Serious question, did anyone else figure out they were crowding the air fryer basket the hard way?
Made wings for the game Saturday and they came out steamed and sad instead of crispy, so I pulled out the manual and saw my basket is only rated for 2.5 cups of food at a time. Turns out I had been dumping in almost 4 cups worth every single time since I got this thing in March, which explains why everything I made tasted like it came out of a microwave. I split the batch in two and the difference was night and day, crispy skin, no soggy middle. How do you all judge the right amount, do you weigh it or just eyeball it?
Did you know some baskets have a max fill line stamped on the side? I started just laying the wings in one layer with a little space between each one and it fixed the soggy problem for me.