leahsbooks's review
2.0
I received a copy of this book through NetGalley. I am providing my honest opinion voluntarily.
I've had an air fryer for a while, and was really looking forward to getting some mileage out of it. However, I was rather disappointed in this cookbook, and my air fryer will continue to gather dust.
As someone who has recently transitioned to a vegan way of eating, I was excited to find a plant-based cookbook that centered around the air fryer. To me, this sounded like the perfect book, and I was hoping to find it full of healthy recipes that I'd actually be able to use. Unfortunately, more than half of the recipes were not suitable for me, since they incorporated items like eggs, cheese, milk, and heavy cream. This meant I couldn't even think about cooking more than half of the recipes.
If you think that being plant-based automatically means eating healthy, this book will quickly fix you of that myth. The appeal that led me to get an air fryer in the first place was two-fold. It allowed me to cook unhealthy, fried recipes in a healthier way, and it saved me the mess of clean up. However, a lot of the recipes I could actually prepare required more than just the air fryer. Most of the vegan-friendly recipes in this book were soups, which required not just the air fryer, but other forms of cooking. Which to someone like me, means having to do twice as much work and twice as much clean up. For soups, my air fryer isn't the first appliance that comes to mind (that would be my all-time favorite appliance, the instant pot).
This would probably be a better fit for vegetarians who don't mind making more complex recipes, and aren't planning to use their air fryer to prepare healthy recipes. While some of the recipes sound interesting, they're mainly full of eggs and dairy. I wish I could have said I'd tried at least one of the recipes, but tofu fries just don't sound very appealing when I can just make regular fries in my air fryer.
I've had an air fryer for a while, and was really looking forward to getting some mileage out of it. However, I was rather disappointed in this cookbook, and my air fryer will continue to gather dust.
As someone who has recently transitioned to a vegan way of eating, I was excited to find a plant-based cookbook that centered around the air fryer. To me, this sounded like the perfect book, and I was hoping to find it full of healthy recipes that I'd actually be able to use. Unfortunately, more than half of the recipes were not suitable for me, since they incorporated items like eggs, cheese, milk, and heavy cream. This meant I couldn't even think about cooking more than half of the recipes.
If you think that being plant-based automatically means eating healthy, this book will quickly fix you of that myth. The appeal that led me to get an air fryer in the first place was two-fold. It allowed me to cook unhealthy, fried recipes in a healthier way, and it saved me the mess of clean up. However, a lot of the recipes I could actually prepare required more than just the air fryer. Most of the vegan-friendly recipes in this book were soups, which required not just the air fryer, but other forms of cooking. Which to someone like me, means having to do twice as much work and twice as much clean up. For soups, my air fryer isn't the first appliance that comes to mind (that would be my all-time favorite appliance, the instant pot).
This would probably be a better fit for vegetarians who don't mind making more complex recipes, and aren't planning to use their air fryer to prepare healthy recipes. While some of the recipes sound interesting, they're mainly full of eggs and dairy. I wish I could have said I'd tried at least one of the recipes, but tofu fries just don't sound very appealing when I can just make regular fries in my air fryer.
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