Tools

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• Conversions

  Oven to air fryer converter

  Converts an oven time and temperature to an air-fryer starting point, adjusted for your appliance architecture.

• Conversions

  Temperature converter

  Celsius to Fahrenheit and back, with the nearest figures a panel can actually be set to.

• Cooking guidance

  Cooking advisor

  The long-term centre of the product: food, form, state, size and appliance in, a reasoned recommendation out.

• Cost and energy

  Running cost calculator

  What a cook cost, given your own electricity rate — your metered figure if you have one, an upper bound from the rating plate if you do not.

Designed, not built

Writing down a tool’s inputs, outputs and limitations is most of the design work — and writing the limitations first is what stopped several of these being built before the evidence could support them.

Cooking guidanceReheat advisor

Reheating guidance for a specific food, with the reheating safety rule applied.

Why not yet: Depends on the same cooking figures as the main advisor and on more reheating figures than we hold today.

Cost and energyAir fryer versus oven cost comparison

A side-by-side running-cost comparison for a specific cook.

Why not yet: Blocked on the same metered data as the running cost calculator.

Capacity and sizingCapacity and portion estimator

How much food a given basket actually cooks well, in portions rather than litres.

Why not yet: Needs per-food single-layer area figures that do not exist yet. Establishing them is a measurement exercise rather than a research one, and it is a good candidate for the first round of controlled testing.

Capacity and sizingBasket area estimator

Converts advertised litres into an estimated usable single-layer area.

Why not yet: Needs a body of measured capacity-to-area pairs across real models before the conversion is anything better than a guess. That comes from reading manuals and measuring baskets.

Cooking guidanceDual-zone meal synchroniser

Works out when to start each drawer so two foods finish together.

Why not yet: Straightforward to build once the set of cooking figures we hold is broad enough that most pairs a reader might choose are actually covered. With the figures held today it would refuse most requests.

Safety referenceSafe temperature reference

The authoritative target for each food, with the published time–temperature equivalents.

Why not yet: The safety rules exist and each already has a page under /safety. A dedicated tool adds real value only once the set of safety rules covers materially more foods; until then it would be a search box over a handful of rules.

Capacity and sizingAir fryer size selector

Recommends an architecture and size from how you actually cook.

Why not yet: Depends on the capacity estimator's underlying data. Also needs care to remain a guidance tool rather than becoming a product recommender, which would compromise the product's independence.

CompatibilityMaterial compatibility checker

Search a material and get the conditional answer for your architecture.

Why not yet: The material pages already answer this well and each carries its per-architecture variations. A checker becomes worthwhile when AirfryerHQ covers enough that browsing stops being practical.

Safety referenceRecall checker

Check whether a specific model is subject to a recall or safety notice.

Why not yet: Requires a recall data feed AirfryerHQ does not have, and a commitment to keeping it current. Model pages say plainly that recall status has not been checked for exactly this reason. Building the tool before the feed exists would be the single most dangerous thing on this site.

Cooking guidanceCooking time lookup

A fast search across every cooking figure in the catalogue.

Why not yet: Needs a search index and a broader set of cooking figures. The cooking pages serve this need adequately at current scale.