Best Oils and Pump Sprays for Air Frying
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What’s the best air fryer oil spray bottle? For best air frying results, it’s helpful too use a good high smoke point oil. Having a great oil pump spray is fantastic to help lightly oil foods and keeping them healthier and less greasy. Let’s talk about all these important details to make your air fried foods delicious and successful.
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What are The Best Oils for Air Frying? High Smoke Point Oils
The best oils are high smoke point (or flashpoint) oils that won’t burn at high temperatures. What does this mean? Some oils start smoking at high temperatures and because air fryer cooking has the cooking element/coils close to the foods, smoking and burning can often occur. Using a high smoke point oil that won’t smoke at high temps will give better tasting foods and less smoking issues.
What are the best high smoke point oils for your air fryer foods?
Guide to air fryer oils : There’s several different types of oils that work great for air frying. Here’s our list and below to help you decide what you prefer to use because all these oils have different flavors too.
- Avocado Oil: 375-400°F/190-205°C
- Grape Seed Oil: 390°F/195°C
- Peanut Oil: 450°F/230°C
- Vegetable Oil: 400-450°F/205-230°C
- Sesame Oil: 350-410°F/175-210°C
- Olive Oil: If you’re air frying at a temperature of around 375°F/190°C or less, regular olive oil is great too. Sometimes using regular olive oil at 400°F/205°C or higher can start to burn and give off a rancid smell. Also, if you have a small air fryer or stuff your air fryer with food too high it will be too close to the heating element which will cause to burn.
- Here’s the more detailed discussion on high smoke point oils.
Here’s some Oil Sprays with Different Oil Choices
If you prefer to buy a ready-to-use spray, here are some of our favorites.
Best Oil Sprayer or Pumps for Air Frying
- Avoid: Conventional canned or pressurized propellant oil sprays or oil pump sprays with propellants. Propellant pumps and sprays have chemicals added to them, which isn’t ideal for your health. Also, propellant oils have been known to make the lining peel off your basket when cooked at high temperatures. Folks in our air fryer club and air fryer world facebook groups have shown how the lining of their basket peeling from the propellant sprays.
- Good: Buy a ready-to-use canned or pressurized oil spray with an oil that has a high smoke point and doesn’t contain propellants.
- Best: Buy a good sprayer and fill it with favorite high smoke point oil. This not only saves you money, but is also better for your health and for the environment. You can use this for all of your cooking and not just for air fryer cooking.
Our #1 Choice: The Evo Oil Sprayers come in different multi-packs, colors, bottle sizes and materials. They’re not the prettiest, but they’re functional and spritz oil great! The different bodies all seem to have the same great spray head. Gives a good dispersed spray. Easily our kitchen favorite and it works great for grilling too!
- Caution purchase: Quite a few brands of the “misters and sprayers” that we’ve bought from high end kitchen stores can be seem good at first, but nearly every one of them began to clog up over time even with proper maintenance. The Evo Brand we’ve recommended above has worked for us with regular use for over 5 years and still hasn’t shown any signs of clogging. We now have them in every one of our kitchens.
- Another thing to consider is how fine or splattery the spray is. Some work fine for BBQ scenarios but are too heavy of a spray for air frying, and others will be too fine or require too much pumping for too little oil. We find the Evo Sprayers are that perfect middle ground. No pumping needed, just squeeze and a
Don’t have an oil spray? It’s ok.
It’s not mandatory use a spray to coat your food. You can also use a brush to oil your food too! Or if you’re marinating anything, you obviously don’t have to spray nor brush with oil. Just add the food to a bowl and lightly drizzle the oil on the food or use how ever much the recipe calls for.
The OXO Silicone Basting Brushes are by far our favorite brushes in the kitchen. The unique head design holds liquids better than any other silicone brush we’ve used.
This 5-Piece Silicone Brush Set is a great starter set. With silicone spatula and different sized brushes, it is a great buy.
But for the best option, use an oil sprayer and line the air fryer basket with perforated silicone mats or parchment.
We LOVE Evo Oil Sprayers. Not the prettiest, but they’re functional and spritz oil great! They don’t clog up like many others we’ve bought. There’s different styles, but all seem to have the same great spray head. Works great for grilling!
There are Square Mats & Round Mats. These perforated non-stick silicone mats are used to cook food in your air fryer or steamer to minimize sticking. Holes allow hot circulating air to cook the food & keeps the food from sticking.
Parchment sheets are great for your air fryer or bamboo steamer (food tends to stick most on wire basket or tray). Choose from different sizes, shapes, white and brown (unbleached). Holes allow air to cook food evenly.
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Thanks for being here! We just purchased the Oster French Door Air Fry Oven. I loved my old toaster oven which finally stopped working, and this seemed like a good fit. However, there were no tips or recipes for using the air fryer feature, even going to the Oster site. Thankfully my Copy Me That community had a connection to your site. Your recipes were helpful. Thank You!
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