So after reading and rereading this thread for the past few years, I still haven't bought one. I still "think" I want one but I also have a trophy shelf of barely used appliances in addition to a shelf of seasonal appliances such as a shaved ice maker.
Easy way to figure out if this appliance is for you is to make a little mark in a calendar each day you believe that an Air Fryer would have been useful.
For instance - Would you have added some olive oil and garlic roasted zucchini and mushroom or leeks or bell pepper and onion pieces to your lunch and dinner if you’d had an Air Fryer handy?
Or would you have popped in some potato rosti/hash browns or chicken pieces from the freezer?
Would some hot and caramelised pieces of fruit been a welcome addition to your porridge that day?
How about an egg frittata for lunch or a snack?
Would that roast dinner have been improved with a fool proof Yorkshire pudding?
Be honest to yourself about whether or not you would have bothered to use the Air Fryer and see how many calendar marks you accrue.
(I don’t have many unused appliances, but I do have a manual shaved ice maker - alas, the template pot which you freeze the water into the correct shape with split. Haven’t given up on the fantasy of getting a replacement. Somehow.)