Part-baked rolls in an air fryer
Fresh — the short answer
180°C (356°F) for 8 min
- For
- 60g per piece, 4 pieces
- In
- Dual-basket air fryer
- Published for
- Philips 5000 Series Dual Basket Airfryer with Steam NA555
- Preheat
- Not needed
- Check
- The crust has coloured and sounds hollow when tapped underneath
One manufacturer prints six to eight minutes at 180–200°C, and it is one of the fastest useful things this appliance does.
Manufacturer figures with no state given — 1 from a named machine, listed further down this page.
Fresh
The quick answer
180°C (356°F) for 8 min
A single published time for four pre-baked rolls of around 60g each.
- Assuming
- 60g per piece, 4 pieces
- In
- Dual-basket air fryer
- Published for
- Philips 5000 Series Dual Basket Airfryer with Steam NA555
- Preheat
- Not needed
- Result
- Crisp outside, moist inside
Preparation
Pre-baked bread or rolls of around 60g, as the row is headed. Its note cell is empty.
How to tell it is done
- The crust has coloured and sounds hollow when tapped underneath
- Warm right through
Other figures for this state
Philips 5000 Series Dual Basket Airfryer with Steam NA555 — dual-basket air fryer: 180°C for 8 min
Small pan: a single published time for three pre-baked rolls of around 60g each.
Where these figures came from — fresh
- Applies to
- Specific to this model
- Why this rating
- A published row from the food table for this machine's 6-litre big pan. The manual says above the table that its cooking times are guidelines for fresh ingredients, and states that preheating is not necessary.
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-13
What this does not cover
- Published by the manufacturer for this model. It is evidence about this appliance and is not general advice.
- The word fresh is the table's and not the row's: the manual prints above this table that its cooking times are guidelines for fresh ingredients, and this row's own title names no state.
- This machine's two pans are not interchangeable. The figure is for the big pan; the small pan has its own table.
Sources (1)
Philips 5000 Series Dual Basket Airfryer with Steam NA55x — User Manual (PDF)
Versuni Netherlands B.V. (Philips Domestic Appliances) — Manufacturer manual (United Kingdom and European Union)
Relied on for: The temperature, time and quantity for part baked rolls.
States this directly
Passage read and verified
Retrieved 2026-10-09 from dam.versuni.com
Chilled
Cooked as fresh: use the fresh figures above. Raw food sold chilled is the fresh state under another name, and the charts those figures come from start from fridge-cold.
From frozen
No time or temperature for this, and not by accident
From frozen is a real question for part-baked rolls. AirfryerHQ holds no published figure for it: not one of the manufacturer manuals read for this catalogue gives a chart row for this food in this state.
We are not going to produce one by adjusting the fresh figure above. A time arrived at that way would appear on this page looking exactly like a time somebody measured, and you would have no way to tell the difference.
What still governs, figure or no figure
These rules come from national food-safety authorities and apply whether or not anybody has published a cooking time. They are the part of this question we can answer.
Requirement — Food safety (microbiological)
Food cooked from frozen must reach the same core temperature as the same food cooked fresh — the frozen centre is the last thing to get there.
Target: 70°C in the thickest part.
How to tell, without a thermometer
- No ice or cold spot at the centre when the thickest piece is cut open
- Steaming hot throughout, tested in the middle rather than the edge
If it has not got there: Reduce the temperature by 10–20°C and give it longer. A lower set point lets the centre catch up before the surface passes the point of no return, and it is the single most useful adjustment for cooking from frozen.
Important: If the packaging says the product must be thawed before cooking, follow it. That instruction exists because the manufacturer has tested cooking it from frozen and it did not reach temperature reliably.
What we do hold for part-baked rolls: fresh. That is a different question, not a starting point for this one.
Manufacturer figures with no state given
This is a published figure for one named machine. The manufacturer does not say whether this is fresh or frozen. So it is kept apart from the figures above, and not used as the answer for any of them.
Philips Airfryer Series 5000 XXL HD9285/93 7.2L: 200°C for 6–8 min
Published for one to eight pre-baked rolls of around 60g each.
What usually goes wrong
A hard shell around a doughy middle, from running them too hot. The crust colours in three minutes and the inside needs six, so the temperature that browns fastest is the wrong one.
Running the appliance safely
The rules for the machine are the same whatever is in it: plug it straight into a wall socket, leave clear space round it, do not overfill it, do not leave it running unattended, and unplug it at black smoke or an electrical smell. They are set out once, each with its source and what to do if it has already happened, and not repeated on every food. Every rule for running an air fryer safely.
One of them is about this food and not the machine: Aim for a golden yellow colour or lighter on starchy foods such as chips and roast potatoes, rather than a darker brown.
Bread in fast-moving hot air
Baked bread has already lost its surface water once and set into a porous starch foam, so there is nothing to drive off before browning starts and browning starts almost immediately. That is why two minutes is a time and three minutes is a warning. In a basket machine there is a second problem the published grill figure does not have: a slice of bread is light, flat and exactly the shape a fan lifts, and it lands on the element. Anything toasted in a drawer machine needs weighing down or a rack over it. Dough is the opposite case: it has all its water still to lose, bakes cool and slow, and rises towards the element as it does, which is why the published loaf figures come with an instruction to shape it flat.
Where to go from here
The pages that answer the questions this one tends to raise.
- Using a thermometer, and where to put itThe times above are for a piece that is not the one you are holding. A probe measures yours, which is what the safety rule on this page asks for.
- How food actually gets crispyWhy patting it dry, spacing it out and a little oil are all the same instruction — so you can apply it when a page runs out.
- Cooking from frozenUsually cooler and longer than the same food fresh, and never worked out from the fresh figure.
- Why published timings differIf another chart says something else, this is usually why — and which one to believe.
Easily confused with
- Grilled bread — A different cooking problem with a different answer.
- A loaf of bread — A different cooking problem with a different answer.