Cooking in air fryer is done. Now let’s come to the point of cleaning. Taking care of your hair fryer is also very important to make it to serve for a long time. Cleaning the oily residue from your air fryer is not a very hard task.
Here, we are going to show you some tips and tricks how to clean air fryer.
How to Clean Air Fryer
Let’s show some love to our game changing kitchen appliance air fryer.
Let’s have a look what we need for cleaning the air fryer:
- A nonabrasive sponge
- Microfiber cloths
- A soft-bristle scrub brush
- Paper towels
- Dish soap
- Baking soda
Instructions
You need to follow the procedure given in the below to clean air fryer:
Step 1: Cool down the air fryer
Unplug the air fryer and give minimum 30 minutes time to reduce the heat and cool it down.
Step 2: Take of all the removable parts from the air fryer (basket, tray, pan etc.)
Remove all the parts from the air fryer which needs to take out for deep cleaning. You have to clean them separately. If you see any baked, grease or charred food residues on the parts, let them soak in hot soapy water for about 10-15 minutes. After soaking in soap water, scrub them with a nonabrasive sponge
If there is any stubborn food residue which is hard to clean, apply a paste of baking soda. You can make this cleaning paste with water and baking soda or lemon juice and baking soda.
Apply the paste all over the dirty part and scrub it with a soft-bristle brush and wipe it with paper towels.
Step 3: Clean the inner parts
Take a splash of dish soap on it. Wipe down the inner parts of the air fryer with a damp microfiber towel or nonabrasive sponge.
After whipping, if there remains any soap residue, clean them with a paper towel or damp cloth.
Step 6: Clean the outer portion
You also need to clean the outer part of the air fryer. Just like the inner, wipe out the outer portion using a bit of dish soap.
Wipe away any residues of the soap with a clean damp cloth. Lastly, polish the outside up with a paper towel.
Step 7: Dry the air fryer
After cleaning, the parts and machines can be damp or wet. Let the air fryer be dry under fan air or you can keep it normal to dry.
Make sure every nook and cranny of your air fryer is thoroughly dry.
Step 8: Fix all the removed parts from air dryer
Reassemble all of the removable parts into the main machine. If you have any confusion, check the manual. Make sure all the parts are correctly fixed.
Now, your air fryer is ready to rock!
These are the main process from begin to finish for cleaning air fryer.
How Often You Should Clean an Air Fryer
Your air fryer cleaning depends on how much you use them and what you are cooking. But, you should clean your air fryer after every use to avoid extreme gunk build up.
All the parts don’t need to clean too often.
You should clean your air fryer basket or pan after every use. You can wash them with hand, depending on the model of air fryer you have with liquid dishwasher soap.
You can simply wipe out the inner parts after every use. It is also a good idea.
There is not as much as greasy residues left over in air fryer as it consume a very minimal amount of oil. So, the exterior parts don’t need to clean too often like the interior. So, you can just wipe out the outer portion after frequent uses.
The most important thing people often forget is checking the heating coil. You should check the heating coil after every two or three months of frequent uses.
If you see the coil a bit dirty, unplug the air fryer and clean with wipes or damp towel.
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The Things You Should Avoid While Cleaning Air Fryer
Let’s look at some mistakes we need to avoid while cleaning the air fryer:
- Avoid using use utensils to remove the stubborn food residues. It can spoil the non-sticky material of the air fryer for further cooking. The nonstick coating of air fryer is very easy to scratch and scraped by the utensils.
Same thing goes for steel tools. Never use metal scrubbers or abrasive sponges to avoid scratches.
- Never use disinfectant or any alcoholic products to clean your air fryer. Because, all the disinfect solutions aren’t usually safe for food-contact. But, if you want to use any sanitizing solutions to keep the air fryer germ-free, double-check the label and make sure that it’s been approved for food-contact surfaces.
See the ingredients to check the percentage of alcohol. Food approved sanitizers are made with chlorine, iodine and quaternary ammonium.
- High heat water is great for cleaning the air fryer. But, you need to check the manual to see the air fryer’s resistible temperature.
- Avoid using bar soap to clean your air fryer. Bar soaps are very strong and weaken the metal of the air fryer. In emergency it’s usable but we recommend to not to use bar soap. Use soap which comes in liquid form.
- Make sure your air fryer is unplugged before cleaning.
- Don’t touch excessive water to the main electric unit of the air fryer to not shock yourself or short-circuit the unit.
Why We Need to Clean Our Air Fryer
It’s a very basic question that why we need to clean air fryer.
Well, it’s very important to clean your air fryer at least once in a week. Let’s think about something. Why we clean fry pans?
Obviously, we need to get rid of the dirt. The dirt will make the pan stinky, sticky in texture and grow germs and bacteria. The germs will affect out stomach and the dirt and stinky pan will create bad odor in our kitchen and so much unhygienic. Same goes for the air fryer! So, clean your air fryer, enjoy tasty foods and live a healthy life.
