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Fried shimp in the airfryer - I grabbed the book and decided to dive right it. Tasty, easy and very quick. I was hooked. I love our airfryer, but we hardly ever use it for more that Trader Joes take out Mandarin Chicken, or toast, so to have a cook book to expand my horizons and allow a variety of awesomeness was welcomed into our kitchen. We have cooked ribs, peppers, apple turnovers and even donuts, and we will continue! Great cook book and will be used often in our kitchen. Thank you

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A great recipe book for anyone with an air fryer. Or anyone considering an air fryer. Just get this book and work it out from there.

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Great ideas for using my airfryer. Well thought out ideas and the book was visually appealing. Will recommend to friends for sure.

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Book was very helpful, easy to read and easy to follow directions. Have tried a few of the recipes and they turned out great. would recommend.

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I was not able to properly view this book as I was only able to open the file in a small window on my computer. The pages also could not be printed and my computer is not near my kitchen. The recipes did look interesting but I was not able to view them properly to make them for review purposes. Thank you for the opportunity.

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This gave me a few great ways to use my air fryer and a lot of “why” would I uses the air fryer for that, I am sure it would work but Why?

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What a great cookbook! The material is well written and presented in an easy to follow manner. I look forward to trying out several of these recipes.

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Air Fryers are all the rage, and everyone, it seems, is trying to reduce their fat intake while still enjoying fried foods. It’s important to learn to use the air fryer correctly to get the most benefits, so most of us need a good cookbook that teaches us the basics, and gives us recipes for foods that we actually want to prepare and eat. One such cookbook, (that is excellent by-the-way), is Emily Paster’s Epic Air Fryer Cookbook: 100 Inspired Recipes That Take Air-Frying in Deliciously Exciting New Directions.

This cookbook has the obligatory introductory information - how to use your air fryer – choosing the right air fryer for you - and how to care for your air fryer; this information is enough, but not so much that it takes hours to get through.

The best part about this excellent cookbook is, of course, the recipes. Included are recipes for just about everything anyone would want, including vegetarian dishes, breakfasts, meats, seafood, and poultry, vegetables, and desserts. The recipes have influences from every part of the world – Israel, Mexico, Japan, China, Italy, UK, Peru, France, India and several regions of America, and the photographs (not enough of them which is the only negative about this book) are beautiful.

The recipes are well-written and easy-to-follow; they mostly call for ingredients that are readily available at mainstream grocery stores. Most have minimal ingredients, and take a minimal amount of time to prepare. New favorites (the queue is still very long since most of the recipes are very appealing) include Korean Fried Cauliflower, Sonoran Hot Dogs, Israeli Chicken Schnitzel, Natchitoches Meat Pies, and Chouquettes (French Pastry Puffs).

If you’re new to air frying, or just want some new good ideas, this is the cookbook for you.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

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Great book of recipes. Lots of in and easy ones for those who want to expand on what they already have for their air fryer. The apple critters were delicious! I love finding recipe books that have new things that I haven’t seen in others.

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A delicious range of recipes to help you get the very best from your air fryer. A healthier way to enjoy global recipes and feed a family.

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Confession: I'm afraid of my air fryer.

But this book is inspiring me not to be afraid of it! (Also, I brought a Ninja Foodi Grill, which has a much less terrifying Air fryer option.)

tl;dr: Unusual, delicious looking air fryer recipes; definitely looks like a public library purchase win.

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After recently getting an airfryer and only cooking basic receipes i am happy i found this book, plently of ideaa for various meals to try. Thanks to publisher and netgalley

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From breakfast to snacks to main dishes to desserts, your air fryer can make you a world traveler through your food choices. The Epic Air Fryer Cookbook includes recipes from every country. Persian doughnuts rub shoulders with Lebanese toum sauce and southern hush puppies. There are also some interesting newer recipes like avocado fries and pan cookies. With an index sorted by ingredient, it is easy to find a recipe to make with items already in your kitchen.

100 tasty air fryer recipes using less oil than frying? What’s the downside? There is no nutritional information or allergen information in the book. While it can be computed by each ingredient and then totaled, it seems like a misstep for a modern cookbook. Second, while there are frequent full-color photographs in the book, every recipe doesn’t have one. Both are relatively minor complaints for a cookbook with such a wide collection of recipes. The Epic Air Fryer Cookbook deserves 4 stars!

Thanks to Harvard Common Press, Quarto Books and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

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The book provided great tips and lots of fun recipes. The ones I've tried so far have been easy to follow and came out delicious. Wish there were more pictures though!

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The Epic Air Fryer Cookbook serves up everything you love about air frying in 100 easy everyday recipes that turn out scrumptiously crispy, family-friendly meals.
With your air fryer, you can enjoy cooking and eating delicious fried foods guilt-free—because air-frying recipes use little or no oil. And, as author Emily Paster reveals, your air fryer can cook all kinds of dishes beyond fried foods.
Turn your air fryer into the most versatile and oft-used appliance in your kitchen arsenal.

From appetizers to desserts, Paster covers lots of tasty sounding, realistic recipes. Even the doughnuts sound like that might be easier to make than I was expecting.

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This book was the perfect accompaniment to my new air fryer! We made the churros right away and those were delicious. Would definitely recommend!

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I just got an air fryer and was looking for great recipes and this cookbook delivers! All the recipes look easy to make and most of them sound really tasty! The presentation in the cookbook was very readable and the photos were great. I can't wait to try some of the recipes!

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With a nice thorough introduction, this book sets up what we'll see in this book. To be honest, I didn't actually make any of the recipes yet but the instructions seemed clear and there were great tips, like using your sense of smell to tell when food was done. Pictures were clear and there were plenty of recipes that had five or fewer ingredients as well as more complicated ones.
I wish there had been page numbers on my ARC because the Index pages don't line up to the ebook pages but I didn't count my rating down because of that.

Four stars
This book come out December 10th
ARC kindly provided by Harvard Common Press and NetGalley
Opinions are my own

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Epic Air Fryer Cookbook is a tutorial and recipe collection aimed at using air frying written and curated by Emily Paster. Due out 10th Dec 2019 from Quarto on their Harvard Common Press imprint, it's 176 pages and will be available in paperback format.

The book follows a logical format with good contrast on the pages and a readable typeset. The photography is clear and easy to follow. I would estimate roughly half of the recipes are pictured. The introduction and background (~8% of the page content) are followed by the recipes which are grouped by type into chapters: breakfast/brunch, snacks/appetizers, vegetarian mains, meat based mains separated by protein type, veggies and sides, desserts.

The recipes have the ingredients listed bullet style in a sidebar. Measurements are given in US standard with metric measures in parentheses. Special tools and ingredients are also listed, along with yields and cooking directions. The ingredients are all easily sourced at any moderately well stocked grocery store. Yields are given in servings; serving sizes and nutritional info are not given. There is a cross referenced index including ingredients given in the back of the book.

This is an appealing, well written cookbook guide with a generous selection of wide ranging tastes from world cuisine. The recipes aren't difficult. The ingredients aren't difficult to source or 'bizarre' and they really will appeal to a family aesthetic. I like the humor and fun of this one. The author has an inviting and fun style of writing without being cutesy or unnecessarily wordy.

Five stars.

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ARC: Epic Air Fryer Cookbook is filled with 100 recipes to make in an air fryer. This is the perfect book for those who are new to using air fryers or to the more seasoned user.

I loved this book because the recipes are all super easy and super quick! I enjoyed being able to make some of these recipes with the boys I nanny for. My all time favorite recipe to make was the baked apples, because it reminded me of when I was younger and my dad would make my brothers and I baked apples after school!

This was a great book and it'll make a great gift to the cooks in your life! I highly recommend this book and will Definitely buy copies for friends and families

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