We have been enjoying our air fryer at KiddyCharts, and so we thought that we would help you out with something truly amazing this week. We have partnered with The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook to bring you a fantastic cheat sheet for you all. This gives you loads of your favourite items to cook in the air fryer, with times, and temperatures. Alongside that, there is even a little advice on whether you need oil with them for the best results. Why not download the sheet, buy the book, and get cooking with the kids today?

The cheatsheet is completely FREE for you to download of course. Just scroll down to the button and the image below, and it is yours.

As always, before we give you the cheatsheet, we are going to let you now what the contents are, as well as show you how we have presented it. This way, you know if it is something that you would like to download. We don’t want to waste your precious time after all.

First a little on The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook

How to use your air fryer cheat sheet

Our cheatsheet pack consists of 6 pages, including a cover and a copyright notice. Each sheet has the cooking time, cooking temperature, to give you a general rule of thumb for how to cook different types of food in the air fryer rather than the traditional oven. 

Our advice would be to print this out, and have it nearby the air fryer, so that it is always there to refer too when you are using the air fryer instead of the oven recipe for the first time. We have tried to include what we would consider to be our favorite foods, so we hope they are yours too.

As a rule to cook in an air fryer instead of the conventional oven:

• Take 20 degrees of the temperature,
• Take one fifth of the total cooking time off, giving a lower temperature for you to cook your food,
• Just spray a little oil into the fryer. You can use much less oil with the hot air heating in the air fryer than in a deep fat fryer.

The good news is though – we’ve largely done the calculations for you, so you don’t have to do so. Grab The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook for even more information. The book includes advice on what air fryer to get, more rules of thumb for cooking, and even what settings you need to use.

Remember, the settings on an air fryer are presets, so you can set to air fryer and then use your own manually – which is exactly what the information in this article is all about 😊

If you are cooking vegetables, or chips, it helps to have the food in a single layer too, making it easier for the heating element to cook evenly.

Frozen food

Our first cheats are all around frozen food. We have covered as many different foods as we can with this list to make the cooking process easier. Clearly, you can cook lots of different frozen foods in the air fryer from Chicken nuggets, to chicken tenders. However, how long do you have to do so for all the different frozen varieties out there?

Food	Time (min)	C	F	Oil?
Boneless wings	14	180	360	No
Chicken balls	12	180	360	No
Chicken strips	12	180	360	No
Popcorn chicken	8	180	360	No
Chicken fingers	10	180	360	No
Chicken kiev	20	180	360	No
Chicken pie	20	180	360	No
Potato waffles	5	180	360	No
Roast potatoes	8	180	360	No
Potato wedges	16	180	360	No
Potato skins	10	180	360	No
Jacket/baked potatoes	27	160	320	No
Curly fries	15	180	360	Yes
Skin-on fries	20	180	360	Yes
Fish fingers/sticks	12	180	360	No
Mozzarella sticks	8	180	360	No
Cauliflower bites	6	180	360	No
Halloumi fries	8	180	360	Yes
Onion rings	10	200	400	Yes
Sausage rolls	12	180	360	No
Breaded mushrooms	10	180	360	No
Spring rolls	8	180	360	No
Onion bhajis	6	180	360	Yes
Samosas	6	180	360	Yes
Mini pizzas	6	180	360	No
Quarter pounder	15	180	360	No
Veggie burgers	10	180	360	No
Swedish meatballs	8	180	360	No
Egg rolls	15	160	320	No
Cookies	8	160	320	No
Yorkshire pudding	4	180	360	No

Reheating food in your air fryer

Obviously, we all sometime overestimate what we need. Alternatively, we are distracted by the kids and our food gets cold 😉. Frankly, the later is most likely for us of course…

When this happens, it is a good idea to reach for the air fryer for that freshly cooked taste. That way, the food you somehow managed to forget / mislay / get distracted from still tastes good, right?

Here are the temperatures and times for some of the commonly reheated items in your air fryer:

Food	Time (min)	C	F	Oil?
Steak	6	160	320	No
Salmon	6	160	320	No
Chips/French fries	6	180	360	Yes
Fish n Chips	8	160	320	Yes
Quarter pounder	8	160	320	No
Onion rings	6	160	320	Yes
Doner meat	3	160	320	No
Egg rolls	8	180	360	No
Sliced roast beef	3	160	320	No
Quiche	6	160	320	No
Rotisserie chicken	30	160	320	No
Chicken wings	8	180	360	Yes
Apple strudel	5	160	320	No
Apple pie	8	160	320	No

Breakfast favourites

What better way to start the day with the family than with an air fryer breakfast? Here is a reference guide for all your brekkie favourites:

Food	Time (mins)	C	F	Oil?
Soft boiled eggs	10	120	250	No
Hard boiled eggs	16	120	250	No
Toast	5	200	400	Yes
Cheese bagels	4	200	400	No
Sausages	12	180	360	No
Back bacon	8	180	360	No
Streaky bacon	6	180	360	No
Black pudding	8	180	360	No
Grilled tomoatoes	8	180	360	No
Baked beans	6	180	360	No
Frozen hash browns	10	180	360	No
Frozen sausages	15	160	320	No
Frozen sausage patties	12	160	320	No
Frozen pancakes	6	160	320	No
Frozen croissants	9	180	360	No
Frozen pain au chocolat	10	160	320	No

Chicken recipes

Our first specific food section for our cheats, is Chicken. Check out the temperatures and times for these dishes below, and scroll down for our cheatsheet as well:

Food	Time (mins)	C	F	Oil?
Whole chicken	45	180	360	Yes
Chicken breast	12	175	350	Yes
Boneless chicken thighs	25	180	360	Yes
Frozen chicken nuggers	8	180	360	No

Ideas for steak

We love a good steak in our household. Here are the ways for you to make sure that any steak that you are cooking in the air fryer are perfect. Why not print this out, along with all the others for your kitchen by scolling down too?

Cook	Time (mins)	C	F	Oil?
Sirloin steak	10	180	360	No
New York strip steak	10	180	360	No
Rump steak	9 each side	180	360	No
T-bone steak	9 each side	180	360	No
Fillet steak	4 each side	180	360	No
Ribeye steak	5 each side	180	360	No
Skirt steak	9 each side	160	320	No
Flank steak	9 each side	160	320	No
Steak & chips	20	180	360	Yes
Pork steaks / Pork chops	14	180	360	Yes
Lamb steaks	10	180	360	Yes

Fish recipes

We have a few ideas for fish for you with the air fryer as well – check out the times for that perfect fillet for the family here:

Food	Time (mins)	C	F	Oil?
Salmon fillets	8	180	360	Yes
Whole tilapia	22	180	360	Yes
Scallops	12	180	360	No
Scallops wrapped in bacon	8	180	360	No
Frozen fish fillets	15	180	360	No
Frozen salmon fillets	15	180	360	Yes

Everyday veggies

Vegetables are really healthy to do in the air fryer of course. We have collated some of our favourites for you, so you know just how long they take in the air fryer. Check them out below for the perfectly done finish for your plates:

Cook	Time (mins)	C	F	Oil?
Butternut squash	20	180	360	No
Aubergine/eggplant	14	180	360	No
Baby corn	12	180	360	No
Pak choi/bok choy	6	180	360	No
Cherry tomatoes	4	180	360	No
Courgette/zucchini	12	180	360	No
Mixed/bell peppers	10	180	360	No
Sliced onion	8	200	400	No
Radishes	18	180	360	No
Cubed pumpkin/squash	20	180	360	No
Sliced carrots	15	180	360	No
Halved brussels sprouts	10	180	360	No
Cabbage steaks	20	160	320	No
Beetroot wedges	20	180	320	No
Fresh broccoli	15	160	320	No
Fresh cauliflower	20	160	320	No
No-peel roasted garlic	15	180	360	Yes
Frozen sprouts & bacon	13	170	340	Yes
Frozen broccoli	20	170	340	No
Frozen baby carrots	25	180	360	No
Frozen corn on the cob	15	180	360	No
Frozen green beans	8	180		No

Vegetarian and Vegan

We haven’t forgotten those that are using the air fryer for their no-meat diets. So here are some additional suggestions for those of you that don’t eat meat. Remember it is easy to print the full details for this, and our other cooking suggestions out. Just look further down the page for the button:

Food	Time (mins)	C	F	Oil?
Curried chickpeas	7	180	360	Yes
Cajun tortilla chips	10	180	360	Yes
Cheese toasties / Grilled cheese	12	200	400	No

Potatoes

We haven’t forgotten the stable of everyone’s (or most people’s) diet – the potato. Here are the main ways you cook our beloved friends, and our suggestions for the air fryer:

Food	Time (mins)	C	F	Oil?
Homemade chipfries	25	180	360	Yes
Potato slices	25	180	360	Yes
Baby potatoes	20	180	360	Yes
Jacket/baked potato	45	180	360	Yes

We hope you will agree this is a fantastic resource. Why not download it and store it in the kitchen, so you can always refer to it when you are using the air fryer?

What does the free air fryer cooking chart look like?

If you want a sneak preview of what you are getting, we have one for you. You can check out the below images. Now you know what you are letting yourself in for when you download and print the cheatsheet out:

The above is the cover and the first page of the timings for you; so its all about frozen food.

Our next two sheets cover reheating, breakfast, and the meats and fish. For our final sheet, we are talking vegetables, and potatoes:

As you can see, we’ve got you and your air fryer covered rather well.

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Helen

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