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Air Fryer Reference

About Air Fryer Reference

Air Fryer Reference is a structured, per-food cooking database for air fryer owners. Every food gets its own page with the exact time, temperature, flip moment and doneness check — nothing else.

Why this exists

Search “how long to cook chicken breast in air fryer” and you’ll land on a 4,000-word recipe blog with the cooking time buried under nine ads, a childhood story and a printable PDF. We built the opposite: a single permalink per food, with the numbers above the fold and the method laid out in clean steps. It works on the phone you have on the counter while the basket is preheating.

Where the numbers come from

Every time-and-temperature is calibrated to a single-basket air fryer with a normal load — not a max-stuffed basket, not a dual-zone with the rapid-cook preset. We cross-reference manufacturer manuals (Cosori, Ninja, Instant Vortex, Philips, PowerXL, Breville, Cuisinart, Chefman, GoWise) with USDA internal-temperature safety guidance for poultry, pork, beef and seafood. Where brands differ meaningfully, per-brand calibration profiles will land on dedicated brand pages.

What’s here today

  • 44 per-food cards — proteins, vegetables, frozen staples, breakfast items — each with full method, doneness check and safety notes.
  • Browse by category — pick proteins, veggies or frozen to see every food we cover at a glance.
  • Mobile-first design— large readable numbers and minimal chrome, optimised for one-handed phone use while you’re cooking.
  • Dark and light themes — both ship from day one with full WCAG-AA contrast. The toggle in the header persists across visits.

What’s coming

We’re expanding to cover the top 50 most-searched air fryer foods, plus dedicated reheat pages for leftovers (pizza, fried chicken, fries, mozzarella sticks), a frozen-food section with brand notes for Trader Joe’s and Costco Kirkland staples, and an oven-to-air-fryer conversion calculator. Per-brand calibration profiles for the major basket and dual-zone units land alongside.

Independence

We don’t take affiliate commission on air fryer purchases and we don’t accept paid placement from appliance manufacturers. The site is supported by display advertising — see our Privacy policy for what that means for your data.