Snacks
Frozen snack products
Factory-fried, factory-frozen and designed for exactly this: the easiest wins in the whole catalogue.
What it does in fast-moving hot air
These products are par-fried before freezing, so the coating already contains the oil it needs and the only requirement is enough dry heat to drive off the surface moisture and re-crisp it. That is precisely what an air fryer does and why times are short — six to fifteen minutes across everything in the group. The interior is the risk rather than the coating: mozzarella sticks fail by bursting when the cheese liquefies before the crumb has set, which is a reason to run them at the shorter end and not to reheat them twice.
Why the cut matters
Hash browns, onion rings, mozzarella sticks and waffles are grouped as one food because their cooking problem is identical — a par-fried coating around a soft interior, cooked from frozen — and because every chart read this sprint treats them as a block.
Cooking pages
- Frozen hash browns — 600g in eighteen to twenty minutes at 200°C, on a rack rather than in a basket.
- Frozen onion rings — Eight to fifteen minutes, at 180°C or 200°C — three charts, three answers.
- Mozzarella sticks — 310g in eight minutes at 200°C, and there is no second attempt.
- Frozen potato waffles — 280g in eight minutes at 200°C.
- Frozen breaded mushrooms — Twelve to fourteen minutes at 170°C — the coolest frozen snack in the chart.
There is deliberately no cooking time on this page. A food does not have one — a cut, at a thickness, in a state, at a loading, in a particular appliance does. That is what the pages above are for.