Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by UncleMeat on Friday January 06, 2023 @09:10AM (#34274706)

I've never rented a place that came with a convection oven. When I recently purchased a home, the oven that was here was also not a convection oven. An air fryer is just a small convection oven that sits on the countertop. But this has real benefits. You get better browning by being close to the element. It is more energy-efficient because it heats far less air. You get the benefits of convection. They also tend to be much easier to clean.

There are costs - you waste counterspace and you need to own another thing. But "just buy a convection oven" isn't an option for a lot of people.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by OJFord on Friday January 06, 2023 @09:27AM (#34274903)

Interesting, where (country) do you live that that's the case?

Honestly, if they didn't put separate fan temperature/time on the back of stuff (increasingly they don't actually, more and more I'm seeing fan only) I'd honestly never have known anything else existed. I've never lived anywhere with one, didn't see any for sale when I bought one (to replace broken one) a couple of years ago. (UK)

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by UncleMeat on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:20AM (#34276588)

US.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by OJFord on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:55PM (#34283710)

I think that surprises me even more, because aren't 'toaster ovens' - essentially duplicating grills/'broilers' - already commonplace? So this trend is a second appliance to partially duplicate something a third, in many cases, already does.

Personally I think I'd rather just replace the oven for one with a fan and grill, reclaim all that countertop, but at this point there is probably just a large cultural factor at play.

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