air-fry
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of air-fry
First recorded in 2005–10
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I fry the leeks on the stove while the salmon air-fries, but if you'd rather, you can most certainly air-fry the leeks, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025
I’ll air-fry it, sauce it, slip into soups — the sky’s the limit.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023
Sliver it and air-fry it for a mozzarella stick-ish snack.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2022
If you’ve spent any time on TikTok lately, you’ve probably seen these: ground chicken pressed thin, seasoned, and baked or air-fried until crisp at the edges.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Feel free to use this as a template for making your own riffs on air-fried salmon at home.
From Salon ● May 21, 2022
Tyson items like chicken nuggets and strips have similar directions, and the company is selling premade air-fried chicken.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
Or the Santa Ana wind that was so hot it air-fried a Thanksgiving turkey sitting on the kitchen counter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
She gathers unripe black walnuts for her version of the spiced Italian liqueur nocino and extols the virtues of milkweed, a favorite of monarch butterflies and the base of Ms. Nelson’s recipe for air-fried fritters.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
In the experiments the researchers cooked chicken breast using five different methods: pan frying, stir-frying, deep-fat frying, boiling and air-frying, in a well-controlled research kitchen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
For pan frying, the peak concentration was 92.9; for stir-frying it was 26.7, for deep frying 7.7, for boiling 0.7 and for air-frying it was 0.6.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
Fans have tapped into the old habits of a fry cook, air-frying anything they get hold of and hoping it works.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
That's thanks to killer quick-cook recipes like these wings from Food52 air-frying expert Urvashi Pitre.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2021
A TikTok user from Australia is going viral for air-frying pretty much everything he can fit inside the handy kitchen appliance, often while singing delightful jingles.
From Fox News ● Aug. 6, 2020
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