the time to what we want.
My idea today is I want to
make some chicken thighs
and I want to make some crispy
broccoli all at the same time,
so we're going to make four chicken thighs
and I'm thinking that I
will put the chicken thighs
on the bottom tray and the
broccoli on the top tray
because I don't want the
chicken thigh's grease to drip
into the broccoli.
I don't know, that might be kind of tasty.
It might be something
that you would want to do,
but you know the broccoli's
not going to take
as long as the chicken thighs,
so we'll see.
Okay, I've got my chicken thighs here.
I've got my seasonings and
so I'm going to dump this,
I've, you know, pulled
these out of the freezer,
let 'em defrost,
and now we're going to season
them with some onion powder
and garlic powder.
Whoops.
Some dried oregano and
some smoked paprika,
and some salt.
So I'm just going to put the lid on
and mix 'em all up.
You could also use a bag.
Okay, already I'm noticing
that if I want to put
the chicken on this tray,
it's going to fall out,
so if I want to put it on the tray here,
the chicken is going to go
underneath and touch my counter.
So I guess what I'll do
is I'll pull this out.
I'm going to put this tray on top of here
and then I'll put the chicken on the tray.
It's going to hold four
pieces of chicken perfectly.
Okay, so now I'll put this in here.
I'm putting it on the top rack
and I'm not going to
put the broccoli in yet.
I'm going to wait 10 minutes
before I put the broccoli in.
So, okay, let's turn this on.
I want it,
let's see how high the temperature goes.
Oh, I got to hit air fry.
It goes up to 400.
Okay, so I'm going to put 20 minutes,
even though in 10 minutes I'm
going to put the broccoli in.
So I'm going to hit start.
(air fryer beeps)
All right.
And there it goes.
So when you cook with an air fryer,
you want to make sure
that you have it open
all the way around it,
because it needs to be able to vent.
There's steam coming out of right here.
Over here.
You just want to give it space to vent
and you don't want to put
anything on top of it, of course.
But anyway, so far, so good.
I hear it sizzling in there.
Okay, I am seeing a flaw,
and I've only had these
chicken thighs in here
for like five minutes,
and they're already super brown on top.
I'm going to have to, I
had this on the top rack,
I'm going to have to move the top rack,
move the second rack to the top rack,
and I'm going to have to put
these on the bottom rack.
So, and I got drippy
stuff all over my counter.
And my oven mitts are dirty.
Ah!
I hate mess.
So unless you're cooking something,
I'm thinking like if
you're cooking something
that you want really crispy,
that's not going to take
a long time to cook,
then, 'cause this,
essentially this top rack
is like a broiler.
So if you put something on that top rack,
it's going to get really
crispy really fast.
So I could actually put the broccoli
on that top rack right
now, so let's try that.
Okay, I've got my broccoli.
I'm going to toss in a little bit of oil
and some salt.
If you haven't had
broccoli in the air fryer,
you totally missing out
because it get so crispy
and I love it when it's like,
it's on the verge of being burnt,
and some of the pieces do
get a little bit burnt.
It's so good.
And oh.
Okay, all of my salt just fell right off.
That's great.
Let me season it on the tray.
Okay, here we go again.
I've got this dirty tray
and now I've got to pour these here.
I'm going to have to make a mess.
Let me put my broccoli on top.
And I'm going to season
them again with salt,
'cause the salt did not stick.
Okay, now we can put
this tray in the oven,
and look at that mess.
Oh my god.
Okay, so now let's turn this back on.
It'll just turn on automatically
and we'll see what happens.
Okay, so these are ready.
This did not take quite 20 minutes.
So that's a good thing.
The chicken's done.
I'm testing with the meat thermometer.
It's perfect.
So what I ended up doing,
I did have to stir the
broccoli halfway through
because the outside was
starting to get more brown
than the inside of the tray.
And what you know you have to do
is you got to pull the tray
out and you got to stir it
and then you got a mess
all on the counter,
unlike with other air fryers.
You can just shake the air fryer basket.
So this is how I like
my air fryer broccoli.
Nice and crispy.
So that's perfect.
I also ended up turning
the temperature down
to 350 when I put the broccoli in,
'cause it was getting
a little bit too dark,
but not getting cooked through.
Okay, so the chicken looks good
and the skin's still crispy.
And we're making a mess,
we're making a mess.
We're dripping, we're dripping!
Okay, okay, that actually
is like a perfect cook.
The chicken looks perfect,
the broccoli looks perfect.
It's enough for two people
if you both get two chicken thighs,
or four people if you have kids
and they don't eat broccoli,
like mine. (laughs)
But I'm going to have to do
some more testing on this.
There are some things that
I don't like about it.
I can't shake, you know,
I like to be able to shake a basket.
I hate all of the mess
and I'm a neat freak.
It does, it's getting
a little messy in here.
I'm going to have to wipe down the,
if you don't keep the glass wiped,
it's going to get really gross.
But it didn't really, nothing
really popped onto it.
It's not just set it and forget it,
especially if you put
something on that top shelf.
You're going to have to keep an eye on it,
'cause the stuff is
going to get burned fast.
I had to rotate the trays.
What I'm excited about is,
and I think the next video
I do will be a whole chicken
using this rotisserie thing.
So stay tuned for that.
Guys, check out these
other air fryer recipes.
This video right here is
four recipes for beginners
and it's a super popular video.
And I will see you guys later, bye.
