

I cut fingerling potatoes in half drizzled them with a little bit of olive oil, salt and pepper then placed them into the air-fryer basket. That’s less than half the time they’d need to bake in the oven.įor my last test, I opted for roasted potatoes. The bonus here was that they finished in just 10 minutes (not including the 3 minutes it took for the machine to preheat). Second, each fry came out perfectly cooked and super crispy. Once again, I was wowed: First, the machine helpfully alerted me at the halfway point, reminding me to toss the fries to ensure even crispness. Wondering how the device would fare with several layers of ingredients, I dumped in a big bag of frozen curly fries. Still, the quantity of nuggets I’d chosen was fairly small, so they could fit easily in a single layer in the air-fry basket.
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But when I dropped them in the Pro Crisp, that all changed: The nuggets turned out remarkably crunchy, almost as if they had been deep-fried. In the past, I’ve cooked this particular brand in the oven, and the coating has been notoriously difficult to get crispy. My first culinary test involved attempting to air-fry a box of gluten-free chicken nuggets. Delivering consistently crunchy, crispy results, the model performed well beyond my expectations.

Where it really shines is in its ability to air-fry, a feature that simply isn’t offered on earlier Instant Pot models. The Pro Crisp can pressure-cook, slow cook, sauté and steam just as well as all the other Instant Pot models-that much became clear early on in my testing process.
