Trying to cook wet food

You may safely rule out using an air fryer to prepare beer-battered fish sticks, if that is your favorite deep-fried treat. Anything fried in beer batter cannot be cooked in an air fryer. Beer batters and other wet coatings, according Today, do not function in an air fryer because they adhere to the basket and leak out the bottom openings.

This makes a tremendous mess that is unpleasant to clean up when the celebration is finished. You won't be thrilled with your beer-battered fish sticks even if you don't mind the extra mess or decide to wait till your roommate eventually caves and cleans it for you. That's because dredged and breaded coatings crisp up in an air fryer whereas wet batters don't. They come out mushy and chewy, which is probably not how you prefer your fish sticks coated in beer.