Thawing frozen foods before cooking

You may just cook a batch of frozen fries in the air fryer if you want French fries but don't want to slice them yourself. It's quick and simple, and you also get that beautiful crispy fried feel that baking them in the oven can't really replicate. You can purchase packed, frozen items like chicken tenders and egg rolls and just pop them into the air fryer to get wonderfully crisp results, claims Taste of Home. These items shouldn't be thawed first. If you do, it will be a waste of effort and perhaps result in meals of worse quality.

Even though some sites strongly disagree, frying frozen salmon filets directly from the freezer in your air fryer. Almost everyone, including the USDA, believes that cooking frozen fish and meat is safe as long as you're absolutely certain it's done when you remove it from the fryer. To verify, use an internal thermometer. The fundamental issue is quality. It's probably worth the extra effort to put raw meat in the refrigerator the day before you intend to cook it because raw meat cooked directly from frozen has a tendency to be soggy and flavorless compared to meat that has been thawed first.