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Tefal ActiFry Low Fat Electric Fryer

Added on 12 Dec, 2010 in Kitchen

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If you're like so many people these days, you know that you should be cutting down on how much fat you eat.

But it's not easy, is it? Some things are already laden with fat or oil before you open the packet, but other things just cook better with oil. Take chips, for instance.

Have you ever tried to cook chips dry? Sure, you can get certain oven chips that don't need oil to cook, but they've already been partially cooked using oil by the food producers. Not quite the same thing as oil free, is it?

But have you ever tried to cook chips just using a small amount of oil? Well the deep fat fryer we used to use took a lot of filling up so the thought of using a small spoonful of oil was a complete joke. Yet Tefal have made it possible.

Their rotating cooker uses literally a small spoonful of oil to cook up to 1 kilogram of potatoes. That's a lot of chips, for anyone. Enough, in fact, to feed an average family. Chips that are not covered in oil are every bit as delicious as the kind that come out of the average family deep fat fryer. In fact many people would say they're tastier. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I can say that they taste as good, to me.

You need some fat in your diet just to stay healthy, so totally fat free cooking isn't really that good an idea, but keeping a tight lid on how much oil you use - and end up eating - is an even better idea. With the Tefal Actifry that small spoonful of oil and 1 kilogram of potatoes ends up giving you chips with about 3% fat. You can't argue with numbers like that!

The Tefal Actifry can also be used for cooking sausages, bacon and the like, and the same kinds of comment apply with those foods too. They don't end up dripping with fat. The recipe book that comes with the fryer suggests you can make a lot more exciting and exotic foods using the fryer, but frankly chips, sausages, eggs, bacon and the like are about all we use it for!

And for anyone who absolutely has to have it matching their kitchen decor, they even do a black version that you can see here.