Great chips without the guilt (Tefal ActiFry)

Member Name: Kitch88

Product:	Tefal ActiFry
Date:	08/09/09 (210 review reads)
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Advantages: Healthy, delicious

Disadvantages: Perhaps take longer to cook than deep frying

The ActiFry comes from Tefal and is used to cook chips.

It has a 2.2 lb capacity, which is about the same as six medium sized potatoes, and requires only one teaspoon of oil to cook them to perfection.

You simply cut your potatoes up into chips, put them into the Tefal Actifry, add a teaspoon of cooking oil and turn it on - it does not require to be pre-heated as it heats up very quickly.

The Actifry works by using a paddle to move the chips around the inside, and a fan pumping extremely hot air around the device, covering all the potatoes in an oil mist, which cooks them and makes them nice and crispy! Cooking chips in the ActiFry takes aproximately 25 minutes.

When chips are cooked in the ActiFry, a 100g measure of freshly-cut chips comes in at 192 calories, with 22 of these from fat. The same chips cooked in an electric deep fat fryer would have 245 calories, 73 from fat.

The ActiFry therefore gives chip lovers a healthy option, as the chips it produces are far far tastier than any oven chip and much healthier than the traditional option of deep frying them.

Summary: Great healthy alternative for chip lovers

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