#230 Airfryers. Are they Toxic? With Dr Rupy Aujla and Sakina Okoko
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
I personally love my airfryer, I’ve been using it at home and in the Doctor’s Kitchen studio since the start of the year, but can they be considered a ‘healthier’ cooking method? This is a question I’m often posed online so we did some research and looked at a few studies.
Air fryers aren’t a new invention, in fact they’ve been around for a number of years but the popularity of them has soared over the last 2 years.
The way air fryers cook foods is by circulating hot hair containing tiny droplets of oil around the foods. It actually mimics the effect of submerging food in hot oil but using significantly less oil. So, it allows quick and even cooking and creates crispy coatings on the outside of the food, with less calories, hence the reputation for being a ‘healthier alternative’ to frying.
On todays episode we looked at the pros and cons of airfrying across a number of domains including:
- Cost and convenience
- Preservation of nutrients
- The detrimental impact of excessive heat on the oils and fat used
- How they compare with other methods including oven roasting and sauteing
- The environmental impact considering the materials they are made from
Plus our overall take on how I’m now using my airfryer and newer gadgets to look out for!
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:32.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what |
| 0:36.6 | allows you to lead your best life. I personally love my airfryer. I've been using it at home and in the |
| 0:50.5 | doctor's kitchen studio since the start of the year, |
| 0:53.4 | but can they be considered a healthier, quote unquote, |
| 0:58.4 | cooking method? |
| 0:59.3 | This is a question I'm often posed online, |
| 1:02.2 | so we thought we'd do a bit of research and look at a |
| 1:05.1 | few studies. Air friars aren't a new invention in fact they've been around for a |
| 1:09.9 | number of years but the popularity of them has soared over the last two years particularly |
| 1:14.8 | in response to the cost of living crisis as it was seen as a cost-effective and cheaper cooking |
| 1:21.3 | method. |
| 1:22.3 | The way airfry is by circulating hot air |
| 1:25.3 | containing tiny droplets of all around foods actually mimics the effect of |
| 1:29.6 | submerging food in hot oil but using significantly less oil. |
| 1:35.3 | So it allows quick and even cooking and creates that glorious crispy coating on the |
| 1:40.9 | outside of food with less calories from oil. Hence the reputation for being a healthier alternative. |
| 1:48.0 | On today's episode, we're going to look at the pros and cons of air frying across a number of domains, |
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