$36 vs. $195 Air Fryer Taste Test

Does a more expensive air fryer mean better food? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Summer! A few years ago, air fryers became all the rage. Ever since our top food scientists discovered food can be fried with air. What? It's been the must get appliance for cooking up the crispiest frozen snacks. and the perfect reheated pizza. But if you're shopping online or if you somehow get lost and end up in a Best Buy,

you'll see that you can buy an air fryer from anywhere from a little bit. of money to a whole lot of money. So how much does the price point of an air fryer really matter? Do you really need those bells and whistles? Well, there's only one way to find out. Actually, there's probably multiple ways, but on this show, we tend to find out with blind taste tests. Yeah, it's time for. My Fried Air is Better Than Your Fried Air. Cheap Versus Expensive Air Fryers Taste Test.

Okay, boys, behind you are three air fryers. Starting on Rhett side is our low price option, the four quart air fryer from Gourmia for thirty-six dollars. Don't like that name, like, Gourmia. Well it's like gourmet Mia. It's like Gourmet. I know, but it also sounds like gory. Like, is it bloody? No. Then we have our high price point option, the four quart Instant Vortex Plus air fryer for a hundred and nine dollars.

So this is Instant Pot's. Yeah. Foray into the market. Yep. Yep. And then we have our fancy option on Link's side, an air fryer that does a little bit more with six different modes. It's the Wonder Oven from Our Place, and it has settings for air fry, bake, roast, toast, reheat, and broil, broil, for one hundred and ninety-five dollars. It's so cute, isn't it? Well, that's really what's going on here. All of their appliances.

I went in their store. I was walking around Abbot Kinney. They have a store. What is the name of the store? Our Place? Our Place. Yeah. And all of them are just, all their appliances. are these matte colors. Oh, it looks great in the kitchen. Great in the kitchen. Air fryers and all this stuff. And so you're paying for a paint job. I believe. This was the color of the trim in my mama's kitchen. Remember that? Boy, if I could go back in time. Is that a restaurant? If I could go back in time and give her one of these, she would be. Can't help but notice. That's so specific.

We should be eating. My mom's kitchen during childhood, trim, was this color. Do you remember it? Well. It was the trim of the whole house. I do remember it. It was the baseboards and the doors. Okay, well, that's memorable. Her entire home. That's memorable. Was this color. Well, the whole point today is we're proving if that. matte paint is. worth the money. So the Mythical Kitchen used those air fryers to cook the dishes before you. Every round, you're going to try and figure out which one was made in the fancy, Our Place, air fryer.

And the winner, in the end, will add. four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to his charity donation total. I need it. Today's my day. These got bursted, and burnted. You see that Link? Everything's crispier on plate two. I'm just eating the. Do you think that's good? Well, it's just different. Three is crispy as all get out, too.

One is the least crispy. But it didn't burst. Do I have a certification that they were left in for the exact same amount of time? Yes, correct. I'm sorry I even asked. I trust you guys. Yep, he's taking it back now. I've got a, I've got a guess. Just, I have some logic that I'm using, but I won't reveal it. Let me do one more thing. Now, reminder, Link. You're looking for the fancy.

I'm looking for the. Why you just reminding him? Well. And then. He forgot about your mom's trim. Here we go. In. three. We're just doing? Two, one. I think this one's the crispiest. And does fancy equal. crispiest? But it burnt it. Yeah. This got it crispy, but more even. But it's capable of burning, which is something that's worth paying for? I don't know. You're not gonna like this, because the fancy option is on Rhett's side.

What? The least crispy. The least crispy? Yeah. The middle one was. But that paint job. Low price point, so it did a little burny. Yeah, that makes sense. The other one was the high price point. So Instant wins this round. Heck, yes. Unless. But the paint job. I love it. Have I told you about my mama's trim? This time, we're putting the air fryers to a harder test. The Kitcheneers made three. plain.

chicken breasts and kept it super simple, so you can really taste the difference. And for this round, we use the roast settings. It's dry, bro. Dry, bro. You gotta be careful when you cook a chicken breast. I think that people. That breasts get a bad name. because. they're so easy to overcook. The secret to a good breast. I made some breasts on the grill the other night. Use the thermometer. Use the thermometer, and listen, you didn't hear it from me, but. you should take it off of the grill at, like,

one forty-five. Because it keeps cooking? It keeps cooking, and it just has to be at, like, one forty-five for a number of minutes. And it's so juicy and tender. Don't get up to one sixty-five. It might be safe, but it sucks. Put that on. the air fryer. Might be safe, but it sucks. Did you make me a bite? I did. But I. Well, really, I wanted the same type of bite from both of them, which wasn't the end piece, so I inadvertently gave you a bite.

That's pretty juicy. A little more moist. This dried all the juice off. And I assume. that you put the exact same amount of seasoning on all three of these. But I need to say that because. the second one. has so much more seasoning taste. What happened to this one? The seasoning taste. It was grabbed off. It just got. By the. It's gone entirely. Yeah, it was burnt off. So something about the roasting.

This is, this is, might I say, quite good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What you put on it is still there. And now. we're going with the third. The third bird is a little bit. A little bit dry. Not as dry as the first, not as seasoned. as the second. I can still taste seasoning. I don't know what this means, Link. This one is dramatically better. I mean, this is a.

huge difference. That one's burnt. This one is really, really great. This one is forgettable. But. But last time, the one that we liked the most. wasn't the one. that was expensive. So, what does that mean? You ready? Yeah. Three, two, one. It's gotta be this one, right? Because it's juicy still, and it's not overcooked. So, here we are. The chicken breast made with the.

fancy air fryer is. in the middle. Yeah. Okay. On Rhett's side, the super dry one was the low price point option, and on Link's side was the. Instant high. price point. So in the first two rounds, we have consistently got. burnt stuff from the cheapie. So this doesn't always happen on this show. Sometimes the expectations are defied, right? But this is so clearly, so significantly inferior.

Gourmia. I mean, look at what it did to the side. Horrible name. This is wonderful. Horrible performance. This is wonderful. It's still juicy. The seasoning is still there. I don't know how you burn seasoning off. I don't know how you do it. This one roasts. differently. It has a different behavior. Right? Well, they all have roast settings and that's what we use. It's just obviously the cheap price point option just can't cut it. But I think. It has a burner. The technology. for roasting is different in this one because it's got. I can see there's an element here, and there's an element there,

and there's not that in the other ones. So. And the paint job. It's so beautiful. And, you know, it's not shiny. It's matte. In case you missed it, our brand new series, Rhett and Link's Wonderhole. premiered on our original YouTube channel, the Rhett and Link channel, this past Friday. So we want you to go back and watch it. Here's a little clip. How do you like your champagne? Well, it tastes like it might be juice, but, it's a simulation.

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And here we go. Oh, a nice double bed for the boys. I'm not sleepy at all, anyways. First class. flight. It's a lot of fun. It's different. It's new. Check it out. Okay, we're uploading a new episode every Friday for the next five weeks over there. youtube.com/rhettandlink. Come on, go over there and subscribe, please. Okay, this round we're seeing how well the reheat setting. works on some day old pizza.

Might I say. Say it. I think this is one. of the most important usages. Let's do that. Might I say, edit that first one up. Might I say. Say it. This is one of the most important usages. Oh, let me try it again. Might I say. Say it. This is one of the most important usages. of an air fryer. In post, can you add a big,

a nice, you know, I'll do it right now. I'll do it right now. Put that when I hit him. ADR. When I hit it. Look at these. Is one of them burnt? This one has blackness. The cheap one is burnt, right? We've learned our lesson. Let's start over here. Because a lot of people. who don't have an air fryer, they use a mikey. That's what I call a microwave. How does it feel to go. this way? You know, we were at a dinner party last night,

and the host said, I went to a restaurant and decided to order in reverse. We started with coffee and dessert, and then we moved to the main meal, and then we ended with a salad. and. a cocktail. And your wife Jessie, was like, I wouldn't want to end with salad. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, I'm thinking the same thing. But that's what I thought. But what I said was, well,

don't crap all over their idea, Jessie, because, you know, just kind of digging a little bit. Oh, you? But I did agree with her wholeheartedly. Yeah. Tell her that. It's burn a little bit. Not bad. It's pretty good. It's nice for it to be crispy. It's better than putting it in the mikey, can you get a matte mikey? That's actually my name. Matthew Michael. So. Are you kidding? You're hogging all the basic names. You're an MM? Carney's an MM.

Former Hot Dog on a Stick employee as well. This one's better. It's still crispy, but nothing's getting. charred. It's actually quite good. This one. is floppy. There's some crisp to it, but not the crisp of the second one. The taste is nice, though. All right. It feels like it's getting too easy at this point. Yeah, I know.

Is it gonna be the same? Let's do it. Three, two, one. Right. Based on round one, we're saying that it just doesn't crisp as much. And. you're. And you don't like it as much as the? I don't like it. I like this one the most, because I think you want a little crispy. on your reheated pizza. Okay. I really think what we may be learning, if we're right, is that you just have to. It's gentler. You have to. It's gentler. So you gotta go a little bit longer.

for the fry, and you can probably get this one to get there. Well, you are right. So you both got that one correct. And then. Yes, in the middle. is the Instant, you know, high price point, and the burnt one is the low one. And. what's the price difference between these two? It's, like, twice as much. The one in the middle is about a hundred, and the matte one is about two hundred. So we're also learning. the one in the middle does a pretty dang good job. Except for roasting. It's pretty good.

Now, can we get this in glossy? No. They don't do that. I walk through the whole place front to back. They got nothing glossy. You could probably make it glossy yourself with a little spray. Just rub it hard. Sand it down. I don't know how it works. I'm not a painter. Why are you asking me? As you can see, we can't. Okay. This is the. most visually different round because. we have baked a chocolate cake and cookies. in each. air fryer. Okay. The cake is on the plates.

Did you just drink my drink? Yep. Towards you. And then the cookies are farther away. How do you know I don't have cooties? I went to the cooties store. Oh, I know you have cooties. I just think I'm immune to them by now. Is this all cake? Yeah. This is all cake. I took half of it. Oh, it's a chocolate cake. It's a nice. I love the feel of it. Is this cake matte? It's moist.

It's good. Man! I mean. That is really good cake. And then. there's a cookie. No, no, no. That's a/. What? Go. Yep, yep. There you go. Okay, yeah. There's cookies. Can't hear you with my eyes. Is this a cookie? Yes, that is a cookie. It is also matte. That's a crispy cookie. I mean, I, like, almost a raw cookie. Peanut butter. Is it? I can't tell with my blindfold on.

It doesn't taste like. It tastes like a chocolate chip. I think it's. Yeah, I was gonna say, it looks like it has chocolate chips, but I haven't. Oh, okay. Peanut butter. I'm sorry, man. It's not peanut butter. I got your hopes up. I'm really sorry. No, you're back to the wrong cookie. This is the second cookie. Is this all cake? I think I might have the whole cake. This is a. Here's half a cake. Thank you.

I love just a round cake like that. It's like a cake for. It's like a cake for just a guy. Oh, that's dry. Link. The whole thing? Poor. You call me a poor thing? Well. So, why are you still here? I'm trying to figure out where the cookie. went.

And then over here. This cake sucks. Yeah, well, the cookie was burnt, and that told me something. Can I get confirmation that you. left the cake inside for the same amount of time. I mean, I know you did. I trust you. But. Yes. This is also not a good cookie. Oh, I can barely even break that one. First cookie's the best cookie, isn't it? First cake. Here. Here's some third cake. Third cake.

I should do that on my birthday. I should have three cakes. Okay. And three different, at three different points in the day. But it's just all cake, just for me. It's just a cake for a guy. I'm that guy. It's my birthday. It's all matte. Are you thirsty, dude? You thirsty? Are you? Are you? Sorry for grunting.

I'm ready to vote. Where's his cup? That cake's not bad, but this cake. Is this still the first cake? I'm ready to vote. First cake. This is the first cake. Yeah. Man, that's. This is easy, dude. This is easy. I like this. Okay, I will say. you're currently tied. I like to think so. I like. I like to think it's. I like to. I like to think it's easy.

Three, two. What he doesn't know is that's his cup. One. All the way. Oh, you and me both? Yeah. Come on, man, do it. We know, man. Come on. Inner-City Arts. Do it for Inner-City Arts. Okay, you know what? I think it might be this one. Right. I think it might be the second cake. I'm doing this for the kids.

For my kids, not your kids. Yeah, right. You have children. I have. I help my kids quite a bit. The desserts. made in the fancy air fryer are. in the middle. No! What? Are you serious? This was the moistest cake. Oh, my God. And the moistest. Yeah. Cookies. This cake. Yeah, those are from the, the high price point. And then the ones you hated on your side are the low price point,

but. Oh, my children. My children are hurting. Look how burnt the bottom of the nice one is. You see that? Maybe Save the Children could partner with Inner-City Arts. Yeah. Yeah. We are forcing a collab. Let them work that out. and I'll back away slowly like, you know, Homer Simpson into the. Okay. Hey, I was willing to move. I did. I went to second cake.

I did it. That's so. I did. I went to second cake. I only went to second cake because it was the closest to me. So, if you just want an air fryer to fry air, go with the middle one right here. Instant Pot. If you want to roast chickens from scratch, then you gotta upgrade, and that paint job. It's quite beautiful. Hey, and remember, Wednesday's episode is our big final charity competition. episode with the return of. the Smelling Bee. You've been asking, we're giving it to you.

There's gonna be more money on the line. More money on the line than any episode so far. So Link can have a real big day. Good. Inner-City Arts can have a big day. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. You know what time it is. I'm Justin. I'm Grace. From the perpetually forgotten state of New Hampshire. We are doing a stove top versus air fryer bacon taste test. Dink it. and sink. And. it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. Bacon makes it better. Click the top link to watch us try to guess which states these tourism slogans.

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